Read the passage carefully, then fill in each gap with ONE suitable word. Many people believe that watching television has resulted in lower reading s

Read the passage carefully, then fill in each gap with ONE suitable word.
Many people believe that watching television has resulted in lower reading
standards in schools. (31) _____, the link between television and printed books is not as
simple as that. In many cases, television actually encourages people to read, for example,
when a book is turned into a TV series, its (32) _____ often go up.
One study of this link examined six-year-old children who were viewing a special
series of 15-minute programmes at school. The series was designed to (33) _____ love of
books, as well as to develop the basic mechanical skills of reading. Each programme is an
animated film of a children’s book. The story is read aloud (34) _____ certain key
phrases from the book appear on the screen, beneath the picture. Whenever a word is
read, it is also highlighted on the TV screen.
One finding was that watching these programmes was very important to the
children. If anything (35) _____ them seeing a programme, they were very disappointed.
What’s more, they wanted to read the books (36) _____ the different parts of the series
were based on.
The programmes also gave the children some confidence when looking at these
books. As a result of their familiarity with the (37) _____, they would sit in pairs and
read the stories aloud to (38)_____ other. On one (39) _____, the children showed great
sympathy when (40) _____ a character in a book because they themselves had been
moved when watching the character on television.
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