新托福口语练习材料——关于电视的讨论(3)

nd of life which leaves the viewer nothing to spare, nothing left.    
   3. television makes the viewer completely passive because everything is presented to him without any effort on his part.     
   4. The very danger of watching television lies in the fact that the viewer takes no initiative. He makes no choice and exercises on judgment.    
   5. Television passes on to children the corrupting values of a corrupt society.     
   6. Television is to blame for the fact that children take longer to learn to read these days and barely see the point at al of acquiring the skill.     
   7. Television takes up too much of our time. We no longer have enough time for hobbies, entertaining activities, and other outside amusement like theatres, sports, etc.    
   8. Unfortunately all our free time is now regulated by television.     
   9. People rush home, gulp their food, which is often as simple as sandwich and a glass of beer, and start watching the TV programmes.     
  10. The monster, i. e. television, demands absolute silence and attention. No one dares to open his mouth during a programme.     
  11. People have grown addicted to television, often neglecting the necessary and more important things meals, sleep and even work.    
  12. A lot of parents use television as a pacifier for their children. They put their children in front of eh set and don’t care whether the children are exposed to rubbishy commercials or spectacles of violence as long as the children are quiet.     
  13. Most of the television programmes are bad and they do not keep pace with the high demand of viewers and do not maintain high quality.    
  14. The wide coverage of television programmes has reduced society to the conditions in pre-literate communities: we are utterly dependent on the most primitive media of communication: pictures and spoken words.     
  15. What the viewer receives from television is nothing but secondhand experience. He is completely cut off form the real world.     
  16. The more the viewer watches television, the lazier he becomes. He is glued to the set instead of going out.     
  17. Television prevents people from communicating with each other. It has done a lot of harm to the relationship between family members.
              Questions    
   1. Do you like watching television? Why (Why not)?    
   2. Do you think televis

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