时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:自考英语综合一上册 课文+单词


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  [00:00.00]Text  Unreality of TV

[00:04.49]Dr.Heinrich Applebaum recently completed a study

[00:09.85]on the effects of television on children.

[00:14.21]It is not about violence,but about

[00:18.26]how television gives children a false sense of reality.

[00:23.82]Dr.Applebaum told me,

[00:27.59]"The greatest danger of television is that it presents a world to children

[00:33.75]that doesn't exist,and leads them to expect things that never happen."

[00:41.01]"I don't understand,Doctor,"I said.

[00:45.27]"Well,let me give you one example.

[00:49.71]Have you ever seen a television show where a person in a car doesn't immediately

[00:56.37]find a parking place on the very first try?"

[01:00.92]"Come to think of it,"I said,"I haven't."

[01:05.78]"Not only is there always a parking place,

[01:10.92]but the driver doesn't even have to back into it.

[01:16.17]There are two parking spaces for him when he needs one.

[01:21.74]Children are being led to believe that when they grow up

[01:26.70]they will always be able to find a parking place available when

[01:32.45]and where they want it.

[01:36.00]"I never thought of it,but it's true.

[01:40.36]What else do they show on television which gives a distorted 1 picture of the real world?"

[01:46.84]"Have you noticed that whenever a person walks out of a restaurant or

[01:52.69]office building and says to the doorman,'Get me a taxi,'

[01:58.94]the taxi immediately arrives?

[02:03.30]I have never seen a TV show where the doorman has said,

[02:08.44]'I'm sorry.I can't get you a taxi.You'd better take the bus.'"

[02:14.69]"Of course,"I said,"I never noticed that.

[02:19.73]There is always a yellow taxi waiting somewhere off the TV screen."

[02:26.21]"Now",said Applebaum,"have you ever said to a taxi driver,

[02:32.97]'Follow that car and don't lose him'?

[02:37.23]"Not really."

[02:40.10]"Well,if you had,the driver would have told you not to talk nonsense 2.

[02:47.47]No taxi driver wants to follow another car

[02:52.62]because that means he's going to get into trouble.

[02:57.45]But on TV every taxi driver looks as if he had nothing better to do

[03:04.58]than to drive 90 miles an hour through rain-swept street

[03:10.75]trying to keep up with a carful of gangsters 3.

[03:16.08]And the worst thing is that the kids believe it.

[03:21.43]"What else have you discovered?"

[03:25.09]"Kids have a false sense of what emergency wards 5 of hospitals are really like.

[03:32.56]On TV shows they take a kid to an emergency ward 4 and

[03:38.02]four doctors come rushing down to bandage his leg.

[03:43.87]In a real life situation

[03:48.02]the kid would be sitting on the bench for two hours before he even saw a nurse.

[03:55.18]On TV there always happens to be a hospital bed available when a kid needs it.

[04:02.94]What the kids in this country don't know is that sometimes

[04:08.58]you have to wait three days to get a hospital bed

[04:13.75]and then you have to pay 500 dollars before they give it to you.

[04:20.91]Applebaum said the cruelest lie of all

[04:25.95]is when TV shows a lawyer defending someone innocent 6 of a crime.

[04:32.90]"On the screen the lawyer spends day and night looking for evidence to prove the person is innocent.

[04:40.35]The defendant 7 might say,But I'm innocent.

[04:45.20]The lawyer would say,So what?

[04:50.48]I can't afford to find that out.I'm not Perry Mason.

[04:56.65]Then what you're saying,Dr.Applebaum,is that

[05:01.40]it isn't the violence on TV but the unreality that is doing harm to children."

[05:09.66]"Exactly.Even the advertisements are harmful.

[05:15.12]Children are led to believe that when they grow up

[05:20.18]if they use a certain mouthwash they'll find the mate 8 of their dreams.

[05:27.63]When they don't find him or her after washing their mouth all night,

[05:33.19]they fall into a difficult situation and many of them never come out of it."



1 distorted
adj.被歪曲的
  • Her distorted face was ablaze with rage. 在狂怒之下,她那张扭曲的脸涨得通红。
  • His face was distorted by rage. 他因发怒而脸色大变。
2 nonsense
n.胡说,废话
  • Go along with you! What you say is all nonsense!去你的!你说的全是废话!
  • "Don't talk nonsense",she said sharply.“别胡扯”,她严厉地说。
3 gangsters
匪徒,歹徒( gangster的名词复数 )
  • The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings. 歹徒提出要给他一笔相当于他一年收入的钱。
  • One of the gangsters was caught by the police. 歹徒之一被警察逮捕。
4 ward
n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开
  • The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
  • During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时,我要点根火把,抵挡蚊虫。
5 wards
区( ward的名词复数 ); 病房; 受监护的未成年者; 被人照顾或控制的状态
  • This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。
  • It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区,下设三个分区。
6 innocent
adj.无罪的,清白的;无害的;天真的,单纯的
  • I'm not quite so innocent as to believe that.我还不至于简单到相信那种事的地步。
  • I was very young,and very innocent.我那时非常年轻,幼稚无知。
7 defendant
n.被告;adj.处于被告地位的
  • The judge rejected a bribe from the defendant's family.法官拒收被告家属的贿赂。
  • The defendant was borne down by the weight of evidence.有力的证据使被告认输了。
8 mate
n.伙伴,同事;配偶;大副;v.(使)交配
  • Where is the mate to this glove?这副手套的另一只在哪儿?
  • She has been a faithful mate to him.她一直是他忠实的配偶。
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