The reality show is a kind of television program.     1    , a reality show has many series. And it can be shown on TV for many years.

The reality show is quite different     2     other kinds of TV shows. Because it shows the life of common people, and there are no actors or actresses playing in it. It often shows true stories that     3     in people’s daily life. So many people enjoy watching reality shows.

The first reality show     4     in the 1990s in America. At that time, the most     5     and popular reality show was Survivor. It was popular around the world.

Reality shows also show different kinds of     6    . For example, there is a Chinese reality show called The Voice of China. In this show, there are     7     Chinese singers. Their job is to find their favorite students and help them be the     8    . The show is very     9    . Lots of people like to watch it.

    10    , some people don’t like to watch reality shows. They think the stories in the shows are made up.

My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first television when she was a teenager. Of course it was     1    and white. She said she only watch it at night. She didn’t remember over watching it in the morning or     2    .

When I was young, we had only about 3 or 4 different channels. My bothers, my sisters and I would sometimes fight about     3    channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the     4     show.

Nowadays we can get hundreds of channels on TV. I can’t     5    it! There are channels with old movies, cooking, fishing and so on. It’s surprising! There is a channel for everything. I wonder     6     my brothers, my sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course we had only one television set.

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.”

My favorite TV program is a reality show called Survivor（《幸存者》）. It isn’t on TV at the moment     1     it was on last year.

In the show, two teams of people are taken to a(n)     2    . All of them have to sleep     3     because there aren’t any houses or hotels. They usually choose     4     really useful like a toothbrush since they can only     5     one thing with them. The people also have to find food and they spend a lot of time fishing and collecting fruit from the     6    . Every week one person has to     7    . At the end, there are only two people on the island and one of them is chosen     8     the winner.

I really like Survivor because it’s very     9     and the people have to do things like hunting for food. I really     10     myself when I watch it. I don’t want to be on the show, however, I like living in a house!

Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse. It took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is     1     to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news stories     2     by watching TV or reading newspapers.

Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life     3     the 18th century. Many countries have     4     different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print? Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?

Firstly, it is important to report new events. TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet newspapers give     5     about the same story. They may also look at the story in another way, or they may print totally different stories to those on TV.

Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and     6    . People don’t want to read stories about everyday life. As a result, many stories are about some kind of danger and seem to be “bad” news. For example, newspapers     7     tell stories about planes landing safely.     8    , they tell stories about plane crashes. In addition many people are interested in news in foreign countries while others prefer to read stories about people, places and events in their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspapers are usually very different from the ones in British, French and American newspapers.

In the summer of 2021, a TV show, The Awakening Age(《觉醒年代》) became a hot topic and won much praise from young people     1     great TV skills and the fantastic description of the real events. It’s very rare (难得的) that a historical show could achieve such high word-of-mouth praise, but even those people who dislike historical shows     2    it from the beginning to the end. The Awakening Age has won a high score of 9.3/10 on China’s reviewing site Douban.

The TV show uses well-accepted method to show how China finally found the right development path(道路), a process that was tough(艰难的). The show told the story about how the Communist Party of China(the CPC, 中国共产党) grew up a hundred years ago. It     3     a talk about “how to save China” among some Chinese students. Everything was difficult at that time, but you could see that young people always did their best to help our country. Also, there were many famous names in Chinese history,     4     Hu Shi, Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu in the show.

The show did not use the most famous and very good-looking actors or actresses. Differently, they tried to     5     by making actors’ faces similar to the real ones. That’s why many people thought it     6     a mirror of real history.

Unlike the usual,70％of the audiences (观众) of The Awakening Age were young people. Quite a few students found this TV show more popular than history books. There were few other shows with this praise.

“Students in The Awakening Age     7     take so many responsibilities, although they were just at my age. “A 16-year-old student said, “the CPC took us to a better life like a red boat, and it is important to     8     where the road came from and how many difficulties it had in the past.”

My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first TV when she was a teenager. Of course it was       1     and white. She said she only watch it at night. She didn’t remember over watching it in the morning or     2    .

When I was young, we had only about 3 or 4 different channels. My brothers, my sisters and I would sometimes fight about     3     channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the     4     show. Nowadays we can get hundreds of channels on TV. I can’t     5     it. There are channels with old movies, cooking, fishing and so on. It is surprising! There is a channel for everything. I wonder how much my brothers, my sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course we had only one television set.