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Most people would probably agree that many individual consumer adverts function on the level of the daydream. By picturing quite
Most people would probably agree that many individual consumer adverts function on the level of the daydream. By picturing quite
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2011-01-04
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Most people would probably agree that many individual consumer adverts function on the level of the daydream. By picturing quite unusually happy and glamorous people whose success in either career or sexual terms, or both, is obvious, adverts construct an imaginary world in which the reader is able to make come true those desires which remain unsatisfied in his or her everyday life.
An advert for a science fiction magazine is unusually explicit about this. In addition to the primary use value of the magazine, the reader is promised access to a wonderful universe through the product-access to other mysterious and tantalizing worlds and epochs, the realms of the imagination. When studying advertising, it is therefore unreasonable to expect readers to decipher adverts as factual statements about reality. Most adverts are just too meager in informative content and too rich in emotional suggestive detail to be read literally. If people read them literally, they would soon be forced to realize their error when the glamorous promises held out by the adverts didn’t materialize.
The average consumer is not surprised that his purchase of the commodity does not redeem the promise of the advertisement, for this is what he is used to in life: The individual’s pursuit of happiness and success is usually in vain. But the fantasy is his to keep; in his dream world he enjoys a "future endlessly deferred" .
The Estivalia advert company is quite explicit about the fact that advertising shows us not reality, but a fantasy; it does so by openly admitting the daydream but in a way which insists on the existence of a bridge linking daydream to reality—Estivalia, which is "for daydream believers", those who refuse to give up trying to make the hazy ideal of natural beauty and harmony come true.
If adverts function on the daydream level, it clearly becomes inadequate to merely condemn advertising for channeling readers’ attention and desires towards unrealistic, paradisiacal (天堂似的) nowhere land. Advertising certainly does that, but in order for people to find it relevant, the Utopia(乌托邦)visualized in adverts must be linked to our surrounding reality by a causal connection.
When the glamorous promises held out by the adverts didn’t materialize the average consumer is not surprised, because______.
选项
A、the consumer is used to the fact that the individual’s pursuit of happiness and success is usually in vain
B、adverts are factual statements about reality
C、the consumer can come into the realms of imagination pictured by adverts
D、adverts can make the consumer’s dream come true
答案
A
解析
仔细分析第三段第一句话,for this is what he is used to in life:the individual’s pursuit of happiness and success is usually in vain.在生活中他对此早已习惯了,他对幸福和成功的追求通常都是以失败而告终。其中for引导原因状语从句。本题的正确答案为A。
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