Read the passage and then choose the best answer.
On average, American kids ages 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. 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 hall 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 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 Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 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 are 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?
0Câu 6
The author is concerned about the fact that American kids are ________.
A. increasingly cared for by their working mothers
B.engaged in more and more organized activities
C. involved less and less in household work
D. spending more and more time watching TV
Câu 7
What does Sandra Hofferth mean by mentioning "the same time crunch”
A. Children are not taken good care of by their working parents.
B.Children have little time to play with their parents.
C. Both parents and children have trouble managing their time.
D. Both parents and children suffer from lack of leisure time.
Câu 8
According to the author, the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch is ________.
A. partially true
B.rather confusing
C. quite convincing
D. totally groundless
Câu 9
According to the author, a child develops better if he/she ________.
A. is left to play with his/her peers in his/her own way.
B.has more time taking part in school activities.
C. has plenty of time reading and studying.
D. is free to interact with his/her working parents.
Câu 10
The word “unstructured” in the passage probably means _______.
A. invaluable
B.impractical
C. not organized
D. not costly
Câu 11
The word “they” in the passage refers to ________.
A. kids
B.books
C. parents
D. efforts
Câu 12
We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. most parents believe reading to be of benefit to children
B.efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitful
C. organized activities improve children s intelligence
D. most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off
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B.
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