26.The author develops the passage mainly by .
A.providing typical examples
B.following the natural time order
C.presenting a cause and analyzing its
effects
D.comparing opinions from different
scientists
B
During
the recent milk crisis in China,
different related parts of the society have been put under the microscope,
including stars.
An online survey asked if celebrity spokespersons should bear
responsibility for
endorsing (代言) tainted milk products.Thirty?four percent
answered “yes”.They said that the celebrities had betrayed the trust of the
people and should
be more morally responsible.
They
are right.But
what’s more important is that we should train ourselves to
be wise enough not to blindly accept what is being sold, even by our favorite stars.
No
doubt television advertisements, together with other media products, inform and
entertain us.But,
too often, there are hidden messages in the information we receive.The songs we hear, the images we see, and the
articles we read, are carefully selected to convey political, cultural,
economic and moral messages.The
mass media delivers us these messages in an attempt to persuade us into
believing or buying whatever is being pushed.
The
question is: should we always believe what the advertisement or mass media says?
The answer is that we should use our minds to dig out the hidden meaning and
rely on our own judgment to make a choice.
In
some countries, students take a course called “media literacy”.They
learn to analyze the mass media.They
are encouraged to challenge everything they see or hear and to do research into
missing views.They
learn to ask questions and to be critical (批判性的) thinkers.