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高考英语二轮完形填空讲练解析2 （） I would like to suggest that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening all television broadcasting in the United States be forbidden by law. Let us take a __1___, reasonable look at what the results might be if such a(n) _2___were accepted: Families might use the time for a real family hour. Without the distraction of TV, they might _3__ together after dinner and actually talk to one another. It is well known that many of our _4__in everything in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of __5__ illness are caused at least in part by _6___ to communicate. By using the quiet family hour to__7_ our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better. On evenings when such a talk is _8__, families could discover more active pastimes(消遣). Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might take a _9__ together to watch the sunset or they might take a walk together. With free time and no TV, children and adults might discover reading. There is more entertainment in a good book than in a TV program. _10___ report that the generation growing up with television can hardly write an English sentence, even at the college level. __11__is often learned from reading. A more literate new generation could be a product of the quite hour. A different form of reading might also be done as it was in the past: reading aloud. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the quiet hour _12___, the TV net works might be forced to __13__ with better shows in order to get us back from our newly discovered activities. | 
