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what some consider the 
halcyon days of television, families used to gather 
…
a single cen-
trally located set and watched high-quality, family-centered program-
ming together.
Nowadays, the typical U.S. household has multiple television sets; 
family members (including young children) sit alone and watch pro-
grams that too often are violent and sexualized. When parents watch 
with their children, the value 
… 
the best television programs is en-
hanced — and the harm
 …
negative programming can be curtailed. 
(
By Dimitri Christakis, The Seattle Times, February 22, 2007)
7. The following article by Steven Pinker, a Canadian-American cognitive 
scientist, linguist and author of a number of popular science books, including “The 
Language Instinct” (1994) and “The Stuff of Thought” (2007) (http://pinker.
wjh.harvard.edu/books/) enlarges on the pros and cons of using the modern 
media in academic studies and research. Eight sentences have been removed 
from the article. Choose the most suitable sentence from the list A-H for each 
gap (1-8) in the article
A 
The decades of television, transistor radios and rock videos were 
also decades in which I.Q. scores rose continuously.

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B 
If electronic media were hazardous to intelligence, the quality 
of science would be plummeting.
C 
Novelists read lots of novels, scientists read lots of science.
D 
Search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim 
on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths.
E 
They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call 
universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call 
analysis, criticism and debate.