Part Ⅱ Writing1.
Directions: Read the following paragraph and then write a response paper of about 250 to 300 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET2. Quite a few teachers complain about students reading fewer books than before. In fact, students nowadays spend more time surfing on the Internet and watching movies on DVD's. Naturally they spend less time reading books. Do you think that students today are less knowledgeable because they read fewer books?
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Are the Students Today Less Knowledgeable?
Students nowadays spend more time surfing on the Internet and watching movies on DVD's, so many teachers complain that students read fewer books than before. As far as I am concerned, students today are still knowledgeable although they read fewer books. I have some arguments to support my view.
Firstly, students are getting closer to computers and DVD's, and they do learn a lot of things through Internet. Resources on the Internet are so abundant that students can search for everything they need. Without teachers' help, the students today can also solve many problems on their study by using Internet. What's more, materials that are relative to the books they learn can be downloaded at any time. Secondly, it is not enough for students to merely learn from books because the society develops rather rapidly. The message on the Internet is timely and up-to-date, which ensures that the students not only acquire the knowledge they have learnt in the school but also know what has happened in the world. Last but not least, the Internet exhibits multi-cultural background of the world; to understand it will facilitate students' participating in global competition in the future.
Of course, there is also a lot of bad information on the Internet. Students need to choose the helpful information. To sum up, students today get much more knowledge than they did in the past in virtue of the Internet.