大学英语 快速阅读6(修订本)

　　
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UNIT1 1.A Case of Mistaken Identity 2.Standing Room Only UNIT2 3.Our Lost Children 4.Two Ways of Life UNIT3 5.In Search of HMS EDINBURGH 6.Choosing a Career UNIT4 7.Paper and Its Uses 8.Diseases of the 21st Century UNIT5 9.Breathing Below the Surface of the Sea 10.The Effects of Lead UNIT6 11.Computers for the Masses 12.A Canadian's Language Problems UNIT7 13.A Sleepless Night 14.The State of the Language UNIT8 15.Men and Women:Some Differences 16.Communications of the Future UNIT9 17.Extrasensory Perception 18.Melting Pot or Tossed Salad? UNIT10 19.The Soft Sell 20.Chaplin-Master of Anti-capitalist Satire

3. Our Lost Children
we Americans in recent decades have richer, our childrei　grown
have grown poorer. Many families no longer adequately perform the nurturing and supporting function that children need, emotionally and intellectually.
The evil consequences for children are not in dispute. The rate of suici&among children aged ten to fourteen is twice as high as it was twenty years ago.For children aged fifteen to nineteen, the rate has tripled.
Since 1963, crimes by children have been rising at a faster rate than the juve.nile population. About half of such crimes involve the traditional youthful offense~of theft, breaking and entering, and vandalism, but serious, violent crimes,though still involving a relatively small proportion of children, are going up atstartling rate. The rate of armed robbery, rape, and murder by juveniles has dou.bled in a decade.
The Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee surveyed 750 school districtsand reported the following changes between 1970 and 1973.
Dropouts increased by 11 percent. Drug and alcohol offenses on school prop-erty were up 37 percent. Burglaries of school buildings were up 11 percent and as-saults on teachers up 77 percent.
Among those who are thought of as "normal" children, lower reading scoresand scholastic aptitude scores reveal intellectual impoverishment. Beyond all thisloom the apathy and waste of the counterculture. Its existence is no longer news,but its ranks are still swelled each year by thousands of pathetic runaways anddropouts.
What forces are producing the increasingly severe stresses on today's children？
The phenomenon is complex and baffling, but several developments seem tobe interacting. Urbanization is a factor. Children who might have made it on afarm or in a village, despite adverse family circumstances sucli as extreme povertyor a father's desertion, encounter disaster in a big city with its anonymity and di-verse temptations.