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Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the sch
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the sch
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2023-11-14
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Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term "reading" undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.
One should be cautious, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is a distraction to others. Examination of factors related to the historical development of silent reading reveals that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, so the number of potential listeners declined, and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud.
As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a private activity’ in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers.
Towards the end of the century there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a specialized readership on the other.
By the end of the century students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use skills in reading them which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural, and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term" reading" implied. [br] Why was reading aloud common before the nineteen century?
选项
A、Silent reading had not been discovered.
B、There were few places available for private reading.,.
C、Few people could read for themselves.
D、people relied on reading for entertainment.
答案
C
解析
此题需根据第一、三两段作答。根据第一段,我们知道,十九世纪以前认为不知道默读为何物;有的只是朗读。再根据第三段里a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers,我们可推知,十九世纪以前识字的人较少。因此,本题答案选C。
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