Many children want to develop a hobby. You'll need to find different interests and decide which hobby really interests you. While, this may be hard to do, and here are four great reasons to work it in:
Hobbies help build a teen's confidence. By finding an area of interest, a teen can build his skill. This leads to positive(积极的) results and builds teenagers' confidence.
A hobby helps teens have a sense of his identity(个性). Our likes and dislikes help us know who we are as people. Hobbies help by sending a signal, "I like doing this. This makes me feel good about myself. Therefore, this is a part of who I am."
Hobbies keep teens from getting bored. Bored teens look for things to do and are more likely to do something bad. Helping teens develop a hobby is helping them stay out of trouble.
Hobbies will help teens get on well with their parents. When a teen is busy with a hobby, his parents have easy access(机会) to something to praise him about. They can communicate(交流) with each other easily.
()1. According to the passage, hobbies can make kids .
A. be sure something they want will happen in the way they think
B. know they are different from their parents
C. feel a little bad about themselves
D. not be good students at school
()2. If Jim has a hobby, he will in his free time.
A. be bored
B. be in trouble
C. make a lot of money
D. feel happy
()3. Hobbies will help teens to get on well with their parents because .
A. teens are busy and have no time to fight with their parents
B. their parents never praise them about their hobbies
C. their parents have an interesting topic to talk with children
D. teens have to ask their parents for some money
()4. The passage is mainly about .
A. why it's not easy to find a hobby
B. how to develop a hobby
C. who we are as people
D. why teens need a hobby

D
【短文大意】本文主要论述的是兴趣对青少年的四大好处，如：兴趣可以帮助青少年建立自信，可以帮助青少年树立个性，可以使青少年远离烦恼，可以帮助青少年和父母建立良好的关系等。
1. A 【解析】细节理解题。由第二段的“Hobbies help build a teen's confidence... ”可知，兴趣帮助青少年建立自信。由此可知，兴趣可使孩子们确信他们能实现自己的愿望。
2. D 【解析】推理判断题。第四段提到了“Hobbies keep teens from getting bored. ”“Helping teens develop a hobby is helping them stay out of trouble. ”，由此可知，兴趣可使青少年不再无聊，远离烦恼，故推断 D 项为正确答案。
3. C 【解析】推理判断题。由最后一段第二句可知，当青少年忙于自己的兴趣时，他们的父母很容易有机会夸奖他们，C 项符合文意。
4. D 【解析】主旨大意题。文章主要介绍了兴趣给青少年带来的好处，也就说明了青少年需要培养兴趣的原因。