Question

   “I have an hour to eat dinner and do some homework. After dinner it's football,and I'm home by 7: 00 p. m.，” says Bryan,an ll-year-〇ld boy.

   But once he’s back home,it's still not time to relax. There's more homework to finish. While he hardly has any time to relax himself,Bryan does find some “me time”. For example,he relaxes when he rides his bike to school. Bryan is busy,but he isn’t overscheduled (日程過滿的) .

   But many kids are. Author Annie Fox say^s lots of kids are overwhelmed (被壓倒的) with after-school lessons and homework.

   About 90 percent of children aged 9 to 13 said they felt stressed from being too busy,according to a KidsHealth. org survey of 882 kids. And 24 percent said they felt this way all the time.

   It's not just the dance lessons and soccer games that make kids have less time to relax. “Even when kids are walking down the street,they receive text messages and phone calls. They can never just be free,” Fox says.

   Why are some kids overscheduled?

   Fox says some parents hope their children have the soccer skills or flute (長笛) abilities needed to do well in high school and get into a good college.

   But Fox says everyone,even grown-ups,needs a bit of ume time?, to avoid being stressed. “There's a Wiwme Pooh (《小熊維尼》) quote where he says, ‘Sometimes I sit and think;sometimes I just sit.

(1) (如果你有太多的家庭作業) ，for example,10 mnutes’ listening to music can help you get things done. “(2) When you are stressed out,it's not the time to make a decision about anything”’ Fox says.

根據短文內容完成下列任務。

任務一:把(1) 處括號里的句子譯成英語。

1.                                                     

把(2) 處畫線的句子譯成中文。

2.                                                     

任務二:根據英語釋義及首字母提示，從短文中找出答案。

3. h ： work that teachers give their students to do at home

4. s ： an ability to do something well

任務三：回答問題。

5. Why are many kids so busy?

                                                      

   

Answer 1

1. If you have too much homework

2. 當你壓力過大時，就不是為任何事作決定的時候。

3. homework

4. skill

5. Because they have a lot of after-school lessons and too much homework.