新托福口语练习材料——关于电视的讨论(2)

hen people come round they’ll leave the television on and not be, you know, particularly interested in talking to them, you know the television will be the main thing in the room.  
    Matthew: Peter, have you a television?   
    Peter: I have, in fact I’ve got two televisions.  
    Matthew: Do you watch them a lot?  
    Peter: Er...no I ...I watch very seldom er... In fact, I find that I watch television most when I’m working which requires nothing of me, then I watch television a lot. When I’ve got more energy left...um ...in my own private time, then I find I do more different things. I do things like um reading, or going out, or working on anything ...my hobbies.  
    Matthew: Do you think though that people can live a perfectly happy life if they haven’t got a television?  
    Peter: Oh yes, I think people who don’t have a television or people who don’t watch television can be expected to be more happy. You can assume I think if they never watch television they are happier people than the people who watch a lot of television, because I think that television goes with the kind of life which leaves you with nothing to spare, nothing left, you have to be given potted, passive entertainment.  
    Matthew: But in that case you...you seem as though you’re completely against television, is that true?  
    Peter: No, it’s not. I ...I have a television in fact, I have two as I said, but er I ... I ... I think there’s a dilemma, a difficult situation. Television in itself is very good; a ... a lot of the information and a lot of the programmes are very instructive, they introduce you to things you may never have though of before or never have hard about before. But in watching, it makes you very passive; you sit for hour after hour and you get very receptive and very unquestioning and it seems to me the important thing in life is to be active, to ... to do things, to think things and to be as creative as possible, and television prevents this.
　　2. Children and Television   
    Housewife: What do I think of television? Um, um, well, um, it keeps the family at home, the kids don’t go out at night so much now, they come straight in from school most of them, they run in and straight, well the television’s on when they come in, I watch it myself during the afternoon. Er, well it’s company really and, er, well, then the kids come home, they eat their tea, I have no trouble with them eating their tea because they just...well, they don’t even look at what they eat, they eat, they just sit down and, erm, they eat it and they like the programmes and , and it keeps them quiet while I’m cooking the tea for their dad when he comes in, and, er and the news is on or perhaps the fo

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