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1、金榜考博英语冲刺班补充材料（1）Theideathatpeoplecanbehavenaturally,withoutresortingtoanartificialcodetacitlyagreeduponbytheirsociety,isassillyastheideathattheycancommunicatebyaspokenlanguagewithoutcommonlyacceptedsemanticandgrammaticalrules.Likelanguage,acodeofmannerscanbeusedwithmoreorwi
2、thlessskill,forlaudableorforevilpurposes,toexpressagreatvarietyofideasandemotions.Initself,itcarriesnomoralvalue,butignoranceinuseofthistoolisnotasignofvirtue.Inarticulatenessshouldnotbemistakenforguiltlessness.Q:Theimportanceofartificialcodestohumanbehaviorismanifestedinth
3、efactthatpeople_____.cancommunicatenaturallyandproperlycanspeakalanguageaswellastheyobservemannercodescannotagreeuponasmanycodesastheyusegrammaticalruleshavetousethistooltoenrichtheirideasandemotions(2)Lookatthewaythatviolenceistreatedontelevision.Thereprobablyisnomoreviole
4、nceontelevisionthanthereisinaShakespeareantragedy.ButontelevisionyoufindunfeltviolenceandinShakespeareyoutendtofindfeltviolence.InShakespearethecharactersreactwithahumanresponse:theyfear,theyhurt,theymourn.Mostofthetimeontelevision,violenceisdealtwithbysweepingitundertherug
5、asfastaspossibleandbyhavingpeoplegoonabouttheirbusinessasifnothinghadhappened.(ifIcan’thavelessviolence,Iwantatleastabettergradeofviolence.)Oneoftheunspokenassumptionsisthatviolencecanbetoleratedaslongasyouignoreitandhavenoreactiontoit.Butthatseemstometobedangerouslycloseto
6、psychopathicbehavior.IwonderifthereisanyconnectionbetweenthelongacceptancebyourpeopleoftheVietnamWarandthethousandsandthousandsofdeathsthatwehaveseenontelevisionovertheyearsthatwerenevermourned,neverevenpausedforexcepttosellshampooforsixtyseconds.Q:Whatistheauthor’sattitude
7、towardviolenceontelevision?Hethinksthatviolenceontelevisionshouldbetotallybanned.ViolenceontelevisionismoretolerablethantheoneinShakespeare’splays.Violencecanbetoleratedifyoupretendthatitdoesn’texist.Violence,ifunavoidable,shouldbepresentedontelevisioninamoreappropriateway.
8、(3)Canapersonconsiderhimselfathinking,creative,responsiblecitizenandnotcareabouthi
