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Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words . Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sorts of things to do when they were kids. But their own kids seem different, less resourceful, somehow. When theres nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with any thing to do besides turning on the TV. One father, for example, says, When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents, I have nothing to do! He compares this with his own children today:Theyre simply lazy. If someone doesnt entertain them, theyll happily sit there watching TV all day. There is one word for this fathers disappointment: unfair. It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language. He deplores his childrens lack of inventiveness, as if the ability to play were something innate that his children are missing. In fact, while the tendency to play is built into the human species, the actual ability to playto imagine, to invent, to elaborate on reality in a playful wayand the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are skills that have to be learned and developed. | 
