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a difficult one. I would ban television.

I grew up a couch potato. Looking back, it seems I hardly read anything else at all—I watched TV almost seven hours a day.

There are so many good reasons for you to be a couch potato. Television is good before-breakfast entertainment. Television is good after-school entertainment. Television is good before-bed entertainment. Everybody watches it, so you have to watch it too in order to talk about it with friends. Otherwise you cannot say a word, which makes you look like an idiot.

But when I stopped watching television completely several months ago, I found that I had become a more reflective person, simply because I had more time to think. Television had stopped stuffing its ideas into my head. I was thinking of my childhood, and to my disappointment, I found that it could be summed up adequately in one sentence: “I watched a lot of TV. ” And I wast much of my youth that I cannot have back. I will never be more imaginative than I was in my childhood.

Now I can totally resist the temptation of TV no matter how marvelous the programs are, and I’m entering into a new stage of life. In the meantime, I ’d hope that all couch potatoes would turn off their TV. But I am afraid that with more and more attractive TV programs , I ’m not going to be the last person in this country to idle awaythe best years of life sitting passively in front of a television.

A couch potato is someone who ______.

A.spends much time sitting and watching TV

B.plants potato

C.plants potato in the couch

D.sits in a couch eating potato

People watch TV so much because ______.A.television is good before breakfast entertainment

B.television is good after-school entertainment

C.television is good before-bed entertainment

D.All of the above

According to the passage, people will ______ if they stop watching TV.A.fill themselves with idea on TV

B.be more lazy and relaxed

C.have more time to think

D.not look back at their childhood

Which of the following is NOT true of the author？A.The author had watched television a lot.

B.The author had wasted too much of his youth.

C.The author will never be more imaginative than he was in his childhood.

D.The author is determined to go on watching television.

The phrase “idle away” (Para.5) probably means “______”.A.spend time in a different way

B.spend time in a relaxed way

C.enter a new stage

D.watch television

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

-Who did you say you lived with？

-__________

A.I had a hard time making friends while I was growing up.

B.Mary Smith in fact.

C.She is a nice girl.

, "the age of respect", when it was an honour to have you, the interviewee, on the programme, lasted until the middle 50s. The second, "the age of supremacy", when politicians in particular looked upon the interviewers as rivals who made them feel uncomfortable by their knowledge and rigour of questioning, came to an end at the beginning of this decade. Now we are in "the age of evasion", when most prominent interviewees have acquired the art of seeming to answer a question whilst bypassing its essential thrust.

Why should this be？ From the complexity of causes responsible for the present commonplace interview form, a few are worth singling out, such as the revolt against rationality and the worship of feeling in its place. To the young of the 60s, the painstaking search for understanding of a given political problem may have appeared less fruitful and satisfying than the free expression of emotion which the same problem generated. Sooner or later, broadcasting was bound to reflect this.

This bias against understanding has continued. To this we must add the professional causes that have played their part. The convention of the broadcast interview had undergone little change or radical development since its rise in the 50s. When a broadcasting form. ceases to develop, its practitioners tend to take it for granted and are likely to say "how" rather than ask "why".

Furthermore, these partly psychological, partly professional tendencies were greatly accelerated by the huge expansion of news and current affairs output over the last 15 years. When you had many, additional hours of current affairs broadcasting, interviewing turned out to be a far cheaper convention than straight reporting, which is costly in terms of permanent reporters and time preparation. The temptation to combine an expanded news and current affairs service with a relatively small additional financial expense by making the interview happen everywhere proved overwhelming.

To be fair, there are compensating virtues in interviewing, such as immediacy and authority, yet in all honesty I must say that the spread of the interviewing arrangement has led to a corresponding diminution of quality broadcasting.

According to the author, in the past politicians thought that television interviewers ______.

A．knew more about politics than they did

B．should be honoured to meet them

C．really were eager to be politicians too

D．gave them a difficult time in interviews

“ What courses are you going to do next semester？”

“ I don’t know. But its about time _______ on something.”

A. I’d decide

B. I decided

C. I decide

D. I’m deciding

You could have ()your spare time much better if you had planned well.

A.employed

B.hired

C.mastered

D.managed

A.have

B. has

C. having

D. had

Another possible source of loans are a life 【M1】______

insurance policy. When you study insurance,

you will learn that some types of life insurance

have cash or loan value. Anyone who owns 【M2】______

this type of insurance may borrow up to

the number of its cash value. 【M3】______

Life insurance loans are easy to obtain.

Tile rate charged is less than that for almost

any other type of loan available for consumers. 【M4】______

This is because the lender takes none risk. 【M5】______

Also, borrowers may take as long as they want

to repay their loans. Although that may seem

likely an advantage, it can also be a disadvantage 【M6】______

When a borrower is not required to

repay a loan within certain period of time, it is easy 【M7】______

to let it run on and on. This increases the dollar

cost of a loan as the loan continues. Also the 【M8】______

amount the insurance company will pay for case 【M9】______

of death is reduced by the amount of the loan.

For example, suppose that someone with

$10,000 of insurance borrows $2,000

and dies, leaving the loan unpaying. The insurrance 【M10】______

company would pay only $8,000 to the

person entitled to receive the money. Of

course, if the $2,000 loan had been obtained

from another source, it would still have to be paid.

【M1】

t.The only trouble was that the place was very difficult to get to.

He returned from his first visit to the place in late autumn, and could not get back until the snow melted in the following spring.Then he went to the pilot of a small plane, who earned his living by carrying hunters over parts of the country where there were no roads and no railways.He asked the pilot to take him back to the piece of forest.

The pilot did not know the place, so the hunter showed it to him on the map.“But there is nowhere to land there,” said the pilot.“I have flown over that we can’t land anywhere between this river and these mountains.”

“I thought you were a wonderful pilot,” said the hunter, “some of my friends said you could land a plane on a postage stamp.”

“That’s right,” answered the pilot.“I can land a plane where nobody else can.But I tell you there is nowhere to land in the place you are talking about.”

“And what if I tell you that another pilot did land me there last spring？” said the hunter.

“Is that true？” asked the pilot.

“Yes, it is.I swear it.”

Well, this pilot could not let himself beaten by another, so he agreed to take the hunter.

When they reached the place, the hunter pointed out a small spot without trees in the middle of the forest, with a steep rise(陡坡) at one end.The pilot thought there was not enough room to land there, but the hunter said that the other pilot had done so the year before, so down went the plane.When it came to the rise, it turned right over onto its back.As the hunter climbed out, he smiled happily and said, “Yes, that is exactly how the other pilot managed it last time.”.

6.The hunter in the story went to the forest ().

A.once

B.two times

C.many times

D.none of the above

7.In the story the hunter asked a pilot to take him to the piece of forest.This pilot was ().

A.the same pilot who had taken him to the place once

B.a different pilot who had never been to that part of the country

C.a pilot who had been to the place many times

D.a pilot who had never heard of such a place

8.It was difficult for the pilot to land the plane because ().

A.the place for landing was as big as a room

B.the place for landing was as small as a postage stamp

C.there wasn't any place to land

D.there was a room near the landing place

9.“When it came to the rise, I turned right over onto its back.” What do the words “its back” refer to？()

A.the back of the rise

B.the pilot’s back

C.the back of the plane

D.the back of the small spot

10.The hunter got to the plane the first time().

A.by jumping out of the place during the flight

B.in an entirely different way

C.exactly the same way as he got there the second time

D.by climbing down the tree on which the place hand landed

Had you worked harder that time, you ______ a better position.

A. could get

B. have got

C. would get

D. would have got

od time _______？

A. the visiting of museums

B. for museum visiting

C. visiting the museums

D. to visit the museums