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  3. On average, American kids aged 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981. They also did mo

On average, American kids aged 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981. They also did mo

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问题     On average, American kids aged 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet (芭蕾舞). Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, children’s leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25 %.
    "Children are affected by the same time crunch (危机) that affects their parents," says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of children’s timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and "male breadwinner" households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers. )
    All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. "Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself," says T. Berry Brazel-ton, professor at Harvard Medical School. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids aged 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it.
    The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing "free time" watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If they’re spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids aren’t replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading. Let’s face it, who’s got the time? (310 words)
We can infer from the passage that______.
选项 A、extracurricular activities promote children’s intelligence
B、most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off
C、efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitful
D、most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children
答案C
解析 本题属于细节推理题。可从两方面思考：一方面排除A，文中没有提到；B与文中最后一段描述相反；D文中也没有提到；父母发现孩子用空闲时间看电视才是好消息。另一方面，仔细思考文章倒数第二句话：“尽管作出了各种努力，让孩子对阅读书籍产生更大的兴趣，然而孩子们还是一周只花个把小时来阅读”。可见，答案是C“为使孩子对读书感兴趣而作的努力是有效果的”。
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