This is the age of being busy. Many of us live in busy places and have busy lives. Even the roads are busy as we try to get from here to there. Adults are busy going to jobs and taking care of their families. Kids are busy, too, going to school and doing a lot of homework after school and on weekends.
Busy isn’t bad, necessarily. If you are not busy enough you might be bored. But if you are too busy, you might break down. For example, if you have a soccer game that runs late on a school night and you haven’t eaten dinner or done your homework, that’s a not-so-fun kind of busy. We wanted to know what kids thought, so we did a kidsPoll about being busy with 882girls and boys aged 9 to 13.
Almost all of them said they felt stressed because they were too busy. About half said they felt this way once in a while or some of the time. But 17% said they felt this way most of the time and 24% said they felt this all the time! Oh dear, that’s no fun.
Only 4% of kids said they wanted less free time and 18% said they already had just the right amount. But, no big surprise, 61% of kids wish they had a lot more free time. If they had more time, most would spend it hanging out or playing with friends.
Often, adults plan large parts of a kid ’s day, especially during the school year. kids can’t tell their parents they’ll be skipping school(逃学) today to get more free time! But they can tell their parents they’d like to play a game or read a book during their free time instead of watching TV.
【小题1】The purpose of the first paragraph is to .A．Introduce the topicB．Support the main ideaC．Raise the topic sentenceD．Attract the readers’ attention【小题2】By giving the example of a late soccer game, the writer intends to tell us .A．Being too busy is bad for the kidsB．It is no fun to be busy for the kidsC．Homework should go before gam.D．Being busy may cause the kids to feel bored【小题3】According to the passage, the KidsPoll is done to carry out research on .A．How kids arrange their free timeB．What kids think of being busyC．How many kids felt stressedD．What kids do with their study【小题4】From the passage, we can infer that the writer agrees kids can .A．Spend their free time hanging or playing outB．Get a lot more free time from their parentsC．Have a right amount of free time with permissionD．Get more free time from school work sometimesA
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(答案→)A
解析：
【小题1】写作意图题：文章第一段的内容讲的是现代人很忙。就是介绍话题。选A
【小题1】细节题：从第二段的句子：But if you are too busy, you might break down. For example, if you have a soccer game that runs late on a school night and you haven’t eaten dinner or done your homework, that’s a not-so-fun kind of busy.可知对孩子来说忙不一定有趣。选B
【小题1】细节题：从第二段的句子：We wanted to know what kids thought, so we did a kidsPoll about being busy with 882girls and boys aged 9 to 13.可知kidsPoll的调查是关于孩子们对忙是怎么想的。选 B
【小题1】推理题：从最后一段的句子：But they can tell their parents they’d like to play a game or read a book during their free time instead of watching TV.可知作者同意孩子在允许的情况下有更多的空闲时间。选C。