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【正文】 eople as the television does. Being besieged with TV news, absorbing teleplays, wellmasterminded programmes, one can easily conclude that TV is a real blessing to the human society, offering affluent entertainment and information. Yet, convenient and helpful as it is, the television also brings negative begin with, TV makes people more passive than before: since everything on TV is readymade, there is no space for audience’s initiatives. The news has been carefully edited, teleplays well shot, programmes rehearsed, so all you need to do—and all you can do is to sit on a fortable sofa and look at the screen. Though a lot of people enjoy doing this, the undoubted truth is that people are being more passive simply because there is no interaction and no efforts on them. Television also contributes to the fact that people nowadays are more distant to each other. Since most of our free time is taken away by the act of watching TV, we can no longer find enough time to visit friends, call on relatives or go to interesting places. This is also true within a family, parents and children and other members are less close to each other, because family gettogethers and conversations are disturbed by TV—when one member is watching TV, he would like others to keep course I am not denying the great conveniences and huge benefits the TV brings us, but to make it a really blessing to us, we should try to avoid its negative effects. Buying or Borrowing Books? Books are close friends of humanity. They can arm us with knowledge and information we need to make success of life. Through books we can obtain skills and techniques for survival and development. Through books we can enlighten our spirits and live a fuller life. There are generally two ways in which we can have access to books: borrowing or buying. While millions are borrowing books, I still think buying them best suits me and gives me the greatest , there are a few merits for borrowing books. For one thing, borrowing books can save us huge amounts of money. And of course, with the money saved we can do other more worthy things .And also, as we borrow books from the library and friends, we normally have deadline to finish them, and consequently we can read more books in a limited time. And we can, above all, better our efficiency of our reading, just as a famous Chinese saying goes, “books can not be read unless borrowed.”However, some advantages for buying books are more obvious and pelling. One of them, definitely not shared by the choice of borrowing books, is the abundance of freedom that buying books can offer us. Since we can keep the books as long as we wish, we can read as much as we want. Another strength of owing books is that we can take whatever notes on the margin of the pages of the books. And finally, the process of selecting and keeping books can be a great fun that borrowing books can by no means borrowing books can, to some extent, quench our thirst for knowledge, buying books gives us greater pleasure of selecting and keeping the best of the world treasure. Can we think of any thing else more delightful and rewarding? A Few Remark on Competition Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a position about A Few Remark on Competition. You should write a passage with the words and phrases given and it should be no less than 120 words. Remember to write your position on the Composition Sheet. Key Words and Expressions: mon phenomenon, play, study, constant, so forth, to some extent, motive force, cooperation, a basketball game, in most cases, equally, early something to extremes, pure and exclusive, failure, obtain one39。s goals [優(yōu)秀范文 ] Competition is a mon phenomenon in our social life. We pete when we play games, we try to do better than others in our study, and there is constant petition for job, customers, money, and so forth. We can say, to some extent,petition is one of the motive forces of the development of society. And we often find petition and cooperation at the same time. Think of a basketball game, each team is peting with the other team. But each member of the team is cooperating with his or her teammates. In most cases, we can39。t do petition without cooperation. Thus they are equally important. While we are advocating petition, we can39。t fet cooperation. Nothing is to be carried to extremes. Pure and exclusive petition leads to failures. Competition together with cooperation help us a great deal in obtaining our goals and satisfying our needs, especially in modernizing our country.