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In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopi
In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopi
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2019-08-01
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In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopias imagine a world where books are forgotten. To pluck just one, Gary Steynghart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story describes a world where everybody is obsessed with their electronic Apparat—an even more omnivorous i-Phone with a flickering stream of shopping and reality shows and porn—and have somehow come to believe that the few remaining unread paper books let off a rank smell. The book on the book, it suggests, is closing.
The book—the physical paper book—is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It’s being chewed by the e-book. It’s being gored by the death of the bookshop and the library. And most importantly, the mental space it occupied is being eroded by the thousand Weapons of Mass Distraction that surround us all. It’s hard to admit, but we all sense it: it is becoming almost physically harder to read books.
In his gorgeous little book The Lost Art of Reading—Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, the critic David Ulin admits to a strange feeling. All his life, he had taken reading as for granted as eating—but then, a few years ago, he "became aware, in an apartment full of books, that I could no longer find within myself the quiet necessary to read" . He would sit down to do it at night, as he always had, and read a few paragraphs, then find his mind was wandering, imploring him to check his email, or Twitter, or Facebook. "What I’m struggling with," he writes, "is the encroachment of the buzz, the sense that there’s something out there that merits my attention."
I think most of us have this sense today, if we are honest. If you read a book with your laptop thrumming on the other side of the room, it can be like trying to read in the middle of a party, where everyone is shouting to each other. To read, you need to slow down. You need mental silence except for the words. That’s getting harder to find.
No, don’t misunderstand me. I adore the web, and they will have to wrench my Twitter feed from my cold dead hands. This isn’t going to turn into an antedeluvian rant against the glories of our wired world. But there’s a reason why that word— "wired" —means both "connected to the internet" and "high, frantic, unable to concentrate".
In the age of the internet, physical paper books are a technology we need more, not less. In the 1950s, the novelist Herman Hesse wrote: "The more the need for entertainment and mainstream education can be met by new inventions, the more the book will recover its dignity and authority. We have not yet quite reached the point where young competitors, such as radio, cinema, etc, have taken over the functions from the book it can’t afford to lose." We have now reached that point.
Which of the following will the author most probably agree on?
选项
A、True readers can maintain reading in all kinds of environment, including noisy one.
B、The Internet should be strictly condemned for endangering physical paper books.
C、Physical paper books are facing extreme danger of being replaced by other things.
D、Reading books isn’t in accordance with the increasing need for entertainment.
答案
C
解析
属态度推断题。选项A犯了曲解文意的错误,文章第四段中作者表示,如果一个人想要读书,就需要安静下来,故选项A错误。选项B犯了夸大其词的错误,文章第五段指出尽管网络对于书籍的没落应承担一部分原因,但我们不该过分地指责网络,故错误。文章最后一句说到,书籍已经到了面临被取代威胁的时候,故选项C正确。选项D犯了曲解文意的错误,文章最后一段的引用句中提到,对娱乐和主流教育的需求越大,书籍就越会得到重视,故错误。
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