Read the text then answer the questions.

Television viewing is a major activity and influence on children. Children in the United States watch an average of three to four hours of television a day. While television can entertain, inform, and keep our children company, it may also influence them in undesirable ways. Time spent watching television takes away from important activities such as reading, school work, playing, exercise, family interaction, and social development. Children who watch a lot of television are likely to have lower grades in school, read fewer books, exercise less, and be overweight. Parents can help by doing the following: ♦ Don’t allow children to watch long blocks of TV. ♦ Help them choose suitable programmes. Children’s shows on public TV are appropriate, but soap operas, adult sitcoms and adult talk shows are not. ♦ Set certain periods when the television will be off. Study times are for learning, not for sitting in front of the TV doing homework. Make TV viewing an active process for child and parent!

75. How much TV do children in the United States watch on an average day? ___________________________________________________________________________

76. What are the good effects of television on children? ___________________________________________________________________________

77. What may be the bad effects of watching too much TV on school work? ___________________________________________________________________________

78. Should parents let their children watch TV for a long time? ___________________________________________________________________________

79. Which programmes are appropriate for children and which are not? ___________________________________________________________________________

80. What can parents do to limit their child’s screen time? 

XI. Read the text then answer the questions.

Television viewing is a major activity and influence on children. Children in the United States watch an average of three to four hours of television a day.

While television can entertain, inform, and keep our children company, it may also influence them in undesirable ways. Time spent watching television takes away from important activities such as reading, school work, playing, exercise, family interaction, and social development. Children who watch a lot of television are likely to have lower grades in school, read fewer books, exercise less, and be overweight.

Parents can help by doing the following:

♦ Don’t allow children to watch long blocks of TV.

♦ Help them choose suitable programmes. Children’s shows on public TV are appropriate, but soap operas, adult sitcoms and adult talk shows are not.

♦ Set certain periods when the television will be off. Study times are for learning, not for sitting in front of the TV doing homework.

Make TV viewing an active process for child and parent!

1. How much TV do children in the United States watch on an average day?

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2. What are the good effects of television on children?

____________________________________________________

3. What may be the bad effects of watching too much TV on school work?

____________________________________________________

4. Should parents let their children watch TV for a long time?

____________________________________________________

5. Which programmes are appropriate for children and which are not?

____________________________________________________

6. What can parents do to limit their child’s screen time?

____________________________________________________

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

                   British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the TV and do not have enough time on other activities (31) ________sports and reading. A survey recently (32) ________on people’s viewing habits does not approve this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (33) ________works out at over three hours a day.

          (34) ________is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We (35) ________to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television set and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well

Điền vào ô số 31

A. such

B. like

C. as

D. alike

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

                   British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the TV and do not have enough time on other activities (31) ________sports and reading. A survey recently (32) ________on people’s viewing habits does not approve this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (33) ________works out at over three hours a day.

          (34) ________is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We (35) ________to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television set and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well

Điền vào ô số 32

A. investigated

B. researched

C. carried out

D. carried

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

                   British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the TV and do not have enough time on other activities (31) ________sports and reading. A survey recently (32) ________on people’s viewing habits does not approve this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (33) ________works out at over three hours a day.

          (34) ________is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We (35) ________to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television set and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well

Điền vào ô số 33

A. that

B. which

C. this

D. it

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

                   British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the TV and do not have enough time on other activities (31) ________sports and reading. A survey recently (32) ________on people’s viewing habits does not approve this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (33) ________works out at over three hours a day.

          (34) ________is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We (35) ________to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television set and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well

Điền vào ô số 35

A. seem

B. ought

C. used

D. would 

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

                   British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the TV and do not have enough time on other activities (31) ________sports and reading. A survey recently (32) ________on people’s viewing habits does not approve this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (33) ________works out at over three hours a day.

          (34) ________is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We (35) ________to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television set and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well

Điền vào ô số 34

A. What

B. It

C. The thing

D. This

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

PROBLEMS OF WATCHING TELEVISION IN BRITAIN

British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time gluing to the telly and not enough for other activities like sports and reading. A survey recently carried out on people's viewing habits (28)____ not disapprove it. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average twenty three hours a week in front of the television, (29)_______ works out at over three hours every day.

What is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We seem to have become a nation of tally addicts. Just about (30)_______ household in the country has a television and over half have two or more.

According (31)_______ the survey, people nowadays don't just watch television sitting in their living room, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well.

The Education Minister said a few weeks ago that Britain's pupils should spend more time reading. Unfortunately, parents are not setting a good example: adults do less reading than young people. In fact, reading is on the bottom of their list of favorite pastimes. They would (32)____ listen to the radio, go to the cinema or hire a video to watch on their television at home.

Question 32:

A. rather

B. like

C. had better

D. prefer