t="" very="" organized,="" but="" everyone="" was="" recognized="" and="" all="" the="" news="" that="" had="" to="" be="" told="" by="" each="" family="" member.We listened to each other and the interest was not put on it was real. Our family was a unit and we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and liked each other, and—we were willing lo admit—we loved each other.Today, the family round-table has moved to the local fast-food franchise and talk is not easy, much less encouraged.Grandma, who used to five upstairs, is now the voice on long distance, and the working parent is far too beaten down each day to spend evening taxation time listening to the sandbox experience of an eager four-year-old.So family conversation is as extinct as my old knickers and parental questions such as “What have you been doing, Bobby?” have been replaced by ‘Tm busy, go watch television.”And watch TV they do: count them by the millions.But it’s usually not children’s television that children watch. Saturday morning, the children’s hour, amounts to only about 8 percent of their weekly viewing.But wait! I’ve saved the largest children’s audience for last. Where are they to be found? Watching adult television, of course, from the Match Game in the morning, to the afternoon at General Hospital, from the muggings and battles on the evening news right through the family hour and past into Stansky and Hutch. That’s where you find your kids, over five million of them, at 10 p.m., not fewer than a million until after midnight! All of this is done with parental permission, albeit implicit.Television, used well can provide enriching experience for our young people, but we must use it with some discretion. When the carpet is clean, we turn off the vacuum cleaner. When the dishes are clean, the dishwasher turns itself off.Not so the television, which is on from the sun in the morning to the moon at night and beyond!Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on the child when a program not intended for that child is viewed. Parents need to intervene. Nonintervention may be a laudable policy in international affairs, but the results of parental nonintervention will not be applauded at the United Nations or anywhere else.1.From the first two paragraphs one may infer that the writer’s attitude towards “the old days” is（ ）.2.What does “beaten down” mean in the fourth paragraph?3.According to the author, who is to blame on children’s watching too much television?4.Which of the following statements is NOT true?5.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?'>
Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family round-table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member.We listened to each other and the interest was not put on it was real. Our family was a unit and we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and liked each other, and—we were willing lo admit—we loved each other.Today, the family round-table has moved to the local fast-food franchise and talk is not easy, much less encouraged.Grandma, who used to five upstairs, is now the voice on long distance, and the working parent is far too beaten down each day to spend evening taxation time listening to the sandbox experience of an eager four-year-old.So family conversation is as extinct as my old knickers and parental questions such as “What have you been doing, Bobby?” have been replaced by ‘Tm busy, go watch television.”And watch TV they do: count them by the millions.But it’s usually not children’s television that children watch. Saturday morning, the children’s hour, amounts to only about 8 percent of their weekly viewing.But wait! I’ve saved the largest children’s audience for last. Where are they to be found? Watching adult television, of course, from the Match Game in the morning, to the afternoon at General Hospital, from the muggings and battles on the evening news right through the family hour an
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