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SECTION IIIReading Comprehension
( 50 minutes)
Part A
Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, Cor D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Text 1
England's binge-drinking habit is one of the most entrenched in Europe --even Roman invad- ers wrote about it with horror. Many feared that the habit would worsen after the relaxation of licen- sing hours last November. Doctors, academics and newspapers were joined in opposition by the po- lice and judges, who warned that the reforms were "close to lunacy". The government disagreed and abolished a restrictive regime first imposed during the First World War by David Lloyd George, the prime minister, who wanted to prevent munitions workers from getting too drunk.
While ministers never denied that Britons had an unhealthy attitude to liquor, they argued that much of the crime and disorder that blighted city streets at night was caused by hordes of drunkards rolling out of pubs and clubs at the same time and fighting for the same taxi home. They cited the wartime experience in Australia, where an early closing time had led to a phenomenon dubbed the"six o'clock's swill", in which people drank themselves silly against the clock. The hope was that, once hours were relaxed, Britons would adopt more civilised, continental habits, sipping delicately at glasses of Chablis rather than downing ten pints. Were the optimists or the pessimists right?
Since the law was changed, around two-thirds of licensed premises have extended their open- ing times, most by an hour or so. (Fewer than 1 percent were granted a 24-hour licence. ) That smoothed the ]lp. m. and 2 a. m. chuck-out peaks and filled in some of the troughs. Local authori- ties in several large, lively cities, including Birmingham, Nottingham and Manchester, report that the streets are no more disorderly than before. One popular drinkers' street in Birmingham has seen a dramatic drop in crime (although that may also be because businesses, fearing the worst, paid for street wardens). In London, most strikingly, there has not been a single month since the drinking laws were relaxed when more violent crimes were recorded than in the same month a year earlier. That is also true in Westminster, where many of the capital's pubs and clubs are clustered. Overall levels of violence in the borough have fallen by 12 percent in the ten months since November 2005, compared with the same period a year before.
The police remain cautious about such positive signs, saying it is still too early to tell what effect liberalisation will have on crime. They point out that local forces have diverted time and money to police late-night drinking, and have been given extra cash by the government. That will run out on Christmas Eve, at which point things may become trickier.
In the meantime, pessimists are marshalling new, more ambitious arguments. Martin Plant of the University of the West of England maintains that freer drinking can lead to long-term problems that are not immediately apparent. Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, softened drinking laws seven years ago. While policing became easier, more drunkards pitched up at hospital and drink-driving rates soared.
51. The following statements are true EXCEPT that
A. the English indulgence in alcohol even horrified Roman invaders.
B. the police and judges were in favor of the relaxation of licensing hours.
C. the government did away with a law regulating drinking hours last year.
D. World War I first saw the implementation of the law regulating drinking hours.
52. Why did the government want to reform the drinking-hour restrictions?
A. To follow the example of Australia.
B. To change Britons' attitude to alcohol.
C. To reduce the amount of alcohol consumed.
D. To reduce crime rates caused by drinking.53. What happens now in big cities?
es of drunkards flood out of pubs at llp. m. and 2a.m.
B. More licenses are granted to pubs and clubs.
C. There are fewer criminal offences related to drinking.
D. Things are different in London from other big cities.
54. The police hold the view that
A. the changes are due to more police efforts rather than the reform.
B. extension of drinking hours has produced a negative outcome.
C. the government obscures the truth by providing extra money.
D. the success of the reform can only be guaranteed with more government input.
55. Those who do not see a good prospect of the drinking reform
A. are trying to find more effective solutions.
B. are convinced that the reform will lead to more violent crimes.
C. believe that there should be adequate medical service for the drunkards.
D. believe that softened drinking laws may produce negative long-term effects.
Text 2
The best estimate of humanity's ecological footprint suggests that it now exceeds the Earth's re- generative capacity by around 20 percent. This fact is mentioned early on in the latest book from Lester R. Brown. The subtitle of Plan B 2.0 makes the bold claim of rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble. So will Brown's Plan B work?
The green movement divides broadly into two camps technological optimists and social revolu- tionaries. For every person like Brown proposing new ways to produce protein, there is an indige- nous movement in a developing country struggling for land redistribution. Another divide is be- tween those who see the biggest environmental problem as population pressure in the developing South, and those who say it is'consumption patterns in the rich North. When push comes to shove, Brown qualifies as a technological optimist who is worried about population. The giveaway is his eulogy to green techno-fixes, coupled with the fear of fast-growing developing countries copying Western consumer lifestyles.
His optimism, though, appears forced as he rolls out a depressing litany of statistics describing species extinction, water shortage, economic upheaval resulting from the eventual decline of oil production and, of course, climate change. And his rescue plans? Shoehorned into Brown's book is a section headed "Eradicating poverty, stabilizing population". This relies heavily on the orthodox approach to human development that seeks to use aid to plug the income gap for poor countries. Enumerating the costs of attaining the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals on health,education and poverty reduction, Brown conveys a sense that a few new fiscal measures, combined with the goodwill of rich countries, will deliver. This is an approach that has been followed for the last three decades, and it has not worked. During the 1990s, the share of benefits from global eco- nomic growth reaching those living on less than a dollar a day fell by 73 percent, in spite of count- less p——omises to end poverty. This is the problem with Plan B 2.0.
Brown's picture of climate-change-induced chaos is terrifying and convincing. It includes the awful image of the world's poorest people competing for food with an ever-hungrier bio-fuels indus- try, whose job will be to keep the developed world's SUVs on the road as oil becomes ever more expensive and then runs out. The combination of industrial inertia and the influence of industry on lobbyists is making this vision increasingly plausible. The poor get a bad deal because the world is run by the economic equivalent of gunboat diplomacy, as the recent World Tracie Organization talks showed.
Technologically optimistic visions often have too much faith that change will flow from a ration- al discussion about sensible policies, while tiptoeing around the real problems of power and politics. Even with Brown's Plan B to tell us which renewable energy technologies to use and which resilient food crops to grow, we are going to need a way to deal with economic vested interests and the demo- cratic deficit in global financial institutions that excludes the poor. For that, we need Plan C.
56. What is the issue that Brown tries to address in his newly published book?
[ A]The word's population has increased by 20 percent.
B. Human activities have gone beyond what the earth is able to sustain.
C. Human beings have developed in a certain ecological pattern.
D. The green movement has failed to produce needed environmental changes.57. Brown believes that the spread of consumerism to less developed countries has
A. led to land shortage and redistribution.
B. narrowed down the difference in lifestyle.
C. contributed to environmental deterioration.
D. increased high-protein food consumption.
58. Talking about Brown's dismal picture of environmental degradation, the author thinks that
A. his optimism does not seem to be well-grounded.
B. too many depressing statistics were listed in his book.
C. his description of the environmental problems lacks a focus.
D. he is trying to force his optimism on the readers.
59. The phrase "gunboat diplomacy" ( line 6, para. 4) means
A. to deal with industrial relations in the automobile sector by way of lobbying. B. to threaten to use force to make a smaller country agree to your demand.
C. to negotiate within the WTO framework in dealing with bilateral relations. A. Because new sensible policies may bring about positive changes.
B. Because the gap between the rich and poor should be narrowed.
C. Because new technologies and crops can be introduced under this plan.
D. Because the core problems of international politics should be addressed first.
Text 3
The average person sees tens of thousands of images a day--images on television, in news- papers and magazines, and on the sides of buses. Images also grace soda cans and T-shirts, and In- ternet search engines can instantly procure images for any word you type. On Flickr. com, a photo- sharing Web site, you can type in a word such as "love" and find photos of couples in embrace or parents hugging their children. Type in "terror", and among the results is a photograph of the World Trade Center towers burning. "Remember when this was a shocking image?" asks the per- son who posted the picture.
The question is not merely rhetorical. It points to something important about images in our cul- ture: they have become less magical and less shocking. Until the development of mass reproduc- tion, images carried more power and evoked more fear.
Today, anyone with a digital camera and a PC can produce and alter an image. As a result, the power of the image has been diluted in one sense, but strengthened in another. It has been dilu- ted by the ubiquity of images and the many populist technologies ( like inexpensive cameras and picture-editing software) that give,almost everyone the power to create, distort, and transmit ima- ges. But it has been strengthened by the gradual surrender of the printed word to pictures. Text ce- ded to image might be likened to an articulate person being rendered mute, forced to communicate via gesture and expression rather than language.
We love images and the democratizing power of technologies that give us the capability to make and manipulate images. What we are less eager to consider are the broader cultural effects of a society devoted to the image. Historians and anthropologists have explored the story of mankind's movement from an oral-based culture to a written culture, and later to a printed one. But in the past several decades we have begun to move from a culture based on the printed word to one based largely on images.
In making images rather than texts our guide, are we opening up new vistas for understanding and expression, creating a new form of communication that is "better than print," as some scholars have argued? Or are we merely making a peculiar and unwelcome return to forms of communica- tion once ascendant in preliterate societies?
Two things in particular are at stake in our contemporary confrontation with an image-based culture. First, technology has considerably undermined our ability to trust what we see, yet we have not adequately grappled with the effects of this on our notions of truth. Second, if we are in- deed moving from the era of the printed word to an era dominated by the image, what impact will this have on. culture? Will we become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality and in the process rejecting the demands of discipline and patience that true things often require of us if we are to understand their meaning and describe it with preci- sion?
61. The first paragraph of the text tells us that
A. we are exposed to a multitude of images every day.
B. consumer goods with images look more graceful.
C. the Internet can instantly present images of anything we want to buy.
D. Internet search engines give us undesired and shocking images.
the development of mass reproduction, images
A. have become le,ss important in popular culture.
B. are not as impressive as they were to viewers.
C. will be more magical and shocking in the future.
D. will become more and more thought-provoking.
63. The power of the image has been strengthened in the sense that
A. populist technologies enable almost everybody to manipulate images.
B. images have gradually won popularity among common people.
C. images are forcing us to communicate via gestures rather than language.
D. with populist technologies, texts might give way to pictures gradually.
64. What does "forms of communication once ascendant in preliterate societies" (line 4,para. 5) refer to?
es.
B. Written words.
C. Printed images.
D. Texts.
65. From the text, it can be inferred that the author
A. agrees that images offer a better form of communication than the print.
B. does not share the opinion that an image-based culture is less advanced.
C. shows deep concern about the impact of images on culture.
ers the image era to that of the printed word.
SECTl0N IIIReading Comprehension
PartA
Text l
在歐洲，英格蘭的豪飲是最根深蒂固的習俗，甚至羅馬侵略者都戰戰兢兢的對其進行了描述。隨著去年十一月放寬時間禁令後，許多人擔心這種情況會進一步惡化。醫生、學者、報紙和警察、法官一道對放寬禁令表示反對。警察和法官們警告說，這種改革類似於“精神失常”。對此，政府並不贊同。政府廢除了一戰期間由大衛·勞德·喬治率先實行的限制性飲酒政策。喬治是當時的首相，實行這一政策是為了避免工人喝得爛醉。
然而部長們從未否認過英國人對白酒有一種不健康的心態。他們認為，夜間，發生城市街道上的許多犯罪和騷亂都是由酒鬼所引起的。他們往往同時走出酒吧和俱樂部，相互之間爭奪回家的計程車。但部長們援引了澳大利亞的戰時經驗：較早的打烊時間導致這種現象被戲稱為“六點鐘豪飲”，即在規定的時間內人們爭分奪秒的喝酒。有人希望，放寬時間禁令後，英國人將會更文明，更紳士般的飲酒，即悠閒的喝著夏布利斯，而不是狂飲十品脫。樂觀主義者或是悲觀主義者，哪一種人觀點是正確的呢?
由於法律的修改，約三分之二的持證經營場所已經將營業時間延長了約一小時左右。(不到l%的店家被允許可以24小時經營。)這樣就避免了晚上ll點和凌晨2點出現的高峰人群，也填補了一些低峰時段。在幾個大的，熱鬧的城市，包括伯明翰，諾丁漢和曼徹斯特，地方當局報告說，街道秩序沒有比以前更亂。在伯明翰，一個飲酒者經常出沒的街頭已經出現了犯罪率的急劇下降(儘管這也可能是因為由於擔心最壞的情況而聘用了街道督導員)。在倫敦，最讓人注意的是，飲酒政策放寬後，沒有任何一個月出現過比上年同期更多的暴力犯罪記錄。在威斯敏斯特，情況也是這樣。當地聚集著許多首都的酒吧和俱樂部。與去年同期相比，自治市鎮的整體暴力水平自2005年11月起已經十個月連續下降12%。
對於這些積極的跡象，警方仍持謹慎態度。他們認為現在談論政策放寬對犯罪的影響，仍然為時尚早。他們指出，地方警力投入了時間和財力治理深夜飲酒，政府也給予了額外的現金補貼。但是在聖誕節前夕這一時間段上，政府補貼就已基本用完，那時情況可能會變得更復雜。與此同時，悲觀主義者也提出了新的、更志在必得的證據。西英格蘭大學的馬丁工廠認為更加自由的飲酒可能會導致一些不會立即顯現的長期問題。冰島首都雷克雅未克，七年前放寬了飲酒限制。雖然治安監管變得容易了，但更多的酒鬼住進了醫院，而且酒後駕駛率也在迅速飆升。
答案及精析
51.B【精析】細節題。題目問的是“下面那一句說法是不正確的?”。由文章第一段第一句“…even Roman invaders wrote about it withhorror.”可知：對於英格蘭的豪飲，羅馬侵略者也戰戰兢兢地進行’了描述，這與A項內容相符。由第一段第三句“…by the policeand judges。who warned that the reforms were‘close to lunacy”’可知：警察和法官認為這種改革幾乎是“精神失常”，這與B項內容不符。由第一段第二句“the relaxation of licensing hours last N0—vember”可知C項正確;由第一段最後一句“…a restrictive regimefirst imposed during the First World War by David Lloyd George，’’可知D項正確。故選B。
52.D【精析】推斷題。題目問的是“政府為什麼要改革限制飲酒時間的政策?”。由文章第二段第一、二句“…they argued that much of thecrime and disorder that blighted city streets at night was caused byhordes of drunkards roiling out of pubs and clubs at the salne timeand fighting for the salTle taxi cited the wartime experi—ence in Australia…”可知：政府改革限制飲酒時間的政策的目的是為了降低由飲酒引起的犯罪，這與D項內容相符。故選D。
53.C【精析】細節題。題目問的是“如今，大城市的狀況如何?”。由文章第三段第三、四句“Local authorities in several large，lively cit—ies，…report that the streets are no mofe disorderly than before…hasseen a dramatic drop in crime”可知：飲酒時間政策改革後，各地犯罪率呈下降趨勢，這與C項內容相符。再有第三段第五句“InLondon，e has not been a single month since the drinking lawswere relaxed…”可知D項錯誤。故選C。
54.A【精析】推斷題。題目問的是“警方的觀點是什麼?”。由文章第四段第二句“They point out that local forces have diverted time andmoney to police late—night drinking，and have been given extra cashby the government.”可知：當地警方投入時間和財力用於治理深夜飲酒問題，這與A項內容相符。由第四段第一句“The policeremain cautious about such positive signs…”可知B項錯誤。此外，文章沒有提及c項，而D項的“only”使該選項的表意過於絕對。故選A。
55.D【精析】細節題。題目問的是“那些對改革不樂觀的人們認為。”。由文章最後一段第二句話“…that freer drinking Calllead todong—term problems that are not immediately apparent.”可知對改革不樂觀的人們認為此項改革會引發長期問題，並以冰島首都雷克雅未克為例進行論證，這與D項內容相符。故選D。
Text 2
參考譯文
關於人類對生態的影響，最佳的估計表明：它已經超過了地球的再生能力的20%左右。這是早前由萊斯特·R·布朗在其新書中提出的。B2.0計劃的副標題大聲疾呼：拯救巨大壓力下的地球和麻煩不斷的人類文明。布朗的B計劃會有效果嗎?
綠色運動大致分為兩個陣營：技術樂觀主義者和社會革命主義者。像布朗這樣的每個人都提出新的方法來生產蛋白質。在發展中國家，人們通過土地運動實現土地的再分配。另一個分歧在於一些人意識到發展中的南方地區的人口壓力是最大的環境問題，而另一些人說那是富裕的北方地區的消費模式。情況越來越糟，作為一個技術樂觀主義者，布朗很擔心人口問題。加之擔憂快速增長的發展中國家會照搬西方消費者的生活方式，上述觀點就成了他為綠色修復技術所寫的悼詞。
他對物種滅絕，水資源短缺，石油生產的最終衰落所引發的經濟動盪進行描述，當然，也包括氣候變化。他使用了一連串令人沮喪的統計資料。由此可見，他的樂觀，不過是勉強為之。他的拯救計劃?作為布朗作品的一節，標題定為“消除貧困，穩定人口”。這在很大程度土依賴於傳統的人類發展的方法：利用援助來彌補貧窮國家的收入差距。細數為實現健康、教育和減少貧困的聯合國千年發展目標的成本，布朗傳達了這樣一種感覺：一些新的財政措施，加上富裕國家的善意，這些費用不成問題。在過去三十年中，這是一直沿用的，但一直沒有奏效的方法。20世紀90年代，儘管人們做出無數的承諾來解決貧困，但是那些生活費一天不足一美元的群體在全球經濟增長中的收益比例卻下降了73%。這就是B 2.0計劃的癥結所在。
布朗所描述的由氣候變化引起的混亂狀態是可怕的，也是有說服力的。它展現了世界上最貧窮的人們與生物燃料產業之間不斷的爭奪食物。石油越來越責，也即將耗盡，所以生物燃料產業的任務是確保發達國家的越野車能在道路上疾馳。工業惰性和行業遊說的影響力結合在一起，使這一場景變得更加可信。近期，世界“TRACIE”組織的會談顯示：炮艦外交的經濟等價物主宰世界的執行，所以窮人在協議中仍處於劣勢。
對技術上的樂觀使我們往往擁有太多的信心，認為理性的討論政策可以帶來改變，卻在權力和政治這些實際問題上徘徊觀望。即使布朗的 B計劃能夠告訴我們哪些可再生能源技術可以使用，哪些糧食作物適宜種植，我們也需要另一種方式來處理好既得的經濟利益和全球金融機構的赤字問題。全球金融機構往往排斥窮人。為此.我們需要C計劃。
答案及精析
56.B【精析】細節題。題目問的是“布朗試圖在其新書中說明什麼問題?”。由文章第一段第一句“The best estimate of humanity’s eco—logical footprint suggests that it nOW exceeds the Earth’s regenerativecapacity by around 20 percent.”可知：關於人類對生態的影響，最佳的估計表明：它已經超過了地球的再生能力的20%左右，這與B項內容相符。故選B。
57.C【精析】推理題。題目問的是“布朗認為消費主義觀念如果傳人欠發達中國家會導致什麼?”。由文章第二段的最後一句“The giveaway ishis eulogy to green techn0—led witll the fear of fast—growingdeveloping countries copying Western consumer lifestyles.”可知：加之擔憂快速增長的發展中國家照搬西方的消費者的生活方式，上述觀點就成了他為綠色修復技術所寫的悼詞。由此可見，布朗認為消費主義觀念傳入欠發達國家會導致綠色修復技術遭到破壞。故選C。
58.A【精析】細節題。題目問的是“在談到布朗對於環境惡化的可怕描述時，作者認為什麼?”。由文章第三段第一句“His optimism，ars forced as he rolls out…”可知：他對物種滅絕，水資源短缺，石油生產的最終衰落所引發的經濟動盪進行描述，當然，也包括氣候變化。他使用了一連串令人沮喪的統計資料。由此可見，他的樂觀，不過是勉強為之。故選A。
59.B【精析】詞義題。題目問的是“短語‘gunboat diplomacy’是什麼意思?”。“gunboat”意思是“炮艦”，從第四段的最後一句話“Thepoor get a bad deal because the world is l'un by the economic equiva-lent of gunboat diplomacy，…”分析得知，發達國家在與不發達國家的經濟貿易中往往採取以武力相威脅而從中獲利。故選B。
60.D【精析】細節題。題目問的是“為什麼作者說‘我們需要C計劃’?”。由文章最後一段的第一句話“Technologically optimisticvisions often have too much faith that change will flow from a ra—tional discussion about sensible policies，while tiptoeing around thereal problems of power and politics.”可知：對技術上的樂觀使我們往往擁有太多的信心，認為理性的討論政策可以帶來改變，卻在權力和政治這些實際問題上徘徊觀望。故選D。
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參考譯文
一般來說，每人每天都能看到成千上萬張圖片——電視上的圖片，報紙和雜誌上的圖片，巴士兩側的圖片。圖片還出現在汽水罐和T恤上。無論輸入什麼樣的文字，網際網路的`搜尋引擎可以立即找到很多圖片。在上——一個照片共享網站，你可以一個輸入字，如“愛”，然後發現很多情侶擁抱或父母擁抱孩子的照片。如果輸入“恐怖”，搜尋的圖片就有一張是世界貿易中心大樓的大火。貼圖的人還問：“還記得這張令人震驚的畫面是什麼時候嗎?”
這個問題不只是虛誇的言辭。它指出了我們文化形象的一些重要問題：它們已經變得不那麼神奇，不那麼觸目驚心。在可以大量複製之前，影象常帶有更多的說服力，更多的恐懼情緒。
如今，任何人都可以通過數碼相機和個人電腦來製作和修改圖片。因此，圖片的力量在某種意義上已經被分解了，而在另一種意義上它又被加強了。它被分解的原因是圖片和許多民粹主義技術(如廉價相機和圖片編輯軟體)的普遍性。這使得幾乎每個人都可以製造、修改和傳送圖片。而它被加強的原因是印刷文字逐漸讓步於圖片。文字讓步於影象就像把一個善於言表的人變成啞巴，使之只得通過手勢和表情，而不是語言進行溝通。
我們熱愛影象和技術的民主化力量。技術讓我們能夠製作和處理影象。我們忽視的是對圖片的專注往往給社會帶來更廣泛的文化影響。歷史學家和人類學家已經探索了從基於口語到基於書面語，再到基於印刷文字的文化轉變。但在過去幾十牟裡，我們已經開始從基於印刷文字的文化轉變成一個主要基於影象的文化。
這樣影象而不是文字成為我們的嚮導。我們是不是正在開創理解與表達的新局面?是不是正在創造一種新的，一些學者認為“比列印更好”的交流形式?或者我們只是做了一個特殊的，不受歡迎的迴歸，回婦到了文明社會前的交流形式?
在與基於影象的當代文化的對抗中，我們有兩件事尤其受到威脅：首先，技術已經大大削弱了我們對視野的信任，然而我們對於這一點所帶來的真理觀念的改變沒有進行足夠的抗衡。其次，如果我們確實是從印刷文字的時代，轉變到了影象為主的時代，那麼會給文化帶來什麼樣的影響呢?我們會不會變得非常習慣於逼真的圖片而不是實物;會不會偏愛現實的外觀，並在這個過程中拋棄理解和精確描繪實物所必需的紀律和耐心?
答案及精析
61.A【精析】主旨題。題目問的是“文章的第一段告訴我們什麼?”：由文章第一句“The average person sees tens of thousands of imagesa day…”可知：一般來說，每人每天都能看到成千上萬張圖片，這與A項內容相符。故選A。
62.B【精析】推理題。題目問的是“隨著大量加工技術的發展，影象變得怎麼樣?”。由文章第三段的第二句“As a result，the power ofthe image has been diluted in one sense….”可知：因此，圖片的力量在某種意義上已經被分解了。從而分析得知影象不再像以前那樣對我們有震撼力了，這與B項內容相符。故選B。
63.D【精析】推理題。題目問的是“圖片的力量在某種程度上被強化，是因為”。由文章第三段的第四句“But it has beenstrengthened by the gradual surrender of the printed word to pic-tures.”可知：而它被加強是因為印刷文字逐漸讓步於圖片，從中我們可以推斷出將來圖片會逐步取代文字，這與D項內容相符。故選D。
64.A【精析】推理題。題目問的是“文明前社會的交流形式是指什麼?”。由文章第五段第二句“0r are we merely making a peculiarand unwelcome rem/11 to forms of communication once ascendant in
preliterate societies?”可知：或者我們只是做了一個特殊的，不受歡迎的迴歸，迴歸到了文明前社會的交流形式?這裡的文明前社會的交流形式指的就是圖片。故選A。
65.C【精析】推理題。，題目問的是“從文中可推論出作者”。由文章倒數第二句話“Second，if we are indeed moving from theera of the printed word to an era dominated by the image，what im—pact will this have on culture?”可知：其次，如果我們確實是從印刷文字的時代，轉變到了影象為主的時代，那麼會給文化帶來什麼樣的影響呢?從中可推斷出作者對於圖片對於文化的影響而感到擔心，這與C項內容相符。故選c。
