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The influence of television
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York city when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table.__________(46) At one point the woman asked :”So, how have you been? ”And the boy? who could not have been more than seven or eight years old? replied. ” Frankly, I ‘ve been feeling a little depressed latterly. ”
This incident stuck in my mind deeply.___________ (47) As far as I can remember. My friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed ”until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years._________(48) Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to .
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different .Childhood as it once was no longer exists, why?
Human development is based not only on innate biological states ,but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from on social tote (生搬硬套) to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status.._____________(49) Traditionally ,we tell sixth grades things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years , however ,a secret??revelation machine has been installed in 98 percent of the American homes._____________ (50) Television passes information ,and indiscriminately , to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn attention from printed texts to the less challenging ,more vivid moving pictures.
Actually , communication through print allows for great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Children must read simple books before thy can read complex materials.
A. it conformed my growing belief that children are changing.
B. Children nowadays are influenced by television.
C. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation.
D. Children have always bee taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages.
E. Children don’t seem childlike anymore.
F. It is called television.
參考答案:C A E D F
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Communication
Our society, we must communicate with other people .A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-to person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, stand in football match ____________(51),we are likely to have conversations _____________(52) we give information or opinions ,and sometimes have our views ___________(53) by other members of society.
Face to face contact is ____________(54) the only form of communication ,and during the last two hundreds years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society. Two things ,____________(55) others, have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry, firstly ,inventiveness has_____________(56) advances in printing ,photography and so on . Secondly, speed has revolutionized the transmission and reception of communications so that local news often_____________(57) a back seat to national news .
No longer is the possession of information ______________(58) to a privileged minority .forty years ago ,people used to flock to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program that is being ____________(59) into millions of houses, communication is no longer merely concerned ______________(60) the transmission of information . the modern communications industry influences the way people live society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information ,education and entertainment ,the printing ,broadcasting and advertising industries are all__________(61) with informing ,educating and entertaining , ________(62) a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very valuable to the individual and to the society __________(63) which he is a part, the vast modern network of communications is __________(64) to abuse.however ,the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning _____________(65).
51 A line B queues C rows D files
52 A whereas B which C that D where
53 A expressed B voiced C agreed D challenged
54 A by all means B by any means C by no means D by some mans
55 A below B above C over D beyond
56 A resulted from B translated into C led to D converted into
57 A offers B chooses C takes D leaves
58 A prohibited B provided C allowed D confined
59 A channeled B turned C discharged D moved
60 A about B with C to D for
61 A engaged B involved C occupied D dealt
62 A although B since C if D even if
63 A with B for C by D of
64 A possible B likely C close D open
65 A away B over C down D back
參考答案:B D D C B C C D A B B A D D D
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