no longer can entertain myself even for a short period of time.” Our children no longer know how to sit in silence, entertain themselves while even waiting for a few minutes and have lost the awe of nature as they have become addicted to screen time.
We have made a choice in this household to do what is no longer expected of children in many households—we will ensure that there are days of “boredom.” We refuse to spend our days scheduling our children’s every hour. There will be many days with no plans at all, when they will be sent outside with only the grass and the trees and their own imaginations to entertain them.
The screens will be turned off and our children will find that times of quiet can be just as or even more entertaining. They will bond with their brother and sister, making memories that they will replay in their minds well into adulthood. Even though sunscreen will be religiously applied, they will leave summer with sunburned and scratches coming from climbing trees, stomping through creeks and chasing the dog in the field.
This summer I will be giving my children the greatest gift of all—boredom. For inside boredom is the gift of getting to know your own mind, of finding comfort and joy in nature and in the realization that the greatest gifts are experience, not things.
65. From the first two paragraphs we can know that the author . A. participated in many organized activities B. enjoyed an unscheduled vacation
C. explored magical forests and a violent river D. realized the strength of patience
66. The author thinks today’s children’s activities are . A. less meaningful B. less accessible C. more related to nature
D. more in line with the nature of play
67. What is the real reason for children’s feeling of boredom? A. Children are addicted to screen time. B. Children are limited to using electronics. C. Children have no patience with everything.
D. Children lack the experience of exploring entertainment.
68. What is the author’s attitude towards his children’s childhood? A. Sympathetic. B. Envious. C. Unsatisfactory. D. Indifferent.
69. What is he author’s purpose to ensure children the days of “boredom”? A. To keep children away from electronics.
B. To encourage children to climb trees and stomp through creeks. C. To set aside more time to improve their academic performance. D. To provide children with the opportunity to seek happiness in nature. 70. What might be the best title of the passage? A. The gift of boredom B. The memory of childhood C. The attraction of nature
D. The experience of two generations 答案：65-70 BADCDA 解析：
第65题 B选项D无中生有。根据第二段in which our imagination would run wild可排除C。据第一段文意关键句leave the house after a still sleepy, leisurely breakfast and come home only for lunch in the middle of a day spent entirely outdoors可知，第一二段主要写了作者童年时期悠闲随性的假期，排除A中organized activities, 最后再结合第四段第四行的unscheduled three months,故选B。 第66题 A 根据第四段第三行with access to a thousand entertaining sites可排除B。根据第四段结尾on longer offer a stay in nature结合全文的褒贬色彩排除C,D。故选A。
第67题 D根据第五段not…but “Please find something to entertain me…”孩子们感到无聊的根本原因是他们对电子屏幕上瘾，缺乏探索挖掘乐趣的体验，故D项正确。
第68题 C 根据第七段The screens will be turned off and…结合五六两段的描述，可见作者对现代孩子的童年生活感到不满意，故选B。
第69题 D根据最后一段For inside boredom is the gift of getting to know your own mind, of finding comfort and joy in nature and in the realization…可见目的在于让孩子有机会从大自然探索乐趣故选D。
第70题 A纵观全文反复提到boredom，作者自己悠闲随性，富有想象的童年对应的是boredom。结尾段This summer I will be giving my children the greatest gift of all ——boredom.故选A。而且A包含隐喻含义，boredom 看似无聊可是它可以给孩子们提供探索大自然的机会。
第二卷(非选择题，共两大题，35 分)
第四部分: 任务型阅读(共10小题; 每小题1分, 满分IO分)
请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意: 每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。
Pleasure and Enjoyment
When considering the kind of experience that makes life better, most people first think that happiness consists in experiencing pleasure: good food, all the comforts that money can buy. We imagine the satisfaction of traveling to exciting places or being surrounded by expensive devices. If we cannot afford those goals, then we are happy to settle for a quiet evening in front of the television set with a drink close by.
Pleasure is a feeling of contentment that one achieves whenever expectations set by biological programs or by social conditioning have been met. The taste of food when we are hungry is pleasant because it reduces a physiological (生理的) imbalance. Resting in the evening while passively absorbing information from TV, with alcohol or drugs to dull the mind overexcited by the demands of work, is pleasantly relaxing. Traveling to Acapulco is pleasant because the exciting novelty (新奇) restores our sensations (感觉) exhausted by the repetitive routines of everyday life.
When people think further about what makes their lives rewarding, they tend to move beyond pleasant memories and begin to remember other events, other experiences that overlap(重叠) with pleasurable ones but fall into a category that deserves a separate name: enjoyment. Enjoyable events occur when a person has not only met some expectation or satisfied a need or a desire but also gone beyond what he or she has been programmed to do and achieved something unexpected, perhaps something even unimagined before.
Enjoyment is characterized by this forward movement: by a sense of novelty, of accomplishment. Playing a close game of tennis that stretches one’s ability is enjoyable, as is reading a book that reveals things in a new light, as is having a conversation that leads us to express ideas we didn’t know we had. Closing a contested business deal, or any piece of work well done, is enjoyable. None of these experiences may be particularly pleasurable at the time they are taking
place, but afterward we think back on them and say, “That really was fun” and wish they would happen again. After an enjoyable event we know that we have changed, that our self has grown: in some respect, we have become more complex as a result of it.
Experiences that give pleasure can also give enjoyment, but the two sensations are quite different. For instance, everybody takes pleasure in eating. To enjoy food, however, is more difficult. A gourmet (美食家) enjoys eating, as does anyone who pays enough attention to a meal so as to discriminate the various sensations provided by it. As this example suggests, we can experience pleasure without any investment of psychic energy, whereas enjoyment happens only as a result of unusual investments of attention. A person can feel pleasure without any effort, but it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
Pleasure and Enjoyment
Main contents Detailed information Pleasure is a feeling that one achieves what one has 71 on a biological or social level. Things like good food, exciting travelling and a quiet rest can ring one pleasure because they can help restore one's physiological balance, reduce one's heavy 72 pressure and save one from boredom. Enjoyment 73 from the achievement of something unexpected or even unimagined before. Enjoyment 74 a sense of novelty and accomplishment such as a close tennis game, a valuable book and a conversation productive of ideas. Pleasure is often related to the comforts that money can buy, while enjoyment, more linked to one's inner world, makes one feel rewarded and changed for the 76. While some experiences give both pleasure and enjoyment, some enjoyable ones are not pleasurable when taking place but bring wonderful feelings 77. Pleasure requires no 78 while enjoyment can never be achieve without the investment of the full 79 of attention. Enjoyment is a 80 level of pleasure and the two differ from each other in several aspects. Pleasure Enjoyment 75 Conclusion 答案： 71. expected
72. work 73. results/arises 74. features 75.
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