Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family roundtable at dinnertime and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn’t very organized, but everyone was recognized, and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member.

We listened to each other and the interest was not put–on; it was real. Our family was a unit and we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and liked each other, and ---- we were even willing to admit ---- we loved each other.

Today, the family roundtable has moved to the local fast–food restaurant and talk is not easy, much less encouraged.

Grandma, who used to live upstairs, is now the voice on long distance, and the working parent is far too beaten down each day to spend evening relaxation time listening to the sandbox experience of an eager four–year–old.

So family conversation is as extinct as my old toys and parental questions such as “What have you been doing, Bobby?” have been replaced by “I'm busy, go watch television.”

And watch TV they do; count them by the millions.

But it’s usually not children’s television that children watch. Saturday morning, the children’s hour, amounts to only about 8 percent of their weekly viewing.

Where are they to be found? Watching adult television, of course, from the Match Game in the morning, to the afternoon at General Hospital, from the muggings and battles on the evening news right through the family hour and past into Starsky and Hutch. That’s where you find our kids, over five million of them, at 10 p.m., not fewer than a million until after midnight! All of this is done with parental permission.

Television, used well, can provide enriching experiences for our young people, but we must use it with some sense. When the carpet is clean, we turn off the vacuum cleaner. When the dishes are clean, the dishwasher turns itself off.

Not so the television, which is on from the sun in the morning to the moon at night and beyond!

Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on the child when a program not intended for that child is viewed. Parents need to intervene (干涉) . Nonintervention may be a wise policy in international affairs, but the results of parental nonintervention will not be wise at all.

60. The Working parent is not willing to listen to her (his) four–year–old child talking about his sandbox games because she (he) is ____.

A. boring              B. very tired                 C. busy                       D. angry

61. According to the writer, the responsibility for the kid’s watching adult television and watching it for a long time should be undertaken by ____.

A. the television stations                            B. the society 

C. TV programs                                       D. their parents

62. If we use television with some ____ television can provide our young people with much knowledge.

A. instruction of experts                            B. judgment of our own

C. direction of engineers                           D. indication of teachers

    His wife’s   4   nearly finished Thompson too．He was a   5   man．Always active,   6   his years easily, and with red good   7   in his face, he now seemed to   8   overnight．He seemed to dry   9   and had been like a tree whose roots lack   10   ．His hands were suddenly uncertain and awkward, when they had   11   things surely before．The word   12   his past seemed to lose interest for   13   ．He became silent and with-drawn．He sat for long hours in his tall wooden-backed armchair by the fire, and   14   he thought about in his   15   no one knew.

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B．made

C．celebrated

D．received

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B．partner

C．people

D．couple

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B．lived

C．helped

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    Old Thompson was seventy-four the winter his wife died．She was sixty-nine．They would have   1   their golden wedding the following summer and they were a quiet and fond   2   ．It was bronchitis (支气管炎) that finished her,   3   by a week of November fog and Cressley’s industrial dirt and smoke．In ten days she was dead.

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B．made

C．celebrated

D．received

2．A．match

B．partner

C．people

D．couple

3．A．gone

B．lived

C．helped

D．increased

4．A．illness

B．conditions

C．pain

D．death

5．A．changed

B．weakened

C．dull

D．poor

6．A．carrying

B．living

C．taking

D．working

7．A．expression

B．smile

C．health

D．energy

8．A．weep

B．wake

C．lie

D．age

9．A．off

B．up

C．away

D．out

10．A．room

B．soil

C．supply

D．water

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B．caught

C．lifted

D．found

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B．about

C．for

D．on

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B．him

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Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, especially when you’re a thin 14-year-old. That was me in 1940 — the youngest and smallest baggage boy at New York City’s Pennsyl??vania Railway Station.

After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging pas??sengers. I’d like to join them, thinking, “Everyone else is doing it.”

When I got home that night, I told my dad what I wanted to do. “You give an honest day’s work,” he said, looking at me straight in the eye. “They’re paying you. If they want to do that, you let them do that.”

I followed my dad's advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since.

Of all the jobs I've had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that has stuck with me. Now I teach my players to have respect for other people and their possessions. Being a member of a team is a totally shared experience. If one person steals, it destroys trust and hurts everyone. I can put up with many things, but not with people who steal. If one of my players were caught stealing, he'd be gone.

Whether you’re on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another, there’s going to be trouble.

68. What can be inferred about the baggage boys?

A. They could earn much, but they had to work hard.

B. Many of them earned money in a dishonest way.

C. They were all from poor families.

D. They were all thin, young boys.

69. What does the father's advice imply?

A. It is wrong to give more pay to the passengers.

B. Don’t believe them if they are paying you more.

C. Don’t follow others to overcharge the passengers.

D. It is difficult to work hard and live as an honest boy.

70. The writer can't put up with stealing because he thinks that ______.

A. it is a totally shared experience

B. it is considered as the most dangerous

C. it does great harm to human relationship

D. it may lead to the loss of his sports team

71. It can be concluded from the text that ______.

A. his father's advice helped him to decide which job to take up

B. working in the sports team was his most important experience

C. he learnt much from his shared experience with his team members

D. his experience as a baggage boy had a great influence on his later life

Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, especially when you’re a thin 14-year-old. That was me in 1940―the youngest and smallest baggage boy at New York City’s Pennsyl­vania Railway Station.

After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging pas­sengers. I’d like to join them, thinking, “Everyone else is doing it.”

When I got home that night, I told my dad what I wanted to do. “You give an honest day’s work,” he said, looking at me straight in the eye. “They’re paying you. If they want to do that, you let them do that.”

I followed my dad's advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since.

Of all the jobs I've had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that has stuck with me. Now I teach my players to have respect for other people and their possessions. Being a member of a team is a totally shared experience. If one person steals, it destroys trust and hurts everyone. I can put up with many things, but not with people who steal. If one of my players were caught stealing, he'd be gone.

Whether you’re on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another, there’s going to be trouble.

68. What can be inferred about the baggage boys?

A. They could earn much, but they had to work hard.

B. Many of them earned money in a dishonest way.

C. They were all from poor families.

D. They were all thin, young boys.

69. What does the father's advice imply?

A. It is wrong to give more pay to the passengers.

B. Don’t believe them if they are paying you more.

C. Don’t follow others to overcharge the passengers.

D. It is difficult to work hard and live as an honest boy.

70. The writer can't put up with stealing because he thinks that ______.

A. it is a totally shared experience

B. it is considered as the most dangerous

C. it does great harm to human relationship

D. it may lead to the loss of his sports team

71. It can be concluded from the text that ______.

A. his father's advice helped him to decide which job to take up

B. working in the sports team was his most important experience

C. he learnt much from his shared experience with his team members

D. his experience as a baggage boy had a great influence on his later life