单选题
Television has opened windows in everybody"s life. Young men will never again go to war as they did in 1914. Millions of people now have seen the effects of a battle. And the result has been a general loathing of war, and perhaps more interest in helping those who suffer from all the terrible things that have been shown on the screen.
Television has also changed politics. The most distant areas can now follow state affairs, see and hear the politicians before an election. Better informed, people are more likely to vote, and so to make their opinion count.
Unfortunately, television"s influence has been extremely harmful to the young. Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world; that TV advertisements lie to sell products that are sometimes bad or useless. They believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable. All educators agree that the "television generations" are more violent than their parents and grandparents.
Also, the young are less patient. Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and interesting, they do not have the patience to read an article without pictures; to read a book that requires thinking; to listen to a teacher who doesn"t do funny things like the people on children"s programs. And they expect all problems to be solved happily in ten, fifteen, or thirty minutes. That"s the time it takes on the screen.
单选题
The underlined word "loathing" in the first paragraph refers to ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据文章第一段第二句话“Young men will never again go to war...”以及最后一句中“loathing”和“interest”的对比可推知此处loathing的意思是dislike(不喜欢，厌恶)。
单选题
In the past, many young people ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据短文第一段，A、C两项都是错误的。B项文中没有提到。只有D项根据文章第一段的第二句话“Young men will never again go to war as they did in 1914.”可以得出。
单选题
Now with TV people can ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据短文第二段，A、D两项都不符合文章的意思。C项比较片面。B项的依据是：Better informed, people are more likely to vote, and so to make their opinion count. 由此可推断出人们对政治的兴趣更多了。
单选题
The author thinks that TV advertisements ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 第三段第一句提到“Unfortunately, television"s influence has been extremely harmful to the young.”接下来讲了电视广告的危害。由此判断选D。
单选题
From the passage, we can conclude that ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查考生对全文意思的整体把握。我们直接根据文中具体的段落或者句子可以推导出来的结论只有D项。A项“孩子们应该远离电视”文中没有提到。文章只讲到电视对年轻人有害。B项“电视节目应该提高”文章中也没有依据。C项也是无依据的。D项的依据是Unfortunately, television"s influence has been extremely harmful to the young. 整个后两段讲的都是对年轻人的影响。