【正文】 B) to make sports more challengingC) to reduce their mental stressD) to increase their sense of success（C）27. According to the passage sport is positive for young people because ________.A) it can help them learn more about societyB) it teaches them how to set realistic goals for themselvesC) it enables them to find flaws in themselvesD) it can provide them with valuable experiences（D）28. Many coaches and parents are in the habit of criticizing young athletes ________.A) without realizing criticism may destroy their self confidenceB) in order to make them remember life’s lessonsC) believing that criticism is beneficial for their early developmentD) so as to put more pressure on them（A）29. According to the passage parents and coaches should ________.A) help children to win every gameB) pay more attention to letting children enjoy sportsC) enable children to understand the positive aspect of sportsD) train children to cope with stress（B）30. The author’s purpose in writing the passage is ________.A) to persuade young children not to worry about criticismB) to stress the importance of positive reinforcement to childrenC) to discuss the skill of bining criticism with encouragementD) to teach young athletes how to avoid burnout（B） BAbout 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 rote 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 secretrevelation (揭示) machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television, Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加區(qū)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 plex code of symbols that must be memorized and practices. Children must read simple books before they can read plex materials.31. According to the author, feeling depressed is ________.A) a sure sign of a psychological problem in a childB) something hardly to be expected in a young childC) an inevitable has of children’s mental developmentD) a mental scale present in all humans, including children（B）32. Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world ________.A) through contact with societyB) gradually and under guidanceC) naturally and by biological instinctD) through exposure to social information（B）33. The phenomenon that today’s children seem adult like is attributed by the author to ________.A) the widespread influence of televisionB) the poor arrangement of teaching contentC) the fast pace of human intellectual developmentD) the constantly rising standard of living（A）34. Why is the author in favor of munication through print for children?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.（D）35. What does the author think of the change in today’s children?A) He feels amused by chair premature behavior.B) He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note.C) He considers it a positive development.D) He seems to be upset about it.（B） CPsychiatrists (精神病專家) who work with older parents say that maturity can be an asset in child rearingolder parents are more thoughtful, use less physical discipline and spend more time