题目内容：

    Something that happens in our daily life often impresses us deeply and makes us think a lot. About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York city _____ a woman and a young boy sat down at the  next table. I couldn’t help _____ parts of their conversations. At one point the woman asked, “So, _____ have you been?” And the boy,  who could not have been more than seven or eight years, replied, “Frankly,    I’ve been feeling a little _____ lately.”

This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing _____ that children are _____. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low spirits, _____  we were in high school.

The evidence of a change in children has _____ steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem _____ anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and _____ more like adults than they used  to. Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is _____. Children as it once was _____ exists. Why?

Human  development  has  depended  not  only  on  born _____ states,  but  also  on  patterns  of gaining _____ knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually _____ learning the secrets of the new social positions. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from _____ graders.

In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes.  It  is called television. Television  passes information to all _____ alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation ( 诱 惑 ), many children turn their attention from _____ texts to the less challenging, more attractive moving pictures.

Communication through print, _____, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read _____ materials.

1.A.before B.while C.when D.since

2.A.learning B.watching C.overcoming D.overhearing

3.A.where B.how C.what D.who

4.A.depressed B.impressed C.tired D.upset

5.A.mind B.belief C.proof D.idea

6.A.changing B.missing C.disappointing D.promising

7.A.as B.after C.since D.until

8.A.decreased B.increased C.disappeared D.improved

9.A.grow-up B.honest C.lovely D.childlike

10.A.think B.smile C.behave D.walk

11.A.similar B.enjoyable C.different D.probable

12.A.always B.still C.no longer D.again

13.A.logical B.physical C.mental D.biological

14.A.social B.scientific C.natural D.common

15.A.needs B.seeks C.includes D.engages

16.A.fifth B.fourth C.seventh D.third

17.A.customers B.listeners C.viewers D.fans

18.A.divided B.spoken C.collected D.printed

19.A.for example B.as a matter of fact C.even worse D.what’s more

20.A.basic B.complex C.instructive D.important