首页
登录
职称英语
It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing sta
It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing sta
游客
2023-12-23
43
管理
问题
It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing state of literacy. These figures from the Department of Education are sufficient- 27 million Americans cannot read at all, and a further 35 million read at a level that is less than sufficient to survive in our society.
But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading, it has been suggested that almost 80 percent of America’s literate, educated teenagers can no longer read without an accompanying noise (music) in the background or a television screen flickering at the corner of their field of perception. We know very little about the brain and how it deals with simultaneous conflicting input, but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed. This violation of concentration, silence, solitude goes to the very heart of our notion of literacy; this new form of part-reading, of part-perception against background distraction, renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and concentration, let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
Under these circumstances, the question of what future there is for the arts of reading is a real one. Ahead of us lie technical, psychic, and social transformations probably much more dramatic than those brought about by Gutenberg, the German inventor in printing. The Gutenberg revolution, as we now know it, took a long time; its effects are still being debated. The information revolution will touch every fact of composition, publication, distribution, and reading. No one in the book industry can say with any confidence what will happen to the book as we’ve known it. [br] About the future of the arts of reading the author feels ______.
选项
A、upset
B、uncertain
C、alarmed
D、pessimistic
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3297950.html
相关试题推荐
Uponthemostsedateconsideration,Iresolvedthatitwasabsolutelynecessary
TheevidencethattheEarth’satmosphereiswarmingcontinuestoaccumulate.
下面你将听到的是一段有关气候变化的讲话。TheevidencethattheEarth’satmosphereiswarmingcon
Awisemanoncesaidthattheonlythingnecessaryforthetriumphofevilis
Awisemanoncesaidthattheonlythingnecessaryforthetriumphofevilis
Thereisevidencetobelievethatgamblinginmanyformshasbeenengagedin
Thereisevidencetobelievethatgamblinginmanyformshasbeenengagedin
[originaltext]Wefoundtheevidenceandthoughtitwouldbeusefultothecase,
[originaltext]Wefoundtheevidenceandthoughtitwouldbeusefultothecase,
[originaltext]Wefoundtheevidenceandthoughtitwouldbeusefultothecase,
随机试题
HowtoReadLiteratureCritically?Readingcriticallydoesnotmeantearingawo
Wheredofishlive?Theylive______wherethereiswater.[originaltext]Fis
Thereisnoconsensusonwhatrole,ifany,isplayedbyacidraininslowingth
根据《担保法》的规定,有关抵押表述正确的是()。A.只能由债务人提供抵押物
入射光方向变化较大时,反射光仍从接近入射光的反方向返回称逆反射。()
旅行社产品价格的最低界限是由()决定的。[2011年真题]A.产品成本
雨水工程规划的雨水系统中,雨水口在平面上要保持适度的间距,布置在道路上的雨水口间
公路上虽然车辆很多,但是行人只要遵守交通规则,还是比较安全的。对于道路交通安全的
生命在另外一个行星上发展,必须至少具备两个条件:(1)适宜的温度,这是与热源保持
关于工程地质,下列说法正确的有()A.隧洞进出口地段的边坡应下陡上缓 B.地
最新回复
(
0
)