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随着我国旅游业的发展，旅游管理硕士的需求和热度也不断增加。旅游管理硕士旨在培养具有责任感和职业精神并且理论和技能并存、有国际化思维的人才，因此希望每一位考生认识到这一点并努力备考。新东方在线编辑为大家提供各种复习资料以及备考指导。下文是和大家分享的2015年旅游管理硕士英语阅读专训，并且附有新的词汇点拨，希望对大家有所帮助。
2015年旅游管理硕士英语阅读专训（二）
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Many people in the United States spend most of their free time watching
television. Certainly, there are many worthwhile programs on television,
including news, educational programs for children, programs on current social
problems, plays, movies, concerts, and so on. Nevertheless, perhaps people
should not be spending so much of their time in front of the TV. Mr Mayer
imagines what we might do if we were forced to find other activities.
Turning off TV: a Quiet Hour
I would like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening,
right after the early evening news, all television broadcasting in the United
States be prohibited by law.
Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the results be if such a
proposal were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour.
Without the distraction of TV, they might sit around together after dinner and
actually talk to one another. It is well known that many of our problems --
everything, in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some
forms of mental illness -- are caused at least in part by failure to
communicate. We do not tell each other what is disturbing us. The result is
emotional difficulty of one kind or another. By using the quiet family hour to
discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each
other better.
On evenings when such talk is unnecessary, families could rediscover more
active pastimes. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might
take a ride together to watch the sunset. Or they might take a walk together
(remember feet?) and see the neighborhood with fresh, new eyes.
With free time and no TV, children and adults might rediscover reading.
There is more entertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV
programming. Educators report that the generation growing up with television can
barely write an English sentence, even at the college level. Writing is often
learned from reading. A more literate new generation could be a product of the
quiet hour.
A different form of reading might also be done, as it was in the past:
reading aloud. Few pastimes bring a family closer together than gathering around
and listening to mother or father read a good story. The quiet hour could become
the story hour. When the quiet hour ends, the TV networks might even be forced
to come up with better shows in order to get us back from our newly discovered
activities.
At first glance, the idea of an hour without TV seems radical. What will
parents do without the electronic baby-sitter? How will we spend the time? But
it is not radical at all. It has been only twenty-five years since television
came to control American free time. Those of us thirty-five and older can
remember childhoods without television, spent partly with radio -- which at
least involved the listener's imagination -- but also with reading, learning,
talking, playing games, inventing new activities. It wasn't that difficult.
Honest. The truth is we had a ball.
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发表于 2017-8-6 20:52:33