A. They spend less time reading and thinking. B. They become violent
C. Television causes declining math and reading scores
D. Television has been changing the way people live for thirty years.
2. Why is television more than just a spare time activity for
children?
A. Their minds are growing, developing and learning. TV influences children's attitudes. B. Television puts their dental health at risk.
C. Exposure to excessive violence.
D. Young children don't distinguish between commercials and programs.
3. How many hours ", week is the TV set on in the standard U.S. household?
A. 25 hours
B. 22000 hours
C. 35000 hours
D. 43 hours Thirty-five hundred years ago, an incredible explosion blew
apart an island and completely destroyed a civilization called
Atlantis. Where was Atlantis? What kind of people lived there? Why and how was it destroyed?
No one knows the answers to these questions, but there have been hundreds of guesses and
theories.
The Greek philosopher Plato (approximately 427 to 347 B.C.) is the primary source for the
legend of Atlantis. His description of the "lost continent" still excites the modern mind. Plato's
Atlantis was a kind of paradise - a vast island "larger than Libya and Asia put together" - with
magnificent mountain ranges, green plains that were full of every variety of animal, and
luxuriant gardens where the fruit was "fair and wondrous and in infinite abundance." The earth
was rich with precious metals, especially the one prized most highly by the ancients, orichalc,
an alloy of copper, perhaps brass.
The capital of Atlantis was beautifully constructed in white,
black, and red stone. The city was carefully planned - in five
zones built in perfect concentric circles. Each circular zone was built inside a larger one. Plato
says that the capital's canals and its nearby port were "full of vessels and merchants coming
from all parts, who ... kept up ... din and clatter .... night and day." The city was full of life,
