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The word "television" is made __48__ of two parts, the Greek "tele" and the Latin "video". Television means seeing at a distance, and it has _49_ many years to develop. It was not until 1936__50__ the BBC (the British Broadcasting Company) started the first regular television service in the world.
The viewer, looking at his television screen, does not see a moving picture. He sees a series of __51__ photographs, each a little different. These pass before his eyes so quickly that he has an impression of continuous movement.
The picture on the screen is composed of a series of lines which run __52_ left to right and from top to bottom. These lines are lines of various shades of light. They travel across the screen _53_ quickly that they give the impression of one steady continuous picture. The viewer sees twenty-five pictures _54_ second, with a fixed number of lines making up each picture. Depending _55_ which system is used, the number of lines is either four hundred and five _56_ six hundred and twenty-five.

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Language learning begins 48 listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners .Most children will“obey”spoken instructions some time before they can speak, 49 the word “obey” is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child .50 they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and 51 making questioning noises.
Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads 52 considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy 53noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. 54 since these can’t be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate ,they can hardly be regarded 55 early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation（模仿）leads on to deliberate（有意的）imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered 56 speech.

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The majority of astronauts（宇航员）from America have been men. At the start of the space programme there was strong resistance from some people 48 having women in space. 49, some women were very keen to become astronauts and in the 50 they were successful. In 1978, NASA began the first training programme for women astronauts.
Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe were 51 astronauts and they were both women, but in many other ways they were very different. Both of them were on Flight STS-5L-L. Judy Resnick was born in 1949 and 52 engineering at university and went on to obtain a PhD in 1977. She was a member of the first group of women selected for astronaut training in 1978, and in 1984, she became the second woman in space. During that flight, she helped to launch three new satellites and she carried out a programme of research. She was, in many ways, a professional astronaut 53 whole life was devoted to space travel.
Christa McAuliffe was born in 1948 and she was an astronaut almost 54 accident. In 1984, NASA decided to find a teacher who could accompany astronauts into space. They hoped that she would be able to communicate with students from space and encourage every one of them to be interested in space travel. Christa was a secondary teacher in history and social studies. She was a gifted teacher and she was selected from over 11,000 applicants to go on flight STS-51-L. She was also a very good communicator and she immediately established a very good relationship with the news media(radio, television and newspapers）. It was partly because of this 55 there was a great deal of interest and excitement about the flight. Thousands of students in schools and universities all around the country were looking 56 to communicating with Christa in space. Millions of people were watching her flight with great interest. It is partly because of the excitement over McAuliffe's place in the flight that the disaster in 1986 had such an effect on people.

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The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women. 48 the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in 49 for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be 50 to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. 51 the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paid work 52 retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children ,her work is lightened by household appliances（家用电器）and convenience foods.
This important 53 in women’s way of life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’ s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity and most of them took a full-time job. 54, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age ,and though women tend to marry younger ,more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwads, 55 to full or part-time work.Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with both husband and wife accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfaction of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money and running the home, 56 to the abilities and interest of each of them.

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Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about 48 to spend their time. Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch 49 those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes 50 easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time 51 my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born 52 electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also 53 it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun, see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may 54 of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, 55 your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in 56 that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.

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Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value 48 stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original 49.
The mistake was made more 50 a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order 51 stamps was sent to a London printer--Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.
52 the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send 53 the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the design 54 the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words“Post Office” 55 of“Post Paid” on the several hundred stamps that he printed.
Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps 56: fourteen one- penny Orange-Reds and twelve two-penny Blues. Because of the Two Penny Blue’s rareness and age, collectors have paid as much as ＄16 800 for it.

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