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A campaign (活动) is being launched to encourage children to surrender 30 minutes of screen time a day to head for the great outdoors.
The Wild Network — a collaboration (合作) of nearly 2,000 organisations — is attempting to attract youngsters away from the television and computer screen and to fields, woods and parks.Members of the network include the National Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Play England and the National Health Service (NHS) sustainable development unit.Organisers say it is the UK's biggest ever campaign to reconnect children with nature and outdoor play, and claim it could help improve fitness, mental alertness (机敏) and general wellbeing.
A documentary film, Project Wild Thing, which forecast the launch at more than 50 cinemas across the UK also looked at the increasingly fragile link between children and nature.
Andy Simpson, chairman of the Wild Network, said, “The tragic truth is that kids have lost touch with nature and the outdoors in just one generation.Time spent outdoors is down, roaming (漫步) ranges have fallen largely, activity levels are declining and the ability to identify common species has been lost.”
Suggestions of how to get more time in nature include collecting conkers (七叶树果), camping or snail racing, and observing autumn colours on trees.
The network also aims to make suggestions to politicians on how government can do more to get children muddy and brighteyed.
This is not the first time the message of “less screen, more play” has been brought up.Children in the 1980s were requested to do the same by the BBC TV series Why Don't You, which somewhat confusingly called on its viewers to “switch off your TV set and go to do something less boring instead.”
语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一项让孩子远离电视和电脑屏幕，去亲近大自然的活动。
1．What does the underlined word “surrender” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A．Give up. B．Get around.
C．Take up. D．Run away.
解析：选A 词义猜测题。由第二段中的attract youngsters away from the television and computer screen可知，画线词所在句意为正在开展的这项活动是为了鼓励孩子们每天放弃30分钟屏幕时间去户外。由此可知此处是“放弃”的意思。故选A项。
2．For what purpose is the Wild Network organised?
A．To make children read more books.
B．To help children tell the natural world.
C．To encourage children to take part in outdoor activities.
D．To get children out of too much homework from school.
解析：选C 细节理解题。由第二段的第一句The Wild Network — a collaboration (合作) of nearly 2,000 organisations — is attempting to attract youngsters away from the television and computer screen and to fields, woods and parks.和最后一句可知，组织Wild Network的目的是鼓励孩子们到户外去，亲近大自然。故选C项。
3．“Less screen, more play” was first put forward by .
A．Wild Network B．the BBC
C．the National Trust D．Play England
解析：选B 细节理解题。由最后一段内容可知，这个想法最开始是在20世纪80年代由BBC提出的。故选B项。
4．What can we infer from the passage?
A．The government will play an important role.
B．Children have already been close to nature.
C．Politicians have controlled the campaign.
D．TV viewers will turn away from television.
解析：选A 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段的内容可知，该组织还旨在针对政府应该如何做才能让孩子们去户外玩耍而给从政者提建议。由此可知，政府在这件事上也将起到重要的作用。故选A项。
