What would life be like without television? Would you spend more time 1 , reading, or studying? Well, now it’s your chance to turn off your TV and 2 ! TV-Turnoff Week is here.

  The goal of TV-Turnoff Week is to let people leave their TV sets 3 and participate in activities 4  drawing to biking. The event was founded by TV-Turnoff Network, a non-profit organization which started the event in 1995. In the 5 , only a few thousand people took part. Last year more than 7.6 million people participated, 6 people in every state in America and in more than 12 other countries! This is the 11th year in which 7  are asking people to “turn off the TV and turn on 8 .”

  According to the TV-Turnoff Network, the average 9  in the US spend 10  time in front of the TV (about 1,023 hours per year) than they do in school (about 900 hours per year). Too much TV 11  has made many kids grow fat. 12 , in 2001’s TV-Turnoff Week, US Surgeon General David Satcher said, “We are raising the most 13  generation of youngsters in American history. This week is about saving lives.”

  Over the years, studies have shown that watching a lot of TV 14  poor eating habits, too little exercise, and violence. Frank Vespe of the TV-Turnoff Network said that turning off the TV “is or 15 , part of a healthy lifestyle”.

  “One of the great lessons of 16  TV-Turnoff Week is the realization that 17  I turn on the TV, I’m deciding not to do something else,” Vespe said.

  TV-Turnoff Week seems to be making a 18  . Recent US Census(人口普查)data 19 that about 72 percent of kids under 12 have a limit on their TV time. That’s 20  about 63 percent ten years ago.

1. A. drinking    B. sleeping    C. washing  D. playing outside

2. A. find out    B. go out   C. look out    D. keep out

3. A. away    B. off    C. on     D. beside

4. A. like    B. as     C. from      D. such as

5. A. end     B. event     C. beginning   D. total

6. A. besides   B. except for   C. including   D. except

7. A. governments B. parents  C. organizers   D. businessmen

8. A. the light   B. the radio   C. life      D. the Internet

9. A. grown-ups   B. kids      C. clerks     D. parents

10. A. less     B. enough   C. little     D. more

11. A. programmes B. screen   C. hours     D. watching

12. A. However    B. On the contraryC. In fact      D. As a result

13. A. overweight  B. overeaten   C. overgrown   D. overseeing

14. A. leads to   B. results from  C. develops    D. keeps away

15. A. will be      B. should be   C. may be   D. could be

16. A. organizing  B. taking part in C. participating D. asking for

17. A. wherever   B. every day   C. every time D. this time

18. A. living    B. choice   C. difference   D. sense

19. A. shows     B. says      C. reads     D. writes

20. A. rising    B. down from C. up to     D. up from

 

We were 1 to gather up our things and return to our car when a man came up. He looked very 2 indeed and asked us 3 if we knew that these grounds were his own. Father looked troubled and the man 4 a notice, it said that camping was strictly forbidden. 5 father explained that he had not seen the 6 and did not know that camping was not allowed. 7 Father apologized, the man did not seem satisfied. He asked Father for his name and 8 . All the way home, we were so 9 that hardly anyone spoke a word. This unpleasant thing had spoiled a wonderful day in the 10 .

For the rest of the week, we 11 what would happen. The following Sunday, we stayed at home even though it was a 12 day. About noon, a large and very expensive 13 stopped outside our house. We were surprised when we saw several people preparing to have a picnic in our small 14 . Father got very angry and went to ask them what they thought they were doing. You can imagine how 15 he was when he saw the man who had taken our address the week before! Both men burst out 16 and Father welcomed the strangers into the house. We became good 17 . And we learned a lesson we have never 18 . That’s “Don’t do to others 19 you don’t like to 20 to you.”

1.A.anxious   B.asked    C.about      D.happy

2.A.unpleasant  B.polite    C.strong     D.pleased

3.A.quickly   B.angrily   C.loudly     D.curiously

4.A.wrote    B.stared at  C.read      D.pointed to

5.A.Our     B.Poor     C.But       D.Then

6.A.ground    B.place    C.notice     D.man

7.A.Even     B.When     C.Though     D.Because

8.A.house    B.car     C.reason     D.address

9.A.worried   B.satisfied  C.frightened   D.busy

10.A.city    B.country   C.week      D.camp

11.A.waited   B.thought   C.wondered    D.knew

12.A.rainy    B.fine     C.good      D.sad

13.A.man     B.thief    C.car       D.dog

14.A.garden   B.house    C.ground     D.field

15.A.happy    B.afraid    C.angry      D.surprised

16.A.fighting  B.smiling   C.laughing    D.exciting

17.A.neighbours B.friends   C.families    D.farmers

18.A.learnt   B.known    C.forgotten    D.received

19.A.that    B.if      C.when      D.what

20.A.be done   B.do      C.doing      D.get

 

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