Television has increased all the speed 71 which news travels and it can bring situations and images into our homes that previous generations would not have had the opportunity to witness. How does television affect our lives? It can be 72 (help) to those who carefully choose the programs that they watch and harmful to those who watch it too much. In China, many people worry that kids and young people 73 (watch) too much television these days.
74 survey of 300 youngsters in Shanghai last year showed that, on the average, they spent half of their free time, 75 is two and a half hours, watching television and two thirds of an hour 76 (read) stories. The students who watched many hours of entertainment programs had 77 (low) test scores than those who watched fewer hours of such programs. Another survey of school age 78 （child）in Wuhan found that half of them said they read very little. During the London Olympic Games, tens of millions of Chinese viewers stayed up late to watch the opening ceremony and other programs. And television is 79 (quick) taking the place of 80 (print) material as the major source of news for most Chinese.