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四、閱讀測驗The Utah “free-range parenting” law, which went into effect this month, states that it doesn’t constituteneglect if parents allow their children to do activities such as walking to school, riding their bikes or playing ona playground without adult supervision, provided that the children are “of sufficient age and maturity to avoidharm or unreasonable risk of harm.” It also says leaving a child 6 years old or older alone in a car temporarilydoes not constitute neglect.Arkansas State Senator Alan Clark authored a similar bill last year but hit a wall in the lower house becauseof concerns it could endanger children. He is optimistic that Utah’s law will show that that isn’t the case. “It’salways the fear factor…but people are beginning to see we have too much fear,” he said.Support cuts across party lines. New York Assemblyman Phil Steck is pushing similar legislation. “When Iwas a child, you let your dogs and your children out after breakfast and…they had to be home for dinner. I felt Igained a lot more from just playing on the street than my children did from being in organized sports activities,”he said. Such practices had been the norm for decades, but parental neglect laws were strengthened starting the1980s amid growing concerns of child abduction and abuse, symbolized by the use of milk cartons to profilemissing children.The issue recently has led to episodes of parents being charged with criminal neglect for allowing theirchildren to play outdoors on their own. In one highly publicized case, a Maryland couple, Danielle and LeonardMeitiv, were investigated by state child protective services in 2014 for letting their children, ages 10 and 6, walkhome from their local park. Utah Senator Lincoln Fillmore said such overzealousness does not benefit anyone.“As a society, we’ve kind of erred as our pendulum has swung for children’s safety a little bit too much to theside of helicopter parenting, right? We want kids to be able to learn how to navigate the world so when they’readults they’re fully prepared to handle things on their own,” he told a reporter after the law was passed.
【題組】21. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) How and why lawmakers tried to change an existing law.
(B)The philosophy behind different parenting attitudes.
(C) Increasing crime rates and the effect on children.
(D) Why bipartisan cooperation is important.
參考答案
答案：A
難度：適中0.555556
統計：A(10),B(4),C(4),D(0),E(0)
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本月生效的猶他州“自由養育子女法”規定，如果父母允許子女進行上學，騎自行車或在沒有成人監督的情況下在遊樂場玩耍等活動，這並不構成疏忽。 ，只要孩子“足夠年齡和成熟，以避免傷害或不合理的傷害風險。”它還說，將6歲或6歲以上的孩子單獨留在車內暫時不構成疏忽。阿肯色州參議員艾倫克拉克去年撰寫了一份類似的法案，但由於擔心它可能危及兒童，他們在下議院撞牆。他樂觀地認為，猶他州的法律將證明情況並非如此。 “這總是恐懼因素......但是人們開始看到我們有太多的恐懼，”他說。支持削減派對線。紐約議員Phil Steck正在推動類似的立法。 “當我還是個孩子的時候，你早餐後讓你的狗和你的孩子出去......他們必須回家吃飯。我覺得我在...