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从文章大意可知是希望人们有健康的生活方式，参加一些活动，因此选playing outside最合适。

2. A上文提出了一个问题，所以这里选find out,意为“发现，找到(答案) ”。

3. A leave ." off 关掉

4. C由后文的to可知这里填from 

5. C此处讲的是参与这活动的人数的变化，因此先说的是“一开始(in the beginning) ”。

6. C此处是对前一句话的补充说明，根据后文的“...and in more than 12 other countries!”可知是对所有参与者的一个说明，故用including,意为“包括”。

7. C进一步陈述组织者的目的。

8. C组织者的目的就是希望人们有健康的生活方式，用 turn on life“点亮生活”很形象地阐明中心。

9. B

10. D根据下文提供的数据可知。

11. D这里表示“看电视过多”。

12. C in fact 实际上。

13. A根据上文的grow fat可知，这里应该是overweight,意为“超重的”。

14. A result from由于;keep away不接触。根据后面的“ ... too little exercise,and violence. ”可从搭配上排除 develop。

15. B根据中心思想，Vespe认为这样做“应该是”健康生活方式的一部分。

16. B    参与活动用take part in,而participate后面需要加in。

17. C

18. C    表不“产生了影响”用  make a difference。

19. A下文不是列举data“数据”具体是多少，所以不能用 says或reads,应该用shows表示数据说明的情况。

20. D