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
2025-01-14
45
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/3912510.html
相关试题推荐
Thereisevidencetobelievethatgamblinginmanyformshasbeenengagedin
Thereisevidencetobelievethatgamblinginmanyformshasbeenengagedin
Thereisevidencetobelievethatgamblinginmanyformshasbeenengagedin
[originaltext]Wefoundtheevidenceandthoughtitwouldbeusefultothecase,
[originaltext]Wefoundtheevidenceandthoughtitwouldbeusefultothecase,
[originaltext]Wefoundtheevidenceandthoughtitwouldbeusefultothecase,
Appleishardlyaloneinthehigh-techindustrywhenitcomestoduffgadget
Appleishardlyaloneinthehigh-techindustrywhenitcomestoduffgadget
Tounderstandthemarketingconcept,itisonlynecessarytounderstandthe
Tounderstandthemarketingconcept,itisonlynecessarytounderstandthe
随机试题
Peoplewearitwhenitrains.[br]He/Shestudieswithyouinschool.Bclassmate(
在家庭、社会、学校三结合教育中,占主导地位的是()。A.家庭教育 B.社会教
下列哪种材料不是组成普通混凝土所必须的材料:()A.水泥 B.沙子 C.水
患儿男,5岁。3年前开始出现面部、外生殖器皮肤颜色逐渐加深,2岁半时智力逐渐落后
社会工作是社会福利事业的重要内容,也是促进和谐()的主要手段。A.社会建设
机体内丙酮酸可转化为 A.丙氨酸B.乳酸C.甘油D.CO2+H2O
A.黄连 B.石膏 C.黄芩 D.黄柏 E.川贝母知母用于温热病气分实热
在冷轧带肋钢筋中,既可以作为普通混凝土用钢筋,也可作为预应力混凝土用钢筋的是(
关于预制安装水池现浇壁板接缝混凝土施工措施的说法,错误的是()。A.强度较预制
关于出售招标文件的说法,正确的是()。A.自招标文件出售之日起至停止出售之日止
最新回复
(
0
)