Part Four: Monologue
Carl’s Note
Americans watch a lot of television. Many people, especially doctors and teachers, think they watch too much. There are at least seven to ten free channels in every city, and cable TV offers up to a hundred stations for around $40 dollars a month. Cable TV stations will often only show one thing: movies, news, sports, entertainment news, financial news, there are even stations that show nothing but cooking shows. If you get a satellite TV, you can get 300-500 TV stations. If you have time, you can watch every college and professional basketball game in the country. The effect on children of this much television is especially troubling. Teachers complain that students neglect their homework and do not read for pleasure anymore, and doctors note that children who watch too much TV are often not physically fit.
卡爾的話：
美國人經常收看電視。有很多人，尤其是醫生和老師，認為自己收看了較多的電視節目。在每個城市，大概最少有7到10個免費的電視頻道。有線電視則可以接收近100個電視臺，費用為每個月40美元。有線電視每個臺通常只播放某一種節目，如電影、新聞、體育、娛樂新聞、財經新聞，甚至還有一些電視臺只播放烹飪節目。如果你安裝了衛星電視，你便可以接收到300到500個電視臺。只要你有時間，你可以收看國內每一所大學的籃球賽或是職業籃球賽。如此豐富的電視節目給孩子們也造成了不好的影響。老師們抱怨學生不能完成作業，也不會再為了樂趣而閱讀。醫生們也發現經常看電視的孩子身體狀況不佳。

Part Five: Vocabulary
--television 電視，電視廣播
--educational 教育的
--cable 纜；索；鋼索
--satellite dish碟形衛星信號接受器
--news 新聞；消息；報導
--channel 頻道，波段
--complain 抱怨，發牢騷，訴說
--neglect 忽視，忽略