Exercise 3 Read the text and decide which answer best completes each collocation or fixed phrase.
#1. With the advent of so-called “Reality show”, which puts the emphasis on ordinary people doing ordinary things on TV, the BBC world has been much criticized for ______ down it schedules.
#2. But it worries me that the biggest victims of this never-ending diet of violent cartoons, immoral dramas and banal ______ is the nation’s children.
#3. The sheer quantity of TV watched by the under 16’s is truly alarming, with the national ______ for Britain placed at three and a half hours per day. The programmes that
#4. are rubbish easily ______ the programmes that are decent
#5. and ______.
#6. There will no doubt be howls of ______ out there from people who believe that TV is educational.
#7. ______ visual images
#8. ______ no useful educational purpose and will be forgotten by the next day.
#9. A young family near me has recently taken a ______ against TV and given their set away.
#10. Their children now do something truly ______. They read books.
