2.
Explanation
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If you fit the statistical averages, by the age of 20
you will have been exposed to at least 20 000 hours of
television. (Para. 1) |
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The dullest, the least gifted of us can achieve things
that seem miraculous to those who never concentrate on
anything. (Para. 3) |
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It sells instant gratification. (Para. 3) |
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| 4)Television’s
variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus. (Para. 4) |
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… television operates on the appeal to the short attention
span. (Para. 5) |
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In its place that is fine. (Para. 7) |
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I think the technique fights coherence. (Para. 8) |
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… some 30 million adult Americans are “functionally illiterate”.
(Para. 10) |
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Yet its dominating communications instruments, its principal
form of national linkage, is one that sells neat resolutions
to human problems that usually have no neat resolutions.
(Para. 12) |
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| 10)
I think this society is being force-fed with trivial fare.
(Para. |
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Supplementary
reading:
Lesson Eleven Diogenes and Alexander
in College English Book III.
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