首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
In the dimly lit cyber-cafe at Sciences-Po, hot-house of the French elite, no Gauloise smoke fills the air, no dog-eared copies
In the dimly lit cyber-cafe at Sciences-Po, hot-house of the French elite, no Gauloise smoke fills the air, no dog-eared copies
admin
2010-11-27
25
问题
In the dimly lit cyber-cafe at Sciences-Po, hot-house of the French elite, no Gauloise smoke fills the air, no dog-eared copies of Sartre lie on the tables. French students are doing what all students do: surfing the web via Google. Now President Jacques Chirac wants to stop this American cultural invasion by setting up a rival French search-engine. The idea was prompted by Google’s plan to put online millions of texts from American and British university libraries. If English books are threatening to swamp cyberspace, Mr. Chirac will not stand idly by.
He asked his culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, and Jean-Noel Jeanneney, head of France’s Bibliothèque Nationale, to do the same for French texts—and create a home-grown search-engine to browse them. Why not let Google do the job? Its French version is used for 74% of internet searches in France. The answer is the vulgar criteria it uses to rank results. "I do not believe", wrote Mr. Donnedieu de Vabres in Le Monde, "that the only key to access our culture should be the automatic ranking by popularity, which has been behind Google’s success".
This is not the first time Google has met French resistance. A court has upheld a ruling against it, in a lawsuit brought by two firms that claimed its display of rival sponsored links (Google’s chief source of revenues) constituted trademark counterfeiting. The French state news agency, Agence France-Presse,has also filed suit against Google for copyright infringement.
Googlephobia is spreading. Mr. Jeanneney has talked of the "risk of crushing domination by America in defining the view that future generations have of the world. "" I have nothing in particular against Google", he told L. Express, a magazine. "I simply note that this commercial company is the expression of the American system, in which the law of the market is king". Advertising muscle and consumer demand should not triumph over good taste and cultural sophistication.
The flaws in the French plan are obvious. If popularity cannot arbitrate, what will? Mr. Jeanneney wants a "committee of experts". He appears to be serious, though the supply of French-speaking experts, or experts speaking any language for that matter, would seem to be insufficient. And if advertising is not to pay, will the taxpayer? The plan mirrors another of Mr. Chirac’s pet projects: a CNNà la francaise. Over a year ago, stung by the power of English-speaking television news channels in the Iraq war, Mr. Chirac promised to set up a French rival by the end of 2004. The project is bogged down by infighting.
France’s desire to combat English, on the web or the airwaves, is understandable. Protecting France’s tongue from its citizens’ inclination to adopt English words is an ancient hobby of the ruling elite. The Académie Francaise was set up in 1635 to that end. Linguists devise translations of cyber-terms, such as arrosage (spare) or bogue (bug). Laws limit the use of English on TV—" Super Nanny" and "Star Academy" are current pests—and impose translations of English slogans in advertising. Treating the invasion of English as a market failure that must be corrected by the state may look clumsy. In France it is just business as usual.
选项
A、compete with the American rival "Google".
B、protect French students from American invasion.
C、preserve the integrity of the French culture.
D、stop standing idly by when being threatened.
答案
C
解析
目的细节题。文章第一段第三句说"现在法国总理希拉克希望通过建立一个类似的法语搜索引擎来阻止美国的文化入侵",那么也就是为了"保护法国文化的完整性"。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/NDZ4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Thefollowingparagraphsaregiveninawrongorder.Youarerequiredtoreorganizetheseparagraphsintoacoherenttextbycho
Intheeyesoftheauthor,conventionalopiniononthestrategicimportanceoftheGulfoilis______.Towhichofthefollowi
Whatisthepassagemainlyabout?Thepubliclaunchedademonstrationsagainstthesummitwithrespectto______.
TheEuropeanUnion’sBarcelonasummit,whichendedonMarch16th,wasplayedoutagainsttheusualbackdropofnoisy"anti-globa
WhatisimpliedbutnotstatedinthefirstsentenceisthatAmericanIndians______.Itseemsthattheauthorismostcritical
Thelogicalorganizationofthefirstparagraphofthetextisthat_____.Accordingtothetext,whichofthefollowingwould
By"ecocide"theauthormostprobablymeans_____.Accordingtoparagraph3,someworkershavebeenkilledbyharmfulpollutant
Whatisitthatbringsaboutsuchanintimateconnectionbetweenlanguageandthinking?Istherenothinkingwithouttheuseof
Politicalcontroversyaboutthepublic-landpolicyoftheUnitedStatesbeganwiththeAmericaRevolution.(1)_____,evenbefore
OneofgoalssetbytheEuropeanUnion’sLisbonsummitisto______.Besidesapplyingforbreathingspacefromcreditors,manag
随机试题
结核结节属于下列哪一种改变
急性脑膜炎患者,体格检查时最重要的体征是
按《建设工程施工现场管理规定》的要求,计划批准的开工项目应由()向有关部门申请办理施工许可证手续。
企业的序时账簿和分类账簿必须采用订本式账簿。()
固定资产投资的特点有()。
文艺复兴时期人文主义思想家的教育思想是资产阶级教育思想的重要来源,这一时期的主要代表人物有()。
有人发起“多吃素食、少吃肉食”的运动,以支援粮食短缺地区的灾民。运用生态学知识对此的合理解释是()。
(单选题)被西方称为“物理学之父”并提出“给给我一个支点,我就能撬动地球”的名言的物理学家是()。
不走回头路,是我们改革开放30多年来的一条宝贵经验,因为走回头路
A、 B、 C、 A
最新回复
(
0
)