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The idea of television first came into the mind of a German scientist named Paul Nepkow. With great effort, a Scottish scientist named John Logie Beyard invented the television in 1926. Television technology has made a great advancement. Even watches with TV facilities have been invented by Japanese scientists. Videos and computers are also attached to TVs. The word 'tele' means distance and 'vision' means sight. So, we can see the pictures of far off places through photo-electrical process. It has likeness to movies. We can see people talking, reading news, singing, dancing, acting in a play and reciting poems on TV screens. TV can receive pictures from the farthest corner of the world and even from the outer space.. The whole world comes to our homes and we can enjoy the live telecast of the news or politics, scientific inventions, discoveries, sports and other important events of the world like Olympic Games, World Cup Football and many other. TV is a medium of mass communication and learning. The film shows, drama, and a variety of other shows serve the purpose of good entertainment. At present, Open University's informal and formal educational programs like the SSC (Open), B.Ed. and other vocational skills, training, etc. are helpful in propagating education. 'Mati O Manush and other such instructional programs are teaching the youths to be self employed and self-reliant through horticulture, pisciculture, dairy, poultry and other beneficial and profitable projects. Television has abuses too. Children, being attracted by the programs on television, neglect their studies, Sitting very near to a TV set may affect the eye sight. At present, through the dish antenna, many programmes can be viewed by the television viewers which are polluting mental thought of our youngsters. Our customs, culture and way of life are also. adversely affected.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words to provide some information about television.

(a) Television is ___________ device to receive pictures from distant places.

(b) It carries over photographic picture____________ with voices to the farthest comer of the world.

(c) It serves the __________ of our recreation.

(d) After a day's work, sit ____________ a television set and enjoy songs, dances, plays, sports and games.

(e) It is_____________ as a blessing of modern science.