Today no one has ever doubted about television’s charm. Since 1920s Britain invented the first television, people have begun to live in a world crowded with soap operas, news magazines and TV advertisements. 41.______However, have we ever tried to find out the magic here Why did the television win the competition with paper media and radio in such a short period By what kind of contention did TV finally control most of the audiences And why does TV become the means the industrial circles scramble for
It is argued that television may not be a form of art, but fifteen thousand years before the primitive people had left urus drawings on Altamira Cave in Spain, which proved that pictures are human ever-lasting pursuit much earlier than letters. 42.______The coming of the 19th century foretold a mass media times and also the break-through in arts because of the rapid development in technology. First by the invention of photography photos showed up before people in a way
Those (41) want to teach must study special subjects toward that goal. They work in public schools while being supervised (42) other teachers. They take state examinations. (43) they succeed, they are officially certified or approved to (44) public school teachers.
The Bush Administration now (45) a new organization that seeks to expand certification. This group is (46) the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence. It says its new system will (47) good non-traditional teacher be certified if they (48) its requirements. The Department of Education (49) the board last year. The goal is to (50) barriers (障碍) to getting more good teachers. (51) just a few years, American public school will be educating three million (52) children.
Recent college graduates can be considered (53) the new program. So can people in other jobs who (54)
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I am one of those unfortunate people who have a very (61) sense of direction. When I was young I was (62) shy that I never dared to ask complete strangers the way to the spot I was heading (63) .
Things have now changed, but I often receive replies that puzzle me because (64) do not like to admit that they do not know their hometown and will insist (65) telling you the way even if they do not know it; others, (66) are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions (67) you cannot possibly hope to remember; and (68) others do not seem to be able to tell between left and right and you will find it in the end that you are going in the opposite to that (69) you should be going.
If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere, I always tell him that I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid (70) them wrong directions.
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