Children today would rather read, do housework or even do homework than play outside--- and they get out half as much as their parents did when they were young.
According to a UK study, those growing up during the 1970s and 1980s enjoying more than two hours of outdoor activities each weekday, and nine hours on weekends—whatever the weather is. But their children play outside for just over one hour each weekday, and fewer than five hours on Saturdays and Sundays.
So, the UK started an activity to encourage children to give up 30 minutes of screen time a day to play outdoors.
The Wild Network, born on September 25, 2013, is joined by more than 300 organizations, large or small. It tries to attract children away from television and computer screen and into woods and parks.
It is the biggest ever activity to reconnect children with nature and outdoor activities, and it plans to help improve children’s health.
Suggestions on how to get more time in nature including collecting fruits, camping, watching autumn colour on trees and so on.
This is not the first time the message of less screen, more play has been brought up. Children in the 1980s were encouraged to do the same by BBC TV show Why Don’t You, which encouraged children to “turn off your TV set, and go to do something less boring instead”.
You can learn more about the activity by visiting Http://www. Projectwildthing.com.
小題1: We can learn from the second paragraph that _______.
A．today’s children have more free time
B．today’s children spend more time outdoors
C．the parents had more free time when they were young
D．The parents spent more time outdoors when they were young
小題2:The Wild Network was started to __________.
A．encourage children to spend more time outdoors
B．encourage children to play with their parents outdoors
C．encourage children to spend more time on their studies
D．encourage parents to spend more time with their children
小題3:What can we learn about the Wild Network?
A．It was set up this year
B．It was the best ever activity
C．Both large organizations or small can join it
D．You can learn about it from the show Why Don’t You
小題4: Which of the following activities is not mentioned?
A．CampingB．Collecting fruits
C．Bird watchingD．Autumn clour watching
小題5:The underlined part “do the same” can be replaced by _______.
A．start an activityB．play outdoors
C．do homeworkD．do housework

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:C
小題5:B

試題分析：本文主要講述了現(xiàn)在的孩子寧愿在家讀書(shū)，做家務(wù)，做作業(yè)也不出去玩，鼓勵(lì)孩子們出去玩，不要在家里，多參加戶(hù)外活動(dòng)。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第二段可知重要是講述父母那一代比我們更多的參加戶(hù)外活動(dòng)�？芍xD。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文中The Wild Network, born on September 25, 2013, is joined by more than 300 organizations, large or small. It tries to attract children away from television and computer screen and into woods and parks.可知這項(xiàng)活動(dòng)是鼓勵(lì)孩子們更多的參加戶(hù)外活動(dòng)�？芍xA。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。通讀全文可知可知從Wild Network這項(xiàng)活動(dòng)中到活動(dòng)或小活動(dòng)我們都要參加。故選C。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由Suggestions on how to get more time in nature including collecting fruits, camping, watching autumn colour on trees and so on.可知只有Bird watching這項(xiàng)活動(dòng)沒(méi)有提到。故選C
。故選C。
小題5:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由which encouraged children to “turn off your TV set, and go to do something less boring instead”.可知表示做戶(hù)外活動(dòng)。故選B。
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