Is gun play good or bad for children For many years阅读理解答案
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Is gun play good or bad for children For
many years阅读理解答案
Is gun play good
or bad for children For many years I
emphasized its harmlessness. When concerned
parents
expressed doubt about letting their
children have toy guns,
because they didn’t
want to encourage them in the slightest
degree
to become criminals, I would explain how little
connection there was. In the course of growing
up, children have
a natural tendency to bring
their aggressiveness more and more
under
control if their parents encourage this. One- to
two-year-olds, when they are angry with
another child, may bite
the child’s arm
without hesitation. But by 3 or 4 they have
already learned that aggression is not right.
However, they may
pretend to shoot their
mother or father, but smiling to assure
them
that the gun and the aggressive behaviour aren’t
to be
taken seriously.
In the 6- to
12-year-old period, children will play an earnest
game of war, but it has lots of rules. There
may be arguments,
but real fights are
relatively rare. At this age children don’t
shoot at their mother or father, even in fun.
It’s not that the
parents have turned stricter; the
children’s own conscience has.
In adolescence
aggressive feelings become much stronger, but
well brought-up children can turn them into
athletics and other
competition or into
kidding their friends.
In other words, I’d
explain that playing at war is a natural
step
in the disciplining of the aggression of young
children; that
a cautious parent doesn’t
really need to worry about producing a
criminal.
But nowadays I’d give parents
much more encouragement
to guide their child
away from violence. A number of incidents
have
convinced me of the importance of this.
One
of the first things that made me change my mind,
several years ago, was an observation that an
experienced
nursery school teacher told me
about. Her children were hitting
each other
much more than previously, without reason. When
she talked to them, they would protest, “But
that’s what the
Three Stooges do.” (This was a
children’s TV program full of
violence which
immediately became very popular.)
What
further shocked me into reconsidering my view was
the assassination(暗杀）of the former President,
and the fact that
some school children cheered
about this. (I didn’t so much
blame the
children as I blamed the kind of parents who will
say
about a President they dislike,
“I’d shoot him if I got the
chance!”）
These incidents made me think of other evidences
that
Americans often tolerate lawlessness and
violence. We were
hard on the Indians and the
later waves of immigrants. At times
we denied
justice to groups with different religions or
political
views. And now a great percentage of
our adult as well as our
child population has
been endlessly fascinated with dramas of
Western violence and with cruel crime stories,
in movies and on
television. This doesn’t
necessarily mean that we Americans on
the
average have more aggressiveness inside us than
the people
of other nations. I think rather
that the aggressiveness we have is
less
controlled, from childhood on.
To me it
seems very clear that in order to have a more
stable and civilized national life we must
bring up the next
generation of Americans with
a greater respect for law and for
other
people’s rights than in the past. There are many
ways in
which we could and should teach these
attitudes. One simple
opportunity we could
seize in the first half of childhood is to
show our disapproval of lawlessness and
violence in television
programs and in
children’s gun play.
I also believe that the
survival of the world now depends on
a
much greater awareness of the need to avoid war
and to
actively seek peaceful agreements.
There are enough nuclear
arms to completely
destroy all civilization. This terrifying
situation demands a much greater stability and
self-control on
the part of national leaders
and citizens than they have ever
shown in the
past. We owe it to our children to prepare them
deliberately for this awesome responsibility.
11. The underlined word “this” in Paragraph
1 refers
to______.
A. controlling their
aggressiveness B. playing with toy
guns
C. aggressive behaviour D. the course of growing
up
12. Based on the author’s view about the
relationship
between children’s aggressiveness
and their age, which of the
following is true
A. A 2-year old boy knows that it is not
correct to behave
aggressively.
B. The
older children become, the less aggressive they
will
be.
C. 6- to 12-year-olds enjoy war
games but develop them
into argument and
serious fights.
D. Adolescents’
aggressiveness is often displayed in the
form of competition.
13. What
conclusion does the author intend to draw from
the story told by the nursery school teacher
A. Watching violence can lower a child’s
standard of
behaviour.
B. Violent TV
programs should be banned in nursery
schools.
C. Children are generally lawless or violent
nowadays.
D. It is acceptable to let
children have toy guns.
14. What does
Paragraph 7 mainly talk about
A. Examples
showing that Americans are more aggressive
than other nations.
B. Evidences proving
that America has a long history of
lawlessness
and violence.
C. The idea that children are
less able to put their
aggressiveness under
control.
D. More reasons why the author
changed his view on the
main issue of the
article.
15. What is a must if people intend
to enjoy stability and
civilized national life
A. To show disapproval of gun play in
television programs.
B. To make people aware
that there are already enough
nuclear
arms.
C. To elect national leaders with
greater stability and
self-control.
D.
To bring up children who show more respect for the
law
and others’ rights.
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