By the time children enter school, they’ll have spent up to one-third of their waking hours in front of TV. The enormous influence of television is just beginning to be realized. While many parents take television as an electronic baby-sitter, they neglect the fact that television may be more harmful than it is beneficial to children.
Those who encourage small children to watch television claim that many programs for children on TV are helpful to develop children’s interest and enrich their knowledge. They also argue that preoccupied with TV programs, children are prevented from doing mischief. Although at a first glance these arguments sound true, the behavior of some children doesn’t seem to prove them.
In the first place, programs for children are not always beneficial to them. One science fiction serial keeps telling about some supernatural beings who can fly and always fight against evildoers. After watching several episodes, a small child was so enchanted that he imitated the heroes and “flew” from his room on the second floor. There are also reports of children running away from home to the mountains to practice martial art. These incidents are naturally credited with TV programs for children.
Further, being preoccupied with TV programs is not a good way for avoiding mischief. In the days before TV, parents used to gather together with their children, telling stories or reading poems to them. The communication between parents and children was thus better, so it was easier for children to understand what was good e who approve of children’s watching TV neglect television’s bad effects on children. Firstly, children are surrounded and bombarded by commercials for toys and foods. They are tempted into becoming consumers. They earnestly ask their parents to buy things which they do not really need. As a result, the parents are in a financial dilemma, and the children themselves always become victims of bad products because of false advertising.
Another bad effect of television is that children are over-exposed to violence. They watch hours of murders, fights, and crimes every week, with no adult around to tell them that life is not like that most of the time. The effect of the heavy dose of violence is to suggest to children that violence is an ordinary way of life, and that shooting and cheating are ways to serious of all, children who often watch TV are becoming passive. They just sit back and let things happen to them. Children are inventive; they have the ability to imagine a whole world of their own. But what happens when their imagination is not needed, when TV does all the imagination for them? Obviously, these children are not going to grow up as inventive and imaginative as their parents, for they have been robbed of creative impulses by television.
To sum up, children’s indulgence in television is harmful. The problem, nevertheless, is not one of prohibition. Parents should supervise and guide their children’s watching TV instead of parking them in front of the tube, hoping it will act as a baby-sitter.
英語作文素材
英語作文素材由編者整理推薦給大家:. 優勝劣汰survival of the fittest
.英雄所見略同Great minds think alike.
.冤家宜解不宜結Better make friends than make enemies.
.冤假錯案'cases in which people were unjustly, falsely or wrongly charged or sentenced; unjust, false or wrong cases'
.一言既出,駟馬難追A real man never goes back on his words.
.招財進寶Money and treasures will be plentiful
債台高築become debt-ridden
.致命要害Achilles' heel
眾矢之的target of public criticism
知己知彼,百戰不殆Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.
紙上談兵be an armchair strategist
紙包不住火Truth will come to light sooner or later.
左右為難between the devil and the deep blue sea
聖誕:thebirthdayofJesusChrist
聖誕節:Christmasday,Xm.,Xmas
聖誕歌:Christmascarol
聖誕卡:Christmascard
聖誕老人:SantaClaus
聖誕樹:Christmastree
聖誕快樂:MerryChristmas
聖誕柴:yulelog(聖誕節原木形大蛋糕)
聖誕節的次日:BoxingDay
聖誕晚會:Christmasparty
聖誕節日曆:menology
聖誕節前夕(12月24日):ChristmasEve
聖誕節期:Christmastime
聖誕季節:yule,yuletide,yuletime
聖誕節快樂!MERRYCHRISTMAS!
聖誕祝賀:Christmasgreetings
聖誕採購:Christmasshopping
聖誕卡:Christmascard
馴鹿:reindeer
聖誕節前夕:ChristmasEve
糖果:candy
聖誕節:ChristmasDay
煙囱:chimney
聖誕節節日:Christmasseason
壁爐:fireplace
聖誕節假期(自十二月二十四日至一月一日或一月六日):Christmastime
由東方來朝見初生的。耶穌的三個賢人:Magi
蠟燭:candle
燭台:candlestick
聖誕大餐:Christmasfeast
包裹:package
聖誕大餐:Christmasdinner
聖誕紅:poinsettia
燦爛耀眼的裝飾物品:glitteringdecorations
伯利恆(耶穌降生地):Bethlehem
聖誕禮物:Christmasgift
耶穌基督:JesusChrist
聖誕禮物:Christmaspresent
聖嬰:ChristChild
聖誕樹:Christmastree
聖誕頌歌:Christmascarol
聖誕氣氛:Christmasspirit
馬槽:manger
聖誕音樂:Christmasmusic
天使:angel
聖誕聖歌:Christmashymn
聖誕佳節:Christmasfestival
聖誕節用的裝飾物品:Christmasornament
聖誕節暫停營業、上學、工作期間:Christmasrecess
子夜彌撒:midnightmass
望彌撒:tohearmass
聖誕節景象:Christmasscene
報佳音:togocaroling
聖誕節用的裝飾:Christmasdecoration
金銀絲:tinsel
聖誕節假期:Christmasholiday
聖誕老人:SantaClaus
常青樹枝編的花環:evergreengarland
(英)聖誕老人:FatherChristmas
聖誕郵件:Christmasmail
常青樹枝:evergreenbough
聖誕舞會:Christmasdance
花環:wreath
聖誕布丁:Christmaspudding
紅絲帶:redribbon
聖誕襪:Christmasstocking
烤火雞:roastturkey
包裝紙:wrappingpaper
小紅莓果醬:cranberrysauce
玻璃紙:cellophane
番瓜餅:pumpkinpie
冰柱:icicle
乾果布丁:plumpudding
雪橇鈴(繫於雪橇或拖雪橇之鹿上的小鈴):sleighbells
閃爍的電燈泡:twinklingelectriclight
(十二月廾五日亦為我國)行憲紀念日:ConstitutionDay
多彩多姿的裝飾:colorfuldecorations
銀色聖誕:WhiteChristmas
歡樂氣氛:joyfulatmosphere
聖誕採購:Christmasshopping
聖誕玩具:Christmastoy
瘋狂採購:shoppingmadness
慶祝聖誕:celebrateChristmas,to
慈善中心:charitycenter
Still the weather is too hot to kick, I go out, right away by this sinister sun, be a hot, hurriedly seek a tree, hide in here, can't, have to brother home, thought, I walked down this cool and then continue, but by the roadside scenery is pretty good, a piece of green, likeable, also from time to time the wind kept blowing, I tired heart slowly calm.
端午節Dragon Boat Festival
The Duanwu Festival,which is also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is an ancient Chinese traditionalfestival, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. For thousandsof years, various celebrating activities are held all around the country. Eatingzongzi and racing dragon boats are the most pertinent ones, which are said tobe in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet. In some places, people spread realgarwine on the children in the hope of protecting them from the evil spirits. Manypeople consider May as an especially dangerous time for diseases in a year, andtherefore they hang moxa and calamus and things like that around the doors toward off evil and diseases and pray for good luck.
端午節,又稱龍舟節,是中國古老的傳統節日,在農曆的五月初五這天慶祝。幾千年來,全國各地都會舉行多種多樣的慶祝活動。最應景的就是吃粽子和賽龍舟,據説這是為了紀念偉大的古代詩人屈原。在有些地方,人們把雄黃酒塗抹在小孩的身上,希望這樣可以使孩子們不受邪靈的傷害。許多人認為五月是一年中容易引發疾病的時節,因此為了驅疾避兇,討個吉利,他們會在門口懸掛艾葉和菖蒲等。
if i were a boy again, i would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was or inconvenient. if we want light, we must conquer darkness. perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. “there are only two creatures,” says a proverb, “who can surmount the pyramids—the eagle and the snail.”
if i were a boy again, i would school myself into a habit of attention; i would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. i would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough. i often hear grown up people say “ i could not fix my attention on the sermon or book, although i wished to do so” , and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.
if i were to live my life over again, i would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory. i would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and on every possible occasion. it takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately; but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. it only needs early cultivation to become a power
I have a cat at name is about six months black and white hair.
It sleeps much in the I gey back from school,it usually comes to meet me.I touch its head and it comes after me into my very I sit down at the desk doing my homework,it likes to touch wy shoes with its legs or bite my feet seems much happier when I amtogether with it.
Huahua is very good at catching the night comes,it seldom I saw it go hereand there,then it hid itself the mousecame near,it suddenly jumped at it and killed it there are few mice in my ks to Huahua.I can sleep very well during the night.
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我家裏有一隻貓。它的名字叫花花。它大約六個月大了。它有黑白相間的頭髮。
它白天睡覺多。當我從學校回來時,它通常會來接我。我摸了摸它的頭,它就跟着我進了我的房間。這很調皮。當我坐在書桌旁做作業時,它喜歡用腿摸wy鞋,或者輕輕地咬我的腳。當我和它在一起時,它似乎更快樂了。
花花很擅長抓老鼠。夜晚來臨時,它很少睡覺。有一次我看到它到處亂跑,然後它就躲起來等着。當老鼠靠近時,它突然撲向它並殺死了它。現在我家裏幾乎沒有老鼠了。感謝華華。我晚上睡得很好。
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We live in a world that surrounded by people, we need to communicate with others, for the purpose of share our emotions and keep survive. While some people have social phobia, they are afraid of talking to others, they can’t make the social communication. This is such a big illness, but they can overcome it. First, they need to take the positive attitude to life, having more communication with others can enriches their knowledge, they can share happiness and sorrow with friends, when they are in trouble, friends will help them. Second, they should open their hearts, don’t be afraid of talking to others, once the mouths are opened, the world will be lit up.