Issue38 第三次模考，第一次成为完整的文章

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题目：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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The author asserts that today reading books is not a means of learning as good as watching TV. However, I cannot quite agree with him\her. In my view, reading books is unsubstutable by watching TV, and vice versa.

TV programs and books, both records which are human activities and discriptions of nature, differ from each other in several aspects. What is most significant character of books compared with TV programs is its lauguage, mainly constracted words, while TV programs largely depend on videos. These great difference in their lauguages determine their uses, which are implement of each other, constructing our new jinds of learning in these modern world.

TV programs are mostly ultilized in some cases where sentitative and images or objective facts are to be presented. Whatever else is to be said, most people would agree that the TV programs are the most direct and efficient way for students when they are trying to acquire the ability to manipulate the equipments in their labrotaries; the video will present all the process to viewers, in which they can have an imaginative recognation of what to do and how to do it, and where to be careful. In this scenario, what TV brings are somewhat superior to the mere instructions on paper, though it is not to say that, these instructions should give away.

When it comes to constract subjects, books show its advantages than TV programs. After all, not every formulations and laws can be discribed by images and videos. They must be written with terms and standardized mathemetic languages in order to maintain their accacy and rationality. I concede that these underlying laws can be passed into viewers with evidence and samples sufficient enough-- just think about how the laws are found and abstracted by our great thoughts from the nature-- but it seems not a best way of learning. What records mean is to provide a shortcut for us to merit from precursors' achievements: of course a good application in learning science, where theories and laws were mostly so well proved that we just have to learn to ultilize effectively rather than rediscover them by us own. To passing knowledge is human's development.

In that both TV and reading books have its advantages that cannot be substituted, they should be equally emphasized, studied and ultimately applicated to improve our sufficiency and effect in learning.