Passage 13 Dr. Heinrich Appleba

Passage 13 Dr. Heinrich Applebaum recently completed a study on the effects of television on children. It’s not about violence(暴力), but about how television gives children a false sense(错觉) of reality. Dr. Applebaum told me,“The greatest danger of television is that it presents(显示) a world to children that doesn’t exist(存在), and leads them to expect things that never happen.” “I don’t understand, Doctor, ”I said. “Well, let me give you one example. Have you ever seen a television show where a person in a car doesn’t immediately find a parking place on the very first try(头一次)?” “Come to think of it(想想还真是如此),” I said,“I haven’t.” “Not only is there always a parking place, but the driver doesn’t even have to back into it(不用费事把车倒回去). There are two parking spaces for him when he needs one. Children are being led to believe that when grow up they will always be able to find a parking place available(现成的) when and where they want it. You can imagine how had they will feel when they discover that in real life they can drive around a block(街区) for three hours and still can’t find a place to park their car.” “I never thought of it, but it’s true. What else do they show on television which gives a distorted(被歪曲的) picture of the real world?” “Have you noticed that whenever a person walks out of a restaurant or office building and says to the doorman, ‘Get me a taxi,’ the taxi immediately arrives? I have never seen a TV show where the doorman has said, ‘I ’m sorry. I can’t get you a taxi. You’d better take the bus.’ ”“Of course,” I said, “I never noticed that. There is always a yellow taxi waiting somewhere off the TV screen.” “Now,” said Applebaum, “have you ever said to a taxi driver, ‘Follow that car and don’t lose him ’?” “Not really.” “Well, if you had, the driver would have told you not to talk nonsense(胡扯). No taxi driver wants to follow another car because that means he’s going to get into trouble. But on TV every taxi driver looks as if he had nothing better to do than to drive 90 miles an hour through rain-swept(大雨滂沱的) street trying to keep up with a carful of gangsters(歹徒). And the worst thing is that the kids believe it.” “What else have you discovered?” “Kids have a false sense of what emergency wards(病房) of hospitals are really like. On TV shows they take a kid to an emergency ward and four doctors come rushing down to bandage his leg. In a real life situation the kid would be sitting on the bench(长条椅) for two hours before he even saw a nurse. On TV there always happens to be a hospital bed available when a kid needs it. What the kids in this country don’t know is that sometimes you have to wait three days to get a hospital bed and then you have to pay 500 dollars down before they give it to you.” “Applebaum said the cruelest lie of all is when TV shows a lawyer defending someone innocent of a crime.”In Dr. Applebaum's opinion, what serious harm does television programs do to children?
A、It can lead children to break the law.
B、It will delay the children's studies.
C、It gives children a false sense of reality.
D、It's bad for children's eyes.
【正确答案】：C
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