雅思作文素材：电视的利与弊

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

　　Arguments1. 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, cosmetics³, etc.

　　8. Television does the job of education in the broadest sense. Instructive programmes 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.

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 cosmetics   

n.化妆品

参考例句：

• We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
• Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。