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Today, I read an interesting article about television viewing.In one experiment, families were paid to
stop watching TV for either a week or a month.Many could not complete the task and some families
quarrelled or even fought.It was quite interesting and now I will say something about TV.
After TV became a product most families could afford, people bought and started to watch their new
TVs.Both adults and children became less creative in problem solving, less able to focus on tasks, and
less tolerant of flexible time.
In my family, we grew up with the TV on.Every weekend, we watched Gun Smoke and Bonanza
together as a family.TV provides us with a comfortable background when we want to learn a foreign
language at home, and it entertains us cheaply with live action sports, incomparable performing arts and
important events of the world.In addition, it educates us about everything from the cells in our body to
the galaxies in the universe.
Perhaps it's not even practical to live without television unless our views change unexpectedly as we
get older.I don't think that TV damages us so much as it robs us of time that could be spent doing other
things such as learning new skills, getting some exercise or doing volunteer work.
I was lucky to have a family that watched TV together.Today there seems to be a TV in every room
of the house and there's no need to agree on a program to watch.To watch TV or not is more of a
question for adults than for us, and even though we all say we want to cut down the time we spend in
front of the tube, we never really do.TV_has_us_hypnotized!
1. The experiment in Paragraph 1 shows________.
A. how interesting watching TV is
B. how much people like watching TV
C. whether people like watching TV
D. why people give up watching TV
2. After most families could afford a TV, they________.
A. got more active at work
B. found it easier to solve problems
C. became more independent of TV
D. fixed less attention on tasks
3. From Paragraph 3, we can learn that________.
A. the author likes to spend weekends watching TV by himself
B. watching TV too much prevents the author from growing up well
C. TV programmes bring only fun to the author and his family
D. the author and his family get a lot of valuable experience in watching TV
4. According to the author, which of the following is TRUE?
A. It is a waste of time to watch TV.
B. We benefit little when we watch TV.
C. It is hard to live without television.
D. We change our views as we live with television.
5. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that________.
A. we depend too much on TV
B. watching TV makes us united
C. TV robs us of valuable time
D. TV changes our daily life
