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Read carefully the following excerpt on London bookstores trying to set Wi-Fi off and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 2
Read carefully the following excerpt on London bookstores trying to set Wi-Fi off and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 2
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2021-08-05
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问题
Read carefully the following excerpt on London bookstores trying to set Wi-Fi off and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:
- summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then
- comment on whether cell phones should be forbidden in public places.
You should support yourself with information from the excerpt.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones
What do literary tourists look for when they visit the British Isles? Often it’s the quaint, old-fashioned bookshops that provide the perfect excuse to browse uninterrupted and to disconnect from the world. Until recently, the trend for barista-made coffee and high-speed Wi-Fi was considered by some in the city’s bookish crowd to be ruining London’s centuries-old tradition of disconnected browsing.
But a crop of bookshops is rebelling against frenzied online engagement and is creating environments where the real-life, Internet-free book browse is the most effective way to expand your social and professional networks. And in countering the Internet overload, some stores are proving to be among London’s hottest hangouts.
Mr. Silva, who was spurred to open his shop after experiencing a common affliction for London’s bibliophiles—the repetitive, grating ring tones of smartphones disrupting the tranquility of his bookshop experience. "We wanted to get people using their human intuition when they shop for books. You can get Wi-Fi anywhere now, it’s not necessary in a bookshop. "
Their mantra has drawn a sophisticated, brainy crowd, but its premise is simple; In the digital age, the bookshop should be a refuge, an information overload in its own right. "If someone gets a phone call, they leave the shop. It’s the same with the Internet—people just know this isn’t the space for being online. "
The distraction-free library ethos is actually a city tradition, from the private tranquil libraries of stately homes to the British Library’s Reading Room in King’s Cross—a place where the etiquette policy strongly discourages the presence of mobile phones entirely with tactfully placed signs. It’s in this tradition that these bookshops operate.
Mr. Silva said "an old-fashioned space" is clearly appealing to book lovers. He said his shop has had twice as many customers as anticipated, with visitors from as far afield as Australia and China. Confronted with a bookshelf curated by the popular new mayor or surrounded by first editions, who wants to download a morning full of emails?
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答案
Should Cell Phones Be Forbidden in Public Places? Where there is a high demand for high-speed Wi-Fi, there is an outright rejection to it. Recently in Britain, a bookshop owner openly maintains that the use of the Internet and cell phones should be strictly regulated within his bookstore in order to bring tranquility back to book lovers. His unique way of behavior mirrors the negative effects of the overwhelming use of the Internet and cell phones by modern people. Firstly, the frequent browsing of websites or mobile phones tends to distract people’s attention from what they should be committed to. We may all share the same experience that the minute we check a business email or search for information for a research paper, our minds get easily bombarded by various promoting e-commercials or automatic popup tidbits about celebrities from connected web pages. The next minute, our minds will be wandering in the kaleidoscopic fictional world created by the Internet so much so that we can hardly feel the elapse of time. Worse still, such aimless meandering and fragmented reading will surely dull our senses and atrophy our deep reasoning and critical thinking which hampers our development in study or profession. The bookshop owner’s call for a return to an uninterrupted and disconnected world echoes our own call for subtle sensitivity and tranquility. Will his jeremiad be heard and answered far and wide in this maddeningly clamorous world?
解析
本题讨论的重点是公共场所应不应该禁止使用手机或者停止提供免费Wi—Fi。选段中以英国一位书店老板对其店内的读者实行限制使用手机的行为为例,指出在电子时代中,人们受到信息潮的冲击容易失去可贵的阅读传统。本题写作的重点在于:首先总结选段,其次就是否应该在公共场所限制使用手机或者限制手机上网提出自己的观点并进行论证。
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