(Update 2022) TV Addiction 2 | IELTS Reading Practice Test

(Update 2022) TV Addiction 2 | IELTS Reading Practice Test
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Tv addiction 2 reading answers


A. Excessive cravings do not necessarily involve physical substances. Gambling can become compulsive; sex can become obsessive. One activity, however, stands out for its prominence and ubiquity—the world’s most popular pastime, television. Most people admit to having a love-bate relationship with it. They complain about the “boob tube” and “couch potatoes,” then they settle into their sofas and grab the remote control. Parents commonly fret about their children’s viewing (if not their own). Even researchers who study TV for a living marvel at the medium’s hold on them personally. Percy Tannenbaum of the University of California at Berkeley has written: “Among life’s more embarrassing moments have been countless occasions when I am engaged in conversation in a room while a TV set is on, and I cannot for the life of me stop from periodically glancing over to the screen. This occurs not only during dull conversations but during reasonably interesting ones just as well.”

B. Scientists have been studying the effects of television for decades, generally focusing on whether watching violence on TV correlates with being violent in real life. Less attention has been paid to the basic allure of the small screen—the medium, as opposed to the message.

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F. What is it about TV that has such a hold on US? In part, the attraction seems to spring from our biological ‘orienting response.’ First described by Ivan Pavlov in 1927, the orienting response is our instinctive visual or auditory reaction to any sudden or novel stimulus. It is part of our evolutionary heritage, a built- in sensitivity to movement and potential predatory threats.

G. In 1986 Byron Reeves of Stanford University, Esther Thorson of the University of Missouri and their colleagues began to study whether the simple formal features of television-cuts, edits, zooms, pans, sudden noises—activate the orienting response, thereby keeping attention on the screen. By watching how brain waves were affected by formal features, the researchers concluded that these stylistic tricks can indeed trigger involuntary responses and ‘derive their attention-al value through the evolutionary significance of detecting movement…. It is the form, not the content, of television that is unique.’

H. The orienting response may partly explain common viewer remarks such as: “If a television is on, I just can’t keep my eyes off it,” “I don’t want to watch as much as I do, but I can’t help it,” and “I feel hypnotized when I watch television.” In the years since Reeves and Thorson published then pioneering work, researchers have delved deeper. Annie Lang’s research team at Indiana University has shown that heart rate decreases for four to six seconds after an orienting stimulus. In ads, action sequences and music videos, formal features frequently come at a rate of one per second, thus activating the orienting response continuously.

I. Lang and her colleagues have also investigated whether formal features affect people’s memory of what they have seen. In one of their studies, participants watched a program and then filled out a score sheet. Increasing the frequency of edits (defined here as a change from one camera angle to another in the same visual scene) improved memory recognition, presumably because it focused attention on the screen. Increasing the frequency of cuts—changes to a new visual scene-had a similar effect but only up to a point. If the number of cuts exceeded 10 in two minutes, recognition dropped off sharply.




You should spend about 20 minutes on question 27-40, which are based on reading passage 3 on the following pages.

Questions 27-30


In boxes 27-30 on your answer sheet, write

YES if the statement is trueNO if the statement is falseNOT GIVEN if the formation is not given to the passage

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27. Even researcher find sometimes it is more interesting in watching TV than talking with others in personal experience

28. Information medium as TV has always been the priority for scientific research.

29. It is partially unscientific to use the term ‘TV addiction’. 30. Children do not know why they exercise too little.

Questions 31-33Choose THREE letters, A-F.

Write the correct letters in boxes 31-33 on your answer sheet.

Which THREE of the following are benefits of watching TV?

1. artistic inspiration

2. family reunion

3. relieve stress

4. learn knowledge and education

5. work efficiency

6. ease communicative conflict

Questions 34-37

Look at the following researchers (Questions 34-37) and the list of statements below. Match each researcher with the correct statements.

Write the correct letter A-G in boxes 34-37 on your answer sheets.

34 Percy Tannenbaum

35 Ivan Pavlov

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36 Byron Reeves and Esther Thorson

37 Annie Lang

List of Statements

A. It is the specific media formal characteristic that counts.

B. TV distraction shows human physical reaction to a new and prompted stimulus

C. Conveying information is the most important thing.

D. It is hard to ignore the effects of TV.

E. Whether people can remember deeper of the content relates with the format.

F. The heart rate remains stable when watching.

G. Clinically reliance on TV does not meet the criteria of an addiction.

Questions 38-40

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage 3, using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 38-40 on your answer sheet

TV is becoming a worldwide 38……….. Some people love it and spend a great deal of time watching it. According to some surveys, a small group even claim themselves as 39………… One researcher believes that this attraction comes from our human instinct, described as 40………which is built in part of our physiological evolution.


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