首页
登录
职称英语
Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and college levels can tes
Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and college levels can tes
游客
2023-12-16
45
管理
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’ ye 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 Center for Continuing Education at the Australian National University, Canberra, that, when we watch television, "our usual processes of thinking and discern ment are semi-functional 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." [br] The underlined words "an activity" in the context refer to______.
选项
A、reading
B、grammar-learning
C、watching TV
D、writing
答案
A
解析
结合上下文,该词在此指的是阅读练习,故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3276999.html
相关试题推荐
DwightattendedLincolnelementaryschool,directlyacrossthestreetfromhi
DwightattendedLincolnelementaryschool,directlyacrossthestreetfromhi
DwightattendedLincolnelementaryschool,directlyacrossthestreetfromhi
DwightattendedLincolnelementaryschool,directlyacrossthestreetfromhi
Thecaseforcollegehasbeenacceptedwithoutquestionformorethanagener
Thecaseforcollegehasbeenacceptedwithoutquestionformorethanagener
WhoservedintheSecondWorldWar?[originaltext]Thousandsofveteransfrom
HowmanyyearsdostudentshavetostudyatcommunitycollegeintheUnitedStat
Countriesatalllevelsofeconomicdevelopmentfaceasimilarchallenge:to
Countriesatalllevelsofeconomicdevelopmentfaceasimilarchallenge:to
随机试题
TVLinkedtoLowerMarks[A]Theeffectoftelevisionon
Ifyouthoughtthatonlywomenontheheaviersidefeltbadabouttheirbodi
AlthoughIaminperfecthealth,andinpossessionofavalidclass-oneCal
Cellscannotremainaliveoutsidecertainlimitsoftemperature,andmuchn
WhatfirstinspiredMartinMiddleton’sinterestintravelling?[originaltext]W(I
目前我们所说的个人台式商用机属于()。A.巨型机 B.中型机 C.小型机
节约用水原则及要求中,对新建、改建和扩建项目实行“三同时、四到位”制度,“四到位
总承包单位分包工程应当经过建设单位认可,这种认可的方式包括()。A.在总承包合同
下列关于石灰稳定土基层施工过程说法正确的是( )。A.铺筑上基层时方可开始设置路
建设工程质量监督档案归档前,应由()签字。A.质量监督机构负责人 B.项目业
最新回复
(
0
)