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2014年3月中科院考博英语真题 阅读理解第四篇阅读文章 华慧考博英语教研中心解读：中科院考博英语阅读理解的短文内 容涉及社会科学（主要包括社会学、教育、人类学、心理学、经济、管 理、金融等领域）、自然科学（主要包括化学、生物、交通、物理、工程、 计算机、医学、农业等领域）和人文科学（主要包括哲学、历史、文学、 语言、新闻、艺术等领域）。考博英语的阅读理解题型中的文章通常选 取外文杂志、外文网站中的文章，然后由各院校的命题组命题，或者 选取四六级、考研、研究生学位英语考试等已考过的文章。 2014年3月份中科院考博英语真题 阅读理解第四篇阅读文章 Passage Four The debate as to whether the Internet or books are a boon to school education is conducted on the supposition that the medium is the message. But sometimes the medium is just the medium. What matters is the way people think about themselves while engaged in the two activities. A person who becomes a citizen of the literary world enters a hierarchical universe. There are classic works of literature at the top and beach reading at the bottom. A person enters this world as a novice, and slowly studies the works of great writers and scholars. Readers immerse themselves m deep, alternative worlds and hope to gain some lasting wisdom. Respect is paid to the writers who transmit that wisdom. A citizen of the Internet has a very different experience. The Internet smashes hierarchy and is not marked by respect. Maybe it would be different if it had been invented in Victorian England, but Internet culture is set in contemporary America. Internet culture is egalitarian. The young are more accomplished than the old. The new media is supposedly cleverer than the old media. The dominant activity is free-wheeling, disrespectful, antiauthority disputation. These different cultures foster different types of learning. The great essayist Joseph Epstein once distinguished between being well informed, being hip and being cultivated. The Internet helps you become well informed - knowledgeable about current events, the latest controversies and important trends. The Internet also helps you become hip - to learn about whats going on, as Epstein writes, in those lively waters ou