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　　例题二

　　It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.”Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained frombooks. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

　　不是所有的东西能从书本中学来。 比较经验知识和书本知识。 哪个更重要。

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　　Is it possible to tell whether the left hand is more useful than is theright one? It would be ridiculous to argue that knowledge gained from experienceoutweighs that gained from books. In fact, both are vital in human learning.Learning from books and learning from experience are just two hands of a humanand two wings of a bird. Each plays a role.

　　Learning from books is one of the most prevailing means adopted in schoolsand universities world around for spreading knowledge. Compared with learningfrom experience, learning from books are wider in range and deeper in contents.This is evident. For it is impossible for the contemporary people to experiencethose happened in the past, people only can learn knowledge about the pastthrough reading documents, books, and other written materials. History andarcheology depends heavily on learning from books.

　　Besides the limitation of time, space restrictions also make it imperativethat people learn from books. It is hard, even impossible, for human beings todiscover the outer space and the deep sea bottom. For instance, the formidable,inaccessible, and hostile sea floor makes it rather hard for experts to diveinto the sea to experience the alien world in person. The majority of the publiccan only obtain the knowledge from reading, watching, or listening. As theinformation about the remote solar system or beyond, learning from experiencesounds rather na?ve. Landing on the moor might be a fascinatingly sensuous. Buthow many of the people realize the hazards it might entail to the astronomers?If people want to discover the mars, other stars, or quasars, then who can bethe first to experience the voyage in person?

　　Considering the spatiotemporal limitations, the current technology makes itimpossible for the public to learn a large volume of knowledge from experience.But this is not meant to indicate that learning from experience is lessimportant. Quite on the contrary, learning from experience is essential undermost circumstances and is rather efficient and effective.

　　Some fundamental human skills must be learnt from experience whereas theknowledge from books is only auxiliary. No one learns playing tennis merely fromreading tennis books. Swimming is another telling case. Even one has read acolossal volume of books concerning swimming, never can he or she master thearts of swimming until he or she has exercised thousands of times. Neither canone learn a foreign language well without direct experience of using thelanguage. Dictionary can tell the meaning of each word, but only the realexperience makes it possible for one to understand the language. The examplesare countless.

　　Therefore, both learning from the book and learning from the experiencesare critical in pushing the boundaries of human understanding. Under certainconditions, it makes a sense to say that one way is better or more importantthan the other. Nevertheless without defining the exact case, by no means canone conclude whether learning from books is more vital than learning fromexperience.