【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 he least of its readers. So long as you can read you can pick up a newspaper and enjoy. It can be read in the office, on the bus or even in the bathroom. It also offers indepth report on various events which can rarely be found on radio or TV. Being printed on paper, newspaper is friendly to eyes. However, if one wants to see as well as to read about the events, TV is the best choice. After all, one sight is worth a thousand words. Sometimes it is hard to really prehend something until one sees it with his own eyes. Take last year39。s tsunami for example. The TV coverage brought the terror of the catastrophe to the hearts of millions, prompting the international munity to take urgent relief measures. Of course, puter is the most efficient if one wants to search for something that happened two weeks ago. Unlike newspaper, radio or TV, which is usually devoted to recent events, a puter provides access to a wealth of information. Virtually everything is accessible at the touch of a fingertip. Thus we see that different types of media plement each other. Each has its strength and weakness and is most efficient in some way.單詞注釋：acquire: vt. 獲得，學(xué)到 overwhelm: vt. 淹沒，覆沒 outpouring: n. 傾揮，流出 promising: ，有前途的 superior: circumstance: n. 環(huán)境，情況 various: ，各種各樣的 prehend: vt. 領(lǐng)會，理解 tsunami: catastrophe: ，大禍relief: n. (痛苦等的) 減輕 virtually: ，實質(zhì)上accessible: ，可到達的fingertip: : : : adj. (直接)生效的，有效率的 people can use puters to talk, learn and municate without leaving home. There is a danger that it will cause more isolation and a lack of munication among people. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Invented some 60 years ago, puters have already transformed the way most of us live. The advent of the Internet opens up the possibility of municating and interacting via the puter. With more time spent on puters and less with each others, people start to fear the dehumanizing effect of this wonderful human contrivance. This inordinate concern is quite groundless. One doesn’t necessarily bee isolated if he spends most of his time alone using a puter. Isolation only occurs when one is obsessed by his own affair and cares nothing about anything else. Indeed, many feel isolated and lonely in the midst of crowds or even while talking to others because they are trapped in their own world or because others are in theirs. Alienation of people is not caused by how little they talk or meet each other but by the lack of interest in our fellow creatures and the world at large. Hence, puters actually help to prevent isolation by bringing every possible field of interest onto the screen. Everything is at the touch of a fingertip. You can broaden your interests and enrich your life by accessing whatever and whoever you are interested in. As far as munication is concerned, the using of puters is by no means detrimental. In primeval times our ancestors municated by a simple system of shouts and gestures. Then spoken and written languages developed. We now prefer s to ordinary letters. Our mode of munication is forever changing. Why should puters be singled out as particularly deleterious? What matters is not whether or not we municate in the orthodox or traditional ways but the very fact that we do municate. Indeed, puter technology facilitates the exchange of ideas and information. The Internet keeps us linked to each other all the time. Apart from the usual s, chat rooms and forums, teleconferencing is being employed daily to enhance munication. Communication is made easy by technology, which promises infinite possibilities ahead. Thus, munication and isolation must not be defined in a narrow sense. Problems arise not from technological development but from people themselves. Computer is but a tool, the misuse of which it is not responsible for. 單詞注釋：transform: advent: ，到來 via: ，經(jīng)由 dehumanize : ， 使成獸性 contrivance: inordinate: 過量的 isolation : obsess: ，使困擾 alienation : 疏遠(yuǎn) detrimental: primitive: ，遠(yuǎn)古的 ancestor: ，祖宗 deleterious: orthodox: ，傳統(tǒng)的 infinite: 7. Many people believe that we have developed into a ‘throwaway society’ which is filled with plastic bags and rubbish. Do you agree or disagree? It is indeed true that everything es at a price. We are paying through the nose in terms of environmental damage for the conveniences we enjoy nowadays. The world is being a throwaway society, where the amount of garbage is increasing daily. Of course, disposable items have to be used under some circumstances. Indeed, it is imperative to use disposable needles and syringes in hospitals to prevent contagion among patients.