2. 外语
  3. TV Games Shows One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the best s

TV Games Shows One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the best s

admin2016-07-17  33
问题                             TV Games Shows
    One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the best sellers list with a sale of fewer than 100, 000 copies, but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well-known overnight.
    This is the principle behind quiz or game shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for the prizes and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars just for fun. But all of this money can create problems. For instance, in the 1950s, quiz shows were very popular in the US and almost everyone watched them. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the show’s producers, who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didn’t like the person who won the game, they turned the show off. Based on his story, a movie under the title Quiz Show is on 40 years later.
    Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV. But game shows are still here, though they aren’t taken as seriously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible. There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together, or that try to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV, or that punish losers by humiliating them. The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV. People still win money, but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.
Prizes and money are usually provided by TV stars and large companies for winners.
选项 A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Not mentioned
答案C
解析 答案查找的线索词：provide(提供)或TV stars and large companies(电视明星和大公司)。查找完全文也没发现这些线索词，可见该问题并没在原文中提到，所以答案为C项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/DD6sFFFM
本试题收录于： 职称英语理工类C级题库职称英语分类
0

职称英语理工类C级

职称英语

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)