Some people think news has no connection to people's lives, so it is a waste of time to read news in the newspaper and watch news programs in television. To what extent do you agree or disagree?(亚太区2020/3/7)
题目大意：
有些人认为新闻与人们的生活毫无关系，所以在报纸上看新闻，在电视上看新闻节目是浪费时间。你在多大程度上同意或不同意?
范文提纲梳理：
开头段：改写题目+表明立场
主体段1：看新闻对我们的日常生活有引导作用
主体段2：读新闻可以更好地跟他人建立沟通
让步段：现在网络，手机和电脑都可以让我们获得新闻+反驳：会剥夺更多的时间+信息太杂乱
结尾段：总结全文+重申观点
范文示例：
The advent of information age（信息化时代的到来） has bombarded（轰炸） the public with too much information, much of which has little connection with people’s daily life. Under this circumstance, an absolute consensus can hardly be reached whether（话题句套句） reading news on newspapers or watching news programs on TV is a waste of time. For my part, I side with opponents to a larger extent.
To begin with, obtaining the news information is instructive to people’s life. Frequently reading the news reports, no matter in newspapers or on TV programs, citizens can have a clearer picture of（更清楚的了解） the policies of the country, and thus behave accordingly without worrying to be lagged behind（落后）. In addition, knowing what is happening around or over the world, people can be motivated to grasp more chances to realize their dreams.
Furthermore, reading news helps people to enjoy better communication with others. Always being connected with the news, people can be broadened in their horizon and thus are enabled to have more topics to share with their friends or relatives. Also, when something urgent such as disasters or other forms of tragedies happen, people may not only offer their help to show humanity, but also gain some experience in tackling the problems.
It has to be admitted that with the help of computers and the Internet as well as the mobile phones, people are surrounded by the popping out（出现） of news reports. In this case, they are already besieged（包围） by too much information, making the reading of news in newspapers and TV programs seemingly pointless. However, this cannot deprive people of their rights（剥夺权力） to embrace（享有） the time with their family members and this does not mean they can select out the right information. As a consequence, getting news that is selected for them from newspapers or TV programs can still be of great value to the public.
In a nutshell, I am convinced that newspapers and TV news programs are still significant in delivering news reports. As for how to take advantage of（利用） them, it depends on individuals’ judgments rather than just an assertion（声称/断言） of a waste of time.