雅思写作素材：电视在现代社会中的角色

 　　雅思写作素材：电视在现代社会中的角色

　　Does television play a positive or negative role in the modern world?

　　Arguments

　　1. Television is now playing a very important part in our lives.

　　2. Television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a comparatively cheap one.

　　3. Television keeps one informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in science and politics and offers an endless series of programmes which are both instructive and entertaining.

　　4. A lot of television programmes introduce people to things they have never thought or heard of before.

　　5. Television has been good company to those who do not work, like housewives, lonely old people, etc.

　　6. Television provides enormous¹ possibilities for education, like school programmes via closed-circuit television.

　　7. Television provides special broadcasts for those in TV university, or open university. It also offers specialised subjects like language teaching², sewing, cooking, painting, cosmetology, etc.

　　8. Television does the job of education in the broadest sense. Instructive pmgrammes achieve their goal through entertaining the viewers.

　　9. Compared with the radio, everything on television is more lifelike, vivid, and real.

　　10. Television may be a vital factor in holding a family together where there are, for example, economic problems and husband and wife seem at breaking point.

　　Counter-arguments

　　1. Television is a great time-waster.

　　2. Television makes the viewer completely passive³ because everything is presented to him without any effort on his part.

　　3. Television is to blame for the fact that children take longer to learn to read these days and barely⁴ see the point at all of acquiring the skill.

　　4. Television takes up too much of our time. We no longer have enough time for hobbies, entertaining activities, and other outside amusements like theatres, cinemas, sports, etc.

　　5. People rush home, gulp⁵ their food, which is often as simple as sandwich and a glass of beer, and start watching the TV programmes.

　　6. The monster, i.e. television, demands absolute⁶ silence and attention. No one dares to open his mouth during a programme.

　　7. People have grown addicted⁷ to television, often neglecting⁸ the necessary and more important things like meals, sleep and even work.

　　8. A lot of parents use television as a pacifier for their children. They put their children in front of the set and don't care whether the children are exposed to rubbishy commercials or spectacles⁹ of violence as long as the children are quiet.

　　9. What the viewer receives from television is nothing but second-hand¹⁰ experience. He is completely cut off from the real world.

　　10. Television prevents people from communicating with each other. It has done a lot of harm to the relationship between family members.

1 enormous   

adj.巨大的；庞大的

参考例句：

• An enormous sum of money is injected each year into teaching.每年都有大量资金投入到教学中。
• They wield enormous political power.他们行使巨大的政治权力。

2 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

3 passive   

adj.被动的；消极的

参考例句：

• He has a passive expression on his face.他脸上有一种漠然的表情。
• It lands the manager in a passive position.它使经理处于被动地位。

4 barely   

adv.仅仅，几乎没有，几乎不

参考例句：

• The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
• He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。

5 gulp   

vt.吞咽，大口地吸（气）；vi.哽住；n.吞咽

参考例句：

• She took down the tablets in one gulp.她把那些药片一口吞了下去。
• Don't gulp your food,chew it before you swallow it.吃东西不要狼吞虎咽，要嚼碎了再咽下去。

6 absolute   

adj.十足的；绝对的；不受任何限制的

参考例句：

• The first year of the course was an absolute doddle.第一年的课程简单极了。
• I look upon this as an absolute necessity.我认为这是绝对必要。

7 addicted   

adj.沉溺于....的，对...上瘾的

参考例句：

• He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
• She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。

8 neglecting   

v.疏忽( neglect的现在分词 )；忽略；遗漏；疏于照顾

参考例句：

• She denies neglecting her baby. 她不承认没有照看好她的孩子。
• The boss hauled him over the coals for neglecting his duty. 他因失职而受到老板的谴责。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9 spectacles   

n.眼镜

参考例句：

• a pair of spectacles 一副眼镜
• People wear spectacles so that they can see better. 人们戴眼镜是为了看得更清楚。

10 second-hand   

adj.用过的，旧的，二手的

参考例句：

• I got this book by chance at a second-hand bookshop.我赶巧在一家旧书店里买到这本书。
• They will put all these second-hand goods up for sale.他们将把这些旧货全部公开出售。