研究生精读教程（第三版）PPT下册Unit 9 Is Rock Music Rotting Our Kids Minds教学教材.ppt

《研究生英语精读教程》(第三版下);Unit Nine;Is Rock Music① Rotting Our Kids Minds?;consecrate v. to declare, make or set apart in a special ceremony as holy; to set apart solemnly for a particular purpose奉为神圣 ,尊崇；献身 martyr△ n. a person who by his death or sufferings proves the strength of his beliefs烈士 , 殉道者；受难者;he is provided with comfort and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvelous, lifelike electronic sound and image reproductions he is enjoying. And in what does progress culminate*?;［2］This description may seem exaggerated, but only because some would prefer to regard it as such. The continuing exposure to rock music is a reality, not one confined to a particular class or type of child. ;One need only ask first-year university students what music they listen to, how much of it and what it means to them, in order to discover that the phenomenon is universal in America, that it begins in adolescence* or a bit before and continues through the college years.;It is the youth culture and, as I have so often insisted, there is now no other countervailing* nourishment* for the spirit. Some of this cultures power comes from the fact that it is so loud.;It makes conversation impossible, so that much of friendship must be without the shared speech that Aristotle① asserts* is the essence of friendship and the only true common ground. ;With rock, illusions* of shared feelings, bodily contact and grunted* formulas, which are supposed to contain so much meaning beyond speech, are the basis of association. None of this contradicts going about the business of life, attending classes and doing the assignments for them. But the meaningful inner life is with the music...;［3］My concern here is not with the moral effects of this music - whether it leads to sex, violence or drugs. The issue here is its effect on education, and I believe it ruins the imagination of young people and makes it ver