Television keeps us （inform) （) about current events and the latest developments in science and politics.

A.gratify

B.gratitude

C.gratification

D.grate

It is()for us to try to decide whether television is a blessing or a curse.

A general

B essential

C illegal

D successful

A. literature

B. literacy

C. literary

D. literal

A.intensively

B.inclusively

C.extensively

D.exclusively

Parallelism is used in ________.

A、It sells us instant gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.

B、Consider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precisio is an anachronism.

C、Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.

D、Everything about this nation – the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world – has become more complex, not less.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

Metaphor is used in ________.

A、… had bequeathed to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments’ concentration.

B、Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool？

C、… force feeding on trivial fare is not itself a trivial matter.

D、… and I fear that … and our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived.

A．the dollar has depreciated relative to the yen

B．the US trade balance with the Japanese economy has improved

C．the yen can now purchase more dollars

D．the dollar can now purchase more yen