【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 o, 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. Against: 1. Television is a great timewaster. 2. Television makes the viewer pletely passive because everything is presented to him without any effort on his part. 3. Television is to blame for the fact that children take longer to learn to read these days and barely see the point at all of acquiring the skill. 4. Television takes up too much of our time. We no longer have enough time for hobbies, entertaining activities, and other outside amusement like theatres, cinemas, sports, etc. 5. People rush home, gulp their food, which is often as simple as sandwich and a glass of beer, and start watching the TV programmes. 6. The monster, . television, demands absolute silence and attention. No one dares to open his mouth during a programme. 7. People have grown addicted to television, often neglecting the necessary and more important things like meals, sleep and even work. 8. A lot of parents use television as a pacifier for their children. They put their children in front of the set and don39。t care whether the children are exposed to rubbishy mercials or spectacles of violence as long as the children are quiet. 9. What the viewer receives from television is nothing but secondhand experience. He is pletely cut off from the real world. 10. Television prevents people from municating with each other. It has done a lot of harm to the relationship between family members. 11. Does fashion contribute anything to society?For: 1. A good appearance may help people make a better impression in social contacts. 2. When people are getting old, they should pay more attention to their appearance. 3. The way people are dressed helps them to preserve a sense of their own value and personality. 4. Fashion adds spice to life with its rich colour, variety, and beauty. 5. Men and women follow fashions in order to please each other and themselves. 6. The world will be a dull place to live in if people always wear clothes of the same style and colour. 7. Mass production makes welldesigned clothes cheap, available to everyone. 8. The fashion industry is an enormous one. It provides employment for people like textile workers, designers, shopkeepers, etc. 9. The fashion industry has helped industrial research in the sense that a lot of new materials, like nylon, rayon, etc. have been made to meet the demand of the consumers. 10. Being welldressed is of psychological importance because confidence in one39。s appearance leads to confidence in one39。s success in life. Against: 1. People sometimes look odd with the socalled fashionable hairstyles, makeup, and dresses. 2. Top designers in Paris and London are dictatorial, for they lay down the law and the whole world rushes to obey. 3. Fashion goes like this: one year, one thing。 the next year, the reverse. 4. People are so vain that they are afraid of being seen in oldfashioned clothes. 5. People, especially the fashionfollowers, are blackmailed by fashiondesigners and stores. 6. Changing fashions is a deliberate creation of waste because one will have to discard a lot of new clothes in order to follow fashions. 7. Fashion designers are not interested in important things like warmth, fort, and durability of the clothes. They are only interested in outward appearance and profits. 8. The odder the clothes, the more expensive they are, and the more fashionable they bee. It39。s a great pity that people have lost their appreciation of real beauty. 9. In order to follow fashions, people have to put up with great disfort, such as suffering from cold in winter. 10. One39。s confidence does not grow from the way one is dressed, but from the inner qualities one possesses.12. Do Advertisements Play a Positive or Negative role in our Society?For: 1. Advertisements provide the most direct prehensive and detailed information. We get to know about household goods from advertisements. 2. Advertising itself is a business that has provided a great number of jobs. 3. With advertisements, people save a lot of time in shopping, looking for jobs, etc. 4. Daily life needs advertisements because the main function of advertising is to disseminate information on modities, services, culture, employment, student enrolment and even marriage.5. A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of news of calamities. 6. Without advertisements, newspapers, mercial radios and television panies could not survive. 7. You can find a job. rent an apartment, buy or sell a house, etc. by way of advertising. 8. Advertising is a process of artistic creation. 9. Advertising creates mass markets. Without advertisements, manufacturers may find it difficult to sell their products. 10. Advertising helps stabilize industry and employment, improves quality, and, by petition, helps keep prices within bounds. Against:1. Advertisements are imposed upon a captive audience: . on television. 2. Advertisements on TV are a nuisance: they interrupt television programmes at a shocking frequency. 3. Consumers have to pay more for the goods owing to the advertising expenses: high prices are maintained by such artificial means. 4. Advertisements are simply misleading and cheating. They are filled with flowery phrases and empty promises. 5. Fake advertising cheats consumers and, in some serious cases, threatens gullible people39。s lives. 6. Advertisers are inconsiderate to the public. What they care about is making money. 7. Advertisements are not based on the quality of the goods, but on the principle that if one keeps talking about the same thing long enough, eventually pe