【正文】 ial charges of child abuse [C] approval from psychologists [D] somewhat mixed responses　　4. Skenazy started her own blog to _______.　　[A] promote sensible parenting　　[B] share parenting experience　　[C] fight against child abuse　　[D] protect children39。s every movement via the Internetwithout seeming to interfere or hover. Of course, when they go to college, they might start objecting to being monitored as if they39。s general judgment should be weighed.　　Gallagher agrees with Skenazy that many nineyearolds are ready for independence like taking public transportation alone. At certain times of the day, on certain routes, the subways are generally safe for these children, especially if they have grown up in the city and have been taught how to be safe, how to obtain help if they are concerned for their safety, and how to avoid unsafe situations by being watchful and on their toes.　　But even with more traffic and fewer sidewalks, modern parents do have one advantage their parents didn39。s no clearcut answer. Child experts discourage a onesizefitsall approach to parenting. What39。s time and shuttling them to various enriching activities, so the idea of letting them out on their own can seem like a risk. Back in 1972, when many of today39。 there39。t e home? But Skenazy got a lot of support, too, with women and men writing in with stories about how they were allowed to take trips all by themselves at seven or eight. She also got heaps of praise for bucking the helicopter parent trend: Good for this Mom, one menter wrote on the Huffington Post. This is a muchneeded reality check.　　Last week, encouraged by all the attention, Skenazy started her own blogFree Range Kidspromoting the idea that modern children need some of the same independence that her generation had. In the good old days nineyearold baby boomers rode their bikes to school, walked to the store, took busesand even subwaysall by themselves. Her blog, she says, is dedicated to sensible parenting. At Free Range Kids, we believe in safe kids. We believe in car seats and safety belts. We do NOT believe that every time schoolage children go outside, they need a security guard.　　So why are some parents so nervous about letting their children out of their sight? Are cities and towns less safe and kids more vulnerable to crimes like child kidnap and sexual abuse than they were in previous generations?　　Not exactly. New York City, for instance, is safer than it39。s debilitating （使虛弱）for us and for them.　　Online message boards were soon full of people both applauding and condemning Skenazy39?！俊　ould you let your fourthgrader ride public transportation without an adult? Probably not. Still, when Lenore Skenazy, a columnist for the New York Sun, wrote about letting her son take the subway alone to get back to her Manhattan home from a department store on the Upper East Side, she didn39。　　Part II Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning） （15 minutes）　　Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 17, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A）, B）, C） and D）. For questions 810, plete the seen tenses with the information given in the passage.　　Helicopter Moms vs. FreeRange Kids 【外語教育amp。s not. It39。s an irresponsible mother camp came: Shame on you for being so careless about his safety, in ments on the Huffington Post. And there was this from a mother of four: How would you have felt if he didn39。s ranked 136th in crime among all American cities. Nationwide, stranger kidnaps are extremely rare。s not surprising even normal parental anxiety can be amplified. And many middleclass parents have gotten used to managing their children39。s not used to pedestrians. On the other hand, there are still plenty of kids whose parents give them a lot of independence, by choice or by necessity. The After School Alliance finds that more than 14 million kids aged 5 to 17 are responsible for taking care of themselves after school. Only million kids participate in organized programs. Many children who have working parents have to take the subway or bus to get to school. Many do this by themselves because they have no other way to get to their schools, says Dr. Richard Gallagher, director of the Parenting Institute at the New YorkUniversityChildStudyCenter.　　For those parents who wonder how and when they should start allowing their kids more freedom, there39。s level of fort in handling such situations, and a child39。d lose it and wanted him to learn to go it alone without depending on moma major principle of freerange parenting. But most parents are more than happy to use cell phones to keep tracks on their kids.　　And for those who like the idea of freerange kids but still struggle with their inner helicopter parent, there may be a middle way. A new generation of GPS cell phones with tracking software make it easier than ever to follow a child39。 expenses　　[C] shows traditional parental caution　　[D] bucks the latest parenting trend　　3. Skenazy39。 p