单选题Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the
mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, feel
and understand about the world has been processed for us." When we "cannot
distinguish with certainty the natural from the interpreted, or the artificial
from the organic, all theories of the ideal organization of life become
equal." In other words, TV teaches that all lifestyles and
values are equal, and that there is no clearly defined right and wrong. In
Amusing Ourselves to Death, one of the best recent books on the tyranny of
television, Neil Postman wonders why nobody has pointed out that television
possibly oversteps the instructions in the Bible. In the 1960s
and 1970s, many of the traditional standards and mores of society came under
heavy assault. Indeed, they were blown apart, largely with the help of one's
own. There was an air of unreality about many details of daily life. Even
important moral questions suffered distortion when they were reduced to TV
images. During the Viemam conflict, there was much graphic violence--soldiers
and civilians actually dying-on screen. One scene that shocked the nation was an
execution in which the victim was shot in the head with a pistol on prime-time
TV. People "tuned in" to the war every night, and controversial issues about the
causes, conduct, and resolution of the conflict could be summed up in these
superficial broadcasts. The same phenomenon was seen again in
the Gulf War. With stirring background music and sophisticated computer
graphics, each network's banner script read across the screen, "War in the
Gulf," as if it were just another TV program. War isn't a program--it is a
dirty, bloody mess. People are killed daily. Yet, television all but teaches
that this carnage merely is another diversion, a form of blockbuster
entertainment--the big show with all the international stars present.
In the last years of his life, Malcolm Muggeridge, a pragmatic and print
journalist, warned: "From the first moment I was in the studio, I felt that it
was far from being a good thing. I felt that television would ultimately be
inimical to what I most appreciate, which is the expression of truth, expressing
your reactions to life in words." He concluded: "I don't think people are going
to be preoccupied with ideas. I think they are going to live in a fantasy world
where you don't need any ideas. The one thing that television can't do is
expressing ideas. There is a danger in translating life into an image, and that
is what television is doing. It is thus falsifying life. Recorder of what is
going on, it is the exact opposite. It cannot convey reality nor does it even
want to."
单选题
What is the author's attitude towards television?
单选题
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. There is no clearly defined right and wrong in TV images.
B. Television doesn't express ideas although it is intended to convey
truth.
C. Translating life into an image is more effective than expressing
reactions to life in words in teaching life values.
D. TV presentation of images records what is going on objectively.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】综合推断题。由文章第二段第一句可知，电视图像中没有明确的对错之分，所以A正确。由文章最后一句中cannot convey reality可知，电视报道不可能objectively，排除D项；B项中intended to convey truth与同一句后半部分nor does it even want to矛盾，排除；由文章最后一段倒数第四句可排除C项。
单选题
Which of the following ideas might probably be preferred by Malcolm
Muggeridge?
A. Literature will become dominant in presenting war stories.
B. People should have their own ideas of what is right and what is
wrong.
C. TV images are preoccupying because they express reality.
D. TV programs often aim to assault the traditional standards and mores of
society.