2013年6月英语六级考试备考深度阅读试题模拟与解析（8）_大学英语阅读

2013年6月英语六级考试备考深度阅读试题模拟与解析（8）

　　Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary and college levels can testify that their students writing exhibits a tendency towards superficiality that wasnt seen, say, ten or fifteen years ago. It shows up not only in the students lack of analytical skills but in their poor command of grammar and rhetoric. The mechanics of the English language have been tortured to pieces by TV. Visual, moving images cant be held in the net of careful language. They want to break out. They really have nothing to do with language. So language, grammar and rhetoric have become fractured.

　　Recent surveys by dozens of organizations also suggest that up to 40% of the American public is functionally illiterate. The problem isnt just in our schools or in the way reading is taught. TV teaches people not to rean. It makes them incapable of engaging in an art that is now perceived as strenuous and active.

　　Passive as it la, television has invaded our culture so completely that you see its effects in every quarter, even in the literary world. It shows up m supermarket paperbacks, from Stephen King to pulp .fiction . These are really forms of verbal TV-literature that is so superficial that those who read it can revel, in the same sensations they experience when they are watching TV.来自www.Examw.com

　　Even more importantly, the growing influence of television-has changed peoples habits and values and affected their assumptions about the world. The sort of reflective, critical and value- laden thinking encouraged by cooks has been rendered out of date.