Couch Potato or Mouse Potato
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1. Some unusual words describe how a person .......... his or her time. *
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2. For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato. A couch is a piece of ........... that people sit on while watching television *
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3. Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in ........ *
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4. Several years later, he listed the term as a trademark with the United States government. Mister Armstrong also helped write a funny book about life as a ............ television watcher. *
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5. It is called the “Official Couch Potato .............” *
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6. Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as mouse potatoes enjoy working on computers. A computer mouse is the ........ that moves the pointer, or cursor, on a computer screen *
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7. The description of mouse potato became popular in nineteen ninety-three. American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who .... *
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8. Too much time inside the house ..... can cause someone to get cabin fever. *
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9. A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city. People go to a cabin to .... *
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10. Cabin fever is not really a disease. However, people can ....... This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside. *
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11. Often children get cabin fever if they cannot go outside to play. So do their parents. This happens when ... *
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12. Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live. This is called nesting or cocooning. Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their eggs and baby birds. Some insects build cocoons around themselves for protection while they grow and change. Nests and cocoons provide ....... So people like the idea of nests and cocoons, too. *
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13. The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than twenty years ago. They describe people ... *
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14. Now their children are grown and have left the nest. They are in college. Or they are married and starting families of their own far away. Now these parents are living .... . They have become empty nesters. *
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15. Now think about yourself. What kind of potato are you, couch, mouse or both? Do you think these activities are good? Explain yourself in no less than four lines *
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