TWE 148 Games can teach people about life. Do you agree or disagree with the statement?
The issue of whether games can teach people is a controversial one. When facing this question, different people will present different answers depending on personal experience, personality type and emotional concern. Some people hold the opinion that games could teach men a lot about life. Others, on the contrary, believe that a game is no more than a form of amusement and could teach people nothing about life. As far as I am concerned, however, I would rather agree with the former than the latter. My arguments are presented as follows.
To begin with, games may teach a person to obey rules. The rules that form the basic order in a society always play an important part in our lives. Without rules, everything would decline to a state of chaos. In real life, people are required to follow diverse regulations under various circumstances, such as the laws of a country, the rules of a company and the disciplines of a school. Only those people who have the awareness to obey rules could enjoy the happiness which life afford them. (这里想用一个连接词，使上下句衔接紧密，可是想不出来一个合适的词，这也是为什么原来把often放到games前面的原因，权当个连接词来用) Games often provide people with a recreational program to foster the awareness easily and impressively. For example, in a chess game, each player would be asked to play according to certain regulations. If he does not obey the rules, he will be deprived of the right to continue. Thus people’s awareness of obeying rules would be greatly improved and strengthened.
Next, games teach people to sense and handle the failure and success while having fun. As the partial reflection of real life, a game is full of competition in which players always experience the joy of win and the pain of loss. Such experience would help people to become more mature and develop a placid nature. For instance, a person would not turn arrogant and conceited when he wins a game, and he also would not feel depressed and sad if defeated. This will be very helpful for people to face with fiercely competitive activities in their future study and work, keeping them full of confidence till final success.
Furthermore, playing games is of enormous value for people to cultivate the team spirit. Many games are group activities, which involve communications and cooperative ways of thinking. For example, when people are engaged in a basketball game, usually they advance and cope with difficulties together. During the process of cooperation, mutual understanding and consideration are promoted.
To sum up, games not only develop people’s awareness to obey rules, but also cultivate them to own team spirit and handle the success and failure in a right way. From what have been discussed above, I safely draw the conclusion that games could teach people about life. And I believe when the time comes to ‘play the game’ in the real world, people would be ready and prepared. (觉得原来的结尾有些单薄，显得头重脚轻，又加了几句话)