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overlapping realities, the one they live every day and the one they experience vicariously in what they are 
shown or told. It is the media, directly or indirectly, that shape opinion about how America is doing as 
society, and the picture they present is not a pretty one. Local newscasts pile up the bodies at a rate of a 
murder a minute, tabloid TV feeds on the sins of the rich and famous. Call-in radio has become a festival of 
complaint. Attack politics assures voters that all seekers and holders of public office are corrupt. 
Commercials tantalise consumers with the unattainable. "The press likes to think of itself as representing 
the public voice when it does not at all," Yankelovich says. "It represents the voice of the press, with its own 
language, its own culture, its own interests." 
22. The media is criticised in the paragraph 
A) for covering up news about murders. 
B) that it does not represent the political beliefs of politicians. 
C) for its vicarious picture of what is happening in the U.S. 
D) for improperly shaping view about how the American society is getting on 
E) for directly and correctly providing the information people really need to know 
23. It is inferred from the paragraph that................... 
A) the American media have come to a financial deadlock. 
B) the media is the only way to know the realities. 
C) what is shown on TV is irrelevant to the sins of the rich and well-known. 
D) the press always represents the public opinion. 
E) society is suffering deeply from often occurring murders. 
24. Yankelovich is of the opinion that................... 
A) there are times when the press represent the public opinion. 
B) the press alleges to represent the public voice even when it does not. 
C) those who own the press have their own culture different from the Americans. 
D) even if the press is not right at some points, people believe it wholeheartedly. 
E) as the public is unresponsive to the press misrepresentation of the public needs. 
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The paradox of the American gun culture is that it is undermining the very values it was meant to protect. 
Do you remember Franklin Roosevelt's famous "Four Freedoms"? These were what America ostensibly 
fought World War II over. One of them was "freedom from fear." That battle has 
been lost. Even outside main cities, the US is now a land of real freedom only during daylight. We have 
reached a point in recent years where people believe they have to constantly peer over their shoulders as if 
being pursued by the KGB. This routine fear is now so much part of life in the US that Americans have 
begun to take it for granted. We instinctively avoid large sections of cities, using mental maps in our maps in 
our heads that are unavailable to tourists. Last year I was in Japan. It is a worse place to live than the US in 
many respects. But it is possible to walk in a park in Tokyo at midnight fearlessly just as it was in America 
as recently as the 1950s. This freedom felt strange to me, as if a state of fear about physical safety is 
normal. And it is. Barricading oneself at home all night is now natural; wandering around freely and alone - 
once the quintessential American experience - is now foolhardy. 
1. What has been lost is................... 
A) The arms that Americans possessed to fight in World War II. 
B) The battle for freedom from fear. 
C) Four freedoms touched on in Franklin Roosevelt's famous book. 
D) World War II. 
E) A small skirmish in the USA. 
2. In many American cities................... 
A) People feel free to walk outside only after dark. 
B) Those arming themselves for self-defence now attack others in daylight. 
C) Guns are waning in value. 
D) 0nly during daylight is it probable to talk of real freedom to be out. 
E) The battle for liberty from foreign rule has been lost. 

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