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Impatient drivers, pushy people on the subway, kids shouting into their mobile phones...
we see these unpleasant incidents almost every day. This is why Canadian filmmaker John
Curtin's new documentary, To Hell With Manners! The Decline of Civility ,couldn't be
more timely.
He puts these impolite behaviors under a microscope in an attempt to explain why we
seem to have become so much ruder in recent years.
Curtin travels to New York and London to record rude and sometimes not-so-rude
behaviors. " I'm not actually saying that everyone is impolite. I would say we are becoming
less kind to each other simply because we're not paying attention to one another, " he said.
Cutin attributes people's indifference (冷漠) largely to the modern technology we have:
iPods, cellphones and stuff like that.
Montreal Gazette columnist Josh Freed, who talks in the film, agrees withCurtin."
We've become less human as a result of these technological advances and by the fact
that,so often,we're now surrounded by strangers, " Freed said.
Curtin wanted at all costs to make sure his film was not full of older people talking
about how impolite young people have become. Instead, _________ "We just live in a
very rushed, stressed-out society and it's very easy to feel you're under pressure and
you've got to take care of yourself. So we imagine ourselves in some kind of Darwinian
struggle where you have got to take care of number one," Curtin said.
1. Why does the author think Curtin's new documentary couldn't be more timely?
( Please answer within 20 words)
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2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?
Curtin examines these unpleasant incidents carefully, trying to make clear what leads
to our worsening manners.
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3. According to Curtin, what results in people's indifference? ( Please answer
within 15 words)
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4. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 into Chinese.
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5. Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words.( Please answer within
5 words)
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