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1、金榜考博英语冲刺班补充材料（1）Theideathatpeoplecanbehavenaturally,withoutresortingtoanartificialcodetacitlyagreeduponbytheirsociety,isassillyastheideathattheycancommunicatebyaspokenlanguagewithoutcommonlyacceptedsemanticandgrammaticalrules.Likelanguage,acodeofmanne
2、rscanbeusedwithmoreorwithlessskill,forlaudableorforevilpurposes,toexpressagreatvarietyofideasandemotions.Initself,itcarriesnomoralvalue,butignoranceinuseofthistoolisnotasignofvirtue.Inarticulatenessshouldnotbemistakenforguiltlessness.Q:Theimportanceof
3、artificialcodestohumanbehaviorismanifestedinthefactthatpeople_____.cancommunicatenaturallyandproperlycanspeakalanguageaswellastheyobservemannercodescannotagreeuponasmanycodesastheyusegrammaticalruleshavetousethistooltoenrichtheirideasandemotions(2)Loo
4、katthewaythatviolenceistreatedontelevision.ThereprobablyisnomoreviolenceontelevisionthanthereisinaShakespeareantragedy.ButontelevisionyoufindunfeltviolenceandinShakespeareyoutendtofindfeltviolence.InShakespearethecharactersreactwithahumanresponse:they
5、fear,theyhurt,theymourn.Mostofthetimeontelevision,violenceisdealtwithbysweepingitundertherugasfastaspossibleandbyhavingpeoplegoonabouttheirbusinessasifnothinghadhappened.(ifIcan’thavelessviolence,Iwantatleastabettergradeofviolence.)Oneoftheunspokenass
6、umptionsisthatviolencecanbetoleratedaslongasyouignoreitandhavenoreactiontoit.Butthatseemstometobedangerouslyclosetopsychopathicbehavior.IwonderifthereisanyconnectionbetweenthelongacceptancebyourpeopleoftheVietnamWarandthethousandsandthousandsofdeathst
7、hatwehaveseenontelevisionovertheyearsthatwerenevermourned,neverevenpausedforexcepttosellshampooforsixtyseconds.Q:Whatistheauthor’sattitudetowardviolenceontelevision?Hethinksthatviolenceontelevisionshouldbetotallybanned.Violenceontelevisionismoretolera
8、blethantheoneinShakespeare’splays.Violencecanbetoleratedifyoupretendthatitdoesn’texist.Violence,ifunavoidable,shouldbepresentedontelevisioninamoreappropriateway.(3)Canapersonconsiderhimselfathinking,creative,responsiblecitizenandnotcareabouthi
