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发表于 2011-2-23 22:04:02
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Do you agree with the following statement? it is only worth watching movies that can teach us something about real life.
综合: TPO4
With the rapid development of the movie industry, the discussion concerning whether only those movies that could teach us about real life worth watching becomes a hot topic. Although this kind of movies is of high value, defects that may danger this correctness of this statement could be seen. From my perspective, there are much more kind of movies that are useful and beneficial for both people and the whole society.
Admittedly, movies that could teach us about real life is beneficial to some extent. This kind of movies leads us to know more about the real life in our society. Through watching them, the things that we can learn include what people are like, how should we act, what virtue could we learn, etc. However, we couldn’t limit our own views due to the advantages this kind of movie brings to us. In fact, there are other movies that are also, even more inspiring.
As we all know, many kinds of movies exist nowadays, including real movies, as mentioned above, and fantasy movies, thrill movies, comedies, or even cartoons, all of which have their own advantages that are good for people’s mind. Take fantasy movies for example. I was fascinated about Happy Potter movie series when I was in high school, and I’ve followed all the episodes of it. The stories are so interesting, quite different from normal ones. I love these magic stuffs in it so much that I even imagine what if I also have magic power. Unlike movies that reflect real world, the fantasy movies such as Harry Potter could broaden my imagination, enjoying the fantastic feeling in our daily boring life.
Besides, science movies are also very inspiring in the aspect of acknowledging the whole world, even better than what real movies could. Due to some kind of constrains, the essence of truth of the society could not be revealed in movies that reflect real life, although its slogan is to “reveal the real life”. While in these science movies, it is more free and easier to express what director what to say. Take The Matrix for example. Everybody knows that The Matrix is a famous science movie made by Hollywood. It seems that it just tells a story that is irrelevant to our world and society, however, the spirit of the movie is very profound, which uncover the theme of what the life is in the world, serious philosophical topic it discusses.
Recently comedies and cartoon movies are becoming more and more popular, maybe due to the increasing pressure we are facing every day. By watching comedies, we can laugh out loud forgetting the unpleased things in our life and indulge ourselves in stories of the movies; and the missing innocence of childhood could also be retrieved by watching a simple cartoon movie. Getting together with families and watching a comedy in front of screen, how wonderful it is!
All in all, through discussion above, I could draw safely the conclusion that it is too hasty to assert that the only movie that worth watching is those reflect real life. Not merely is the movies that reflect real life worth watching, but also other kinds of movies, such as fantasy movies, comedies and cartoon movies, etc, could bring us terrific feelings and release us from daily pressure and enhance the understanding about the whole world.
TPO4
In the reading passage, the author asserts that dinosaurs were endotherms with three reasons, and in the lecture, the professor discusses on the same topic, however, she casts doubt on the statement in the reading and gives three specific reasons to support her opinion.
Initially, the professor confirms that with the evidence of dinosaur fossils discovered in polar regions, it is not enough to support the statement that dinosaurs are endotherms. The temprature of polar regions may be not that cold as it is today, so it is possible that dinosaurs could survive; even polar regions become cold enough, they could migrate to other districts which are warmer, or they just could hibernate. The reason given by the professor is incompatible with that in the reading passage.
Besides, in the reading, the author supports the statement by saying that the position and movement of legs. Endotherms's legs are all posed underneath the body, so are dinosaurs'. However, in the lecture, the professor disputes this statement. She contends that legs underneath the body could also be explained to support more weight of body, so they could grow into large size, which are advantage for dinosaurs.
Finally, contrary to the assertion in the passage that with the existence of harversian canals, dinosaurs are endotherms, the professor gives different opinion. It is true that dinosaurs have harversian canals in their bone structures, while the feature that dinosaurs would grow slowly or even stop growing in cooler period is not the characteristic of endotherms, which will grow rapidly even when the environment becomes cool.
All in all, the reading passage is disputed by the reasons in the lecture and the professor confirms that the three explanations are unconvincing and dinosaurs are not endotherms as the author asserts in the reading.
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