issue38 [practise小组作业第2次］欢迎拍啊

子旋UID: 2196177

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."
   When a large scale of information enters into our lives, we have to choose different forms which are much more fitted than others according to the individual’s circumstances. Though some people think the computer or television bring us expanded world than ever before, I prefer to reading to require knowledge by indulging myself into books and meditating the truth of this world.

  Television tends to create passive viewers by providing a variety of cultures. We can not always learn everything by ourselves, so we need a helpful method to require the knowledge in whose field we are not specialists. Television, as a image, serve as a media for us to introduce the abstract concepts and arouse our interests. However, it tends to create passive viewers by a single form. We just need to press the paddle to search for the program we interested in. And we become lazy increasingly to go on further study and research in the library or other specific books.

  Most of the time, television may serve as a tool of entertainment rather than education which can be fully annotated in the books. Television program usually combines the meaningful stories with new concepts. Even though the program may hint some educational meanings, the most significant role of television program is entertainment. After all, this is also the purpose for people to choose television program. Nowadays, we may watch more educational programs than ever before. They involve all the fields such as cultures, economy, policy, art, moral, and so on. But as we argue above, its educational effect depends on its function and is doomed to be superficial while expounding the knowledge to all.

  Adversely, reading books remain the most efficient way for people to acquire information and knowledge. When we read a book, we remember the feature of the book and transform it into our own mind. Then this procedure helps us to understand the main point of the book. The ability to clarify the knowledge we get is used in the following procedure and we have to combine it with our own definition. After finishing the steps above, we inevitably evaluate the opinion of the author and have our own specific ones. The efficiency of reading books embodies both in its function to encourage people to read actively and stimulate their creativity.

  Further more, the delight after comprehending by oneself can only be obtained by reading books. When we indulge into a book, we are not just remember the main feature or the whole content of book, but also enter into it and converse with the author in our hearts. For example, we may exchange the opinion of a scientific theory by an E-mail or reserve our own conclusion in heart. And when you encounter with a character you like most in an art book, you may want to act as a character relative to the person and talk with him/her. The pleasure you get values much and may not be cherished in the procedure of watching television.

  Above all, we have going into an age of television and it indeed advance our cognition. However, the reading is still the most efficient way for people to acquire information and knowledge.

[ 本帖最后由 子旋 于 2006-7-31 00:26 编辑 ]

david_zhaiUID: 2178828

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The speaker asserts that people can learn as much by watching TV as they can by reading books. At the first glance, this opinion seems to somewhat appealing, but further reflection tell me, agree or disagree with it is a matter of balancing between its pros and cons, but if one has considered the following perspectives, he/she cannot completely agree with it.

Admittedly, followed the development of modern video technology, people learn knowledge not only by reading books, but also acquire the information of their need by watching TV. To begin with, because the TV program was very living and interesting through using different kinds of shooting methods or styles, so people is easy to learn and understand those complicated theories. An example in this case is multimedia teaching, as infant English lecture. Because of the world economic globalization, English as an international language was became much more important. According to a latest survey, more than 80 percent Chinese parents let their infant to learn English, but as we known that English as a language is difficult to learn only by reading texts, while TV programs which owned living picture and melting sound can provide a super environment of learning English. In fact, my niece was learning English by watching an interesting English teaching cartoon that named “Follow the Victor to learn English”.

Furthermore, since the first artificial broadcasting satellite was devoted to transmit the video signal, wherever people lived, and they can obtain real-time information which happened far from them. Those real-time information that cannot find in any books are very useful in when some people make a vital decision. Especially in stock, economy policies, so much as gambling. For example, many people do foreign futures, if they hope to earn much money，the experts of this field often suggested them to watch TV news，because the latest news concluded the new marketing tendency.

Although I agree that people can learn as much by watching TV as they can by reading books, I insist that watching TV cannot instead of reading books. In the first place, watching television can neither provide abstract thinking which is the most crucial texture in advanced scientific research, nor can it teach us the effective management and adequate control of the written language while written language carry the utmost importance in the inheritance and dissemination of knowledge for all human kind. These qualities can be acquired only through the reading, digesting, and ruminating of books. Books contain the collective human knowledge and wisdom accumulated for ages, ever since pre-history. The shallow, short-sighted TV programs are incomparable to the riches in books. In the second place, because the TV programs are faced to the whole audience, it is difficult to imagine who want learn much more advanced and extensive knowledge which about a certain study field by watching TV. Especially in that basic discipline that likes physics, mathematics, and so on.

Consequently, judging from all analysis and reasons mentioned above, which sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive than any one of them, we may safely come to a conclusion: It is still impossible for television to take the place of books, yet they can cooperate to make it easier and interesting for people to learn.