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TPO11综合写作
The lecture contends that reading less literature is not as serious as the reading passage implies.
First, literature is not the only way to provide intellectual stimulation. Many reading materials can just exercise people's imaginations as good as novel and poems do. Thus there are no important benefits missing for the reading public.
Second, when people read less literature, they move to books in general. For example, people can listen to music and watch movies. It's not fair to say that listening to a great piece of music is a waste of time. Nowadays, the culture changes. There are more ways to express one's feelings besides novel and poems. In music and movies, ideas can be expressed more directly.
Third, the less invest literature received should not be attributed to readers. Actually, this is the authors' fault. Modern writers are too difficult to understand, so there is no doubt that publishers don't support them as they did centuries ago.
独立写作
“Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to so much information create problems. Which view do you agree with?”
Internet is one of the most influential technology ever since. On one hand, Internet makes communication among people easier, and provides lots of valuable information; on the other hand, Internet also brings problems.
First of all, the enormous amount information can make people lost themselves. Since everyone is able to add some information on the Internet, the amount of information is expanding all the time. Even a medium size BBS can have thousand of new topic every day. Thus, the curiosity of people leads them to search more and more websites, even though the passage an photos in the websites have nothings to do with them. One of my roommates can spend a whole night on a sport website! So there is no doubt that he cannot concentrate on the class, and he often gets sick because of lack of physical exercise.
What's more, with everyone accessible to create it, the information on the Internet is not always reliable. There are too few restrictions about posting on the Internet. If someone trusts everything he sees on the Internet, the result can be disastrous. For example, everyone, without even bit knowledge about medicine, can claim himself a physician on the Internet. He is able to post and contend himself have a efficient way to cure some disease. If some patients believe in him, not only their money are lost, but also their healthy.
Another problem is the human flesh search. People are always leaving some trace. Sometimes you let out your birthday on a BBS, and give away your workplace on another website. Such kind of trace is not dangerous, until someone decided to "manhunt" you. Once human flesh search begins, all the details you give out will quickly be found and then everyone interesting in you can know it. They know your habits, your grandmother's name, which school your little son studies in, which restaurants your family often go for a dinner, and everything you ever let out by accident. And such information being known by many people including your friends and enemies can annoy and destroy you. There are many cases in which after been human flesh searched, the poor man cannot continue to work at the previous position, and have to immigrate to another city.
TPO12综合写作
The lecture contends that the statement that Jane Austen is the subject of the professional painting is not convincing.
First, the permission of Austen's family hardly prove the portrait is of Austen. Actually, when they gave the permission, Austen had been dead for almost 70 years. Those family members had never seen Jane. Thus they don't know for sure whether the one on the portrait is Jane Austen.
Second, the similarity of the teenage girl and the one in Cassandra's sketch is mighty because the teenage girl is a relative of Austen. Jane Austen had a big family and many relatives. Some of her relatives were teenagers, or their children were teenagers. There is evidence supporting that the teenage girl on the portrait is one of Austen's distant relatives, Mary.
Third, there is contradictory clue in the dating of the portrait. Some material in the painting of the portrait is sold by a merchant who didn't begin his business career until Austen was twenty years old. Thus the portrait couldn't be painted when Austen was a teenage girl, and the teenager couldn't be Austen.
独立写作
“It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject.”
As a student majoring in math, I totally agree that it's better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject.
First of all, when studying a particular subject, the knowledge of other fundamental fields can be useful. In the history, many physicians are also mathematicians. As Newton said, "the law of nature is written in calculus." To study nature, one must study math. For example, it's impossible for Einstein to develop his theory of relativity without his knowledge about non-Euclidean geometry. Nowadays, even the economists begin to use the theory of probability to illustrate and predict economic phenomenon. Those who have never learnt math cannot understand an economic paper.
Second, knowledge about other subjects can also be useful for those studying fundamental fields. When I learnt partial differential equations (a course of math), the professor often gave some physical background for the equations we studied. With the physical background, we could better understand the meaning of each term, and what the solution mean for the real world. Moreover, we knew what we studied is not some artificial productions, but the rules that can be used for engineers. My teacher once said: if a mathematician doesn't know the equations' background in other disciplines, he can easily lose himself in the confusing symbols.
Not only the knowledge of other academic subjects is useful, but also the way of thinking. Some disciplines, such as math, prefer logical and theoretic thinking, while some others prefer intuitive and practical thinking. There is a story about a student majoring in math and a student majoring in physics. Both of them are given the same equation, and they spend days on it. Finally, the student majoring in physics cheers and cries "I find the solution", while the student majoring in math also cheers and cries "I demonstrate that the equation is soluble". Clearly, they have different ways of thinking when face the same problem. Sometimes the logical way works, while sometimes the intuitive way works. So, if one can learn both ways of thinking, he can view a question in a more efficient perspective. |
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