单选题 One positive consequence of our current national crisis may be at least a temporary dent in Hollywood"s culture of violence. Fearful of offending audiences in the wake of the terrorist attack, some movie-makers have postponed the release of films with terrorist themes. Television writers are shelving or delaying scripts with warlike and terrorist scenarios. It is probably good thinking. My local video store tells me nobody is checking out "disaster" movies. Says the manager, "Currently, people want comedy. They want an escape from stories about violence and terrorism." Similarly, in the music business, there"s a run on patriotic and inspirational tapes and CDs.
According to the New York Times , the self-scrutiny among these czars of mass-entertainment taste is unprecedented in scale, sweeping aside hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that no longer seem appropriate. A reasonable concern is that this might be a short-term phenomenon. Once life returns to something more normal, will Hollywood return to its bad old ways? The Times offers a glimmer of hope. The industry"s titans, it suggests, are grappling with much more difficult, long-range questions of what the public will want once the initial shock from the terrorist attacks wears off. Many in the industry admit they do not know where the boundaries of taste and consumer tolerance now lie.
This is an opportunity for some of us to suggest to Hollywood where that boundary of consumer tolerance is. Especially those of us who have not yet convinced Hollywood to cease its descent into ever-lower of desensitization of our young.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan Parents Television Council, which monitors the quality of TV programming, says in its latest report that today"s TV shows are more laced than ever with vulgarities, sexual immorality, crudities, violence, and foul language. The traditional family hour between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., when the networks used to offer programs for the entire family, has disappeared. The problem looks like it will get worse.
That certainly looked to be the case before the Sep. 11 assault. One pre-attack the New York Times story reported that TV producers were crusading for scripts that include every crude word imaginable. The struggles between network censors and producers, according to the report, were "growing more intense". Producers like Aaron Sorkin of The West Wing planned to keep pushing hard. He was quoted as saying, "There"s absolutely no reason why we can"t use the language of adulthood in programs that are about adults." My guess is that a lot of adults don"t use the language Mr. Sorkin wants to use, and don"t enjoy having their children hear it. At this moment of crisis in our nation"s history, thought has become more contemplative, prayerful, and spiritual. It may be the time to tell the entertainment industry that we want not a temporary pause in the flow of tastelessness, but a long-term cleanup.
单选题 Some filmmakers hesitate to release new films with violent content because
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。从第一段前两句可知，好莱坞电影所推崇的带有暴力色彩的影片推迟发布时间的原因是害怕得罪刚刚经历过恐怖袭击的广大观众；由此推断B符合题意，选项中的afraid与原文fearful意思相同，anger为动词，与原文中的offending相对应，再次确定答案的正确性。A文中并未提及；C与原文意思相反；D比较有迷惑性，由文章首段可知，人们只是放弃看暴力电影，并不意味着放弃悲剧，故错误。
单选题 The word "self-scrutiny" (Line 1, Para. 2) refers to filmmakers" attempt to
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 语义理解题。文章第二段首句指出，电影制片商们不知道观众们目前希望看什么样的电影，因此他们才进行自我审查，D符合题意；第二段段尾句再次验证了答案的正确性。第一段指出，制片商们只是“将带有恐怖主义色彩的影片推迟发布”，而不是停止制作此类电影，故A错误；B、C原文中未提及。
单选题 The author thinks that it is time for the general audience to
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。作者在第二段中指出制片商们不敢轻易制作电影及其原因，第三段中指出，“这正是一个给好莱坞提建议的好时机，故A正确。B以偏概全；由文章第三段可知，C不确切；D文中未提及。
单选题 Which of the following is true about Aaron Sorkin?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。第五段以制片人阿隆·索金为例，说明前面的观点The struggles between network censors and produce...were growing more intense。从文中引用索金的话可以看出，他强烈推崇的在电影中使用的成人语言正是前文中所说的“粗俗的言语”，C正确。A与原文内容正好相反；原文并未表明是他首先引起了这场较量，故B不正确；D同文章中对索金的描述相反，故错误。
单选题 Which of the following is closest to the message the author tries to convey?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 观点态度题。从文章第一段的第一句话来看，作者认为恐怖主义活动冲击了好莱坞的暴力电影文化，认为这是一个积极影响，说明作者对好莱坞暴力电影持否定态度；同时，由文章的最后一句可见，作者对现在娱乐界的做法持否定态度，故C正确。A和B均为积极正面的态度，故错误；作者在文中鲜明地表明了自己的反对态度，故D项错误。