英文速読 初級-40
Many people are concerned about what television has done to the generation of American children who have grown up watching it. For one thing. TV deprives children of creative imagination. Some teachers feel that television has taken away the child’s ability to form mental pictures in his own mind, resulting in children who cannot figure out a simple story without visual illustrations. For another, too much TV too early tends to cause children to turn away from real life. As a result, they grow up to be passive spectators who can only respond to action, but not take the initiative in doing anything.
Another area for concern is that children are short of tolerance for learning. They don’t know what to do with some problems if it takes them too long to solve them, because they have been conditioned to see all problems solved in 30 or 60 minutes on TV.
Television violence in particular has the most serious impact on children, most of whom get used to it and become incapable of sympathizing with the pains of others.
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Many people are concerned /about what television has done to the generation of American children /who have grown up watching it. For one thing,TV deprives children of creative imagination. Some teachers feel /that television has taken away the child’s ability /to form mental pictures in his own mind, resulting in children /who cannot figure out a simple story /without visual illustrations. For another, too much TV too early tends to cause children to turn away /from real life. As a result, they *grow up to be passive spectators /who can only respond to action, but not take the initiative in doing anything.
*grow up to be〜「成長して〜になる」このto不定詞は結果のto不定詞
多くの人々は心配している、テレビがアメリカの子供たちの世代にしてきたものについて、彼らはテレビを見て成長してきた。一つにはテレビは子供たちから想像的な創造力を奪っている。ある教師達は感じている、テレビは子供たちの能力を奪っていると、心の中に心的イメージを形成するための、そしてテレビは子供たちを結果的に生じさせた、彼らは簡単な物語を理解できない、視覚的な説明なしに。もう一つには、あまりにも早い時期にテレビを見すぎることは、子供たちに目を背けさせることになりがちだ、現実の世界から。結果として、彼らは成長して受動的な傍観者になってしまう、彼らは行動に対して反応することだけはできるが、率先して行動することは無い、何かをすることにおいて。