SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.
Social Set
Some of my older, more sophisticated friends find television much more of a social experience than, say, going to a Broadway play or to movies. While no talking is allowed in the theater, social television encourages interaction between audience and set, and among the audience. The viewers can guess at the dialogue and plot of dramas, editorialize on the news, predict the Oscar winners, or single out from the semifinalists the next Miss America. It can be much more fun to talk back to the set than to sit silently in a darkened theater (the product on the screen being equal, naturally).
I am not claiming that social television has brought back the wit and brilliance of the salon to American homes. Social television can't replace real conversation or teter-a-tetes or a good book or a blazing fireplace or solitary thought.
Television has proved, on the whole, to be a good guest in the house, especially when it is not invited to perform. too often. Most of our work and much of our play forces us, as individuals, into specialized rules. Even our reading materials have become like private languages-father is down at the Wall Street Journal or looking into his Fortune; mother can be found or may be lost, in The Women's Room; the college kids are like a Rolling Stone.
Television can be a national tongue. At its best, television can provide a common basis for experience, maybe a few laughs, some information and insight, perhaps the chance to engage one's intelligence and imagination. In these days of runaway prices, inflated mediocrities, and deflated hopes in our public lives, that's not a bad record. Television has a standing invitation to come to my place.