[多项选择]Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Dictionary. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below.
1. 电子词典的优点；
2. 电子词典的缺点；
3. 你的观点。
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参考答案:Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Dictionary
The discussion about electronic dictionaries has never stopped in the past few years. Let’s have a look at itsadvantages and disadvantages before drawing the final conclusion. The biggest advantage of an electronic dictionary is itsconvenience. Whenever you meet new words or expressions, you can know the meaning quickly. What’s more, with thedevelopment of science and technology, electronic dictionaries are becoming more and more advanced: they canpronounce the words clearly, provide sample sentences to illustrate word usage and store difficult words for specialmemorization. Last but by no means the least, electronic dictionaries are becoming cheaper and cheaper, and more andmore students can afford them.
However, the negative effects are also obvious. To begin with, some students rely too much on the electronicdictionary--they never put their heart into learning new words and expressions. In the second place, some explanationsare neither complete nor accurate, which are quite misleading. Finally, new technical inventions do not necessarily leadto progress in learning. Diligence is always the decisive factor, because "there is no royal road to learning".
Up until now, we can see it clearly that an electronic dictionary is not beneficial or harmful in itself. The key lies inthe user--so long as we can make proper use of it, it can be most helpful to us.