Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words .

Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sorts of things to do when they were kids. But their own kids seem different, less resourceful, somehow. When theres nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with any thing to do besides turning on the TV.

One father, for example, says, When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents, I have nothing to do! He compares this with his own children today:Theyre simply lazy. If someone doesnt entertain them, theyll happily sit there watching TV all day.

There is one word for this fathers disappointment: unfair. It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language. He deplores his childrens lack of inventiveness, as if the ability to play were something innate that his children are missing. In fact, while the tendency to play is built into the human species, the actual ability to play to imagine, to invent, to elaborate on reality in a playful way and the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are skills that have to be learned and developed.

Such disappointment, however, is not only unjust, it is also destructive. Sensing their parents disappointment, children come to believe that they are, indeed, lacking something, and that this makes them less worthy of admiration and respect. Giving children the opportunity to develop new resources, to enlarge their horizons and discover the pleasures of doing things on their own is, on the other hand, a way to help children develop a confident feeling about themselves as capable and interesting people.

Questions:

S1. According to many parents, without TV, their children would like them to

S2. Many parents think that, instead of watching a lot of TV, their children should .

S3. The father often blames his children for not being able to entertain themselves. This is unfair because they .

S4. When parents show constant disappointment in their children, the destructive effect is that the children will .

S5. Developing childrens self-confidence helps bring them up to be .

Unit 4

1. be entertainers.

play with them.

entertain themselves.

be on call as entertainers.

act as entertainers.

2. think up things to do, such as projects and games.

come up with something to do

3. should learn and develop the actual ability to play.

have no condition to develop their ability to play.

have to learn those skills which are not innate.

4. lose self-confidence.

believe that they are less worthy of admiration and respect.

believe that theyre lacking of something.

5. capable and interesting people.

Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words .

Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sorts of things to do when they were kids. But their own kids seem different, less resourceful, somehow. When theres nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with any thing to do besides turning on the TV.

One father, for example, says, When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents, I have nothing to do! He compares this with his own children today:Theyre simply lazy. If someone doesnt entertain them, theyll happily sit there watching TV all day.

There is one word for this fathers disappointment: unfair. It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language. He deplores his childrens lack of inventiveness, as if the ability to play were something innate that his children are missing. In fact, while the tendency to play is built into the human species, the actual ability to play to imagine, to invent, to elaborate on reality in a playful way and the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are skills that have to be learned and developed.

Such disappointment, however, is not only unjust, it is also destructive. Sensing their parents disappointment, children come to believe that they are, indeed, lacking something, and that this makes them less worthy of admiration and respect. Giving children the opportunity to develop new resources, to enlarge their horizons and discover the pleasures of doing things on their own is, on the other hand, a way to help children develop a confident feeling about themselves as capable and interesting people.

Questions:

S1. According to many parents, without TV, their children would like them to

S2. Many parents think that, instead of watching a lot of TV, their children should .

S3. The father often blames his children for not being able to entertain themselves. This is unfair because they .

S4. When parents show constant disappointment in their children, the destructive effect is that the children will .

S5. Developing childrens self-confidence helps bring them up to be .

Unit 4

1. be entertainers.

play with them.

entertain themselves.

be on call as entertainers.

act as entertainers.

2. think up things to do, such as projects and games.

come up with something to do

3. should learn and develop the actual ability to play.

have no condition to develop their ability to play.

have to learn those skills which are not innate.

4. lose self-confidence.

believe that they are less worthy of admiration and respect.

believe that theyre lacking of something.

5. capable and interesting people.