Chinesemainland’sstar-makingrealityTVshow“HappyBoy”willnotbeopentomaleapplicantsfromHongKongTaiwanMacauorotherforeigncitiessaidthecountry’stopTVindustrycommitteeyesterday.

HappyBoyisthemaleversionofSuperGirlwhichisregardedastheChineseversionofAmericanIdol.Thegirl’seventoperatedbycentralChina’sHunanTVdrewanaudienceof400millionforthefinalmatchin2005．Thecountry’sStateAdministrationofRadioFilmandTelevisionapprovedthemaleversionearlierthismonth.Howevertheregulationthatonlymainland’smaleapplicantsareallowedtoregisterwasreleasedjustdaysbeforetheapplicationprocedurebeganonWednesdayinChangshaoneofthefivemainlandcitiestoholdthecontest.TheotherfourincludesChengduandthreeundecidedcities.

TheregulationspoiledHunanTV’sambitiontoextendtheseriestotheoverseasmarketanofficialwiththeTVstationtoldtheHunan-basedXiaoxiangMorningyesterday.“MyHero”anotherstar-makingrealityshowbyShanghai’sSMGDragonTVsaiditwasnotinformedoftheregulationanditisstillreceivingforeignapplicantssaidanofficialwithDragonTV.Apreviousregulationbytheadministrationhasmadeclearthattelevisedtalentshowscan’trunformorethansixweeksatatime.Whilethefirst“HappyBoy”maylastforfivemonthsaccordingtoapreviousreport.

Lastyeartherewereabout10influentialstar-makingTVshowsacrossthecountryamongwhichthosefromCCTVHunanSatelliteTVandSMG’sDragonTVwerethemostpopular.“SuperGirl”ranforalmostfivemonthsand“MyHero”lastedfourmonths.Whiletheshowshaveprovenpopulartheyhavealsoearnedmanycomplaintsfrompeoplewhosaytheyarecrudeandnotsatisfactory.

1．Itcanbeinferredfromthepassagethat____.

A．MaleapplicationsfromHongKongwon’tbeacceptedtoattendHappyBoyshow.

B．AmericanIdolwasstartedearlierthanSuperGirl.

C．ItwasHunanTVthatmadetheregulationthattheycouldn’tacceptforeignapplications.

D．AudienceloveAmericanIdolbetterthanHappyBoy.

2．Whichofthefollowingmaybestexplaintheunderlinedwordspoiledinparagraph3?

A．gave B．prevented C．encourage D．aff