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  3. The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related

The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related

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问题     The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related to the People’s Park that were occurring on campus. Some of these events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it interesting to compare my impressions of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media. I could begin to see events of that time feed on news coverage. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities.
    Electronic media are having a greater impact on the people’s lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your consciousness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on "live action" such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities.
    In 1992, many people watched in horror as riots (骚乱，暴乱) broke out on a sad Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, seemingly fed by video coverage from helicopters. This event was triggered by the verdict (裁定) in the Rodney King beating. We are now in an age where the public can have access to information that enables it to make its own judgments, and most people, who had seen the video of this beating, could not understand how the jury (陪审团) was able to acquit (宣布......无罪) the policemen involved. Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feedback that influences events. This can have harmful results, as it seemed on that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to see Rodney King on television pleading, "Can we all get along?" By Saturday, television seemed to provide positive feedback as the Los Angeles riot turned out into a rally (集会) for peace. The television showed thousands of people marching with banners and cleaning tools. Because of that, many more people turned out to join the peaceful event they saw unfolding (展开) on television. The real healing, of course, will take much longer, but electronic media will continue to be a part of that process.  
The 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out because______.
选项 A、the jury acquitted the policemen who had beaten Rodney King
B、people can make their own judgments
C、video coverage from helicopters had made people angry
D、video coverage had provided powerful feedback
答案A
解析 本题是一道具体细节题。问1992年洛杉矶骚乱发生的原因是什么。利用查阅式阅读法，根据第三段，1992年，许多人满怀恐惧地观看了发生在洛杉矶的那场骚乱的爆发过程，骚乱发生在那个令人伤心的星期三晚上，来自于直升机上的摄像报道似乎助长了其势头。这一事件始于对罗德尼·金殴打案的判决。在我们今天所生活的这个时代，公众可以根据自己获得的信息作出自己的判断。多数看过殴打录像的人不明白，陪审团怎么会判定参与殴打的警察无罪。媒体对相关事件的现场报道也提供了有力的反馈，影响了事件的进程；这似乎能产生不良影响——像星期三晚上在洛杉矶所发生的那样。因此，本题的正确答案应是A“因为陪审团宣布殴打罗德尼·金的警察无罪”。B“人们可以自己作出判断”；C“来自于直升机上的摄像报道激怒了人们”；D“电视报道提供了有力的反馈”。这三个选项都不是骚乱爆发的直接原因。
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