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题目:ISSUE38 - "In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books."
字数:425 用时:00:49:52 日期:2007-7-19 下午 09:42:40
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The author asserts that in the age of television, television plays an more important role than books, for it's possible for people to learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books. It is a long-term issue between traditional paper medium and modern electrical medium. However, I tend to disagree the statement in two aspects.
Admittedly, in some circumstances, I concede that television has its own advantages. It provides people with vivid images and audios which are easy to be accepted, it can also play discovery videos, which's better than only words' describing. Besides, compared with books and newspapers, it provides more information and comes more effective. People can get enough information in time by watching TV news, for example, we Chinese people saw video of the plane crash on the World Trade Center in just a few minutes after it happened. Of course, in some emergency situations, TV spreads information much faster than traditional media like newspapers.
However, there're many more advantages that television do not have. First, although books can't provide us with vivid videos and audios, it's a more attractive language for us to learn. On one hand, it cannot provide us with pictures and sounds, on the other hand, it provides us with a even wider space to think and imagine. The fact that we're still using books in college to study every subject shows that books are better at expressing knowledge integrallty and accurately. Thus, books play an more important role in education.
Secondly, television is a good media provider in life, however, it's not possible for us to carry a big television all the time with us. Maybe a portable television can settle the problem, but it costs much. While on the contrary, books are always easy to carry, we can take several novels to kill time when we are on a flight, we can read our favourite book under a big tree in a comfortable afternoon and we can put a mini-version Holy Bible in our pocket, and whenever we have time, we can spend a few minutes learn some sentence and get fully relax. What's more, books are much cheaper than televisions, thus, it's much easier for you to get a plenty of great books than to own a 34 inches television in your living room.
In sum, television does provide people with a vivid way to obtain information, however, it still cannont replace books. In most circumstance, what you can learn from books are still much more than what you can in television. |
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