河北省定州中学2016-2017学年高二（承智班）下学期英语周练试题（4.9）

百强校河北定州中学2016-2017学年第二学期高二承智班英语周练试题（4.9） 一、阅读理解 There is an agreement that we are depriving(剥夺) this current generation of young kids a chance to do what they are not only equipped to do, but need to do – take some risks. And we’re not talking about unimportant ones, either. Kids need to learn how to handle “dangerous” things like power tools, make fires, and derive the benefits that occur from “playing with knives.” Hanna Rosin focuses on some of the misguided reasons we are raising “The Overprotected Kid” in the Atlantic. She details our concerns with kids’ safety that goes beyond the actual risks. In principle, I agree with this emerging perspective. For many kids growing up today, there are fewer and fewer opportunities to practice risk taking. Risk taking is an important skill – every kid needs to learn how to stretch themselves, how to do something that they are a little scared of doing because they haven’t done it before. Part of the reason for “overprotection” is certainly th