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TV Game Shows
One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel
can be on the "best seller" lists with a sale of fewer than 100,000 copies, but a popular TV
show might have 70 million TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well-known overnight.
This is the principle behind "quiz" or "game" shows, which put ordinary people on TV to
play a game for prizes and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away
thousands
of
dollars
in
the
U.S.
and
almost
everyone
watched
them.
Charles
Van
Doren,
an
English
instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career
as
a
television
personality.
But
one
of
the
losers
proved
that
Charles
Van
Doren
was
cheating.
It turned out that the show's producers who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the
most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didn't like the person who
won the game, they turned the show off. The result of this cheating was a huge scandal. Based
on his story, a movie under the title "Quiz Show" is on 40 years later.
Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV. But game shows are still here, though
they aren't taken as seriously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible.
There
are
shows
that
send
strangers
on
vacation
trips
together,
or
that
try
to
cause
newly-married
couples
to
fight
on
TV,
or
that
punish
losers
by
humiliation
them.
The
entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV. People still win money, but
the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.
注释?/p>
1. the size of the audience
:观众的数目、规模?/p>
size
指规模、数量等
;audience
是集合名词,
当它表达一个整体概念时,后面的动词用单?/p>
;
若表达整体中的具体的成员时,动词用复数形式?/p>
2.best seller
:畅销书,畅销?/p>
3.„with a sale of fewer than 100,000 copies:„„其发行量已不到
10
万册
4.TV viewer
:电视观?/p>