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[A]Why reading falls into decline? [B]Reading is related to national politics [C]Reading is a stimulating experience [D]Reading
[A]Why reading falls into decline? [B]Reading is related to national politics [C]Reading is a stimulating experience [D]Reading
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2015-04-10
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[A]Why reading falls into decline?
[B]Reading is related to national politics
[C]Reading is a stimulating experience
[D]Reading and national health
[E]The decline of reading is the crisis in national education
[F]The effects of electronic media
A survey released on Thursday reports that reading for pleasure is way down in America among every group. The survey also indicates that readers are active, while nonreaders— more than half the population—have settled into apathy.
【R1】______
Reading is not an active expression like writing, but it is not a passive experience, either. It requires effort, concentration, and attention. In exchange, it offers the stimulus to thought and feeling. Kafka said, "A book must be an ice ax to break the seas frozen inside our soul. "
【R2】______
The electronic media, on the other hand, tend to be torpid. Despite the existence of good television, fine writing on the Internet, and video games that test logic, the electronic media by and large invite inert reception. One selects channels, but then the information comes out preprocessed. Most people use television as a means of turning their minds off, not on. Many readers watch television without peril; but for those for whom television replaces reading, the consequences are far-reaching.
【R3】______
My last book was about depression, and the question I am most frequently asked is why depression is on the rise. I talk about the loneliness that comes of spending the day with a TV or a computer or video screen. That the rates of depression should be going up as the rates of reading are going down is no happenstance.
【R4】______
I will never forget seeing, as a high school student on my first trip to East Berlin, the plaza where Hitler and Goebbels had burned books from the university library. The Nazis were right in believing that one of the most powerful weapons in a war of ideas is books. And the United States is now in such a war. Without books, we cannot succeed in our current struggle against absolutism and terrorism. You are what you read. If you read nothing, then your mind withers, and your ideals lose their vitality and sway.
【R5】______
It is important to acknowledge that the falling-off of reading has to do not only with the incursion of anti-intellectualism, but also with a flawed intellectualism. The ascendancy of poststructuralism in the 1980’s coincided with the beginning of the catastrophic downturn in reading; deconstructionism’s suggestion that all text is equal in its meanings and the denigration of the canon led to the devaluation of literature. The role of literature is to illuminate, to strengthen, to explain why some aspect of life is moving or beautiful or terrible or sad or important or insignificant for people who might otherwise not understand so much or so well. Reading is experience, but it also enriches other experience.
Reading is harder than watching television or playing video games. But more difficult pleasures are more rewarding. Art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. Surely that is something all Americans would want, if we only understood how readily we might achieve it, how well worth the effort it is.
【R4】
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答案
B
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