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During the second stage of child development, adolescence, parents can still be in the best
position to offer advice even though the children might not accept it. In this case, perhaps the
childs friends would be the best teachers. Adolescents are notoriously rebellious in many
cultures and may automatically reject some advice from their parents. My first marriage for
instance, was solely a matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to intrude in
offering advice. So in such matters, parents should be much more flexible and be rather the
partners with their children.
So we can see that being a teacher of growing child becomes more and more complicated
case as the time passes and many parents are simply not able to meet the increased
demands.
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Nowadays, wherever we turn our gaze, we can see different types of food that are easier to
prepare. It cannot be doubted that our eating style has encountered a revolutionary change
in the last few decades. It is the change in the type of food that has had the greatest
influence. For instance, we can buy frozen food in a supermarket and just prepare it in a
couple of minutes, whereas before it could have taken us maybe hours to prepare this kind
of meal. Not only have the recipes of certain food types have been altered, but also new
ones have been created. Examples include yet are not restricted to beef hamburgers, potato
chips, readymade available yogurt, frozen meat and cold drinks. I would accept that this so
called improvement changed our lives, but I believe there are some drawbacks as well.
It is true that these kinds of food do not involve hard work to prepare, but food that is easy
to prepare generally has some artificial ingredients mixed in it that makes it asy to prepare.
?If we take time to read the ingredients, we would definitely come across the words like
preservatives or artificial flavorings. Many newly emerged types of food have not the
essence of a omplete meal?as defined by the nutritionists. To add to the problem, these food
types are often served alone. In fact, there are many medical reports warning people from
depending upon such fast meals in their food. Other reports indicate a high potential of
malnutrition among those who are ddicted?to the common duet of burgers and colas.
Not having to cook has also taken the fun out of cooking. Cooking is an art, but in todays
world, this is no truer. People are so busy in their work that they just rely on these simple
foods. The invention and production of these foods have made people lazy not only for
cooking but also for a well family gets together. It was not like former times when families
would sit together and eat freshly baked food. With the absence of regular family get
together, relationships are likely to be weaker.
People think that fast prepared food types do improve our style of life. This opinion
comes especially from bust people, working wives, and younger people. They believe
that we have many things in life more important than eating. Time spent on food
preparation is considered waste by them. Wives will have more time to care of their
families souls not just stomachs. Family relationships will get stronger. Business men and
women will have more time to concentrate on their arrangements. In general, people will
have a greater opportunity to take care of their minds and hearts.
I agree with that food preparation should take its necessary time and care. Otherwise, the
time saved in food preparation can lead to longer times of headache or even of staying in
hospitals suffering from malnutrition.
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systematic structure to form a book, which have a specific note of their thought and
experiences. With the systematic structure, we can learn things gradually, by our own pace
and we need not to worry that if we had miss some of the important details because
systematic structure never drop the essential points. What we only need to do is follow
the instructions directed by the author and grasps the content by our consideration.
There is another reason that deserve some words here, however, is that learning by reading
books is an efficient way of accumulating knowledge. In ancient world, no books existed,
and people should realize the world by exploring everything by themselves. This method
apparently takes too much time and energy. But with the ready-made knowledge provided
by the books put in front of us, why not take on it directly? It will save us a lot of time to
take advantages of others thought and experiences than we explore them by ourselves.
It would not be too kindly disposed to the idea that not learning knowledge in books is not
important. Of course, gaining knowledge from experience is not without advantages.
Because experiencing the life by oneself would be more impressive and could affect you
for a lifetime. Such examples are not rate in our personal life.
In a word, to choose way of gaining knowledge is something of a dilemma to public
because they sometimes are confused by the seemingly good qualities of learning by
experiences, but neglect the most genuinely good aspect of learning by reading. For the
reasons presented above, I strongly commit to the notion to by reading, not by
experiences.
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We receive everything that the director gives to us. Some of them may be good, some may
be bad but the most important thing is we will lose our imaginary ability. And we may act
like the actors on the movie. On the contrary, we cannot oppose that television has good
influence to us. There are good movies that can make us change our prejudices of
something like racial dividing. Even education programs can help us behave more
graciously and wisely. Moreover, by watching movies, we can temporarily escape from our
problems and that will help you reduce your stress. Anyway, television and movies have
their strong influence to our behavior. Whether the influence is good or bad depends on
how long we watch them, what we watch and how we respond to them because everything
is advantageous in a way and disadvantageous in another.
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from million cars tend to increase more and more are used to characterize the town
nowadays.
On the contrary, lacking in advance technologies makes rural life happy and peaceful.
Rural- dweller can enjoy living in real nature. They can waste just a little time to go to
work, unlike town-dwellers who have much trouble with traffic jam and also they can
spend times they left during the day to do more enjoyable and funnier activities such as
exercise, shopping or playing game with their children. Moreover, people who live in the
country side are likely to have longer longevity and healthier than those who inhabit in the
town. High technologies can harm and cause so serious health problems to the people who
are denizen of the town.
In conclusion, I would rather live in the small country than in the big city. Even though, the
comfort ability in the town appeals many people, I prefer to spend my life simply and
happily.
Topic 11. Does luck has anything to do with success?
Someone says: when people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do
with success. In my opinion, I agree that success need hard work, but sometimes luck is
important too.
As the old saying: no pains, no gains. Success mainly depends on hard work. When we
talk about some famous people, we all think they are respectable, because we know, at the
back of their success; there is how much hard work. For example, Tomas Addison, one of
the most famous inventors in last century, spent most of his time in his lab. He often loses
in his work and forgets his family and even sleeping or eating. But people all of the world
respect him and remember he for ever, his endeavor bring people a lot of happiness and
convenience. If Addison just sits in his home waiting for luck or magic, never will he
succeed.
Albert Einstein has said that the genius is 99 percent sweeter plus 1 percent luck. Although
luck is secondary, we cannot omit it. In fact, in some extent, luck also plays an important
role. Each people must have heard the story of an apple and Newton, the apple is Newtons
luck, its the Gods gift. Without that apple, may be Newton must spend more time to think
and think. May be in our life, people have this kind of experience. For example, when you
are working on a mathematics problem, you try and try but cannot get the answer. May be
suddenly sometimes, you will think of something or find way, aha, the problem is solved.
Any opinion of only emphasizing on hard work or luck is impartial. Hard work is main
factor; luck can accelerate ones success. So both hard work and luck are important.
Topic 12. Should universities spend equal amount of money on sports and libraries?
Whether universities should give the same amount of money to their students sports
activities as they give to their university libraries is a prevalent topic undergoing serious
debate. After pondering it from several aspects, personally, I think it is not necessary for
universities to do so.
Libraries should supply student the most up-to-date facilities, which are necessary for
students in their education. Most of the facilities are very expensive to buy and maintain,
such as computers, access to Internet research databases. Student use them to get research
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information all around the world. Without these facilities, or given resources of many years
ago, students cannot learn what they should be thought.
Another reason is that the cost of books and magazines increases quickly. Books and
magazines are another information source to students. Today, more and more useful
books and magazines are published. To meet what students need, libraries must spend
more money on books and magazines.
Finally, It also cost lots of money for universities to keep the libraries running. Students
usually study in the libraries because they provide a quite environment and easy access to
books and computers for information. Many things should be done to keep the books in
order. With the services that libraries offer, more money is needed.
Libraries is more important for students than sports facilities. from what we discussed
above, obviously, it is necessary for universities to give more money to universities
libraries.
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In short, even though some people said going to class is not necessary for them, I think
that, excepted knowledge, students can get something more while attending class.
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search for other easier methods. This may also be connected with memory; you never forget
something you learn through the hard way.
The other reason for my preference is that, if by any chance you come to hate (dislike) your
teacher you will without doubt start hating what youre learning as a result you will deprive
yourself of what you want to know. You may dislike your teacher because of the way he
teaches or because of his behavior or something else, but for whatever reason you hate your
teacher, you will obviously lose your enthusiasm for that specific subject matter he is
teaching you.
Whether governments should spend more money on improving roads and highways or on
improving public transportation is maybe one of the most important topics people are
arguing about nowadays. When I am asked about this question, I will give my answer,
basing on some reasons and details listed below.
Public transportation, as named, is a transportation system for the whole society of a
country. It is efficient, when used in a country with high population density, such as
China. The number of population is 1. 3 billion here. When every family occupied its
own cars, you can imagine what a jam roads will be.
On the other hand, public transportation is economical. A bus with 40 passengers in it
consumes mush less gasoline than 40 cars do in all. Of course, with less gas being used,
less pollution will be made.
From the advantages I listed above, you may prefer to let our governments pay money on
public transportation, but you must know that there are a lot of countries in this world with
low population densities. To them, buses, trains and subways are always empty, because it
is not convenient for passengers to get to the stations. Even though someone live near a
station, they have to wait for a bus several hours, because bus companies do not want to
provide a big bus for only several passenger without profit.
From the reasons and details above, we may safely get the conclusion that whether
governments should spend more money on improving public transportation or on improving
roads and highways depends on the population density in those countries.
Topic 19. how to improve transportation
If you live in such a big city-Beijing-as I do, with so terrible a traffic situation, you will not
be surprised of involving in a heated debate of whether the government should spend more
money on improving roads and highways, or should they put money on public
transportation improvement. However, as far as I am concerned, this is not a conflict issue,
that governments should combine the efficacies of both the two means in order to
ameliorate the traffic status at present. Improving roads and highways, which is a fact that
everyone knows, can bring about various advantages. First of all, to construct more roads
and highways means that more vehicles, in other words, more people, could travel to their
destinations more convenient and faster. People now live in the suburb of Beijing but work
in the center, are good case in point, whose homes are only several kilometers from
downtown, ironically have to rent a house near their work places because of it will take
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them hours to go home for the bad condition of the roads and the lack of highways. On the
other hand, for the government, as a matter of fact, a high input-output ratio is desirable,
and the highways which are profitable are capable of prospering the economy, and indeed,
raise the national revenue. Is this attractive to any government? Improving public
transportation such as buses, trains, subways, which are involved in people's everyday life,
is also of great significance, especially for those who do not have personal transportations
and have to choose either buses or subways to go to work or go school, and more over, for
such a big city as Beijing that has an enormous population. Since it is the government's
responsibility to improve the public facilities including public transportation as to make its
people leading a better life, money should also be put on this aspect. Taking into account all
the factors mentioned above and combining with the character of the city I am now living, I
perceive that the government should put more money on improving roads and highways,
meanwhile, use the income of them to develop my city's public transportation as well.
Topic 20. Is it better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city?
In my point of view, growing up in a big city contributes far better to a child than growing
in the countryside. We can list all the advantages and disadvantages for both of the two,
thus it is easier to make the choice.
Growing up in a big city means the children get a better chance to receive excellent
education. As we know, most of the outstanding schools locate in big cities, and living there
can give children a easier access to the first-class faculties and facilities. While in the
countryside, one cannot guarantee that the quality of the education given there is up todate,
and poor education surely will weaken the capability of competing in the future society.
Being brought up in a big city also means that the children live in a environment that
involves all kind of people, which plays a key role in forming the childrens cooperation
will and will benefit them in the long run. Children meet with different and talk to them,
getting to know various types of culture and learning to respect each other. thus they can
be capable of dealing with teamwork, which severs as a very important element in this
world. Once in countryside, just imagine those familiar people the children meet everyday,
it is quite dubious how the children will respond to the multi-culture if they step into a
much bigger and more complex society one day.
Besides all of above statements, I think that living in a big city has more fun, cause you
always have something interesting at hand to do. Visiting museums and art galleries will
entitle children eyes to appreciate the heritages passed down to us, all kinds of society
activities can help them to foster a community sense. While living in the countryside is
always referred as the frog at the bottom of a well, all you can see is the little piece of sky
formed by the rims of the well.
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The revolution of technology has released people from the arduous work in the past. Some
extremely dangerous jobs are done by robots and worker no longer have to stay in some
severe working circumstances. As a result, people are given more freedom to enjoy
themselves during their spare time. They can go to the countryside for a vocation, where
the fresh air is proven to be quite benefit to human bodies, or they devote more into their
family life, which in turn keep them feel fit everyday.
The advanced medical science contributes a great deal to the longer lives. Taken
doctorsadvices, people concern about their physical and mental health more than any time
of the past days. People eat healthily, exercise frequently, and when they get sick, there are
already all kinds of choices and services available for them. In a word, people nowadays are
taken care of by the fast-paced medical science from cradle till graveyard.
Besides, the consciousness about leading a healthier life is rooted more deeply in todays
society, which on a certain level convert the life style of ordinary people to a healthier way.
More commonweal advertisement are asking people to quit smoking and drug-addiction,
experts suggestions about fit-keeping are easier for people to get.
In a word, the longer life is definitely a symbol of the progress of human society, with the
cooperation of the world, we shall enjoy a even longer lives and brighter future.
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the pace of the whole group. If one cannot finish his work in time, he will hold up
everyone else. A good co-worker always gets his work done efficiently.
Also a good co-work must be adaptable. In a work group, a plan is get from all members of
the group. Every can give his advice, but only the reasonable advice can be accepted. No
one should be insisted in his opinion that the group cannot take. A good co-work should
firstly give out his opinions. And it is more important for him to take advice of others and
revise his opinions in time.
Finally, a good co-work must be helpful. Sometimes a member of the work group meets
difficulty, or he falls behind in his work. A good co -work has a strong will to help others
out of the dilemma. He does not care how often he has to finish anothers work and how
much extra work he do after his work being finished.
From what has been discussed above, we can see some important characteristics of a good
co-work. I would recommend everyone working in a group consider them and try to be a
good co-work of the others
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disadvantages. Therefore, I strongly recommend that teenagers should have some work
experiences when they are still students.
Topic 25. What would a new comer like and dislike about your town?
It is almost always the case that a person who has been living in a rural area for a while
confronts certain conveniences and inconveniences of living in a city. One convenience is
the number and diversity of stores and shops available in a short distance. A big
inconvenience is the traffic congestion that takes place in many places.
One big thing I remind my foreign friend who is planning to move to my city is that there is
cultural diversity. My friend is an international student from Japan who is living in a small
town in California. As a foreigner, he confronts new cultures practiced by the local people
everyday. On the other hand he realizes that there are few stores and restaurants that are
native to his culture. It is very normal that such a person gets homesick and starts missing
people and products from his own country. Moving to a city will satisfy such need of him
because there are many stores, restaurants, and supermarkets that are run by Japanese
companies so he will less likely to be homesick any more.
However, there is one big inconvenience about living in a city, which is traffic.
Especially people who drive often feel stressed on the streets which are always full of
cars waiting for other cars to move. It is always difficult to find parking spots either in
parking lots or on the street. Furthermore, apartments do not always provide sufficient
parking spots to their residents. A lot of people who live in city feel less convenient to
keep cars and choose to use public transportation. However, unfortunately, the public
transportation is not perfectly great around my neighborhood.
My city satisfies and dissatisfies my foreign friend who drives. The availability of stores
and shops that are native to his country releases his dissatisfaction about being surrounded
by different cultures. However, on the other hand, traffic that is always the problem in big
cities gives new stress which he is currently free from. It is a matter of balance between
the two features that he needs to settle in.
Topic 26. A NEW LIFE IN A NEW TOWN
Soon, a friend of mine will move to my hometown. Due to the fact that he is leaving a
small village and entering the life of a big city, he will make some new experiences. On
the one hand, he will like the cultural events and shopping opportunities in my hometown,
on the other hand he might miss the calm atmosphere of his small village. Without a
doubt, there are much more cultural events in my hometown than in a small village. You
can go to movie theaters, to musicals or operas, you can visit museums and concerts of
famous stars and you have many opportunities to see important sport events, like the
games of our soccer team. I think, my friend will enjoy these offers. Furthermore, the
shopping opportunities are great in my hometown. We have huge malls with hundreds of
different shops which offer you anything you can imagine and even things you cannot
imagine. I am sure that my friend will appreciate this new diversity. Altough he will like
the advantages of my hometown, he might miss the calm atmosphere of his small village.
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The town never sleeps. Twenty-four hours a day, you hear traffic noise and you see
restless people hurrying from one place to another. Therefore, it is really difficult to find a
calm place. Altogether, I believe that my friend will like the life of a big city. The
advantages like cultural events and shopping opportunities outweigh possible
disadvantages.
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more spacious than the ones of a cinema complex in a city. While I was living in the town,
I often heard that people who have regular work said they had preferred the local theater
rather than ones in a city. Those people would not like to hang out in a busy city in their
free time but still wanted to have some fun. The local theater was giving nice and quiet
mature pleasure for the residents.
The local movie theater was also ideal place to take very young children. Children
sometimes become nervous in a city movie theater because of being in an unfamiliar place
and a lot of high teenagers and couples. It is true that just being in a familiar area plays a
great role in putting very young children at their ease. Taking very young children to a city
movie theater may be too much trouble for their parents but if it is in their neighborhood,
parents will feel easier to do so.
As I mentioned first, if a new movie theater was build in my neighborhood, there would
have to be detailed discussion between the residents and the planner but I believe that the
theater would benefit for the residents a lot.
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To conclude with, everyone wants to do what he or she enjoys most, but because of the
above reasons, we should learn how to live in the real lives in a happier way.
Topic 31. Has the media paid too much attention to celebrities?
Nowadays, there are many kinds of media, such as Television, newspapers, magazines.
All of them include various information. Among them the personal lives of famous
people are almost the highlights. Do we need so much attention on those pubic figures
and celebrities? I do not think it should be so for a number of reasons.
Firstly, I do not believe their personal lives deserve so much of our attention. We have our
lives which need us to be more devoted. Students should pay more attention on their study;
adults should concentrated more on their work ;all the family members should care for each
other. So I do not think knowing clearly the personal lives of the public figures may help us
with our own lives in the aspects above mentioned.
Secondly, keeping eyes on public figures is also an interference to them. Living under the
attention of the society members may cause many conveniences for the pubic figures.
Because they cannot have their privacy which damage their lives and it is also unfair for
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them. They have no freedom to shopping, walking, meeting friends in public as what we
usually do at leisure time and surely this circumscribes their private space.
Thirdly, the media are enthusiastic about the celebrities private lives and this can lead to a
kind of social disease. All the media fall into a crazy status to get the information with all
means they could conceive which in some situations, may cause tragedy and the princess of
Diana is just the example.
Through above arguments, I think you may agree with the conclusion that the whole society,
especially the various kinds of media should not pay much attention on the pubic figures.
Because doing so is not only advantageous for the citizens, but also unfair for the celebrities.
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