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【正文】 as an imperative, as though General Sarnoff, or one of the other august pioneers of video, had bequeathed(遺留。 N(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage。侵占) one of the most precious of all human gifts, the ability to focus your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it. Capturing your attention—and holding it—is the prime motive of most television programming and enhances its role as a profitable advertising vehicle. Programmers live in constant fear of losing anyone39。s nightly news effort is really absorbable and understandable. Much of it is what has been aptly described as machinegunning with scraps. I think the technique fights coherence. I think it tends to make things ultimately boring (unless they are acpanied by horrifying pictures) because almost anything is boring if you know almost nothing about it.I believe that TV39。t, you could have walked around the world and written a book about it.The trouble with television is that it discourages concentration. Almost anything interesting and rewarding in life requires some constructive, consistently applied effort. The dullest, the least gifted of us can achieve things that seem miraculous to those who never concentrate on anything. But Television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant gratification(滿意). It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain. Television39。s degree. In 10,000 hours you could have learned enough to bee an astronomer or engineer. You could have learned several languages fluently. If it appealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the original Greek or Dostoyevsky in Russian. If it didn39。 Concentration. In its place that is fine. Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a massmarketing tool? But I see its values now pervading this nation and its life. It has bee fashionable to think that, like fast food, fast ideas are the way to get to a fastmoving, impatient public. In the case of news, this practice, in my view, results in inefficient munication. I question how much of television39。s attention—anyone39。09年12月英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試模擬題及答案(9) 對(duì)此內(nèi)容進(jìn)行投票:(0) (0) || 分享 || 收藏 || 打印本頁(yè) || 關(guān)閉窗口 來(lái)源：考試吧 發(fā)布時(shí)間:20091130 14:45:51 5天5夜突破英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)說(shuō)，點(diǎn)擊進(jìn)入!! Part I Writing (30 minutes) Netsurfing —— Are You Ready? Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. F
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