语篇理解

　　Suppose you are twenty. It means you have spent at least 20,000 hours in front of the TV set. From now on, it will increase 10,000 hours every tenth year. I was told that a college student might use 5,000 hours to receive a degree of bachelor（学士）and that 10,000 hours might train an engineer or a scientist, meanwhile he’d be able to master several languages skillfully.

　　Television makes your attention disconcentrated. If one meets with something interesting, it will have a continuous effect on him. Even though the most meaningless and dullest programme will also give those who are idle（无所事事的）mysterious feelings.

　　Television wears down your fighting will by giving you continuous satisfaction and wasting your time without any pain. It is re-ported that in the United States nowadays about 30 million grown-ups are half-illiterate persons, who can not properly read or write advertisement they need, they even can not understand medicine introduction.

1. The writer thought it ________ to avoid the influence（影响）from television.

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A. easy　　　B. hard　　　C. merry　　　D. unimportant

2. Using ________ hours, a university can make a student an engineer. 

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A. one thousand　　　B. five thousand

C. one million　　　 D. ten thousand

3. According to this passage, ________ makes your attention dis-concentrated.

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A. increasing number of hours

B. your being excited

C. mastering languages skillfully

D. often watching television

4. You keep interested because ________.

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A. you are idle

B. the television is of no effect

C. the programme is meaningless

D. the television affects you

5. Television wears down your fighting will. That is to say, ________.

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A. your fighting will get weaker and weaker

B. your fighting will get stronger and stronger

C. you will rise up against television

D. you will like more television programmes

　　The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can 1 from a different kind of poverty-of the spirit. 2 , one Western country alone now sees 14 000 attempted suicides (自 杀) every year by children under 15, and one child 3 five needs psychiatric (心理) advice.

　　There are many good things about 4 in the Third World. Take the close and con-stant relation between children and their par-ents, relatives and neighbours for example. In the West, the very nature of work puts dis-tance between 5 and children. But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in of-fices. 6 , the child sees mother and father,relations and neighbours working 7 and often shares in that work.

　　A child 8 in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community's 9 : helping to dig or build, look after ani-mals or babies-rather than 10 playing with water and sand in kindergarten, keeping pets 11 playing with dolls.

　　These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the 12 children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world, 13 , are pro-vided with a watch as one of the 14 signs of growing up, so that they can 15 along with their parents about being late for school times, meal times, bed times, the times of TV shows...

　　Third World children do not usually 16 to stay indoors, still less in high-rise apartments (公寓). Instead of dangerous road, “keep off the grass” signs and “don't speak to strangers”, there is often a sense of 17 to study and play. Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them 18 from ten floors up.

　　 19 , twelve million children under five still die every year through hunger and disease. But childhood in the Third World is not all 20 .

　　Members of the working class have blue-collar jobs. They are construction workers, truck drivers, mechanics, steel workers, electricians, and the like. What makes this class differ from the lower class is, first, longer periods of emp1oyment-and therefore, more fixed incomes-and, second, employment in skilled or semi-skilled(半熟练的)occupations, not unskilled ones. Although unemployment hits all levels of the American economy, including those of skilled and semiskilled workers, it is most common at the bottom of the class structure and increasingly less common at each level upward. They consider themselves to be respectable and hard working and they look down upon members of the“lower”class, whom they often consider to be lazy, dishonest, and too ready to exploit public assistance.

　　Most people in the working class have at least high schoo1 education. Many have sorne experience of college(especially community co1lege), though few are college graduates. Unionization has helped the working class, but a rapidly changing economy and frequent periods of high unemployment make it difficult for most of its members to be able to increase their savings greatly. Purchasing a house for people in this class is extremely difficult, although a certain percentage may receive houses from their parents. (Homeowning rises with social class. )

　　A greater number of the members of the working class take relatively little satisfaction in their jobs, because much of their work is ordinary and boring. As a result, many seek their main satisfaction in recreational(娱乐的) activities. Many members of this class would like to earn enough money to leave their jobs and start their own businesses, though few make it. Many place their expectations on their children, hoping that they at least will rise in the ladder of success, American style.

(1) Which of the following is true about the working class?

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A．They are often employed as skilled and semi-skilled workers.

B．They are often offered jobs with high incomes.

C．They are often considered lazy and dis-honest.

D．They are often exploited by the public.

(2) The underlined word “hit” (paragraph 1)roughly means________.

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A．strike with a blow

B．have bad effects on

C．break up

D．beat

(3) Most people in the working class________.

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A．have difficulty increasing their savings greatly

B．have at least some experience of college

C．receive houses from their parents

D．buy houses by themselves

(4) Many members from the working class are not satisfied with their jobs because________.

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A．they could not rise in the ladder of success

B．they are not interested in their jobs

C．they could not earn much money

D．they are not their own bosses