1 . A middle school organized a “No TV Week” programme. All the teachers, parents and students worked together for this programme and most of them found it to be a very good one. The headmaster said, “The idea was not to stop watching TV completely but for the students just to find how much time they watch TV and try to use this time for other things.”

What did the students say about this “No TV Week”? One boy said, “I can’t believe I haven’t watched TV for a week, but it’s been fun doing it.” A girl said, “I’m going to give up all TV programmes except for ‘Our Animal World’ and other language-teaching programme. I’m really pleased that I have more time to do things like walking and thinking. I enjoy this ‘No TV Week’ very much.” But not all the students thought it was good. Here one student said something different. “I don’t like ‘No TV Week’ because I like watching TV. I have lots of favourite programmes and I don’t want to miss them. But we have to do it.”

American boys and girls like watching TV. Some children spend six hours a day at school and four hours a day in front of the TV sets. Some children even watch TV for eight hours or more on Saturday.

Television is like books and films. A child can learn good things and bad things from it. Some TV programmes (节目) help children to understand the news, the people and places from other countries. With TV, children do not have to go out to see films. They can hear interesting music or watch a game at home. But some programmes are bad for children, so parents sometimes help them to find other interesting and useful things to do.

Ryan Ruby is ten years old. He loves to watch TV. But for one full year, he d    1     watch TV at all. Why? Ryan’s mother thought he watched too m    2     TV. She said she would g    3     him＄600 if he didn’t watch TV for a year.

At first, Ryan’s mother was very h    4    . Ryan read the newspaper, played o    5    , played computer games, and played cards with his brother. But after a while, he got bored（厌烦）. Every evening he asked his mother, “What’re we doing tonight?” S    6     his mother wished he would watch TV just for one evening. Ryan always said, “No, it would cost me money!”

Finally the year was over. Then Ryan started watching his favourite TV shows all day long a    7     . Ryan got the money from his mother. “I want to buy myself a TV set!” he said.

Many people like to watch TV. Watching TV is one of the most important     1     of the day. TV brings the outside closer to people’s homes. Some people say the world is smaller than before because of TV.

What’s     2     in other countries? How do people live in places far away? Is there a good sports game anywhere?

If you want to answer these and many other     3    , just turn on the TV and watch it. You can see a lot and learn a lot. Of course, people can also learn through reading or     4     the radio. With TV, however, they can learn better and more easily. Why? Because they can hear and watch.

A Bite of China is the name of a TV program on CCTV-1 and CCTV-9. It’s made by our country’s best     1    , three of whom have won international prize. It     2     three years ago, showing traditional specialty dishes in different places of China. It’s causing a speeding storm. And more importantly, it     3     you rich knowledge of geography, history and culture when Chinese eat.

The program     4     us the beautiful and perfect ways of food-making. And it’s not     5     about dishes, it also gets people from different places to tell stories about their experience with food.

As the program serves us a window allowing the world to better understand China, they want to help people all over the world     6     the beauty of Chinese food, and learn Chinese customs and social realities (现实) as well.

The TV program is very popular     7     people both at home and abroad. After the program, many Chinese     8     have increased in business. Visitors have come a long way to enjoy the food mentioned in the program. The program also helps people to speak out about their food safety.

Gao Ya, a Chinese who lives in     9    , wrote, “the taste of home, memories of childhood, joys of work and dream of life, I     10     by each simple story. And this made me sadder because we are losing a lot of these knowledge, those traditional ways of activities are dying out because of the modern life.”

10 . China’s Green Beat is the first green media in China. It provides enjoyable short films for people to care about environmental problems. It has created more than ten short films in order to teach people about environmental problems through some stories.

It was set up by John Romankiewicz from the USA and Shane Zhao from China, John graduated(毕业) from Northwestern University and came to China to learn Chinese. He hoped to get further study on China’s environmental problems. At the same time, Shane, a high school graduate from Heilongjiang, was introduced to John by a friend. They decided to set up China’s first video podcast(播客) about the environment in 2008, named China’s Green Beat. The next year, it added a new green brother Rene Ng, a Canadian—born Chinese actor and writer working in Beijing. With his help, their short films have got a lot of public’s attention(注意).

September 22nd is World Car Free Day. Kunming is the only Chinese city to have Car Free Day every month. It is on the last Saturday. On that day, the air in the city is reported to be much better because of fewer cars.