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综合教程 VI 练习答案 Unit 4-6 Unit 4 (综合教程VI) Text comprehension Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose. A Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. T. Refer to Paragraph 1. T. Refer to Paragraph 3. T. Refer to Paragraph 5. F. Refer to Paragraph 8, in which the author asserts that Disney is one of those utopias invented by Western civilization, which all tend to mislead people. The main difference is that it is only seemingly brought to life with simulation. T. Refer to Paragraph 9. Answer the following questions. Disney creates an illusion or “a perfect world” for its visitors by encouraging them to see the park through the eyes of a child, defining itself as a place that can “bring dreams to life”, and inviting them to escape their containment in physical reality. Disney idealizes American capitalism and political history in a way that enables people to forget the here and now, and draws visitors into a world of constant celebration and fun with all negative emotions banished from life. Disney World exerts a strong appeal to visitors with a sense that we transcend the mundane in which most opportunities are closed to us and most human motives are concealed. Now we are able to enjoy all the opportunities and see all human motives on a journey through symbolic worlds that are objective and material but as carefree as the imagination. The world view of contemporary societies is unromantic because of the rise of science in the modern age. Disney changes it by creating a simulation culture --- it reenchants the world for us with the new promise that art and technology can recreate an updated version of contemporary romance stories. The promise of modernism is that technology can lead us into an age of wealth, power over nature, and rationality; the promise of postmodernism is that technology will allow us to escape the conditions of society and the physical world. In his analysis, the au