单选题 A child watching television experiences a procession of sights and sounds that flash from the screen just long enough for the eyes and ears to take them in. Unlike the pages of a book, which can be read as slowly or as quickly as the child wishes, television images appear with a relentless velocity that stunts rather than. enhances the child's powers of imagination.
The view expressed above is based on an assumption. Of the following, which can best serve as that assumption?

A、 When allowed to choose a form of entertainment, children will prefer reading to watching television.
B、 A child's imagination cannot be properly stimulated unless the child has access both to television and to books.
C、 A child's imagination can develop more fully when the child is able to control the pace of its entertainment.
D、 Children should be taught to read as soon as they are able to understand what they see on television.
E、 (E) A child's reaction to different forms of sensory stimuli cannot be predicted, since every child is different.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 本题属于对比推理，读题重点在最后一句话，结合“Unlike the pages of a book…”，我们知道原因A为“电视图像以儿童不希望的速度出现”，结果B为“阻碍了儿童的想象力”。而(C)选项说明，当儿童能够控制娱乐速度时(A)，其想象力不会被阻碍(B)。所以(C)是一个符合典型的A→B思路的假设答案，所以(C)正确；(B)易误选，(B)虽然描述的是一个真理，但与上面的推理无关，因为本题讨论的并不是想象力能否得到适当的激发，所以(B)不正确；(A)、(D)、(E)均与本题推理无关，因此也都不能作为假设。