Watching TV is a very popular pastime in the UK but what kind of programmes do British people like to watch? Well, the most-watched TV programmes every week are very popular dramas that are usually    at least four times every week. They are dramas       on one neighborhood that try to          ordinary life in the UK --- we          these dramas ‘soap operas’ or ‘soaps’.
In the early days of TV, there were often dramas on during the         . Back in those days, it was        for the husband to go out to work and for the wife to stay at home and        the house and the children. Most of these daytime dramas were aimed at entertaining the         who would traditionally be at home, probably doing the         . Companies selling washing powder would  45  their products at times         these dramas were on, and        those companies would         sponsor (赞助) the drama. As a result, the word “soap” appeared.
So what about the word opera? Well, that’s because these dramas are often an exaggeration (夸大) of real         . They are supposed to represent ordinary lives         to make them entertaining, lots of dramatic events          murders, divorces, affairs etc, happen probably much more        than they would in a normal neighbourhood.
Most soap operas these days are           in the evening. There are lots of different soaps on in the UK but there are three main       ones. ‘Coronation Street’ has been on since 1960. It is supposed to represent working class life. Then there’s“Eastenders’”which        in 1985 and“Emmerdale”in the north of England.

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