考博英語范文兩篇

It has been said,"Not everything that is learned is contained in books." Compare andcontrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. Inyour opinion, which source is more important? Why?

Both experiencesand books are very essential resources, and both of them have relevant merits.

Experiences arethe most direct resources we ever have. Almost our every basic skill came fromexperiences, such as walking, articulating, reading even thinking. Withoutexperiences, some natural born abilities even might lose. Studies have shownthat a baby who was robbed by animals into forest for 12 years lost his abilityto talk in human language. Furthermore, it is generally accepted that each andevery skill develops by experiences, and that's why people always say practicemakes perfect.

Books are valuablewhen knowledge is beyond the scope of our experiences. Perhaps the most obviousexamples are those fluent writers. They write various stories, the scopes ofwhich are far beyond any individual's experiences. Take Joyce Carol Oates forexample, her productivity has been prodigious, accumulating in less than twodecades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short storiesand verse, plays and literary criticism. Although some of them appear to comefrom her own direct observations, her dreams, and her fears, much more isclearly from the experiences of others. Her fictive world remains strikinglyakin to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television newsand talk shows, and the popular magazines of our day.

Yet eitherexperiences or books may give us wrong information. Our direct observationsalways are subject to our beliefs, hopes, fears, expectations, and our bias,which might make observations unreliable. People vary in their powers ofobservation, and the reliability of our observations is no better than thereliability of our memories, which as we know can be deceptive. Informationprinted in papers sometimes is unreliable either, it may be misprinted, or evendeliberately distorted. For example, Definitions such as Marxism, Capitalism,Zionism are totally different in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of CurrentEnglish between the original edition and the sanctioned Russian edition.