首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、You’ll never forget. B、ER. C、Law & Order. D、Third Watch. B“finale”为“last part of a piece of music or adrama.”这个词意思为戏剧或音乐的最后一曲,
A、You’ll never forget. B、ER. C、Law & Order. D、Third Watch. B“finale”为“last part of a piece of music or adrama.”这个词意思为戏剧或音乐的最后一曲,
admin
2010-02-20
41
问题
Once again, US network television finds itself turning society’s worst nightmares into a night of entertainment "you’ll never forget."
The season finale of top - rated prime - time drama "ER" last week centred on the show’ s doctors and nurses struggling to save several bloodied young gunshot victims after an angry father goes on a rampage at a foster care facility.
A night earlier, "Law & Order" drew the highest ratings of it 11 -year history with a ripped-from-the-leadlines episode about a high school cafeteria shooting and the trial of the teenage gunman, with faux home video footage of the killings.
And this Monday, a third NBC drama, "Third watch," wrapped its second season with police and paramedics rushing to the scene of yet another fictional high school massacre.
Media experts chalk it all up to the fierce rivalry of the current ratings "sweeps," combined with TV dramas’ growing tendency to transform news into fiction and the recent spate of real-life school violence making headlines.
For action and pathos, it is hard to beat the "ER’, scene of emergency physicians scurrying to resuscitate a young girl lying limp on a hospital gallery, with sheets soaked in blood from a gunshot wound to her head, before they finally, somberly, declare her death and snap off their rubber gloves.
"It’s gripping and it’s disturbing," "Robert Universiy’s centre for the study of popular television, said. Television is kind of the way that the entire collective subconscious of our culture plays out these issues".
Joseph Turow, a communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of several books on the mass media, said the line between reality and fiction has be- come increasingly blurred on network TV.
"Viewers see multiple versions of the same reality, first on news programmes, then on so-called news magazines and then on entertainment shows like ER’ and Law & Order," he said. "Some studies suggest that after a while, people won’t be able to tell where they’ve gotten their information from."
Dramatic TV portrayal of children as victims of violence, neglect and abuse is nothing new. A famous episode of "Dragnet" in the 1960s depicted a couple who allowed their young child to drown in a bathtub while they were smoking pot.
It has been nearly 20 years since the real-life abduction and murder of Florida boy Adamwalsh was dramatized on the NBC TV movie "Adam," helping to publicize a case that turned the issue of missing children into a national crisis.
Now, the horror of kids being gunned down in schools and day care centers is on the public’s mind, the latest grist for networks trying to grab viewers with “unforgettable” episodes of their favorite shows. "We’re a show that has a long history of looking at the criminal justice system as it occurs," said Barry Schindel, executive producer and head writer of "Law & Order." "If we didn’t do the show, people would be asking, why aren’t your characters considering the events of a school shooting?"
The timing is hardly coincidence. Schindel said a flurry of school violence in southern California and elsewhere in early March caught the attention of "Law & Order" writes-- and probably those on other shows--at about the time they were brain storming ideas for the end of the current season.
选项
A、You’ll never forget.
B、ER.
C、Law & Order.
D、Third Watch.
答案
B
解析
“finale”为“last part of a piece of music or adrama.”这个词意思为戏剧或音乐的最后一曲,终曲。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/17vO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
中医是中国文化不可分割的一部分,为振兴中华做出了巨大的贡献。如今,中医和西医在中国的医疗保健领域并驾齐驱。中医以其独特的诊断手法、系统的治疗方式和丰富的典籍材料,备受世界瞩目。用西医的毒性和化学疗法治疗症会引起副作用,中医疗法却公认能显著地化解这副作用。
FlatswerealmostunknowninBritainuntilthe1850swhentheyweredeveloped,alongwithotherindustrialdwellings,forthela
A、Policeanddriver.B、Directorandactress.C、Performers.D、Colleagues.D
Theinterrelationshipofscience,technology,andindustryistakenforgrantedtoday—summedup,notaltogetheraccurately,as"
上海是中外闻名的旅游大都市。在这座中西文化交融的城市里,随处可见各种西式建筑和老式石库门,以及国际水准的豪华宾馆。此外,宏伟壮丽的外滩、装饰华丽的商厦、气势恢宏的博物馆等都是引人人胜的景观。上海白天热闹繁华,夜晚灯红酒绿,游客尽可充分享受丰富多彩的都市生活
A、Noonecontrolsinformationordictatesbutthisoraltraditionisconstantlyself-correcting.B、Itisacultureinwhichever
Whattodonow?SchoolofficialsaroundthecountryareaskingthatquestionfollowingaSupremeCourtdecisionrejectingracial
工作常被看做是生命的重要意义之一,但同时,它又占据了许多成年人生命中太多的时间,导致他们没有机会去做其他事情。
TheauthorthinksthatDanesadopta______attitudetowardstheircountry.WhichofthefollowingisNOTaDanishcharacterist
TheCapitalofNewZealandis______.
随机试题
在()阶段,需要确定工程项目的质量目标和水平。
()对基金交易进行实时监控。
“狡兔三窟”成语出自【】
口服避孕药长效与短效的区分主要取决于
采用装运港船上交货价进口设备时,卖方的责任包括( )。
对一个企业而言,收入与费用一般都遵循配比原则,营业外收入和营业外支出也不例外。()
发行人出现下列()情形的,中国证监会自确认之日起暂停保荐机构的保荐机构资格3个月,撤销相关人员的保荐代表人资格。
下列属于金融资产的是()。
职业道德基本原则要求会员保持实质上和形式上的独立性,以下关于独立性的陈述不正确的是()。
某化学教师在一次化学测验中设计了下列试题,并对部分学生的考试结果进行了统计和分析。【试题】胶状液氢(主要成分是H2和CH4)有望用于未来的火箭运载和空间运输系统。实验测得:101kPa时,1molH2完全燃烧生成液态水,放出285.8kJ
最新回复
(
0
)