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备考2012MBA每周一练详解 ? Part I Reading Comprehension Passage One Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. 1 主题句TS开门见山：媒体暴力肆虐 There are good reasons to be troubled by the violence that spreads throughout the media. Movies, Television and video games are full of gunplay and bloodshed, and one might reasonably ask what’s wrong with a society that presents videos of domestic violence as entertainment. 把家庭暴力作为娱乐的社会到底怎么了。 2 Most researchers agree that the causes of [因果逻辑] real-world violence are complex. A 1993 study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences listed “biological, individual, family, peer, school, and community factors” as all playing their parts. 【注】真实世界暴力产生的原因有很多：biological, individual, family, peer, school, and community factors。 3 承认的事实 Viewing abnormally large amounts of violent television and video games may well contribute to [因果逻辑] violent behavior in certain individuals. The trouble comes when researchers downplay 不予重视 uncertainties in their studies or overstate 夸大 the case for causality (因果关系) [隐藏的转折逻辑]. Skeptics 怀疑论者 were dismayed 失望 several years ago when a group of societies including the American Medical Association tried to end the debate by issuing a joint statement: “At this time, well over 1,000 studies... point overwhelmingly 压倒性地 to a causal connection between [因果逻辑] media violence and aggressive behavior in some children.” 论据是反例：反例说明怀疑论者对于某些组织包括美国医疗组织草率论调的失望。 4 Freedom-of-speech advocates accused the societies of catering to politicians, and even disputed the number of studies (most were review articles and essays, they said). 反对夸张媒体暴力者指责这些组织迎合政客，夸大事实，用少量研究说明问题 【论据】When Jonathan Freedman, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto, reviewed the literature, he found only 200 or so studies of television-watching and aggression. And when he weeded out 除去 “the most doubtful measures of aggression”, only 28% supported a connection. 5 The critical point here is causality 因果关系. The alarmists 杞人忧天者 say they have proved that violen