2014高考英语阅读理解系列训练题（20）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解系列训练题(20)
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Many parents try hard to protect their kids from TV and advertising. But how can you protect a child from a giant fast-food ad painted on her school locker? Or a toy on the side of his school bus?
As school budgets get smaller, a growing number of schools around the country are selling, or selling, advertising space on lockers, buses, gyms or cafeterias. It is an easy way for schools to make money. And ads may provide a relief for parents exhausted by running fundraiser after fundraiser or making cash donations to prop up schools.
While parents can always turn off the tube or the laptop, however, they can’t block out advertising allowed into a school. This isn’t the first time the issue e up. For example, a news program for teens has been criticized for including ads in its 12-minute classroom broadcasts. And parents’ groups essfully fought a plan by pany called Bus Radio to put music and ads into school buses.
But now things are different. Just last month, Los Angeles approved a plan to panies to advertise in the district’s schools. Officials say the plan could provide as much as $18 million for the schools.
In St. Francis, Minn., schools recently agreed to cover 10% to 15% of their lockers with ads. Time says. Edward Saxton, a teacher in the school, says, “So far, parents are accepting this as a way to bring in needed money. The