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  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(學士)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(無所事事的)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(影響)from television.

[  ]

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

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

[  ]

A. one thousand   B. five thousand

C. one million    D. ten thousand

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

[  ]

A. increasing number of hours

B. your being excited

C. mastering languages skillfully

D. often watching television

4. You keep interested because ________.

[  ]

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, ________.

[  ]

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

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