Television is the most effective brainwashing medium ever invented by man. Advertisers kno

w this to be【C1】______. Children are affected by television in【C2】______we scarcely understand. In the fall of 1971, I was assigned a story【C3】______a young white woman living on the fringe of Boston's black ghetto. Her car had【C4】______out of gas. She had gone to a filling station【C5】______a can and was returning to her car【C6】______she was trapped in an alley by a gang of black youths. The gang【C7】______gasoline over her and set fire to her. She died【C8】______her burns. It was later established【C9】______some of the youths involved had, on the night before the killing,【C10】______on television of return of an old movie in which a drifter is【C11】______on fire by an adolescent gang. There is some kind of strange reductive process at work here. To see something on television robs it【C12】______reality, and then when the【C13】______thing is acted out it is like the reenactment of something unreal. In【C14】______words, when the gang set fire to the girl, they were imitating【C15】______they had seen on a screen, as if they【C16】______were on a screen, and in a story. I don't think we have【C17】______begun to realize how powerful a【C18】______television is. It has already【C19】______very clear that the candidate with the most television appeal【C20】______the election.

【C1】

A．true

B．truth

C．real

D．reality