2017届高考英语一轮总复习单元精选测试系列资料(十四) Ⅰ.完形填空 The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard.But in the rich world,children can 1 from a different kind of poverty-of the spirit. 2 ,one Western country alone now sees 14,000 attempted suicides(自杀) every year by children under 15,and one child 3 five needs psychiatric(心理) advice. There are many good things about 4 in the Third World.Take the close and constant relation between children and their parents,relatives and neighbours for example.In the West,the very nature of work puts distance between 5 and children.But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in offices. 6 ,the child sees mother and father,relations and neighbours working 7 and often shares in that work. A child 8 in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community's 9 :helping to dig or build,look after animals or babies-rather than 10 playing with water and sand in kindergarten,keeping pets 11 playing with dolls. These children may grow up with a less oppressive(压迫的)sense of space and time than the 12 children.Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky.Children in the rich world, 13 ,are provided with a watch as one of the 14 signs of growing up,so that they can 15 along with their parents about being late for school times,meal times,bed times,the times of TV shows... |