【十年高考】2006-2015年全国各地高考英语试题分类汇编：说明文阅读（104页）VIP专享VIP免费

2006-2015 年全国各地 10 年高考英语试题分类汇编：说明文阅读Passage 5(06·广东 B 卷)The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can 36 from a different kind of poverty—of the spirit. 37 , one Western country alone now sees 14, 000 attempted suicides ( 自杀)every year by children under 15, and one child 38 five needs psychiatric(心理)advice.There are many good things about 39 in the Third World. Take the close and constant relation between children and their parents, relatives and neighbours for example.In the West,the very nature of work puts distance between 40 and children.But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in offices. 41 ,the child sees mother and father, relations and neighbours working 42 and often shares in that work.A child 43 in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community's 44 ：helping to dig or build,look after animals or babies--rather than 45 playing with water and sand in kindergarten, keeping pets 46 playing with dolls.These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the 47 children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world, 48 , are provided with a watch as one of the 49 signs of growing up, so that they can 50 along with their parents about being late for school times, meal times, bed times, the times of TV shows…Third World children do not usually 51 to stay indoors, still less in highrise apartments(公寓).Instead of dangerous roads,"keep off the grass" signs and "...