The influence of television
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York city when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table.__________(46) At one point the woman asked :”So, how have you been? ”And the boy? who could not have been more than seven or eight years old? replied. ” Frankly, I ‘ve been feeling a little depressed latterly. ”
This incident stuck in my mind deeply.___________ (47) As far as I can remember. My friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed ”until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years._________(48) Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to .
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different .Childhood as it once was no longer exists, why?
Human development is based not only on innate biological states ,but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from on social tote (生搬硬套) to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status.._____________(49) Traditionally ,we tell sixth grades things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years , however ,a secret??revelation machine has been installed in 98 percent of the American homes._____________ (50) Television passes information ,and indiscriminately , to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn attention from printed texts to the less challenging ,more vivid moving pictures.
Actually , communication through print allows for great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Children must read simple books before thy can read complex materials.
A. it conformed my growing belief that children are changing.
B. Children nowadays are influenced by television.
C. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation.
D. Children have always bee taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages.
E. Children don’t seem childlike anymore.
F. It is called television.
2016年职称英语考试试题卫生类补全短文题参考答案：C A E D F