| Tile media can impact current events.
As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I re member experiencing the
events related to the People’s Park that were occurring on campus. Some of these
events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it
interesting to compare my impression of what was going on with perceptions
obtained from the news media．I could begin to see events of that time feed on
news coverage. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the
distinctions between these realities. Electronic media are having a greater impact on the people’s lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information th A. The 1992 Los Angeles Riots B. The Impact of Media on Current Events C. The 1989 San Francisco Earthquake and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots D. How Media Cover Events [单项选择]Although computers can enhance people’s ability to communicate, computer games are a cause of underdeveloped communication skills in children. After-school hours spent playing computer games are hours not spent talking with people. Therefore, children who spend all their spare time playing these games have less experience in interpersonal communication than other children have.
The argument depends on which of the following assumptions A. Passive activities such as watching television and listening to music do not hinder the development of communication skills in children. B. Most children have other opportunities, in addition to after-school hours, in which they can choose whether to play computer games or to interact with other people. C. Children who do not spend all of their after-school hours playing computer games spend at least some of that time talking with other people. D. Formal instruction contributes little or nothing to children’s acquisition of communication skills. E. (E) The mental skills developed through playing computer games do not contribute significantly to children’s intellectual development. [单项选择]
The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related to the People’s Park that were occurring on campus. Some of these events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it interesting to compare my impression of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media. I could begin to see events of that time feed on news coverage. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities. [单项选择]
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