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In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopi
In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopi
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2019-08-01
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问题
In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopias imagine a world where books are forgotten. To pluck just one, Gary Steynghart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story describes a world where everybody is obsessed with their electronic Apparat—an even more omnivorous i-Phone with a flickering stream of shopping and reality shows and porn—and have somehow come to believe that the few remaining unread paper books let off a rank smell. The book on the book, it suggests, is closing.
The book—the physical paper book—is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It’s being chewed by the e-book. It’s being gored by the death of the bookshop and the library. And most importantly, the mental space it occupied is being eroded by the thousand Weapons of Mass Distraction that surround us all. It’s hard to admit, but we all sense it: it is becoming almost physically harder to read books.
In his gorgeous little book The Lost Art of Reading—Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, the critic David Ulin admits to a strange feeling. All his life, he had taken reading as for granted as eating—but then, a few years ago, he "became aware, in an apartment full of books, that I could no longer find within myself the quiet necessary to read" . He would sit down to do it at night, as he always had, and read a few paragraphs, then find his mind was wandering, imploring him to check his email, or Twitter, or Facebook. "What I’m struggling with," he writes, "is the encroachment of the buzz, the sense that there’s something out there that merits my attention."
I think most of us have this sense today, if we are honest. If you read a book with your laptop thrumming on the other side of the room, it can be like trying to read in the middle of a party, where everyone is shouting to each other. To read, you need to slow down. You need mental silence except for the words. That’s getting harder to find.
No, don’t misunderstand me. I adore the web, and they will have to wrench my Twitter feed from my cold dead hands. This isn’t going to turn into an antedeluvian rant against the glories of our wired world. But there’s a reason why that word— "wired" —means both "connected to the internet" and "high, frantic, unable to concentrate".
In the age of the internet, physical paper books are a technology we need more, not less. In the 1950s, the novelist Herman Hesse wrote: "The more the need for entertainment and mainstream education can be met by new inventions, the more the book will recover its dignity and authority. We have not yet quite reached the point where young competitors, such as radio, cinema, etc, have taken over the functions from the book it can’t afford to lose." We have now reached that point.
By mentioning the work of Gary Steynghart, the author intends to______.
选项
A、advocate the idea that reading physical paper books is out of fashion
B、introduce a brand new electronic product even more omnivorous than i-phone
C、prove that books will be outweighed by reality shows and porn in the future
D、indicate that books are left out in fictions describing the future world
答案
D
解析
属逻辑关系题。通过人名G.S.可定位至文章第一段。选项A的内容是出现在G.S.的书中的,并不是作者利用这本书所表达的观点,故错误。选项B的内容同样出现在书中,并非作者的真正意图,故错误。选项C是对这本书的内容的曲解,故错误。本题的答案在提到这本书的前后句中均可看出端倪,前面的一句提到21世纪的小说中想象的世界已经没有了书籍,后面的一句则表示关于书籍的书已经不会再有了,故选项D符合题意。
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