古今对比·媒体话题
古今对比是托福常考的一个小话题。题目经常让我们跟50年前的人的生活比较，到底是现在更好还是过去更好。 也会跟未来50年比较：是否现在生活中的问题会在未来的几十年中被解决。
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:（2020.12.12）
所以老师专门从<经济学人>中挑选出一篇相关文章<A future perfect>推荐给大家。 文章比较长，老师分上·中·下推送给大家。 今天推送的语料同样适合于·媒体话题。 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:（2018.1.6） It is important to read or watch the news presented by people whose views are similar to your own or read or watch the news presented by whose views are different from your own. (2021.3月) Some people stop reading or listening to the news for days or weeks for a period of a few days or weeks? Why or why not?
语料学习方法：
第一步: 看中文，理解思路
第二步：中翻译英
第三步：对比原文，积累地道表达
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语料学习 任何一个看报纸的人可能都会觉得自己身处一个悲惨世界。叙利亚仍饱受战火摧残。又有一个持枪的疯子在美国校园大开杀戒。几乎没有哪个时候的政治辩论气氛像如今这样，粗野而又充满敌意。 To anyone who reads a newspaper, this can seem a miserable world. Syria is still at war. Another lunatic has gone on a gun rampage in an American school. The tone of political debate can rarely have been as crass and poisonous as it is today. 报纸头版之所以充斥坏消息，跟莎剧满是谋杀是一个道理。悲剧才能震撼人心。没有谁会愿意看“昨天有十万架飞机没有失事”这种标题的新闻。不好的事情往往是突发的，且适于电视传播，像是一家工厂关门，一栋公寓大楼被烧毁。好事的发生常常是渐进的，覆盖的范围也很广，要以影像记录下来难度要大得多。媒体或许可以连续25年每天都如实报道：“生活在极端贫困中的人口较昨天减少了13.7万人。”但读者可能会腻烦。 Front pages are grim for the same reason that Shakespeare's plays feature a lot of murders. Tragedy is dramatic. Hardly anyone would read a story headlined“100,000 AEROPLANES DIDN'T CRASH YESTERDAY”. Bad things often happen suddenly and telegenic ally. A factory closes；an apartment block burns down. Good things tend to happen incrementally, and across awide area, making them much harder to film. News outlets could have honestly reported that the “NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN EXTREME POVERTY FELL BY 137,000 SINCE YESTERDAY”everyday for 25 years. But readers might get bored.
人们一贯低估人类取得的进步，负面新闻是原因之一. 要辨明世界的真实状况，我们应当运用数字。且成果卓然，令人振奋。 Negative news is one reason why people consistently underestimate the progress humanity is making. To discern the true state of the world，we should use numbers. The result is magnificent, uplifting.
13. discern. v. 分辨
14. uplifting. adj. 令人振奋的;
uplifting experience/ speech.
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