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2018 年 12 月英语六级阅读理解 100 篇：令人窒息的爱Smother Love Every morning,Leanne Brickland and he sister would bicycle to school with the same words ringing in their ears:watch out crossing the road.Don ’ t speak to strangers.Mum would stand at the top of the steps and call that out,says Brickland,now a primary-school teachet and mother of four from Rotorua,New Zealand.Substitute boxers and thongs for undies(内衣 ),and the nagging fears that haunt parents haven ’ t really changed.What has altered,dramatically,is the confidence we once had in our children ’ s ability to fling themselves at life without a grown-up holding their hands Worry-ridden Parents and Stifled Kids By today ’ sstandards,tchheildhood freedoms Brickland took for granted practically verge on parental neglect.Her mother worked,so she and her sister had a key to let themselves in after school and were expected todo their homework and put on the potatoes for dinner.At the family ’bseach house near Wellington,the two girls,from the age of five or six,would disappear for hours to play in the lakes and sands. A generation later,Brickland ’ s children are growing up in a world more indulged yet more accustomed to peril.The techno-minded generation of PlayStation kids who can conquer entire armies and rocket t hrough spacecan ’ t even be trusted to cross the street alone.I worry about the road.I worry about strangers.In some ways I think they ’ re missing out,but I like to be able to see them, to know where they are and what they ’ redoing. Call it smother love,indulged-kid syndrome,parental neurosis( 神经症 ).Even though today ’schildren have the universe at their fingertips thanks to the Internet,their physical boundaries are shrinking at a rapid pace.According to British social scientist Mayer Hillman,a child ’plsay zone has contracted so radically that we’ re producing the human equivalent of henhouse chickens-plump from lack of exercise and without the flexibility and initiative of freerange kids of the past.The