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  3. About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table.

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table.

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问题     About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked: "So, how have you been?" And the boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied. "Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately. "
    This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were "depressed" until we were in high school.
    The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.
    Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists, why?
    Human development is based not only on innate (天生的) biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social route to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
    In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加区分地), to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
    Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practices. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials. (351 words)
Why is the author in favor of communication through print for children?
选项 A、It enables children to gain more social information.
B、It develops children’s interest in reading and writing.
C、It helps children to memorize and practice more.
D、It can control what children are to learn.
答案D
解析 本题属于细节推断题。答案在最后一段第一句，意为书本能对孩子们可获得的社会信息进行有效控制，并综合上一段对电视的评价，答案应为D。而A与此正好相反。这两句话中没有提到培养孩子兴趣的问题，B可以排除。至于C的说法，文中有关阅读与写作的论述所要表达的核心观点是先易后难，循序渐进，与增加机会无关。
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