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语言朋友(52)inutes 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(an)__2__ were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour.Without the distraction(分散注意力) of TV, __3__together after dinner and actually talk to one another.It is well known that many of our __4__ 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 talk is __8__， families could discover more active pastimes(娱乐)．Freed from TV and forced to find their own __9____10__ together along the river bank. With free time and no TV, children and __11__ might discover reading.There is more entertainment in__12__than in a TV program.__13__ report that the generation growing up with television can hardly write an English __14__，even at the college level.__15__is often learned from reading.A more literate new generation could be a product of the quiet hour.A different form of reading might also be done as it was in the __16__ reading aloud.The quiet hour could become the story hour.When the__17__ ends, the TV networks might be forced to __18__ with better shows in order to get us back from our newly－ discovered activities.(激进的)．How will we spend the time then? The fact is: it has been only twenty five years since __19____20__childhoods without television.It wasn't that difficult. | 
