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第二次作业
TOPIC: 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."
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With the development of science and technology, the means by which we can attain new knowledge increase drastically. A battle between traditional ways and new ways of absorbing knowledge ensues. However, I strongly object the statement that reading books is not as important as it once was because people can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books for the following reasons.

The first reason why I support above statement is that television can’t impart some deeper ideas to us though the pictures in it are very vivid. Some famous philosophers, such as Wikipedia and Descartes and so on, left us a lot of priceless theories. These theories are so profound that we will be bemused when we touch it for the first time. But these recondite theories may be explained by other books that we read later. For that matter, these theories can be ingested by us easily and we will benefit from it forever. Perhaps there are some theories that weren’t interpreted directly. But we still can understand the marrow of it by other books that give you inspirations. Moreover, we will form ourselves theories by reading books and it can help us understand various theories better and earlier. But television hasn’t these advantages.

The further reason is that by reading books we can form a kind of active attitude that will influence on every sides of our life. All of us have the experiences that in the process of reading books we often meet some graceful sentences that are according to our taste or other valuable material and then we will collect it in our notebooks. Perhaps we still didn’t realize that our positive attitudes have been cultivated in this course but it actually happened. Also, our intelligence will be developed better due to our active thinking in these courses. In the contrary, we always follow behind the programs that televise present and even we have no time to think when these programs go forward second by second as if we are dragged like animals by it. With times going on, a kind of passive attitude must be formed in our minds and the development of our intelligence will be hindered in turn.

Last but not least, it is not doubt books are much convenience than television. We can carry a book when we have a walk or set about some other things and we can read it according to our pleasure. So books guarantee us of accepting knowledge everywhere. But television will be limited by a series of factors, such as electricity, cable equipment, air waves and so on.

However, it should be admitted that by watching television we can master knowledge quickly concerned craft technologies and some other technologies alike. Because televisions can give you the feeling that seems you do it by yourself. No matter how concrete a book introduces a detail of a kind of craft technology people still are inclined to grasp it through television but not books.

In conclusion, by taking into account all these factors we may finally say that in the respect of getting knowledge watching television can’t compete with reading books though television has some advantages that books don’t have.

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