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theatre or watching videos. But these (3)……………. are
occasional, irregular and ultimately of secondary
(4)…………….. Television is one of the main subjects of
conversation, at school, in offices, at home and in the street, as
well as being written about in all the newspapers.
It might be said that the main objective of television is to
(5)………….. the maximum number of people to watch it for the
maximum amount of time. And how effectively the sitcoms and
soap operas do that! I do not think that I have ever seen any
other country so totally (6
)……………. by these shows. Some of
them are Egyptian productions but the majority are American.
It is therefore not (7)……………. that an extraordinary ritual
takes place when it is time for serial to begin. All the members
of the family stop whatever they have been doing and sit
(8)………….. to the screen.
Ramadan, the month of fasting, is the month in which television
reigns supreme. This is partly because people have more time
on their hands than during the rest of the year, but also
because cinemas and theatres close down and other public
(9)…………. activities come to a holt. During Ramadan people
go on a kind of television binge. Besides the normal shows,
special serials running from the first to the last day of the month
are produced each year and are eagerly awaited by millions of
(10)……………. .
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15 Read the text below. For questions 1-10, choose the correct letter A, B,
C or D.
What do trains, frogs, Abba, counting sheep, motorbikes and a mother’s
heartbeat all have in common?
How about turning your radio (0) C
an all-day Swiss yodeling channel or
settling (1) __________ to an evening of uninterrupted Buddhist chanting?
From the 440 radio (2) ___________ available on Osaka Yusen (3) __________,
Japan’s largest cable-radio network, subscribes can tune (4) __________ a
channel featuring 24 hours of croaking frogs, or one that consists of the sound of
trains pulling in and out of stations.
As well as the sounds of cicadas or percolating coffee, Osaka Yusen offers nearly
100 channels of announcer-free jazz, rock, classical music, Second World War
military marches, and folk music from all over the world. Sheena Easton, Abba and
Richie each have (5) _________ channels to themselves, although the repetition
rate must be almost as high as that of an in-flight music channel. One student says
that the most often listens to the channel that plays the (6) ______ of a revving
motorcycle engine.
For those in search of more intellectual background sounds for their dinner parties,
there is always the abacus-lesson channel or a range of talks on spiritual
development. But anyone tires of all the above should (7) _______ their sets to
‘drowsing channels’ and tune into the sheep-counting station, for example, which
features a mature mail voice slowly counting from one to a thousand. Then he
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