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(A) （科学研究：儿童教育 说议文 难度：中等） Children are losing the ability to play properly because they are being given too many toys and games, according to new research. The studies show that children--especially those under five--are often overwhelmed and actually play less than those with fewer toys. It may even harm their development. Some of the work was done by Claire Lerner, a childhood development researcher with zero to three, which is funded by the U.S. government to run preschool educational programs across America. “Our studies show that giving children too many toys or toys of the wrong type can actually be doing them harm. They get overwhelmed and cannot concentrate on anything long enough to learn from it,” said Lerner. Her conclusions have been backed up by British researchers looking at children with relatively fewer toys, whose parents spend more time reading, singing or playing with them. It showed such children surpass youngsters from affluent(丰富的)　backgrounds--even those who had access to computers. Kathy Sylva, professor of educational psychology at the University of Oxford, reached her conclusions from a study of 3,000 children from the ages of three to five. She said: “There is a complex relationship between children’s progress, the type of toys they are given and the time parents spend on them. When they have a large number of toys, there seems to be a distraction element, and when children are distracted they do not learn or play well.” Some parents notice the impact early. Orhan Ismail, a researcher from Colchester, Essex, saw a change for the worse in Cameron, his 10-month-old son, after he was given a “deluge (洪水)” of toys last Christmas. Ismail said, “If there are too many toys in front of him, he will just keep flitting around them and then end up going off and finding something like a slipper to play with. Now we just get out one or two toys and hide the rest in a box.” Experts hesitate to put a figure on the number of toys children should have,