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For one week in April, millions of people chose not to watch TV for “TV Turnoff Week”. TV Turnoff
Week started in 1995 and is more popular every year. Many people discover that you can have a good time
with the TV off. If that sounds crazy to you, just have a look at some numbers:
―An American teenager spends 900 hours every year at school; the same teenager spends 1,023 hours
every year watching TV. That's 2 hours 49 minutes every day.
―An average (平均) British person (not just teenagers) watches 3 hours 35 minutes every day.
―In the US, most TV has adverts. American children see 20,000 adverts every year. By age 65, an
American has seen two million ads!
But some research from Britain says that may not be a problem. The London Business School watched
people carefully during TV adverts and they discovered that people don't watch a lot of the ads. The
researchers discovered that the most common activity during the adverts was talking to other people in the
room. Many other people started reading or doing housework or changed channels during adverts. They
only really watched them about 25 percent of the time.
1. During TV Turnoff Week, many people don't _____.
A. watch TV
B. change channels
C. watch adverts
D. do their school work
2. From the passage we can learn that _____.
A. American children see more adverts on TV than their parents
B. British people spend more than 3 hours a day in front of their TV
C. Researchers noticed that most people changed channels during ads
D. An American teenager spends more time at school than watching TV
3. The writer's purpose is _____.
A. to advise us to spend less time on TV
B. to tell us how to avoid watching adverts
C. to show us how many adverts American TV has
D. to ask us to turn off TV during TV Turnoff Week
