【正文】 　　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。09年12月英語四級考試模擬題及答案(9) 對此內(nèi)容進行投票:(0) (0) || 分享 || 收藏 || 打印本頁 || 關(guān)閉窗口 來源：考試吧 發(fā)布時間:20091130 14:45:52 5天5夜突破英語聽說，點擊進入!! 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.　　For questions 17, mark　　Y(for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage?！　(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage。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。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 attention—anyone39。 as an imperative, as though General Sarnoff, or one of the other august pioneers of video, had bequeathed(遺留。 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 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 unattainable. We are not only not attaining it as a nation, statistically speaking, but we are falling further and further short of attaining it. And, while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it contributes and is an influence.　　Everything about this nation—the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world— has bee more plex, not less. Yet its dominating munications instrument, its principal form of national linkage, is one that sells neat resolutions to human problems that usually have no neat resolutions. It is all symbolized in my mind by the hugely successful art form that television has made central to the culture, the 30second mercial: the tiny drama of the earnest housewife who finds happiness in choosing the right toothpaste.　　When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass diversion? When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?　　Some years ago Yale University law professor Charles L. Black. Jr., wrote: ... forced feeding on trivial fare is not itself a trivial matter I think this society is being forcedfed with trivial fare, and I fear that the effects on our habits of mind, our language, our tolerance for effort, and our appetite for plexity are only dimly perceived. If I am wrong, we will have done no harm to look at the issue skeptically and critically, to consider how we should be residing it. I hope you will join with me in doing so.　　1. In America people do sleeping and watching televisions more than anything else.　　2. From the passage we know the time an average American spends on watching TV could have made the person learn to bee an astronomer or engineer.　　3. The trouble with TV is that it distracts people’s attention and encourages them to make no efforts toward their life.4. TV programmers base this operation on the attraction of longspan attention of audiences.　　5. According to the author the improper television operation in American society will be likely to make things eventually boring.　　6. Americans will face a serious problem of illiteracy due to