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Reаd “Dаnger: Reаlity TV Can Rоt Yоur Brain” by James, and then answer the fоllowing question. Danger: Reality TV Can Rot Your Brain By OLIVER JAMES TERMS TO RECOGNIZE docusoap (para. 1) combination of documentary and soap opera plumbed (para. 2) probed insidious (para. 2) sneaky wannabe (para. 2) a person who aspires to be atavistic (para. 3) like a primitive form McJobs (para. 4) low-level jobs pinning (para.5) attaching aspirant (para. 5) hopeful unprecedented (para. 8) never seen before plethora (para. 8) abundance inauthenticity (para, 9) fakeness We have endured far too much Reality TV this year, most of it bad some of it dreadfully so. This weekend, at last, the parade of grotesque characters and public humiliation comes to an end with the closing episode of ITV's Popstars the Rivals. Recent viewing figures suggest that the genre has begun to run its course, just as its predecessor the docusoap eventually did. But there may be still greater atrocities in store before we see the back of it: we will soon have the unique pleasure of watching Kelly Osbourne vomiting on The Osbournes, and also from America comes word of an RTV show in which contestants volunteer for cosmetic surgery and agonize in humiliating detail about their feelings of unattractiveness. Our sensitivities have been battered unceasingly by the ever-descending levels of taste plumbed by the producers of these shows. But far more insidious and dangerous is the effect they have on our mental health. I have interviewed some of the wannabe contestants and I am sure that, at least in some cases, participation is damaging. And the problem goes beyond that. Compared with, say, soap operas, RTV is more harmful to viewers as well. The content of too much RTV is values-rotting and depression-inducing. For a large slice of the population, watching it has largely replaced social life itself. When we are not at work, viewing other people living their lives on TV now constitutes a considerable part of our existence. Does anyone know how much harm this is doing to us? In 2000 I made a brief film on the subject of the emotional impact of RT1V on contestants, to be discussed by TV professionals at the Edinburgh Television Festival. On the platform were a number of powerful figures, including the head of BBC One and an atavistic RTV producer who could not conceive of any scenario that she would rule out for RTV coverage. There were "no limits," she said, apart from those (very weak ones) that the regulatory authorities placed upon her. For my film I interviewed Alan, a 24-year-old who was about to go on a "desert island" RTV programme. Although of average weight for his height, he believed himself to be plump. He also thought he was ugly and unattractive, yet the production team and I felt he was perfectly good looking. He had underperformed at university, graduating with a 2:2, and had been drifting without clear career plans, doing McJobs. He was not having as much success with girls as he would like. He hoped that he would be a hit as a contestant, and a career in TV presenting would be accompanied by an unlimited supply of babes. Alan was mildly depressed, but instead of confronting this he was pinning his hopes on RTV to raise his mood by raising his status. I suspect that his tale is typical (needless to say, none of the broadcasters has done any research into the psychiatric status and motives of aspirant contestants or their outcomes after appearing, so I can only speculate) because, above all, RTV is a young person's game. A quarter of Channel 4's audience is aged 16-34 but they form half the audience of Big Brother. Hardly any participants in any RTV shows have been over 30 (the honorable exceptions were both BBC endeavors—The Stone Age and Castaway). RTV encourages an "as if" life, a sort of second-hand living, more 6 than any other genre because it blurs the lines between fact and fiction more powerfully than any other. There can be little doubt that it is profoundly damaging. Like a soap opera in reverse, it involves viewers with the characters for weeks on end and in such a way that you easily forget that these are real people. At the same time, to a frightening extent, the young watching RTV are fantasizing that it Could Be Me. People "just like me" are plucked from obscurity and given prominence merely because they happened to be in the right place at the right time. Viewers become so identified with these characters as an extension of themselves that they are far more interested in what happens to the characters than to their own, real, intimates and family. Of course, not everyone is equally at risk of losing their grip on reality. The risk is much greater for people from unstable and emotionally deprived backgrounds-the majority of us. For the minority, probably no more than a third, whose needs were met in early childhood and who come from stable, reasonably harmonious families, modern life provides unprecedented opportunities for self-expression. But for the majority who did not have such a childhood, the plethora of new choices means a high risk of making bad ones-such as wanting to be part of RTV or feeling inappropriately involved as a viewer. Above all, RTV offers young people a fake social life, decreasing the likelihood that they will seek a real one. At the same time, because RTV usually entails some kind of beauty contest in which your personality or appearance are being judged, it fosters destructive social comparisons and induces inauthenticity in the process. What is the main idea?
Pleаse reаd the fоllоwing reаding selectiоns and answer the questions that follow: Invisibility, flight, the power to split into multiple bodies… these superhuman abilities have long been associated with ninjas, but ninjas didn’t really do all of that stuff. They were just regular people with exceptional abilities. So why do people think that ninjas had super powers? Well, one reason is that ninjas were very secretive and left behind few historical records of their activities. Since we do not know much about what they actually did, we are left to speculate. Another reason why people often think that ninjas had superhuman abilities is because of how ninjas are depicted in folklore (particularly during the Edo period in Japan). In such legends and works of art, ninjas were mysticized and romanticized. These romantic notions of ninjas as superhero are perpetuated in media today, but maybe that’s just because these days people expect ninjas to have supernatural abilities. Ki-yah! What is the topic of the above selection?
Reаd the fоllоwing reаding selectiоn cаrefully, answering the questions that follow. Dude, Do You Know What You Just Said? Mike Crissey Mike Crissey is a staff writer for the Associated Press. The following article, which appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on December 8, 2004, is based on research done by Scott Kiesling, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. Kiesling’s work focuses on the relationship between language and identity, particularly in the contexts of gender, ethnicity, and class. Before reading, preview the selection and make connections by thinking about how you or others you know use the term dude. While reading, notice how the writer uses a combination of expert testimony, anecdotal evidence, and personal observations to support his main point. Dude, you’ve got to read this. A University of Pittsburgh linguist has published a scholarly paper deconstructing and deciphering dude, the bane of parents and teachers, which has become as universal as like and another vulgar four-letter favorite. In his paper in the fall edition of the journal American Speech, Scott Kiesling says dude is much more than a greeting or catchall for lazy, inarticulate, and inexpressive (and mostly male) surfers, skaters, slackers, druggies, or teenagers. “Without context there is no single meaning that dude encodes and it can be used, it seems, in almost any kind of situation. But we should not confuse flexibility with meaninglessness,” Kiesling said. Originally meaning “old rags,” a “dudesman” was a scarecrow. In the late 1800s, a “dude” was akin to a dandy, a meticulously dressed man, especially in the western United States. Dude became a slang term in the 1930s and 1940s among black zoot suiters and Mexican American pachucos. The term began its rise in the teenage lexicon with the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Around the same time, it became an exclamation as well as a noun. Pronunciation purists say it should sound like “duhd”; “dood” is an alternative, but it is considered “uncool” or old. To decode dude, Kiesling listened to conversations with fraternity members he taped in 1993 and had undergraduate students in sociolinguistics classes in 2001 and 2002 write down the first twenty times they heard dude and who said it during a three-day period. He’s also a lapsed dude-user who during his college years tried to talk like Jeff Spicoli, the slacker surfer “dude” from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. According to Kiesling, dude has many uses: an exclamation (“Dude!” and “Whoa, Dude!”); to one-up someone (“That’s so lame, dude”); to disarm confrontation (“Dude, this is so boring”), or simply to agree (“Dude”). It’s inclusive or exclusive, ironic or sincere. Kiesling says dude derives its power from something he calls cool solidarity: an effortless or seemingly lazy kinship that’s not too intimate; close, dude, but not that close. Dude “carries . . . both solidarity (camaraderie) and distance (non-intimacy) and can be deployed to create both of these kinds of stance, separately or together,” Kiesling wrote. Kiesling, whose research focuses on language and masculinity, said that cool solidarity is especially important to young men — anecdotally the predominant dude-users — who are under social pressure to be close with other young men but not enough to be suspected as gay. “It’s like man or buddy. There is often this male-male addressed term that says, ‘I’m your friend but not much more than your friend,’ ” Kiesling said. Aside from its duality, dude also taps into nonconformity, despite everyone using it, and a new American image of leisurely success, he said. The nonchalant attitude of dude also means that women sometimes call each other dudes. And less frequently, men will call women dudes and vice versa, Kiesling said. But that comes with some rules, according to self-reporting from students in a 2002 language and gender class at the University of Pittsburgh included in his paper. “Men report that they use dude with women with whom they are close friends, but not with women with whom they are intimate,” according to his study. His students also reported that they were least likely to use the word with parents, bosses, and professors. “It is not who they are but what your relationship is with them. With your parents, you likely have a close relationship, but unless you’re Bart Simpson, you’re not going to call your parent dude,” Kiesling said. “There are a couple of young professors here in their thirties and every once in a while we use dude. Professors are dudes, but most of the time they are not.” And dude shows no signs of disappearing. “More and more our culture is becoming youth centered. In southern California, youth is valued to the point that even active seniors are dressing young and talking youth,” said Mary Bucholtz, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “I have seen middle-aged men using dude with each other.” So what’s the point, dude? Kiesling and linguists argue that language and how we use it is important. “These things that seem frivolous are serious because we are always doing it. We need to understand language because it is what makes us human. That’s my defense of studying dude,” Kiesling said. Which sentence is the most accurate one-sentence summary of the above reading selection? Choose one.
Write the number оf sentence thаt best summаrizes the pаragraph belоw. 1Is it really pоssible to convince people that they are guilty of a crime they did not commit? 2To search for an answer, a researcher directed pairs of college students to work on a fast- or slow-paced computer task. 3 At one point, the computer crashed, and the researcher accused the students of having caused the damage by pressing a key that he had specifically instructed them to avoid. 4. Since none f students had actually touched the key, at first they denied the charge. 5. However, in half of the pairs, one of the participants (who was actually an actor, posing as a participant) claimed she had, in fact observed the other student hit the forbidden key. 6. Confronted by this false witness and encouraged by the person in charge of the experiment, many students agreed to sign a confession in spite of their initial claim that they were innocent. 7. In other words, the desire to comply with the person in authority caused these students to doubt what they had actually witnessed. 8 Some of these students later “admitted” privately to a stranger (also an actor) that they had caused the computer to crash—an indication that they had internalized this false sense of guilt. 9 In short, innocent people who are vulnerable to suggestion can be induced to confess to and feel guilty about a “crime” they never committed.