提纲issue38，183，196，30 Ares第二次作业

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提纲 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.

As watching television becomes more and more universal in our life, reading books is impacted by it more and less. However, I strongly disagree with the speaker's opinion that reading books is less important because people can learn as much as knowledge and information by watching TV.

1 Admittedly, television hold some advantages over books for imparting certain kinds of information. For instance, political propagate and business advertisements. In addition, television can convey temporal and spatial events and provide a more vivid and convincing record than books do.
2 However, books still play an indispensable role in the society although people spend more time on watching TV. First, knowledge is mostly in form of books, education in schools is by means of books at the most time, TV education is only an auxiliary ways to learn. Second, books are far more potable than television sets.
3 Actually, books and televisions are both the indispensable ways for us to get information and knowledge. Each of them has special advantages and flaws. Thus, the best way to deal with their relationship is to combine both of them.

In sum, television and video can be more efficient than books when it comes to current evens. However, books facilitate learning in certain ways which TV can not. The optional approach is to use the both sides of media. TV keeps us informed and provides moving imagery, while books offer comprehensive perspective and insight on knowledge.   

提纲issue183  As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious."

I don’t agree with the speaker’s opinion that things become more complex and mysterious as we acquire more knowledge. The goal we acquire knowledge is to comprehensive the world better and find an easier way to deal with things.

1 The feeling that things become more complex and mysterious is not due to our increasing knowledge, the true reason is our life is getting colorful, our prospects and view is much broader than that of the old times. We have to deal with various people and things, which is not so easy.
2 With the high extent of globalization, we have more information and knowledge about the foreign nations, their different value and opinions have affected our ways of life and thought to some extent. This situation requires us to own a higher ability to distinguish wrong and right, in addition, to have much stronger tolerance. Such situation makes us feel things have become more complex, but only though learning more knowledge, can we gain such higher ability.  
3 A plenty of things have been simplified rather than being complicated. As we acquire more knowledge, big disciplines are divided into several more particular and professional subjects. The experts in these relatively narrow areas can research more profoundly, so they will provide us more methods to deal with the things.

In sum, when we get more knowledge, we may feel that the world is more complex and mysterious than we thought before we learnt. It is true because the knowledge is unlimited. However, the final result of requiring more knowledge is let us comprehend the world and other people better. Things has not been complex and mysterious, as we require more and more problems, we have more ways to deal with things and to solve the problems.
例子: When have gotten more knowledge of the digital technologies, we make our life more convenient and comfortable than it was in old days. If we want to connect our friends in a long distance, we can use E-mail and MSN, so we have broken out the limitation of using letters and telephone which are the only tools of communication before we did not get the technological knowledge.

提纲issue196. "Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life.
In today’s high technological world, our life has been greatly influenced by the technology and it seems that we can not live without the fruition it has brought to us. However, the technology is a double-edges sword, which if misused or overused might undermine the quality of life.

Admittedly, the technology has some detrimental influence, such as environment pollution, traffic jam, and industrial waste and so on. Such negative effects have brought people’s much trouble. They decrease the quality of life. In addition, high technology machine replace the labor force which brings unemployment and threaten the quality of life. The most awful thing is the nuclear weapon, which may damages the existence of humans.

However, I agree insofar with the speaker’s opinion the technology may threaten or damage the quality of life, the claim that technology creates more problems than it solves is too extreme. Technology has brought us great deal of advanced things which make our life more convenient and comfortable.

Whether the technology bring us happiness or trouble even fatal influence is not depend on the technology itself, but the attitude toward it of people and how to utilize it. Technology doesn’t have will or intention.

In sum, as technology has dramatically increased the lever of our life, it brought some detrimental impact to humans at the same time. But it is controlled by us and we can make it benefit to human though eliminating the negative effect by doing our best efforts and strengthening the cooperation among nations.

提纲issue30"The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people's efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time."
Achievement of technology has brought a lot of changes into the contemporary world. It makes our life more efficient and convenient, advance the quality of our life to some extent. Technology has been a crucial and indispensable part of our life, we feel more and more reliant to the high-developed technology.

1  Admittedly, technology increase people's efficiency greatly. With technology, we can do more things in less time, efficiency is increased, time is saved, more money and interest is produced, it seems that we can have more leisure time to relax and enjoy ourselves.
2  However, the fact is that although people's efficiency is increased greatly, their leisure time is decreased. It seems illogical, but it's the truth.
3  Moreover, the efficiency which is increased by technology brings the problem of unemployment. Much work can be finished by machines; a worker can do more work with the help of technology, so a company or factory doesn't need the same amount workers as in the past time.

In sum, achievement of technology certainly increases people's efficiency, but it doesn't mean that people will have leisure time. The fact is just opposed. The achievement of technology need people with high quality and abundant knowledge, it make people feel great pressure and have to sacrifice their leisure time to do more and more work and study. Thus, the primal purpose of high technology is just increasing people's efficiency and offering convenience, but absolutely not making people have leisure time. It seems like a paradox, but the society's character of pursuing high value and interest decides that technology's complex effect to people.

[ 本帖最后由 veinard 于 2006-6-28 22:27 编辑 ]