American boys and girls love to watch television. Some children spend six hours a day in school and four to six hours a day in front of the television set. Some children even (1) _________ watches watch watching watch television for eight hours or (2) _________ Friday more less ten on Saturday. But many parents let their (3) _________ are children with television watch only during certain hours.

Television shows are like books or movies. A child can learn bad things (4) _________ to from by for some of them and good things from others. Some shows help children understand the news from Washington and (5) _________ other New York almost American parts of the world. Some (6) _________ parents children programs television show people and places from other countries or other times in history. With television a child does not have (7) _________ to had been time go to the zoo to (8) _________ visit see an look animals or to the ocean to (9) _________ ride look see get a ship. Boys and girls (10) _________ want television can can't watch a play, a concert, or a baseball game at home. Some programs even teach children how to cook (11) _________ do also of are how to use tools.

Television (12) _________ is how shows brings many places and events into the living rooms of our homes. Some (13) _________ programs parents television places show crime and other things that (14) _________ are not to very bad for children, so parents (15) _________ don't never to sometimes help them to find other activities that are interesting.

It is fun to watch television, but it is also fun to play a musical instrument, to read a book, or to visit with friends. It is important for children to have many different things that they are interested in.

(reading adapted from Decker, 1982: 19)

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