北师大版高考英语选修8同步检测24Society单元检测.pdf

单元检测 第一部分听力（略） 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A 、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Children* s lives have changed greatly over the last 50 years.But do they have a happier childhood than you or I did? It*s difficult to look back on one*s own childhood without so e ele ent of nostalgia （怀旧的）.I have four brothers and sisters, and y e ories are all about being with the , playing board ga es on the living roo floor, or spending days in the street with the other neighborhood children, racing up and down on our bikes, or exploring the nearby woods.My parents scarcely appear in these e ories, except as providers either of eals or of severe bla e after so e particularly risky adventure. These days, in the UK at least, the nature of childhood has changed dra atically.Firstly, fa ilies are s aller, and there are far ore only children.lt is co on for both parents to work outside the ho e and there is the feeling that there just isnt ti e to bring up a large fa ily, or that no one could possibly afford to have ore than one child.As a result, todays boys and girls spend uch of their ti e alone.Another aj or change is that youngsters today tend to spend a huge a ount of their free ti e at ho e, inside.More than anything this is due to the fact that parents worry far ore than they used to about real or i agined dangers, so they wouldnt drea of letting their children play outside by the selves. Finally, the kind of toys children have and the way they play is totally different.Co puter and video ga es have replaced the board ga es and ore interesting activities of y childhood.The irony （令人啼笑皆非的事情）is that so any ways of playing ga es are called “interactive” . T