TV is an excellent resource for hearing and listening to English. The pictures help you understand what is being said and TV news is an ideal way to help improve your listening ability because within a short period of time the same news is often repeated. This means that you can watch basically the same news program several times within a day and that every succeeding program will help you to understand what is being said.

These preparatory steps are very important before your listening:

● Find out which news report you want to listen to, when and on what channel. CCTV 9 is a good choice because this is China’s English channel and has regular news reports.

● Just watch the news reports for a few days first, before requiring yourself to understand the stories. Give yourself time to get familiar with the newsreaders and their accents. You should also get an idea of the structure of the entire report as well as the structure of a typical news story.

● Watch the news in Chinese first. This will tell you what the main news items are and help prepare you for understanding news reports in English.

While listening, you should pay attention to a few things that you may try to do:

● You can aim at just getting what a story is about. Give a one-to -tow-sentence description after each story.

● Put forward a few questions to yourself about a story, and then seek to answer them from your listening. You can do this by stopping the tape as soon as the headline is read to you.

● Your may write a full transcript(抄本) of a story to practice intensive listening. This may bring to notice listening problems that have skipped your attention when you only concentrate on the content.

  Even though the listening part is over, some follow-up activities will help you reinforce(加强) your learning. You may talk about the news with one or more friends. This provides an opportunity to produce a summary or express your thoughts in a brief article.

62. The underlined word “succeeding” most probably means ______.

A. funny                        B. next                     C. good                   D. famous

63. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Getting ready for news listening.               B. Making suggestions while listening.

C. Doing follow-up activities after listening.   D. Listening practice after the proposal.

64. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. The pictures on TV are helpful to your written English and spoken English.

B. CCTV 9 is a good choice because there are all excellent foreign newsreaders.

C. You may get a general idea about a story by using one or two sentence.

D. You may use the whole transcript of a story to practice your writing ability.

65. The best title for this passage may probably be ______.

A. How to Listen Step by Step                       B. How to Improve Your Listening

C. How to Learn from Listening                     D. How to Listen to TV News

Watching television more than two hours a day early in life can lead to attention problems later in adolescence, according to a study released on Tuesday.

     The roughly 40 percent increase in attention problems among heavy TV viewers was observed in both boys and girls

The link was established by a long-term study of the habits and behaviors of more than1,000 children born in Dunedin, Hew Zealand, between April 1972 and March 1973.

     "Those who watched more than two hours, and particularly those who watched more than three hours, of television per day during childhood had above-average symptoms of attention problems in adolescence," Carl Landhuis of the University of Otago in Dunedin wrote in his report, published in the journal Pediatrics.

   "It suggests that the effects of childhood viewing on attention may be long lasting," Landhuis wrote.

     Landhuis offered several possible explanations for the association.

     One was that the rapid scene changes common to many TV programs may over excite the developing brain of a young child, and could make reality seem boring by comparison.

    "Therefore, children who watch a lot of television may become less tolerant of slower-paced and more mundane tasks, such as school work," he wrote.

     It was also possible that TV viewing may supplant(挤占) other activities that promote concentration, such as reading, games, sports and play, he said.

     Previous studies have linked the habit of long TV watching among children to over weight and diabetes(糖尿病), and another study in the same journal stated the poor nutritional content of the majority of food products advertised on the top-rated US. children's television shows.

     Up to 98 percent of the TV ads promoting food products that were directed at children aged 2 through 11 "were high in either fat, sugar, or salt," wrote Lisa Powell of the University of Illinois in Chicago.

1. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?   

A. TV viewing may occupy activities promoting concentration   

B. Childhood TV viewing can cause teenage problems.

   C. Attention problems were observed in both boys and girls.   

D. Attention to adolescence problems are highlighted.

2. According to Carl Landhuis,                     .

   A. the study was based on the habits and behaviors of more than 1,000 children.   

B. the effects of childhood viewing on attention may last for a short time.

   C. the young heavy television viewers are more likely to suffer from attention problems.

   D. children addicted to watching TV were more willing to do their school work.

3. What does the underlined word "mundane" refer m?

   A. ordinary      B. complex      C. challenging      D. boring

4. Which of the following explanations is NOT true?

   A. Habit of TV watching among children is linked to overweight and diabetes.

   B.TV viewing may supplant other activities that promote concentration.

   C. The rapid scene changes may over excite the developing brain of a young child.   

D. Majority of food products advertised on children's television are rich in nutrition.

5. The main purpose of this article is

    A. to advise children not to watch TV too much    B. to forbid children to watch TW

    C. to offer some advice on watching TV          D. to introduce the result of a study

Dr. Julie Coulton, a British psychologist, focuses her research on the extraordinary function of the play in the physical and spiritual development of children and Martti Bergson from the University of Helsinki shows that playing outside, in the open air, contributes to a better development of the brain.

Thus parents must encourage their children to spend as much time as possible in the open air, and at the same time, to ask schools and kindergartens to assure the small a playground outside. Recent statistics (数据) and studies show an alarming increase of the number of hours spent by children in front of the TV and the computer and a decrease of the time spent outside.

As a consequence more and more children suffer from eye problems and have to wear glasses. Also the problem of fatness among children concerns many parents who don't know what to do anymore to make their children eat healthy and balanced.

Children need a space where to develop their creativity mid parents should encourage them all the time. Too many rules hold back the child's personality and creativity and prevent them to develop the desire to know, to find out, to learn.

If you tell your child so many times: "Don't do that, don't mess the room, don't go there ...", he will lose the desire to do something, anything. Parents must watch their children without suffocating (窒息) them. Should you consider they mustn't do that or this, you have to logically explain them your reasons and they will understand.

Through playing a child learns how to communicate, how to take decisions. Playing is connected to the intellectual, emotional and social progress of the child. Playing lets your children learn how to express his feelings.

1.What is worrying the scientists is that ______.

A．most parents pay no attention to their children's playing

B．most schools and kindergartens have no playgrounds

C．most parents encourage their children to watch TV or go surfing

D．most children spend more time on TV or tile Internet than on playing outside

2.Children who watch TV or surf the Internet too much may suffer all the following EXCEPT .

A．eye problems	B．weight problems
C．lack of creativity	D．lack of interest in their lessons

3.The author advises us ______.

A．to allow children to do whatever we want them to do

B．never to forbid children to do anything they want to do

C．to explain why when you don't let children do something

D．to watch children playing anytime to ensure their safety

4.Which would be a best title for this passage?

A．How to develop the brain of your children better

B．Playing is good for your children in many aspects

C．Teaching your children what and how to play

D．Don't forbid your children to do anything