If I had the ability to change one thing about American society, my decision would not be a difficult one. I would ban television.
I grew up a couch potato. Looking back, it seems I hardly read anything else at all — I watched TV almost seven hours a day.
There are so many good reasons for you to be a couch potato. Television is good before-breakfast entertainment. Television is good after-school entertainment. Television is good before-bed entertainment. Everybody watches it, so you have to watch it too in order to talk about it with friends. Otherwise you cannot say a word, which makes you look like an idiot.
But when I stopped watching television completely several months ago, I found that I had become a more reflective person, simply because I had more time to think. Television had stopped stuffing its ideas into my head. I was thinking of my childhood, and to my disappointment, I found that it could be summed up adequately in one sentence: “I watched a lot of TV.” And I wasted too much of my youth that I cannot have back. I will never be more imaginative than I was in my childhood.
Now I can totally resist the temptation of TV no matter how marvelous the programs are, and I’m entering into a new stage of life. In the meantime, I’d hope that all couch potatoes would turn off their TV. But I am afraid that with more and more attractive TV programs, I’m not going to be the last person in this country to idle away the best years of life sitting passively in front of a television.
36.A couch potato is someone who ______.
A. spends much time sitting and watching TV
B. plants potato
C. plants potato in the couch
D. sits in a couch eating potato
37.People watch TV so much because ______.
A. television is good before-breakfast entertainment
B. television is good after-school entertainment
C. television is good before-bed entertainment
D. All of the above
38.According to the passage, people will ______ if they stop watching TV.
A. fill themselves with idea on TV B. be more lazy and relaxed
C. have more time to think D. not look back at their childhood
39.Which of the following is NOT true of the author?
A. The author had watched television a lot.
B. The author had wasted too much of his youth.
C. The author will never be more imaginative than he was in his childhood.
D. The author is determined to go on watching television.
40.The phrase “idle away” (Para.5) probably means “______”.
A. spend time in a different way B. spend time in a relaxed way
C. enter a new stage D. watch television
我从小就是个电视迷。回首过去，我似乎几乎什么都不读——我几乎每天看七个小时的电视。
有这么多好的理由让你成为一个电视迷。早餐前看电视是很好的娱乐方式。电视是很好的课外娱乐。睡前看电视是一种很好的娱乐方式。每个人都在看它，所以你也必须看它，以便与朋友谈论它。否则你一句话也说不出来，这让你看起来像个白痴。
但几个月前，当我完全停止看电视时，我发现自己变得更加善于思考，这仅仅是因为我有更多的时间思考。电视不再把它的想法塞进我的脑子里。我想起了我的童年，令我失望的是，我发现这可以用一句话来概括：“我看了很多电视。”我浪费了太多的青春，我无法挽回。我再也不会像童年时那样富有想象力了。
现在，无论电视节目多么精彩，我都能完全抵制住电视的诱惑，我正进入人生的新阶段。与此同时，我希望所有的电视迷都能关掉电视。但我担心，随着越来越多有吸引力的电视节目，我不会是这个国家里最后一个被动地坐在电视机前消磨生命中最美好时光的人。
沙发土豆是指那些。
A、 花很多时间坐着看电视
B、 种植马铃薯
C、 在沙发上种土豆
D、 坐在沙发上吃土豆
人们经常看电视是因为。
A、 早餐前看电视是很好的娱乐方式
B、 电视是很好的课后娱乐
C、 睡前看电视是很好的娱乐方式
D、 以上所有内容
根据这篇文章，如果人们停止看电视，他们会。
A、 让自己在电视上充满创意B.更加懒惰和放松
C、 有更多的时间思考D。不要回顾自己的童年
39、以下哪项不是作者的真实情况？
A、 这位作家经常看电视。
B、 这位作家浪费了太多的青春。
C、 作者将永远不会比他童年时更有想象力。
D、 作者决心继续看电视。
“闲置”一词（第5段）可能意味着“闲置”。
A、 以不同的方式消磨时间B.以放松的方式消磨时间
