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
外语
The average person sees tens of thousands of images a day—images on television, in newspapers and magazines, and on the sides of
The average person sees tens of thousands of images a day—images on television, in newspapers and magazines, and on the sides of
admin
2022-06-24
79
问题
The average person sees tens of thousands of images a day—images on television, in newspapers and magazines, and on the sides of buses. Images also grace soda cans and T-shirts, and Internet search engines can instantly procure images for any word you type. On Flickr. com, a photosharing Web site, you can type in a word such as "love" and find photos of couples in embrace or parents hugging their children. Type in "terror", and among the results is a photograph of the World Trade Center towers burning. "Remember when this was a shocking image? " asks the person who posted the picture.
The question is not merely rhetorical. It points to something important about images in our culture: they have become less magical and less shocking. Until the development of mass reproduction, images carried more power and evoked more fear.
Today, anyone with a digital camera and a PC can produce and alter an image. As a result, the power of the image has been diluted in one sense, but strengthened in another. It has been diluted by the ubiquity of images and the many populist technologies (like inexpensive cameras and picture-editing software) that give almost everyone the power to create, distort, and transmit images. But it has been strengthened by the gradual surrender of the printed word to pictures. Text ceded to image might be likened to an articulate person being rendered mute, forced to communicate via gesture and expression rather than language.
We love images and the democratizing power of technologies that give us the capability to make and manipulate images. What we are less eager to consider are the broader cultural effects of a society devoted to the image. Historians and anthropologists have explored the story of mankind’s movement from an oral-based culture to a written culture, and later to a printed one. But in the past several decades we have begun to move from a culture based on the printed word to one based largely on images.
In making images rather than texts our guide, are we opening up new vistas for understanding and expression, creating a new form of communication that is " better than print,” as some scholars have argued? Or are we merely making a peculiar and unwelcome return to
forms of communication once ascendant in preliterate societies
?
Two things in particular are at stake in our contemporary confrontation with an image-based culture. First, technology has considerably undermined our ability to trust what we see, yet we have not adequately grappled with the effects of this on our notions of truth. Second, if we are indeed moving from the era of the printed word to an era dominated by the image, what impact will this have on culture? Will we become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality and in the process rejecting the demands of discipline and patience that true things often require of us if we are to understand their meaning and describe it with precision?
With the development of mass reproduction, images
选项
A、have become less important in popular culture.
B、are not as impressive as they were to viewers.
C、will be more magical and shocking in the future.
D、will become more and more thought-provoking.
答案
B
解析
根据文章第三段第二句“As a result,the power of the image has been diluted in one sense… ”可知,因此,图片的力量在某种意义上已经被分解了,从而分析得知对我们来说图像不再像以前那样令人印象深刻了,与B项内容相符,故选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/uEPd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Thepopulationoftheworldtodayisabout______.Thepresentnetincreaseofworldpopulationis______.
Whichofthefollowingservicesisnotofferedbythefederalgovernment?IftheU.S.governmentraisesitstariffs,then______
Thereasonswhygamesfascinatestudentsarethefollowingstatementsexceptthat______.
Capitalmarketsneedapush.ItisanurgenttaskforChinatoacceleratethedevelopmentofthecapitalmarkettofacilitat
______theclimateaffectsthefuturesustainableagriculturaldevelopment?______avarietyofspeciesareonthedecrease?
Theauthorthinksthatpeople’sattitudetowarddrugsresemblearollercoasterbecausebothcases______.Itcanbelearnedfr
Schoolsusedtobeconsideredplacestoprepareyoungpeopleforlife.Aftertheireducationwasfinished,theyweresupposedto
PresidentKennedydied______yearsbeforethedaythespeechwasmade.
What’stheaverageincreaseperyearofforeignstudentpopulationintheperiodbetween1985and1990intermsofpercentage?
Answerquestionsbyreferringtothecommentson3differentcarsinthefollowingmagazinearticles.A=AudiA3B=HondaC
随机试题
某设备的原始价值为171500元,每年低劣化增加值为7000元,在不考虑残值的情况下该设备的最佳更新年限为()年。
A.伤后彻底清创、改善局部循环B.控制和解除痉挛、预防窒息C.使用破伤风抗毒素中和游离毒素D.给予大剂量青霉素,抑制破伤风杆菌治疗破伤风的关键措施是
A.四环三萜皂苷B.五环三萜皂苷C.甾体皂苷D.强心苷E.氰苷人参皂苷Rb1属于()。
下列情况中,当事人或案外人可以提出异议的有:
某建造于大城市市区的28层公寓,采用钢筋混凝土剪力墙结构体系。平面为矩形,共6个开间,横向剪力墙间距为8.lm,其中间剪力墙的计算简图如下图所示。混凝土强度等级采用C30,纵向钢筋采用HRB335钢,箍筋采用HPB235钢。as=a′s=35mm。
下列有关期权的叙述错误的是( )。
马克思主义的发展观是()的辩证统一。
下列关于饮食与健康的说法,错误的是:
一直到20世纪90年代中期,我们都在试图重新寻找自己的精神家园,钱穆、钱钟书和陈寅恪的著作和传记成了畅销书。《顾准文集》《顾准日记》________于市场,这个中国“市场经济第一人”,坚持学术自由的孤独者形象,________了人们对于知识分子的期许。《傅
"Junkscience"ishowElliotMorley,Britain’sministerresponsibleforgeneticallymodifiedfarming,describesstudiesthatcla
最新回复
(
0
)