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Voice Your Opinion: Change Is Needed in Youth Sports

Everywhere you look, you see kids bouncing a basketball or waving a tennis racquet (網球拍). And these kids are getting younger and younger. In some countries, children can compete on basketball, baseball, and volleyball teams starting at age nine. (46) And swimming and gymnastics classes begin at age four, to prepare children for competition.

It's true that a few of these kids will develop into highly skilled athletes and may even become members of the national Olympic teams. (47) This emphasis on competition in sports is having serious negative effects.

Children who get involved in competitive sports at a young age often grow tired of their sport. Many parents pressure their kids to choose one sport and devote all their time to it. (48) But 66 percent of the young athletes wanted to play more than one sport-for fun.

Another problem is the pressure imposed by over-competitive parents and coaches. Children are not naturally competitive. In fact, a recent study by Paulo David found that most children don't even understand the idea of competition until they are seven years old. (49)

The third, and biggest, problem for young athletes is the lack of time to do their homework, have fun, be with friends-in short, time to be kids. When they are forced to spend every afternoon at sports practice, they often start to hate their chosen sport. A searchers found that 70 percent of kids who take part in competitive sports before the of twelve quit before they turn eighteen. (50) Excessive competitive away all the enjoyment.

Need to remember the purpose of youth sports - to give kids a chance to have developing strong, healthy bodies.

A.But what about the others, the average kids?

B.The youth soccer organization has teams for children as young as five.

C.A survey found that 79 percent of parents of young athletes wanted their children concentrate on one sport.

D.Very young kids don't know why their parents are pushing them so hard.

E.Sports for children have two important purposes.

F.Many of them completely lose interest in sports.

46  D  注意這個空格前后的句子都是和小孩參加體育競賽的低齡化有關的，所以這個空格里的句子很有可能還是講孩子過小就參與到體育競賽里去。果然，在六個選項中的D就是講青年足球組織居然有由5歲大的孩子組成的球隊。

47  F  前面一句話講的是這些孩子中可能有部分人會發展成為優秀的運動員，甚至成為國家奧運隊的成員，后面一句話在語義上很有可能出現轉折，即大部分人卻未必如此。選項F句子開頭的but恰恰表明了這一期待中的轉折。

48  A  空格后面的以but開頭的句子提供了很好的啟示。那句話說的是66%的小運動員希望參與多種運動項目，所以前面的那句話極有可能說的是和這一句相反的內容，果然，這些孩子父母的想法和他們不同，他們希望自己的孩子專攻一項運動。

49  C  前面講的是小孩天生并沒有競爭性，7羅以前他們都不懂什么是競爭，所以太小的孩子不會理解自己的爸爸媽媽為什么要對他們施加那么大的壓力。

50 B  這一段的中心是過早參與到競技運動中去會使孩子失去興趣，空格前面的一句說的是在1 2歲前就參與競技的孩子中有70%在18歲前放棄，接著說“他們中許多人對運動完全失去了興趣( Many of them completely lose interest in sports)”就十分自然、合理。

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