children watch TV only on Saturday and Sunday evenings.

A.watch

B.watches

C.is watching

D.are watching

A、watching

B、is watch

C、are watching

D、to watch

Which description does not fit an art lesson in a Western country？

A、Children draw the same pictures as that on the blackboard.

B、Each child draws a different picture.

C、Children listen while the teacher lectures.

D、Children watch TV in class.

We may draw a conclusion that______.

A. latchkey children enjoy having such a large amount of time alone

B. latchkey children try to hide their feeling

C. latchkey children often watch TV with their parents

D. it's difficult to find out how many latchkey children there are

ok dinner, answer the phone, or take a shower. But【C1】______ that electronic babysitter is not an educational【C2】______. According to a recent research, babies who watch TV are more likely to have【C3】______ cognitive development and language at 14 months,【C4】______ if theyre watching programs【C5】______ for adults and older children. Its surprising that TV-watching made a【C6】______ at such a tender age. This new study【C7】______ 259 lower-income families in New York, most of whom spoke Spanish as their【C8】______ language at home. Other studies examining higher-income families have come to the【C9】______ conclusion: TV watching not only isnt educational, but it seems to【C10】______ babies development. Babies who watched 60 minutes of TV daily had developmental【C11】______ one-third lower at 14 months than babies who werent watching that much TV. The【C12】______ may be due to the fact that when kids and parents are watching TV, theyre【C13】______ talking, playing, and interactions that are【C14】______ to learning and development. But what about【C15】"______" TV, like Sesame Street？ The researchers didnt find any pluses or minuses when【C16】______ to non-educational programs designed for small children, like Sponge-Bob SquarePants.【C17】______ research by some of the same scientists has found that parents whose children watch non-educational TV programs like SpongeBob SquarePants spend【C18】______ time reading to their children or teaching them. The latest study of educational TV programs like Sesame Street adds more【C19】______ to a recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics that babies under age 2【C20】______ watch no TV at all.

【C1】

A．hopefully

B．unfortunately

C．interestingly

D．unluckily

听力原文： An American study found, on average, a child watches between four and five hours of television each weekday, and ten hours on Saturday and Sunday. It was also noted that a typical child watches 25, 000 hours of television before his or her 18th birthday. In the life of Children, watching television is a significant sensory ex perience. Many children easily spend more time with the box than they do with any other form. of entertainment. Each year children read less and less and watch television more and more. In fact, Americans of all ages watch more television each year. The typical child sits in front of the television about four hours a day -- and for children in lower socioeconomic families the a mount of time thus spent is even greater. In either case, the child spends more time with TV than he or she spends talking to parents, playing with peers, attending school, or reading books. TV time appropriates family time, play time, and the reading time that could pro mote language development. Watching TV is a passive event. Children and adults, remain completely immobile while viewing the box. Most viewing experiences, at least among Americans, are both quiet and non-inter active. All attention is given to the images. Just like the operating room light, television creates an environment that attacks and beats the child; he can respond to it only by bringing into play his shutdown mechanism, and thus becomes more passive. Children arc often hooked. A highly active child will remain inactive while watching TV because that is what the medium requires. To morrow, we shall talk about violence on TV and its effects on children.

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A．Children's IQ and TV.

B．The whole amount of time children spend watching TV.

C．The effect TV has on learning.

D．The amount of time the average child spends watching TV.

ey want to be alone. They may go to their rooms. Maybe they just sit on the stairs or go to a quiet corner of the living room.

Families share many activities. Homes have spaces for people to be together. Families have meals together in the kitchen or dining room. They play games, watch TV, or talk with friends in the living room.

Every family's home is special. People can decorate their homes with things they like. They put the furniture the way they want it. They use colors they like. The children often fix up a space with their own things. They hang posters or art projects from school over their beds. They have a place for things they collect. Their homes tell about them.

1)、People often go to the cinema when they want to be alone.

A.T

B.F

2)、Families have meals together in their dining-room.

A.T

B.F

3)、Families cook food in the living room.

A.T

B.F

4)、Every family's home is special because people decorate their homes with things they like.

A.T

B.F

5)、The children often watch TV to make their homes special.

A.T

B.F

e shows that they watch. Television can increase our knowledge of the outside world; there are high-quality programs that help us understand many fields of study: science, medicine, the arts, and so on. Moreover, TV benefits very old people who can't often leave the house, as well as patients in hospitals. It also offers non-native speakers the advantage of daily informal language practice; they can increase their vocabulary and practice listening On the other hand, there are several serious disadvantages to TV. Of course, it provides us with a pleasant way to relax and spend our free time, but in some countries, people watch the TV for an average of six hours or more a day. Many children stare at a TV screen for more hours each day than they do anything else, including studying and sleeping It's clear that the TV has a powerful influence on their lives and that its influence is often negatk'e. Recent studies show that alter only thirty seconds of TV, a person' s brain 'relaxes" the same way that it does just before the person falls asleep. Another effect of TV on the human brain is that it seems to cause poor concentration. Children who view a lot of TV can often concentrate on a subject for only fifteen to twenty minutes; they can pay attention only for the amount of time between commercials

Another disadvantage is that TV often causes people to become dissatisfied with their own lives. Real life does not seem as exciting to these people as the lives of actors on the screen. To many people, TV becomes more real than reality, and their own lives seem boring. Also, many people get upset or depressed when they can't solve problems in real life as quickly as TV actors seem to. On the screen, actors solve serious problems in a half-hour program or a thirty-second commercial

Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she views eleven thousand murders on the TV. He or she begins to believe that there is nothing strange about fights, killings, and other kinds of violence. Many studies show that people become more violent after certain programs. They may even do the things that they saw in a violent show

The most negative effect of the TV might be people's addiction to it. People often feel a strange and powerful need to watch TV even when they don't enjoy it. Addiction to a TV screen is similar to drug or alcohol addiction, people almost never believe they are addicted

Read Passage and decide whether the following statements are True or False. Write T for True and F for False against the number of each of the statements on your Answer Sheet

21. TV programs are definitely helpful to anyone

22. There are positive as well as negative effects of TV on our lives

23. TV can help improve one's foreign language

24. Watching a lot of TV won't affect our concentration at all

25. Some children spend more time watching TV than studying and sleeping

26. The lives of people in TV shows seem to be very exciting

27. TV programs can help people solve problems as quickly as the actors

28. TV violence makes some people, especially children, take violence in real Life for

granted

29. One of the symptoms of addiction to television is a strong desire to watch it even if

the program is not interesting

30. The passage mainly discusses the advantages of TV

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

Children who watch violent television shows are at an increased risk of aggression and violent behavior. as they become young adults. That's based on a fifteen-year study published in the current issue of the research journal Developmental Psychology.

Back in the late 1970's when this study began, among the top rated shows were 'Chafiie's Angels' and 'The Six Million Dollar Man'. These were the TV shows that many of the 557 children in Raul Huseman's study were watching when they were six to ten years old. By today's standards these shows may not seem that violent, but there was a significant amount of on-screen physical violence in them. Huseman, from the University of Michigan, analyzed the types and amounts of violence in these shows and also collected other information on the kids about their home life, their friends, their school life, and importantly their levels of aggressive behavior, tike who was getting into fights, who was pushing and shoving (猛推) others, who was stealing things.

Now fast-forward 15 years: Raul Huseman was able to track down over 80% of the boys and girls from the original study. He re-interviewed them, now in their mid-twenties, and talked to their spouses (配偶) and close friends and checked their criminal records. "We found that those children back then, when they were 6, 7, 8 or 8, 9, 10, who had been watching more media violence had grown up to be more aggressive young adults as compared to the young adults who had been just as aggressive in childhood but had not watched as much violent television."

"Most at-risk children are children who watch a steady diet of violent television shows, identify with the aggressors, who sometimes the heroes and the lead-characters in those shows, and who perceive the violence as being realistic and a model for how to act in real life."

The conclusion of the fifteen-year study is that ______.

A．children born in the 1970s would display more violent behavior. than other children

B．children who like to push and shove others when fighting would develop violent behavior. quickly

C．young adults are the group of people who are most influenced by violent TV

D．young people who watched violent TV shows in childhood tend to become aggressive