Read the text for gist and say whether you agree or disagree with the author. Try to ignore the gaps for this first read. Playing video games

a) Read the text for gist and say whether you agree or disagree with the author. Try to ignore the gaps for this first read.
Playing video games
Hours spent playing action video games (1) ... be as mindless as many parents think.
Whether it's Spiderman or Grand Theft Auto 3 or others, the fast-moving action of the games (2 ... to improve a range of visual skills. Scientists believe that though teachers and parents sometimes object to video-game playing, it is (3) ... radically improving visual attention. They did a series of experiments and (4) ... that people who played video games several times a week for half a year
could deal with complex visual information 15 L than those who didn't play at all.
Even those who were given 10 hours of tr; on a video game, (6) ... their visual proc skills.
Scientists think that what helps the p to improve these skills is the necessity simultaneously cope with a number of v tasks: detect new enemies, track other em and avoid (7) ... hurt.