They are opening (3)_____ the traditional European-centered curriculum to embrace material from American, Asian, and other cultures. Schools are also teaching cognitive skills to the nearly 40 percent of American students who do not go on to higher education.

First of all, TV is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a (2)______ cheap one. For a family of 4, for example, it is more convenient as well as cheaper to sit comfortably at home than to go out. They don’t have to pay for expensive tickets. All they have to do is to turn on TV and they can see films, political discussions and the latest exciting football matches.

(4)______ here again there is a danger. We get to like watching TV so much that it begins to dominate our lives. A friend of mine told me that when his TV set broke he and his family suddenly found that they had much more time to do things. The most important thing which is really criticizing is poor quality of the programs and its harmful effect on children. For example the film
“Natural Born Killers” teaches children to kill and there was one accident in France when a group of teenagers kill their parents.

Nowadays there is plenty of good (3)_____ available for young children, and of course, seeing plenty of books in use about the house will also (4)______ them to read.

Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can (3)______ his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can (4)______ men to tears.

We should, therefore, learn to choose our words carefully, (5)______ they will make our speech silly and vulgar.

(3) ........., you are able to give lifts to friends, or carry heavy loads of shopping.

Many people today would like the traditional two-parent family back, that is to say, they want a man and a woman to (1)_____ for life; they also think the man should support the family, and the woman should stay home with the children. However, few families now (2)_____ in the this category. In fact, if more women decide to have children on their own,
the single-parent household may become more typical than the traditional family in many countries. Also, couples may decide to have more children, or they might take in foster children or (3)_____ . And because people are staying single and living longer, there may be more one-person households. (4)______ the other hand, some people believe that similar events happen again and again in history. if this is true, people may go back to the traditional (5)______ or nuclear family of the past. Others think that the only certainty in history is change. in other words, the structure of the future family could begin to change faster and faster and in more and more ways.

(2)______ , many educators claim that since the legislation was passed federal spending has not increased sufficiently to meet the rising cost of new library technologies such as computer databases and Internet access.

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the world was becoming more aware of  the destructive effects of industry (1)_____ the environment and people were starting to think seriously about ways of protecting the environment. One man who was particularly affected by this subject was Gerard Morgan-Grenville. As Morgan- Grenville travelled round earning his living as a gardener, he noticed signs of the damage that was being done to the countryside around him. It wasn't long before Morgan-Grenville decided that he had to do something about this
situation. He felt that if people could be shown a better way of living then maybe they would be interested enough to try to protect their (2)_____ environment. Mr. Morgan-Grenville decided to set up a project (3)_____ would prove what was happening to our surroundings and what could be done about it. So, in 1975, Morgan-Grenville created the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in a village in Wales. The main aim of CAT is to search for an ecologically better way of living by using technology which (4)_____ no harm to the environment. One of the most important things CAT did initially was to explore and demonstrate a wide range of techniques and to point out which ones had the least destructive results on the world around us. (5)_____ CAT provides information and advice to people all over Britain and all over the world. If more and more individuals are informed about how much damage our modern lifestyle is causing to the planet, maybe more of them would be prepared to look for practical solutions to environmental problems.

Today’s world is entirely different from the things (3)_____ have just been described.