Read the passage and choose the best answers to the questions that follow, (1 pts)
Television’s contribution to family life in the United States has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By dominating the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.
“Like the sorcerer of old,” writes Urie Bronfenbrenner, “the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces – although there is danger there – as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, games, the family festivities, and arguments through which much of the child’s learning takes place and through which character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people.”
Of course, families today still do special things together at times: go camping in the summer, go to the zoo on a nice Sunday, take various trips and expeditions. But the ordinary daily life together is diminished – that sitting around at the dinner table, that spontaneous taking up of activity, those little games invented by children on the spur of the moment when there is nothing else to do, the scribbling, the chatting, the quarreling, all the things that form the fabric of a family, that define childhood.
Instead, the children have their regular schedule of television programs and bedtime, and the parents have their peaceful dinner together. But surely the needs of adults are being better met than the needs of children, who are effectively shunted away and rendered untroublesome.
If the family does not accumulate its backlog of shared experiences, shared everyday experiences that occur and recur and change and develop, then it is not likely to survive as anything other than a caretaking institution.
Why is Urie Bronfenbrenner quoted in paragraph 2?
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Lời giải:
Báo saiGiải thích: Urie Bronfenbrenner nói về sự lôi cuốn quá mức của TV: “Like the sorcerer of old the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts,”. Đây chính là sự mở rộng luận điểm
Tạm dịch: Tại sao Urie Bronfenbrenner lại được trích dẫn ở đoạn 2?
A. Trình bày một quan điểm khác với quan điểm của tác giả
B. Để cung cấp một ví dụ về một chương trình truyền hình có hại
C. Để mở rộng lập luận của tác giả
D. Để thảo luận về những mặt tích cực của truyền hình