13552 Television
TOEFL Independent Writing Task
Essay Topic: TV?s Influence
Example Answer by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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TOEFL Essay Topic:
>How television influences people's behavior? Use specific reasons and examples from your knowledge or exerience to support your answer.
托福雅思写作常见真题--电视影响行为
Sample Essay by Jeenn Lee Hsieh:
起段开头。3句话前呼回头3句。
》申论主题。集中焦点。一分为二。
It can be seen nowadays that life imitates television which can in turn influence people's behavior, for better or for worse. The popularity of television can reach such an extent that many people know more about what is happening on TV than they do about lives around them. The influence of television is largely positive, of course, if only to kill boredom or learn information, and yet somehow too much television tends to affect communication among friends and family, and turn some addictive viewers into "couch potatoes."
承段接头
》招牌句。再组5句话。共6句。
Watching television is probably the best way to digest time as well as to be informed and entertained. Besides, all television is educational, although it depends on what it is teaching. Those who claim that television presents a menace also admit they cannot seem to live without. Those who joke about much of television being a lot of junk also see "everything" in life mostly spam. Television programs take audience beyond borders of screens, to forget and dream. And, because television knows no night, the enjoyment can be perpetual.
转段转头
》招牌句。再组5句话。共6句。
What is clearly missing, however, may be physical activity and emotional interaction. On the one hand, addiction to a television screen can practically make a person something like a piece of "furniture." A "couch potato" seldom moves, except running the distance between a television set and a refrigerator. Being glued to the tube, some people may go only so far as moving their fingertips searching on the remote control. On the other hand, in all appearances folks gather in front of a screen, but they are likely to look at everything rather than each other. Sighs of similar kinds of behavior are not uncommon at home.
合段回头。3句话后应开头3句。
》二合为一。还原焦点。重申主题。
Therefore, regardless of all its benefits, television can influence people's behavior negatively for lack of emotional face-to-face communication and normal physical movement. In some real cases, quite a few people do not believe anything until they see it on television. Fairly speaking, when television is good, nothing is better, but when it is bad, nothing is worse. (Essay by Jeenn Lee Hsieh ielts360toefl@hotmail.com)
