大學(xué)英語四級(jí)試卷-英語四級(jí)考試模擬題及答7(存儲(chǔ)版)
【正文】 or questions 17, mark Y(for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage。s. The surest way to avoid doing so is to keep everything brief, not to strain the attention of anyone but instead to provide constant stimulation through variety, novelty, action and movement. Quite simply, television operates on the appeal to the short attention span. It is simply the easiest way out. But it has e to be regarded as a given, as inherent in the medium itself。傳于) to us tablets of stone manding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments39?！ G(for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 810, plete the sentences with the information given in the passage. The Trouble With Television It is difficult to escape the influence of television. If you fit the statistical averages, by the age of 20 you will have been exposed to at least 20,000 hours of television. You can add 10,000 hours for each decade you have lived after the age of 20. The only things Americans do more than watch television are work and sleep. Calculate for a moment what could be done with even a part of those hours. Five thousand hours, I am told, are what a typical college undergraduate spends working on a bachelor39。s variety bees a narcotic(麻醉的), nor a stimulus. Its serial, kaleidoscopic (萬花筒般的)exposures force us to follow its lead. The viewer is on a perpetual guided tour: 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction—except on television., typically, the spans allotted arc on the order of minutes or seconds, and the chosen delights are more often car crashes and people killing one another. In short, a lot of television usurps(篡奪。s appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient munication but decivilizing as well. Consider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that plexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precision is an anachronism. It may be oldfashioned, but I was taught that thought is words, arranged in grammatically precise. There is a crisis of literacy in this country. One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are functionally illiterate and cannot read or write well enough to answer the want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle. Literacy may not be an inalienable human right, but it is one that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even
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