adhered to a principle твёрдо придерживаться какого-л. принципа subliminal messages подсознательный посыл/сообщения inane situation comedies (sitcom) тупые комедийные сериалы political unrest политические волнения to hype проводить массированную рекламную кампанию decent programmes приличные программы howls of protest крики протеста my foot чепуха, бред take a stand занять определенную позицию dumb down упростить до абсурда illegible трудный для чтения gist of the article суть статьи illiterate необразованный человек manuscript рукопись outline of the story краткое содержание истории out of print вышло из печати circulation тираж
....... down its schedules. But it worries me that the biggest victims of this never-ending diet of violent cartoons, immoral dramas and banal docu-soaps is the nation's children. The sheer quantity of TV watched by the under 16's is truly alarming, with the national (2) ........ for Britain placed at three and a half hours per day. The programmes that are rubbish easily (3) ........ the programmes that are decent and watchable. There will no doubt be howls of (4) ........ out there from people who believe that TV is educational. Educational my foot. Fast-moving visual images (5) ........ no useful educational purpose and will be forgotten by the next day. A young family near me has recently taken a (6) ........ against TV and given their set away. Their children now do something truly educational. They read books. 1) A dimming B dumping C dumbing D duncing
Tonight's concert ... has included a lyrical duet with a school of singing humpback whales and a haunting serenade build around the keening of eagles. Now, as the evening draws to a close, Winter and his group are providing the instrumental accompaniment to the tape-recorded singing of a pack of free-roaming wolves. The rhythmic, otherworldly wolf serenade echoes eerily in the monumental quiet of the cathedral's soaring spaces. The wolves raise their voices in raw howls of sheer animal power, then let them soften to haunting, melancholy cries. [With Winter's moody soprano sax in call and response fashion, the effect is] to lift listeners out of their everyday lives, and into another world. And as the wolf serenade reaches its emotional crescendo, that's exactly what is happening to Bill. [...] He feels deeply, serenely at peace. Then, suddenly, he is seized by a surge of excitement. It rushes up from the
” It didn’t need to go 7 through all the trouble of assembling a group of scientists or engineers to design and construct a new mousetrap. All it did to succeed was copy what was already existing. The accusation is that a few Chinese-Americans working in American nuclear laboratories were responsible for furnishing China with the nuclear secrets. This, of course, has drawn howls of protest from Chinese-American leaders. But what struck me most was what one of the protesters said. In most American nuclear laboratories, in fact in most research laboratories, Mandarin seems to be the official language of communication. What in effect this means is that Chinese-Americans have so outnumbered Americans themselves in these research facilities that it becomes more convenient for everybody to speak Mandarin. Chinese Americans understand that knowledge is power
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