[单项选择]The bad effect of the treatment American children gets today______.
A. are not taken seriously
B. has aroused hot debates
C. is beginning to be recognized
D. is unquestionable

[单项选择]The damaging effect of the treatment many American children receive today ________.
A. has not been taken seriously
B. has aroused hot debates
C. is beginning to be recognized
D. is unquestionable

[单项选择]American children customarily go trick-or-treating on Halloween.
A. gaily
B. traditionally
C. readily
D. inevitably

[单项选择]Most American children go to school at the age of six.

[单项选择]It is common that American children ______。
A. make troubles in public places
B. behave indecently when they grow up
C. talk to their parents in the same way as other cultures
D. are particularly lacking in civility at home

[单项选择]These American soldiers were accused of treatment of prisoners of war.
A. blunt
B. brutal
C. brisk
D. bold

[单项选择]What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school
A. Profound knowledge of the world.
B. Practical abilities for future career.
C. The habit of thinking independently.
D. The confidence in intellectual pursuits.

[单项选择]Children in American today are denied the chance of ______.
A. attending to patients
B. visiting dying patients
C. having access to a hospital
D. learning how to face death

[单项选择]Due to American's invasion on Iraq, anti-American has been running high _________ in some countries.
A. feeling
B. emotion
C. sentiment
D. sensation

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Good news is bad news and bad news is good news, newsmen often say to one another. And when you look at the media it’s only too easy to see what they mean. A dictionary definition of the media is mass communication, e.g. the press, television, radio. The media sees its main purpose as giving the public news. Naturally to provide the public with news, the media has first to gather it. The whole function and purpose of the media, then, seems to depend on the word "news", but more important, on how the word is interpreted.
The media like any big business venture today is an extremely competitive world of its own. In providing material for its public it has constantly to make sure it serves the right diet. No public will waste time on your paper or your TV channel otherwise. The sad truth is that there seems only one way to catch an audience—hit them right between the eyes. What started as a mild tap has now become a sledgehammer blow that goes by the na
A. will defend themselves very fully.
B. don't give lengthy answers.
C. never listen to criticism.
D. justify their behavior at great length.