Question

 Who can guess what would life be like without television? Would you spend more time 1       , reading,or studying?    Well,now it’s your chance to

turn off your TV and 2       TV-Turnoff Week is here.

The goal of TV-Turnoff Week is to let people leave their TV sets 3        and participate in activities 4        drawing to biking. The event was founded by TV-Turnoff Network,a non-profit organization which started the event in

1995. In the 5         , only a few thousand people took part. Last year more

than 7. 6 million people participated, 6        people in every state inAmericaand in more than 12 other countries!This is the 11th year in which 7        are asking people to “turn off the TV and turn on 8        According to the TV-Turnoff Network,the average 9        in theUSspend 10        time in front of the TV(about 1,023 hours per year) than they do in schooKabout 900  hours per year) . Too much TV 11        has made many kids grow fat. 12       ，in 2001，s TV-Turnoff Week,Surgeon General David Satcher said, “We are raising the most 13        generation of youngsters in American history.  This week is about saving lives. ”  Over the years,studies have shown that watching a lot of TV  14        

poor eating habits，too little exercise,and violence. Frank Vespe of the TV-  I

Turnoff Network said that turning off the TV “is or 15        ，part of a healthy 

lifestyle”.  I “One of the great lessons of  16         TV-Turnoff Week is the realization  that 17         I turn on the TV,I’m deciding not to do something else，”  Vespe said.

TV-Turnoff Week seems to be making a 18        Recent US census(人口普查)  data 19        that about 72 per cent of kids under 12 have a limit on their TV time. That’s  20         about 63  per cent ten years ago. 

1. A. drinking   B. sleeping 

   C. washing   D. playing outside  

2. A. find out   B. go out   C. look out D,  keep out

3. A. off   B. alone   C. on   D. beside

4. A. like   B. as   C. from   D. such as

5. A. end   B. event   C. beginning   D. total

6. A. besides   B. except for   C. including   D. except I

7. A. governments   B. parents   C. organizers   D. businessTmen I

8. A. the light   B. the radio   C. life   D. the Internet I

9. A. grown-ups   B. kids   C. clerks   D. parents I

10. A. less   B. enough   C. little   D. more

11. A. programme   B. screen   C. hour   D. watching

12. A. However   B. On the contrary   C. In fact   D. As a result

13. A. overweight   B. overeaten   C. overgrown   D. overseeing

14. A. leads to   B. results from   C. develops   D. keeps away l

15. A. will be   B. should be   C. may be   D. could be I

16. A. organizing   B. taking part in   C. participating   D. asking for I

17. A. wherever   B. every day   C. every time   D. this time I

18. A. living   B. choice   C. difference   D. sense

19. A. shows   B. says   C. reads   D. writes

20. A. rising   B. down from   C. up to   D. up from

Answer 1

1. D從文章大意可知是希望人們有健康的生活方式，參加一些活動，因此選playing outside最合適。

2. A上文提出了一個問題，所以這里選find out,意為“發現，找到(答案) ”。

3. A leave ." off 關掉

4. C由后文的to可知這里填from 

5. C此處講的是參與這活動的人數的變化，因此先說的是“一開始(in the beginning) ”。

6. C此處是對前一句話的補充說明，根據后文的“...and in more than 12 other countries!”可知是對所有參與者的一個說明，故用including,意為“包括”。

7. C進一步陳述組織者的目的。

8. C組織者的目的就是希望人們有健康的生活方式，用 turn on life“點亮生活”很形象地闡明中心。

9. B

10. D根據下文提供的數據可知。

11. D這里表示“看電視過多”。

12. C in fact 實際上。

13. A根據上文的grow fat可知，這里應該是overweight,意為“超重的”。

14. A result from由于;keep away不接觸。根據后面的“ ... too little exercise,and violence. ”可從搭配上排除 develop。

15. B根據中心思想，Vespe認為這樣做“應該是”健康生活方式的一部分。

16. B    參與活動用take part in,而participate后面需要加in。

17. C

18. C    表不“產生了影響”用  make a difference。

19. A下文不是列舉data“數據”具體是多少，所以不能用 says或reads,應該用shows表示數據說明的情況。

20. D