2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：Is Television a Blessing or a Curse?
1.What is the ongoing heated discussion about? Whether television is...2.What effect does the fact that children are used to getting information
from TV bring? ...have been greatly weakened.
3.According to the speaker, what determines television's value to society?
How to...
It is universally accepted that television is playing an important part in
people’s lives. But, there is an ongoing heated discussion as to whether
television is a blessing or a curse. Television keeps one better informed about
current affairs, allows one to follow the latest developments in politics and
science, and offers a great variety of programs which are both instructive and
stimulating. The most distant countries, the strangest customs and the most
attractive scenes of nature are brought right into one’s room or household.
However, some people insist that television is a curse rather than a blessing.
They argue that it has brought about many serious problems. The major one is its
effects on young people. Children are now so used to getting their information
and entertainment from television that their literacy as well as physical
ability has been greatly weakened. Even worse than that, vulgar commercials and
indecent programs may cultivate their bad tastes, distort their view-points
towards human life to such a degree that their minds might be corrupted. To sum
up, television has both advantages and disadvantages. What ever effects it has,
one point is certain, television in itself is neither good nor bad. It is the
use to which it is put that determines its value to society.
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