| 英语六级模拟试卷(56) -- 写作 |
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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic NEWSPAPER -- A BETTER SOURCE OF NEWS. You should base your composition on the following instructions (given in Chinese.): 根据一次有关人们日常信息来源的调查（a questionnaire on "Where you get your news each day"），有近乎72%的人靠电视获取信息，只有12%的人是通过报纸了解天下事的。在我看来，报纸是一种更可取得信息来源。理由有三:1.新闻报道比电视新闻更具深度；2. 看报纸不受时间限制； 3.看报只要动脑筋，有利于智力的提高 You should write neatly with no less than 120 words. 作文范文：NEWSPAPER -- A BETTER SOURCE OF NEWS For most of us today, television is our main source of news. According to a questionnaire on the way of getting news, nearly 72 per cent of the people watch TV, and only 12 per cent read newspaper for their daily news. Perhaps the great disparity of ratio results from the easy access to television nowadays. This, however, puts us in a very disadvantageous position, for the newspaper is a better source of news in many ways. Although television news excels in bringing into our living room dramatic events of singular importance: spacecraft launchings, natural disasters, record-breaking sports events, wars and so on, yet it cannot cover important stories in the depth they may deserve because of its time limit. The newspaper, however, can devote to a news item as much space as necessary and flesh it out with more details. Furthermore, television by nature is a  . It deprives viewers of the freedom of selection. Whether you like or dislike a particular piece of news, you have to sit before the tube and watch it, following its pace passively. But by reading newspapers, you can select the most interesting news, and skip over what you think is boring or irrelevant. You can read some news in great detail or just run through it briefly. Also, watching TV involves very little, if any, mental activity, and a constant diet of television journalism leads to the decline in general intellectual skills such as reading and writing. In contrast to this, the print media encourages active involvement in what is being reported. Readers have to make greater efforts than TV viewers to follow and absorb a news report.When we consider television news versus newspaper news in terms of format, coverage and nature, is there any question as to which is a better source of news? 
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