2006年12月大学英语新六级考试试题及参考答案_第11页

Part V  Error Correction  (15 minutes)
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          The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the
    the results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which described         
    movement of the American public away from books and           
    literature and toward television and electronic media.          62.__________
    According to the survey. “reading is on the decline on every 
    region, within every ethnic group, and at every educational level.”
        The day the NEA report released, the U.S. House, in a tie  63.___________
    vote, upheld the government’s right to obtain bookstore and
    library records under a provision of the USA Patriot Act. The
    House proposal would have barred the federal government      64.___________
    from demand library records, reading lists, book customer
    lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations. 65.___________
        These two events are completely unrelated to, yet they
    echo each other in the message they send about the place of
    books and reading in American culture. At the heart            66.__________
    of the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic
    system depends on leaders who can think critically, analyze      67.__________
    texts and writing clearly. All of these are skills promoted by
    reading and discussing books and literature. At the same time,
    through a provision of the Patriot Act, the leaders of our
    country are unconsciously sending the message that reading    68._________
    may be connected to desirable activities that might
    undermine our system of government rather than helping
    democracy flourish.                                    69._________
        Our culture’s decline in reading begin well before the
    existence of the Patriot Act. During the 1980s’ culture wars,
    school systems across the country pulled some books from    70.__________
    library shelves because its content was deemed by parents
    and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schools  71.________
    across the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and
    is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of the
    American public.