第二篇：        Culture of fear (or climate of fear) is the concept that people may incite fear in the general public to achievepolitical or workplace goals through emotional bias； it was developed as a sociological framework by Frank Furediand has been more recently popularized by the American sociologist Barry Glassner.         In his 2004 BBC documentary film series, The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear,the journalist Adam Curtis argues that politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control oversociety. Though he does not use the term “culture of fear,” what Curtis describes in his film is a reflection of thisconcept. He looks at the American neo-conservative movement and its depiction of the threat first from the SovietUnion and then from radical Islamists. Curtis insists there has been a largely illusory fear of terrorism in the westsince the September 11 attacks and that politicians such as George W Bush and Tony Blair had stumbled on a newforce to restore their power and authority； using the fear of an organized “web of evil” from which they couldprotect their people. Curtis's film castigated the media, security forces and the Bush administration for expandingtheir power in this way. The film features Bill Durodié, then Director of the International Centre for SecurityAnalysis, and Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute, King's College London, saying that tocall this network an “invention” would be too strong a term, but he asserts that it probably does not exist and islargely a “(projection) of our own worst fears, and that what we see is a fantasy that’s been created.”        Beginning in the 1960s, George Gerbner and his colleagues have accelerated the study of the relationship thatexists between media consumption and the fear of crime. According to Gerbner, television and other forms of massmedia create a worldview that is reflective of “recurrent media messages”, rather than one that is based on reality.
【題組】46. What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) Culture of fear is a good concept that should be used by the public to achieve their goals.
(B) George Bush and Tony Blair used the force of culture of fear to restore their power and authority.
(C) Culture of fear, rather than the reality, is usually used by politicians and media to increase their power orworkplace goals through emotional bias.
(D) Culture of fear is widely used in the media to create a worldview that reflects the recurrent media messages.