高级英语1Unit4Oxford概论.ppt

Section 6: Further Enhancement As people become more and more isolated from each other, they become less and less sociable than before, and this causes harmful effects for social relations, for people become less polite in social contacts. Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement The social bonding is becoming weaker and weaker, and that will endanger ourselves, for with the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor, the crime rate will rise, and people will distrust and hate each other. Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement Those isolated, lonely and discontented people are very likely to become members of religions, criminal organizations, and military groups, for in these places they do not feel isolated, rather, they find a sense of belonging and a cause to believe in. Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement (As people become more and more alienated from each other and absorbed in their own world,) they are more and more interested in things rather than people, i.e. they have more things involving no other people, but have less interest in developing interpersonal relationship. Text II Text Comprehension television, on the Internet, playing video games, or reading. Some 30 percent of children under 3 have a television in their bedroom. Some older children even have their own rooms equipped with a telephone, television, VCR, microwave, refrigerator, and computer, which while convenient, isolates them from other family members. Many families rarely eat together in an actual sit-down meal. Family members are often too busy and too involved with their individual schedules to spend quality time together as a family. These homes may be full of people but they are really empty. Section 6: Further Enhancement Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement The Architecture of Isolation 17 Another contemporary trend—the increased number of megahouses in the suburbs—results in what we