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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.
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Just as the speaker says, with both video and sound, television is showing us a more wonderful world day by day, which changes many people's life styles to some extent. However, in my point of view, reading books has at least as much impact on people as TV does, if not more than.
Admittedly, comparing with reading, watching TV might be more relaxing and less time-consuming, which is pretty adapted to the busy lives of modern citizens. But it is lack of more crucial merits as books have.
Firstly, books tell us about the long history instead of television. As a machine invented just over a hundred years ago, TV plays programs made relatively recently. Obviously, most of the human's thousands of years' history is blank in television, while a large myriad of historic events are documented and kept in books, in which splendid human culture and witness is preserved, such as Shakespeare's classic workings, Beethoven’s compositions, the Bible and so forth. If someone claims that TV nowadays is also able to show these, I will have to point out that the TV programs are depended on the books to a large extent, and change the composer's initial thinking more or less. As a result, books is one of the most significant method to know history and human culture.
Secondly, being restrained by conditions and resources under the nose, a majority of the world's information relies on books and newspapers to spread, although they are rather slower than television, radio and so on. After all, they are the best-spread style, and the one most convenient to keep. Good books and useful ones need to be read many times and badly needed in the market. For example, the famous magazine named Reader Digest sells pretty good with a huge publish quantity, and the Webster Dictionary has been edited for the 11th time not long before. So I conclude people's need in reading books is not likely to be replaced by TV, and people can certainly learn things they like and need, which does not exist in TV programs.
Thirdly, TV shows more about the phenomena, which is absolutely objective; while books explain the reasons and principles, which is somewhat subjective. It is undoubted that phenomena are simple to be observed, while the internal relevance is not so easily found. TV's expressing is far from enough, and books' supplement is badly needed. Especially by different writer's various opinions, the truth is more and more clear, and the culture will be better developed. During this process, readers' thinking is also practiced, which is meaningful for the whole lives.
Taking every aspect into account, along with the development of the society, TV might play a more and more significant rule, especially in entertainment and the expression of information. However, television can never take the place of books, for books tells people more useful knowledge and can be better kept, besides, books express varieties of thinking that come from many a people, which causes a further analysis about the truth and leads to the culture's advancement.
( 511 words, 44’50”)
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[ Last edited by staralways on 2005-8-24 at 00:06 ] |
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