雅思阅读真题（Part 3）
Part 3 · 考频：超高频 · 最近考试：2024.1.27
The history of childhood has been a topic of interest in social history since the highly influential 1960 book Centuries of Childhood, written by French historian Philippe Aries. He argued that “childhood” is a concept created by modern society.
A One of the most hotly debated issues in the history of childhood has been whether childhood is itself a recent invention. The historian Philippe Ares argued that in Western Europe during the Middle Ages (up to about the end of the fifteenth century) children were regarded as miniature adults, with all the intellect and personality that this implies. He scrutinized medieval pictures and diaries and found no distinction between children and adults as they shared similar leisure activities and often the same type of work. Aries, however, are forsaken or despised. The idea of childhood is not to be confused with affection for children that particular nature which distinguishes the child from the adult, even the young adult.
B There is a long tradition of the children of the poor playing a functional role in contributing to the family income by working either inside or outside the home. In this sense, children are seen as useful. Back in the Middle Ages, children as young as 5 or 6 did important chores for their parents and from the sixteenth century, were often encouraged |( or forced) to leave the family by the age of 9 or 10 to work as servants for wealthier families or to be apprenticed to a trade.
C With industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a new demand for child labour was created, and, many children were forced to work for long hours, in mines, wo9rkshops, and factories. Social reformers began to question whether labouring long hours from an early age would harm children’s growing bodies. They began to recognize the potential of carrying out systematic studies to monitor how far these early deprivations might be affecting children’s development.
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答案：FALSE
原文定位：He scrutinized medieval pictures and diaries and found no distinction between children and adults as they shared similar leisure activities and often the same type of work
答案：TRUE
原文定位：Aries, however, [argues that this does not mean they] are forsaken or despised. The idea of childhood is not to be confused with affection for children [but with] that particular nature which distinguishes the child from the adult, even the young adult
答案：TRUE
原文定位：Social reformers began to question whether labouring long hours from an early age would harm children’s growing bodies. They began to recognize the potential of carrying out systematic studies to monitor how far these early deprivations might be affecting children’s development
答案：TRUE
原文定位：Social reformers began to question whether labouring long hours from an early age would harm children’s growing bodies. They began to recognize the potential of carrying out systematic studies to monitor how far these early deprivations might be affecting children’s development
答案：NOT GIVEN
原文定位：The worst forms of child exploitation were gradually eliminated, partly through factory reform but also through the influence of trade unions and economic changes during the nineteenth century which made some forms of child labor redundant
答案：NOT GIVEN
原文定位：The Factory act of 1833 established half-time schools which allowed children to work and attend school. but in the 1840s, a large proportion of children never went to school, and if they did, they left by the age of 10 or 11
答案：NOT GIVEN
原文定位：the situation was very different by the end of the nineteenth century in Britain. the school becomes central to images of a normal childhood
答案：TRUE
原文定位：Increasingly, children were being treated as a group with distinctive needs and they were organized into groups according to their age
答案：history of childhood
原文定位：One of the most hotly debated issues in the history of childhood has been whether childhood is itself a recent invention. The historian Philippe Aries argued that in Western Europe during the Middle Ages
答案：miniature adults;as miniature adults
原文定位：The historian Philippe Aries argued that in Western Europe during the Middle Ages (up to about the end of the fifteenth century) children were regarded as miniature adults, with all the intellect and personality that this implies
答案：industrialization;with the industrialization
原文定位：With industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a new demand for child labour was created, and many children were forced to work for long hours, in mines, workshops, and factories
答案：the factory act
原文定位：In Britain, the factory Act of 1833 signified the beginning of legal protection of children from exploitation and was linked to the rise of schools for factory children
答案：play and education
原文定位：Childhood was increasingly seen as a time for play and education for all children not just for a privileged minority
答案：classroom
原文定位：Attending school was no longer a privilege and all children were expected to spend a significant part of their day in a classroom