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Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and college levels can testify that their students’ writing exhibits a tende
Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and college levels can testify that their students’ writing exhibits a tende
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2010-06-11
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Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and college levels can testify that their students’ writing exhibits a tendency toward a superficiality that wasn’t seen, say, 10 or 15 years ago. It shows up not only in their lack of analytical skills, but in poor command of grammar and rhetoric. I’ve been asked by a graduate student what a semicolon is. The mechanics of the English language have been tortured to pieces by TV. Visual, moving images-- which are the venue of television-- can’t be held in the net of careful language. They want to break out. They really have nothing to do with language, grammar, and rhetoric, and they have become fractured.
Recent surveys by dozens of organizations also suggest that up to 40% of the American public is functionally illiterate. That is, our citizens’ reading and writing abilities, if they have any, are impaired so seriously as to render them, in that handy jargon of our times, dysfunctional. The reading is taught-- TV teaches people not to read. It renders them incapable of engaging in an activity that now is perceived as strenuous, because it is not a passive hypnotized(着迷的) state. Passive as it is, television has invaded our culture so completely that the medium’s effects are evident in every quarter, even the literary world. It shows up in supermarket paperbacks, from Stephen King (who has a certain clever skill) to pulp fiction. These really are forms of verbal TV literature that is so superficial that those who read it can revel in the same sensations they experience when watching television.
Even more importantly, the growing influence of television, Kernan says, has changed people’s habits and values and affected their assumptions about the world. The sort of reflective, critical, and value-laden thinking encouraged by books has been rendered obsolete. In this context, we would do well to recall the Cyclops-- the race of giants that, according to Greek myth, predated man.
Quite literally, TV affects the way people think. In Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Jerry Mander quotes from the Emery Report, prepared by the Center for Continuing Education at the Australian National University, Canberra, that, when we watch television, "our usual processes of thinking and discernment are semi-functional at best." The study also argues that, "while television appears to have the potential to provide useful information to viewers —and is celebrated for its educational function— the technology of television and the inherent nature of the viewing experience actually inhibit learning as we usually think of it."
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
选项
A、All the literary works can improve the readers’ language, grammar and rhetoric.
B、Watching TV is not passive since it let watchers experience the sensation.
C、The literature remains not affected by TV in America.
D、Jerry Mander suggests that people should ban television to some extent.
答案
D
解析
文章的第三段说“These really are forms of verbal TV-literature that is so superficial that those who read it can revel in the same sensations they experience when watching television.”说的是读有些通俗小说跟看电视是一样的感觉,因此并非读所有的文学作品都会提高读者的语言,语法,和逻辑修辞能力。因此A是错误的。同样这句话也证明了B是错误的。第三段第一句“Passive as it is,television has invaded our culture so completely that the medium’s effects are evident in every quarter,even the literary world.”讲的是电视影响到了文学世界,所以C也不是正确的答案。因此全文列举电视的种种害处,是要提醒大家注意电视的害处,从最后一段看,在某种程度上,Jerry Mander 暗示大家要少看电视,因此D是正确的。
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