高中英语北京模块版第四册课文06

[00:-1.00]A TELEVISION violence is only acceptable to viewers if it is fair and justified 1,

[00:-2.00]according to research published by Leeds University yesterday.

[00:-3.00]The study found there was "remarkable 2 agreement"

[00:-4.00]about which television violence was serious and which not.

[00:-5.00]Even a group of pensioners 3 agreed that a violent sence in the well-known film

[00:-6.00]Pulp 4 Fiction was tolerable because the dialogue and situation made it funny.

[00:-7.00]Some people said they found the bad language in the film more offensive than the vioence.

[00:-8.00]Viewers were asked to comment on scenes from cartoons like Tom & Jerry,

[00:-9.00]films like Pulp Fiction,

[00:10.00]TV drama series like Channel 4's Brookside and news items about wars.

[00:11.00]Researchers concluded that viewers made a distinciton

[00:12.00]between violence with a purpose and unjustified violence.

[00:13.00]Phil Harding,the BBC's editorial controller,

[00:14.00]said:"Now we will be able to make better decisions about what we show,

[00:15.00]or what we don't show."Sarah Thane,director of programmes at ITV.said:

[00:16.00]The report gives interesting information information

[00:17.00]about attitudes to screen violence.

[00:18.00]But it doesn't mean that we can increase the amount of violence seen on television."

[00:19.00]B  More than 30 pensioners on their way to see Oklahoma

[00:20.00]at the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple had an amazing escape,

[00:21.00]after their coach left the road and crashed into a ditch.

[00:22.00]The accident,which took place at Monchard Road on the A377 near Crediton,

[00:23.00]is now under investigation 5 by the police and the Department of Transport.

[00:24.00]Pensioners from the BT and Post Office Veterans Association

[00:25.00]were travelling on a 34-seater coach,hired from Turners Tours of Chulmleigh,

[00:26.00]near South Molton,when the bus went 20 yards off the road and turned over.

[00:27.00]Inverstigating police officer,PC Peter Dockree,said:

[00:28.00]"It's quite amazing that no one was badly hurt."

[00:29.00] He praised the bravery of the pensioners,

[00:30.00]who were helped out of the windows of the overturned bus by firemen.

[00:31.00]He said: "There was no panic at all.

[00:32.00]The pensioners showed what you could call a 'blitz Spirit."

[00:33.00]According to a spokesperson for Turners Tours in Chulmleigh,

[00:34.00]the commpany had given the coach a mechanical inspection 6

[00:35.00]only three weeks before the accident.She said:

[00:36.00]"This was a very unfortunate incident and we are sorry for everyone involved."

[00:37.00]C Mum Lillian Derbyshire is going to see her four daughters again-

[00:38.00]after a 31-year holiday!

[00:39.00]Shonda(now 38).Shelley(37),

[00:40.00]Sherri(36)and Shirin (34) went on holiday to America

[00:41.00]with Lillian's ex-husband -and never came back.

[00:42.00]Sherri put an advert 7 in a local paper asking her mother contact her.

[00:43.00]Now Lillian,of West Gorton,Manchester,

[00:44.00]is making the 3000-mile journey to California for a reunion.

[00:45.00]"I can't stop crying with happiness."she said