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【正文】 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。 N(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(wàn)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
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