問題詳情
22 題至第 25 題為篇章結構，各題請依文意，從四個選項中選出最合適者，各題答案內容不重複The phony culture of contemporary American is characterized by immediacy. The constant emphasis is on thenow, the new, the fashionable, the thing of the moment, what is happening right now, what is hot, and what is not,where it is at, the immediate experience. What is current and hyped is what is real. 22 In a phony culture, notonly do people have no sense of place, they also have no sense of time. Time and the sense of temporality—memoryand projection—lose importance. The narrow focus on “now” reinforces the ascendancy of the ephemeral: what ishappening now is what is real and important. 23 Everything becomes unmemorable and quite forgettable justbecause it is old and passing out of the new immediate moment. The new is always something that can be hyped: the nextexperience, thing, or personage is given allure and thus desirability. One is hopelessly “out of date” if he or she does notyearn for the newest. All things old—cars, clothes, presidents, spouses—are potential throwaways. 24 Withouteither a sense of history or a coherent view of the future, people are easily lured to the phony object of the moment,drawing attention towards the plaything of the now but diverting attention from a larger view of the temporal worldwhich invites self-placement. 25 News is hyped “new” information that is sold like any other hot commodity,and there truly is nothing as old as yesterday’s news.
【題組】22
(A)The unreal and unimportant is associated with what is past or what is easily disposable.
(B)But confidence in the new is something that has to be created, through the good offices of hype artists who“phony up” futures of newfound pleasures and delights.
(C)Reality is momentary, the symbolic focus of the ephemeral now.
(D)People have little sense of temporal placement, of the continuity of national past and present, of the legacy ofhistory and the promise of posterity.
參考答案
答案：C
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)