Part VError Correction (15 minutes) 注意：此部分试题在答题卡2上；请在答题卡2 上作答。 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 tie63.___________ 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 government64.___________ 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 heart66.__________ of the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic system depends on leaders critically, analyze67.__________ 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 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.
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