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11月26日  TPO6 综合
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Thepassage and the lecture talk about the advantages and disadvantages of onlineencyclopedias and printed encyclopedias. The passage indicates that onlineencyclopedias have lots of weaknesses while the speaker thinks the advantagesof online encyclopedia are far more important than the disadvantages.


First,the passage says that communal online encyclopedia lack academic credentials whiletraditional encyclopedias are written by trained experts with standards ofacademic rigor. However, the speaker opposes this idea by stating that noacademic articles are perfect because they all have errors. And the onlineencyclopedia could easily correct their errors while the printed ones couldnot. So the errors in the printed articles would remain for decades.


Second,the article points out that online encyclopedia gives hackers opportunity tofabricate or delete the information. But the lecturer disagrees with this factby saying that there are some ways to protect the online files. One of themethods is to make the online encyclopedia into read only format, so that noone can change the information in it.


Third,the passage talks about that the communal encyclopedias focus too frequentlyand in too great a depth. And traditional encyclopedia provides a consideredview of what topics to include or exclude. However, the speaker obtains a viewthat the printed articles have limited space so the authors have to make decisionon what is important to write. In contrast, the online encyclopedia, On theother hand, shows its advantage since it could reflect viewers' interests whichthe printed encyclopedia is not able to do. The speaker believes that this is avery strong point about the online encyclopedia.

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11.26   独立   Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The advice from our grandparents have no use for their grandchildren because the world changed a lot during the past 50 years.
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Young people nowadays are tend to ignore the advice from their grandparents because they think the world changed a lot during the past 50 years and what their grandparents learnt is now useless. However, I strongly disagree with this idea. I think it is very important to show our respect to grandparents by listening to what they say. Besides, I believe that both the knowledge and the life experience of our grandparents will benefit us in some way. In the next paragraph, I will explain the details of why it is important for one to receive advice from older people.

Firstly, although the world has a big development in the field of science and technology during last 50 years, the social cultural did not change much. Therefore, the life experience of our grandparents still works in today’s society. For example, they know more about how to behave proper in public and how to keep good relationship with other people. By listening to their suggestions, young people can avoid many difficulties in their future lives.

Secondly, there is some kind of knowledge which will never expire. For an instance, the knowledge of how to make Chinese medicine. The family education plays a very important role in these medical families. Usually, the older people would obtain some secrets ingredients and will past them to the later generations. In this case, the grandchildren would survive and keep their family businesses only if they listen to the advice from their parents and grandparents.

However, since the world has rapid development in recent years, it is also important for young people to make sure their knowledge is updated so that they could keep the pace with the development. It means that they need to go to school to receive formal education and practice the theory in the society. For example, children from rich family are often considered as over protected and lack of ability to survive on their own. This is because their parents or even grandparents think they have enough knowledge and life experience to teach their children and grandchildren so the kids do not need to go to school or practice in the society. But as the time changes, their knowledge may not be useful in the modern society and it would make the kids not be able to survive without their families’ protection.

In conclusion, although the advice from grandparents may sometimes course over protection to their children, the advantages of taking suggestions from one’s grandparents are far overweight the disadvantages. Therefore, I disagree which the statement.