新托福口语练习材料——关于电视的讨论(3)

　　III. Consider    
    Does television play a positive or negative role in the modern word?    
             Arguments     
   1. Television is now playing a very important part in our lives.     
   2. Television is not only a convenient source of entertainments/, 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 never thought of before and have never heard of before.    
   5. Television series have done a great job in popularizing many literary masterpieces.    
6. Television has been good company to those who do not work, like housewives, lonely old people, etc.     
   7. With television people are still free to enjoy other "civilized pleasures", or even more.     
   8. There is a considerable variety of programmes on television. The viewer is always free to choose whatever he wants to see.     
   9. Television provides enormous possibilities for education, like school programmes via closed-circuit television    
  10. Television provides special broadcasts for those in TV university, or open university. It also offers specialized subjects like language teaching, sewing, cooking, cosmetics, etc.    
  11. Television does the job of education in the broadest sense. Instructive programmes achieve their goal through entertaining the viewers.    
  12. Television provides an outlet for creative talents.     
  13. People all around the world are no longer distant and isolated from each other. The most distant countries and the strangest customs are brought right into one’s sitting-room.    
  14. Compared with the radio, everything on television is more lifelike, vivid, and real.     
  15. 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. People who don’t watch television are happier than those who watch it because television goes with the ki

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