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"It is an evil influence on the youth of our country. " A politician condemning video gaming? Actually, a clergyman denouncing r
"It is an evil influence on the youth of our country. " A politician condemning video gaming? Actually, a clergyman denouncing r
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2013-06-10
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"It is an evil influence on the youth of our country. " A politician condemning video gaming? Actually, a clergyman denouncing rock and roll 50 years ago. But the sentiment could just as easily have been voiced by Hillary Clinton in the past few weeks, as she blamed video games for "a silent epidemic of media desensitisation" and "stealing the innocence of our children".
The gaming furore centers on "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas", a popular and notoriously violent cops and robbers game that turned out to contain hidden sex scenes that could be unlocked using a patch downloaded from the internet. The resulting outcry (mostly from Democratic politicians playing to the centre) caused the game’s rating in America to be changed from "mature", which means you have to be 17 to buy it, to "adults only", which means you have to be 18, but also means that big retailers such as Wal-Mart will not stock it. As a result the game has been banned in Australia; and, this autumn, America’s Federal Trade Commission will investigate the complaints. That will give gaming’ s opponents an opportunity to vent their wrath on the industry.
Skepticism of new media is a tradition with deep roots, going back at least as far as Socrates’ objections to written texts, outlined in Plato’s Phaedrus. Socrates worried that relying on written texts, rather than the oral tradition, would "create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. " (He also objected that a written version of a speech was no substitute for the ability to interrogate the speaker, since, when questioned, the text "always gives one unvarying answer". His objection, in short, was that books were not interactive. Perhaps Socrates would have thought more highly of video games.)
Novels were once considered too low-brow for university literature courses, but eventually the disapproving professors retired. Waltz music and dancing were condemned in the 19th century; all that twirling was thought to be "intoxicating" and "depraved", and the music was outlawed in some places. Today it is hard to imagine what the fuss was about. And rock and roll was thought to encourage violence, promiscuity and Satanism; but today even grannies buy Coldplay albums.
Video games would have been recommended by Socrates due to its______.
选项
A、text messages
B、oral tradition
C、unvarying answers
D、two-way communication
答案
D
解析
这是一道细节分析题,测试考生准确识别和分析原文信息的能力。本题的答案信息来源在第三段的倒数第一、二句。这两句话的大意是:“Socrates反对的理由是书本不是互动的。大概Socrates会比较欣赏电子游戏的"。从这两句话可以推断出:电子游戏的互动性会使Socrates接纳和肯定。故本题的正确选项应该是D“two—way communication”(双向交流)。考生在阅读时要注意运用逻辑推导的能力。
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