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
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
admin
2010-01-26
75
问题
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 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 Centre for Continuing Education at the Australian National University, Canberra, that, when we watch television, "our usual processes of thinking and discernment are semifunctional 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."
According to the author, some books in supermarket lack a) ______ and are b) ______, just like TV programs.
选项
答案
a) richness of meaning;b) too sensational
解析
文章第3段提到目前超市里出售的平装书籍也受电视的影响而变得肤浅(缺少丰富的意义),像电视一样内容耸人听闻。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/JAdK777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Tofurtherhereducation.B、Tostartherownbusiness.C、Toteachatcollege.D、TolearnChinese.C信息明示题。对话中女士询问男士他的妻子是否一同来中国,
WhatimpressedAmitaiEtzionimostaboutHarvardMBAstudents?Welearnfromthelastparagraphthat______.
WhatimpressedAmitaiEtzionimostaboutHarvardMBAstudents?InEtzioni’sview,thelatestrashofcorporatescandalscouldb
A、Itcanhelppeopletobecomeliteratewithinashorttime.B、ItwasoriginallydesignedforteachingtheEnglishlanguage.C、I
A、Allowingthemtochoosetheirfavoriteteachers.B、Creatingamorerelaxedlearningenvironment.C、Rewardingexcellentacademi
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayentitledHowtoImprovePsychologicalHealth?Youshouldwrite
A、Itwasn’tverywelldesigned.B、Itsresultswerejustasexpected.C、Itfullyreflectedthestudents’ability.D、Itsresultsf
Withhandwrittendocuments,itisnotjustscholarswhoarefrustratedbytheirinaccessibility.Somesophisticatedhandwriting
A、Becausesheisontheexecutivestaff.B、Becausesheisfamiliarwiththecompany.C、Becauseshehasknowledgeofmanagement.
随机试题
“熟练地织毛衣”反映的注意是()
A.苯丙酮尿症B.先天性甲状腺功能减退症C.先天愚型D.肝糖原累积病E.肝豆状核变性1岁半患儿。智力发育较同年龄小儿为差。至今不会独立行走,体检:两眼间距增宽,两眼外侧上斜,鼻梁低,鼻翼不宽,舌伸出口外,面部无水肿,皮肤细嫩,小指向内侧弯曲,有
下列哪些行为不构成非法经营罪?()
住房公积金的增值收益,可用于支付住房公积金管理中心的管理费用。()
根据《中华人民共和国循环经济促进法》,在缺水地区,应当调整种植结构,优先发展()农业,推进雨水集蓄利用,建设和管护节水灌溉设施,提高用水效率,减少水的蒸发和漏失。
期货公司欺诈客户的行为有()。
对于循环队列,下列叙述中正确的是( )。
目前主要应用于银行、税务、商店等的票据打印的打印机是( )。
A—cashbusinessJ—modeofpaymentB—commissionreceivablesK—downpaymentC—loanextensionL—repaymentguaranteeD—bankd
A、Thirstyplants.B、Well-wateredplants.C、Quietplants.D、Healthyplants.A
最新回复
(
0
)