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The trouble with television is that it discourages concentration. Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus. Its s
The trouble with television is that it discourages concentration. Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus. Its s
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2014-03-22
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The trouble with television is that it discourages concentration. Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus. Its serial, kaleidoscopic exposures force us to follow its lead. The viewer is on a perpetual guided tour: 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction—except on the television, typically, the spans allotted are on the order of minutes or seconds, and the chosen delights are more often car crashes and people killing one another. In short, a lot of television usurps one of the most precious gifts, the ability to focus your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it.
Capturing your attention:—and holding it—is the prime motive of most television programming and enhances its role as a profitable advertising vehicle. Programmers live in constant fear of losing anyone’s attention. The surest way to avoid doing so is to keep everything brief, not to strain the attention of anyone but instead to provide constant stimulation through variety, novelty, action and movement. Quite simply, television operates on the appeal to the short attention span.
In the case of news, this practice, in my view, results in inefficient communication. I question how much of television’s nightly news effort is really absorbable and understandable. Much of it is what has been aptly described as "machine-gunning with scraps. " I think the technique fights coherence. I think it tends to make things ultimately boring and dismissible (unless they are accompanied by horrifying pictures) because almost anything is boring and dismissible if you know almost nothing about it.
I believe that TV’s appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient communication but decivilizing as well. Consider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precision is an anachronism. It may be old-fashioned, but I was taught that thought is words, arranged in grammatically precise ways.
There is a crisis of literacy in this country. One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer the want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle. And while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it contributes and is an influence.
The author approves of the idea that______.
选项
A、TV programs must avoid complexity in order to be absorbed and understood
B、TV language is mostly colloquial and needn’t be grammatically precise
C、TV programs should convey coherent ideas by using accurate words and grammars
D、TV programs should teach words and grammars as well as providing entertainment
答案
C
解析
细节题。答案在从第四段中得出。作者认为电视迎合人们注意力跨度短会降低人们的文化水平,因为电视提出一些不经意的假设:必须避免复杂,视觉刺激会代替思考,语言准确不合时宜。作者最后说,这可能有些过时,但我所受的教育是:思想是准确语法排列的语言。也就是说,作者不赞成电视所提出的那些假设,而是认为电视应该传达用准确语言表达出的思想,因此C是正确答案。
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