When asked about the impact of disturbing news on children, one mother said: “My 11-year-old daughter doesn’t like watching the news.She has (1) _____ about what she has seen.One time, she watched a report about a person who killed a family member with a knife.That night she dreamed that she too was being killed.” Another interviewee said: “My six-year-old niece saw reports of tornadoes(龙卷风)from elsewhere in the country.For weeks (2) _____, she was terrified.She (3) _____ call me on the phone, convinced that a tornado was coming her way and that she was going to die.”

　　Do you think disturbing news reports can frighten children? In one survey, nearly 40 percent of parents said that their children had been (4) _____ by something they saw in the news and that, (5) _____, the children had feared that a similar event would happen to them or their loved ones.Why? One factor is that children often (6) _____ the news differently from adults.For example, small children may believe that a (7) _____ that is broadcast repeatedly is really happening repeatedly.

　　A second factor is that daily reports of disturbing events can distort a child’s (8) _____ of the world.True, we live in “critical times hard to (9) _____.” But repeated exposure to disturbing news reports can cause children to develop lasting fears.“Children who watch a lot of TV news (10) _____ to overestimate the occurrence of crime and may perceive the world to be a more dangerous place than it actually is,” observes the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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