大学英语四级高分作文必备范文99.Is Television a Blessing or a CurseNow, it is generally accepted that television plays an important part in people's lives. But, there is an ongoing heated discussion as to whether television is a blessing or a curse.如今，人们普遍认为电视在生活中发挥着重要的作用。
但是，对于电视是福还是祸，是人们正激烈讨论的话题。
As is often pointed out by some people, television keeps one better informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in politics and science, and offers an endless series of programs which are both instructive and stimulating. The most distant countries，the strangest customs and the most attractive scenes of nature are brought right into one's room.正如人们经常指出的那样，电视能使人们很好地掌握时事信息，使人们追踪政治和科学最新的发展，给人们提供无穷无尽的既有启发性又引人入胜的节目。
最遥远的国度、最奇怪的习俗以及最吸引人的自然风景都被带入到人们的房间里。
However, other people insist that television is a curse rather than a blessing. They argue that it has brought about many serious problems. The major one is its effects on young people. They are now used to getting their information, education and entertainment from television that their literacy as well as physical ability has been greatly weakened. Even worse than that, vulgar commercials and indecent programs may cultivate their bad tastes, distort their viewpoints towards human life to such a degree that their minds might be corrupted.然而，一些人坚持认为电视是祸不是福。
他们认为电视带来许多严峻的问题。
最主要的是它带给年轻人的影响。
年轻人现在都习惯于通过电视获得信息、教育和娱乐，以至于他们的阅读能力和体能大大削弱了。
比这更糟糕的是，恶俗的广告和粗鄙的节目可能会使他们养成坏的品味，将他们的人生观扭曲到心智可能被腐蚀的程度。
In summary, television has both advantages and disadvantages. Whatever effects it has, one thing is certain, television in itself is neither good nor bad. It is the uses to which it is put that determioes its value to society. (218 words)总而言之，电视既有好处也有坏处。
不管它有什么影响，有一件事是确定的，电视自身无好坏，是使用方式决定它对社会的价值。
------------------------------------英语四级作文高分句型解析：television keeps one better informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in politics and science, and offers an endless series of programs which are both instructive and stimulating.电视能使人们很好地掌握时事信息，使人们追踪政治和科学最新的发展，给人们提供无穷无尽的既有启发性又引人入胜的节目。
点评：这个句子中有三个并列的谓语动词，即keeps,allows,offers,其共同的评语是television。
------------------------------------英语四级作文加分词：ongoing heated disussion 正在进行激烈的讨论curse [kə:rs] n.诅咒；祸根instructive [in'strʌktiv] adj.有教育意义的vulgar ['vʌlgər] adj.粗俗的indecent [in'di:snt] adj.下流的，不妥当的distort [di'stɔ:rt] v.歪曲，扭曲98.If There Were No AdvertisementsNowadays, advertisements can be found everywhere in a big city such as Shanghai. They shout at us from the television screen and radio loudspeakers, wave to us from every page of the newspaper, signal to us from the roadside bi llboards all day and flash messages to us in colored lights all night.现如今，在诸如上海等大城市，广告随处可见。
它们通过电视屏幕和广播的扬声器向我们叫喊，在报纸的每一页冲我们招手，从路边广告牌上整天向我们发送信号，还有整夜的彩灯闪动的信息。
Faced with a flood of advertisement, some people wonder whether it is necessary to have such huge sums spent on advertising. They often cite in illustration of it the attractive, but false and deceptive advertisements to which many consumers fall victim. They suggest that since advertising is an entirely unproductive industry and may even harm the customers' interests, why don't we stop advertising and use the money to reduce the price of goods? It sounds like a good idea, but they fail to notice the contribution advertising makes to our society. Because the production of a better product to compete for customers' money is the goal of advertisers, customers are thus given a chance to compare their products and get the best and cheapest one. Besides, as the advertisement can provide people with a lot of immediate and detailed information as to the availability of a certain product, or a service or a job, it makes life much more convenient. And anotber thing we mustn't forget: the fact that we pay so little for our daily newspapers and TV programs is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers.面对广告大潮，有些人想知道，我们是否有必要在广告上花费如此之多。
他们常引用那些吸引人、但虚假和欺骗的广告做例子，许多消费者成为这些广告的受害者。
他们表示，既然广告是个完全非生产性的行业，而且甚至会危害到消费者的利益，我们为何不停止做广告，用这些钱来降低商品价格呢? 这听起来是个好主意，但是他们没有注意到广告对我们的社会所做的贡献。
由于生产好的产品来争夺消费者的钱是刊登广告者的目标，所以消费者有机会去对比他们的产品，并选择最物美价廉的。
另外，由于广告能给人们提供许多关于某种产品、服务或工作的可利用性的快速而具体的信息，它使生活更加便捷。
另一件我们不应该忘记的事情是:我们在每天的报纸和电视节目上花费的很少，这完全是因为刊登广告的人花了很多钱。
Advertising performs such a useful service to our society that we can't imagine what would happen ifthere were no advertisements. (262 words)广告为我们的社会提供了如此有用的服务，因此我们不能想象如果没有了广告，会发生什么。