WHICH SENTENCE IS NOT TRUE

125. Which sentence is not true?

A. TV never causes addiction.

B. TV can help increase people's knowledge.

C. Watching TV is a pleasant way to relax and spend free time at home.

D. There are violence and horror on TV.

D. Reading Comprehension 2: Read the passage and then choose the correct answers:

People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early

and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding

their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive

accuracy — one place, one knife, one spoon, one fork, .for each of the five chairs. Soon they are

capable of noting that they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table, a bit later, that

this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move onto

subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island

at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematic class

without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.

Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has

illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children

were observed as they slowly grasped — or as the case might be, bumped into — concepts that

adults take for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as

water is poured from a short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated

that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red

pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments

of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very

concept of abstract numbers is itself far from innate.