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TOEFL Reading Class Unit 1_Passage 11_Question 111-121
You have about 15 minutes to finish this passage.
First,use about 3-4 minutes to read the passage, try to understand the main idea of this passage.
Don't read it so slowly or try to remember all details.You need to do "fast reading",and "scan" the passage.
Second, read questions 1-11, and with questions you go back the passage again and look for correct answers.
Questions 111-121
Passage 11
Television's contribution to family life in the United States has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By dominating the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.
"Like the sorcerer of old,?writes Urie Bronfenbrenner, "the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces---although there is danger there---as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, games, the family festivities, and arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and through which character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people.?br />
Of course, families today still do special things together at times: go camping in the summer, go to the zoo on a nice Sunday, take various trips and expeditions. But the ordinary daily life together is diminished---that sitting around at the dinner table, that spontaneous taking up of an activity, those little games invented by children on the spur of the moment when there is nothing else to do, the scribbling, the chatting, the quarreling, all the things that form the fabric of a family, that define a childhood. Instead, the children have their regular schedule of television programs and bedtime, and the parents have their peaceful dinner together. But surely the needs of adults are being better met than the needs of children, who are effectively shunted away and rendered untroublesome.
If the family does not accumulate its backlog of shared experiences, shared everyday experiences that occur and recur and change and develop, then it is not likely to survive as anything other than a care-taking institution.
111. Which of the following best represents the author's argument in the passage?
a) Television has negative effects on family life.
b) Television has advantages and disadvantages for children.
c) Television should be more educational.
d) Television teaches children to be violent.
112.The word it in the passage refers to
a) dominating
b) time
c) television
d) quality
113. Why is Urie Bronfenbrenner quoted in paragraph 2?
a) To present a different point of view from that of the author
b) To provide an example of a television program that is harmful
c) To expand the author's argument
d) To discuss the positive aspects of television
114. The word freezing in the passage is closest in meaning to
a) controlling
b) halting
c) dramatizing
d) encouraging
115. Urie Bronfenbrenner compares the television set to
a) a statue
b) an educator
c) a family member
d) a magician
116. Which of the following would be an example of what the author means by a "special?thing that families do?
a) Going on vacation in the summertime
b) Playing cards together in the evening
c) Reading to the children at bedtime
d) Talking to each other
117. The things that "form the fabric of a family?in paragraph 3 are
a) "special?things
b) "ordinary?things
c) television programs
d) children
118. The word it in the passage refers to
a) the television
b) the family
c) its backlog
d) an institution
119. According to the author, what distinguishes one family from another?
a) Doing ordinary things together
b) Watching television together
c) Celebrating holidays together
d) Living together
120. It can be inferred from the passage that a care-taking institution is one in which care is given
a) charitably
b) lovingly
c) constantly
d) impersonally
121. Omitted
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