单项选择题

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 to 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked

• A),
• B),
• C) and
• D). You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
  When friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us that they are in a hurry and looking at their watches. It isn’t that our friends are all very busy, it is just that we haven’t got a television. People think that we are very strange. "But what do you do in the evening" They are always asking. The answer is simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don’t spend our evening staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign language. This is particularly useful as we always go abroad for our holidays, I collect stamps and I am always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to music and playing chess together.
  Sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house. This does not worry us as we just light candles and carry on what we were doing before. Our friends are lost — no television! — So they don’t know what to do. On such evening our house is very full as they all come to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games. Yes, life is possible without television!

This passage tells us that ______.