单选题 "Mummy, I don' t know what to play with." Steve interrupts his mother, who is talking to a friend, for the fourth time. "You've got a room full of toys!" his mother says impatiently. In fact it is the jumble of toys which is to blame for four-year-old Steve's lack of interest in his dolls, cars and stuffed animals. Each morning he tips out three washing baskets of toys all over his floor, listlessly pulls out something and shortly after is standing at his mother's desk or following her into the kitchen saying: "Mummy, I am bored."
A family therapist (心理医生) explains why children lose interest when they have a whole "toy shop" at home: "According to their brain development, little children are not in a position to judge the quality of a variety of things at once. There is always just one favorite toy for the moment. All the rest is left lying about." What can parents do to stop their children from being oversupplied with toys? Under no conditions simply make something disappear without the child's knowledge. If he / she takes no more notice of a toy, a parent can ask if it can be stored or given away. Be warned though the child will always say he / she wants it then! A talk with relatives and friends may also help. Lyn is the mother of four-year-old Jessie, and we like her way. A small set of shelves in her child's room holds the toys and books that are the current favorites. When it seems to her that her daughter is tired of these toys, they put them away in a box together and select some other toys from a cupboard in another room. The box of "old" toys goes into the cupboard. When her child says she is "bored", they also get something from her cupboard — it may be something she has had for some time but because she hasn't seen it for a while it is almost like a new toy. Some favorite toys stay out all the time, and there is a collection of dolls which sits in the corner, but in this way Lyn has found that she has fewer toys to put away at the end of the day and her daughter always has something "fresh" to play with.

单选题 Steve interrupted his mother several times because

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】推理题。由文章第一段开始部分可知，Steve几次打断妈妈和朋友的谈话，说他“没什么可玩的”，而妈妈回答“You've got a room full of toys!”。由此可知，Steve打断妈妈不是因为他没有玩具，从文章随后的文字“In fact it is the jumble of toys which is to blame for four-year-old Steve's lack of interest in his dolls, cars and stuffed animals.”可知，Steve打断妈妈的真正原因却是由于他有太多的玩具，使他对玩具失去了兴趣。因此[A]选项合适。

单选题 According to the therapist, children often complain that they have nothing to play with because

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节题。由文章第二段心理医生说的话“According to their brain development, little children are not in a position to judge the quality of a variety of things at once…”可知，由于孩子们的大脑发育还没有达到能从一大堆事物中马上就判断出他们的价值的程度，他们常常抱怨没玩具可玩，因此[D]选项符合要求，[D]选项中的value与文章中的judge the quality表达同一含义，too many things和a variety of things对应，at a time与at once对应。

单选题 Which of the following can be used in place of "jumble"(Line 3, Para.1)?

单选题 What are parents advised not to do according to the text?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节题。文章第二段中提到“What can parents do to stop their children from being oversupplied with toys?(父母该怎样做才能避免孩子对一大堆玩具失去兴趣呢?)”随后作者指出“Under no conditions simply make something disappear without the child's knowledge．"父母决不能在不告知孩子的情况下把玩具拿走，因此应选择[D]选项。

单选题 What does Lyn do to make her daughter have "fresh" toys to play with?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】细节题。文章第二段提到一位明智的母亲Lyn的做法，“when it seems to her that her daughter is tired of these toys, they put them away in a box together and select some other toys from a cupboard in another room.”当她看到女儿不爱玩某些玩具时，她就把它们收在一个箱子里，并从另一个房间的柜子里将其他的玩具拿出来，[A]选项与文章内容一致，因此应选择[A]选项。