Some people think that advertising is good for economy while others say it can cause peope to desire something unnecessary or completely useless. What is your opinion?
【起】起中有合。前呼合段。議論范圍由寬而窄。
1 申論主題。主題=真題+你的立場
These days it is easy to find faults with advertising, and yet none can deny entirely that this art of persuasion is good for economy.
2 集中焦點。焦點=你的立場對別的立場
By circulating information mixing half truth with half lying, advertising can nevertheless penetrate the public mind with desires even for something worthless.
3 一分為二。分割=承4加轉10=合16
All told, however, advertising is doing more good than evil.
【承】來龍起段。去脈合段。證明立場,支持主題。
4. 招牌之一。來自起3,去往合16。
To think that advertising is bad is understandable, and indeed there seems to be a common perception growing increasingly negative.
5. Perhaps history will see advertising as one of the real evil factors of modern time because it is stimulating people to constantly want things; want this and want that.
6. It is true that many consumers are convinced to spend money they do not have for things they really do not need.
7. It is also true that the high sales of popular consumer goods is a reflection of the power of advertising rather than the real needs of the society in which they are sold.
8. That kind of "impulsive buying" as consumer behavior can easiely turn need into greed.
9. Apart from misleading people to desire something not necessary or completely useless, advertising is surrounding them nearly everywhere and anytime on the point of boring them to death.
【轉】來龍起段。去脈合段。證明立場。支持主題。
10. 招牌之二。來自起3,去往合16。
The good news is that advertising serves market economy well, thanks in part to such media outlets as television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the Internet.
11. Through the media, particularly television, advertising gives people a chance as consumers.
12. People are told about new products and services that improve their lives.
13. In fact, economy is at its best when the advertising industry is booming, imagining that when people are starving and freezing there would be no advertising whatever to sell food and fuel.
14. Thus, advertising holds a mirror to an affluent society in a virtuous cycle benefitting many sectors.
15. Logically more advertising means more money to all media outlets, which in turn boosts more sales, which in turn pushes more production and creates more jobs and therefore more buying power.
【合】合中有起。后應起段。議論范圍由窄而寬。
16. 二合為一。結合=承4+轉10=合16=起3
Those who think that advertising is evil must think again about the value of a market system that thrives on economic prosperity.
17. 還原焦點。你的立場+別的立場=焦點
Contrary to common belief, it seems that consumers do not actually hate advertising because of their own foolish desires.
18. 重申主題。真題+你的立場
The are aware that probably half the money they spend on advertising is wasted, without knowling clearly which half.