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【题目】The family sphere(范围) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm. There was the public male realm（领域）of "rational accomplishment" and cruel competition, and the private female and child-rearing sphere of home, intuition（直觉）and emotion. The private realm was supposed to be isolated from the realities of adult life. For both better and worse, television and other electronic media tend to break down the difference between those two worlds. The membrane around the family sphere is much more permeable(可渗透的). TV takes public events and transforms them into dramas that are played out in the privacy of our living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.

Parents used to be the channel through which children learned about the outside world. They could decide what to tell their children and when to tell it to them. Since children learn to read in stages, books provide a kind of natural screening process, where adults can decide what to tell and not tell children of different reading abilities. Television destroyed the system that separated adult from child knowledge and separated information into year-by-year slices for children of different ages. Instead, it presents the same information directly to children of all ages, without going through adult filters.

So television presents a real challenge to adults. While a parent can read a newspaper without sharing it with children in the same room, television is accessible to everyone in that space. And unlike books, television doesn't allow us to flip（翻转）through it and see what's coming up. We may think we're giving our children a lesson in science by having them watch the Challenger take off, and then suddenly they learn about death, disaster and adult mistakes.

Books allow adults to discuss privately what to tell or not tell children. This also allows parents to keep adult material secret from children and keep their secret keeping secret. Take that same material and put it on The Today Show and you have 800,000 children hearing the very things the adults are trying to keep from them. "Television takes our kids across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the street."

More importantly, children gradually learn that adults are worried and anxious about being parents. Actually, television has also places families under a lot of stress.

How Television Changes Childhood?

Main comparisons		Contexts
Distance between __【1】_and the outside.		Homes used to be isolated from the ____【2】__realm.
		Homes nowadays are __【3】_to the outside world.
Media through which children can obtain information		In the past, children might learn __【4】__about the outside world with the help of parents and ___【5】___.
		More information is got directly through TV and other electronic media, which breaks down the __【6】___ between adult world and the child world.
___【7】___ of the information children get		Traditionally, kids could only knew what they should learn at their age, carefully___【8】__by their parents.
		Everything can possibly be known by children, including many aspects of __【9】__ life.
Effects on family education
Parental instruction	Families are now under greater stress than before. Adults are anxious about being parents and faced with new __【10】_____.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Homes

【2】public

【3】connected

【4】indirectly

【5】books

【6】difference

【7】Content

【8】decided/ chosen

【9】adult

【10】challenges

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇议论性很强的文章。文中说到家庭范围是用来定义与公共领域隔离的区域，分为公共男性领域和私人女性领域以及育儿领域。私人领域应该远离成人生活的现实环境，但是现在，电视或者电子媒介逐步打破两个世界之间的不同，电视以一种戏剧的方式在人们的客厅、卧室、厨房报道和传播公共事件。父母是孩子了解世界的渠道，他们可以决定告诉孩子什么，什么时候告诉他们，但是，电视却没有经过父母的过滤，把相同的信息传递给所有年龄阶段的孩子，在教育孩子认识世界上面，电视给父母造成一种真实的挑战，并且给父母造成压力。

【1】Homes。第一自然段The family sphere(范围) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm意思是：家庭范围常常用来定义它与公共区域的分离。故这里是指家与外边世界距离。故填Homes。

【2】public。第一自然段The family sphere(范围) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm意思是：家庭范围常常用来定义它与公共区域的分离。故这里是指家与外边世界距离。故填public。

【3】connected。第一自然段最后一句话TV takes public events and transforms them into dramas that are played out in the privacy of our living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms. 意思是：电视报道公共事件，把他们转化成戏剧，在我们的客厅、卧室以及厨房的私人空间播放。可知，现在家庭已经与外界联系起来了。故填connected。

【4】indirectly。第二自然段第一句Parents used to be the channel through which children learned about the outside world.意思是：父母过去常常是孩子们了解外面世界的渠道，可知孩子孩子过去经常是在父母的帮助下间接地了解世界。故填indirectly。

【5】books。由第二自然段第三句话Since children learn to read in stages, books provide a kind of natural screening process, where adults can decide what to tell and not tell children of different reading abilities.意思是：自从孩子阶段性地学会阅读，书提供了一种自然的帅选过程，在这个过程中，成人可以决定在不同的阅读能力中，告诉孩子什么，和不告诉孩子什么。可知在过去，孩子经常通过父母和书间接地了解世界。故填books。

【6】difference。由第一自然段For both better and worse, television and other electronic media tend to break down the difference between those two worlds.意思是：无论是好是坏，电视和其他电子媒体易于打破这两个世界之间的差别。而由前文可知，这两个世界是指成人世界和孩子的世界。故填difference。

【7】Content。文章的第四自然段主要讲述了过去，父母可以决定在不同的阶段告诉孩子一些信息，信息的内容主要是由成人根据孩子的理解和接受能力来确定，而现在电视却把成人世界的信息传递到孩子面前。因此，这部分是讲述孩子接受到的信息的内容。故填Content。

【8】decided/ chosen。有第二自然段第三句话Since children learn to read in stages, books provide a kind of natural screening process, where adults can decide what to tell and not tell children of different reading abilities.意思是：自从孩子阶段性地学会阅读，书提供了一种自然的帅选过程，在这个过程中，成人可以决定在不同的阅读能力中，告诉孩子什么，和不告诉孩子什么。可知，过去孩子在不同的年龄，只能通过父母了解他们应该学习的东西，而这些都是他们的父母小心细致地决定或者挑选的。故填decided/ chosen。

【9】adult。由第四自然段的第三句Take that same material and put it on The Today Show and you have 800,000 children hearing the very things the adults are trying to keep from them意思是是：报道那些相同的信息，而且把它放到《今日节目》上面，你会让800,000的孩子听到成人正在尽力让他们远离的事情。可知孩子可能知道所有的东西，包括成人的生活方面。故填adult。

【10】challenges。文章最后一自然段讲述成人越来越担心和忧虑成为父母，而第三段第一句话So television presents a real challenge to adults.意思是：电视给成人呈现挑战。故填challenges。