[7] How do movies and television influence people's behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
Movies and televisions, both as visual entertainments, present us a direct scene we might not encounter in daily life or we might find it deja vu, where a story happens. We enjoy watching them and we are inevitably influenced by them.
Behavior of children is likely to change because of imitation. Children are prone to new and peculiar things in movies and televisions. The characters are usually dressed up lavishly, distinguishing them from common people. The heros accomplish impossible tasks, wining the heart of beautiful ladies. The humorous lines, impressing the audience, are mentioned by the audience many times. All these factors are intriguing for a child, getting him excited and inclined to imitate instantaneously.
However, for most of us, the influence on behavior is due to recognition. It's a common thinking, why can't I do it while he could. After watching the movie Forrest Gump, many start running regularly. Their latent recognition of Gump's persistence and commitment beats the laziness they had. One of my friends decided to find his true love after watching Cinema Paradiso, because he realized how important a true lover is for him when he cried over the scene where Toto contemplates on the kissing montage, pondering on the young love he cherished and lost. He met his girlfriend after a few months, finishing the long bachelor years fast.
Though recognition changes our behavior, endowing us power to do something we might do but we are reluctent to do, the more excessive change is due to contradiction. When we find a disparate decision from our own in a movie or television drama, the contradiction occurs, pushing us to think extensively. The famous movie Shawshank Redemption have two attitudes towards institutionalization: one is to get used to it and die with it, the other is to fight against it and find your own way out of it. Andy Defresne made the latter amazingly, exemplifying for us how to deal with a despair difficulty. Many of us choose to get used to the institutionalization while his example make us to think twice. After watching this movie, I feel myself institutionalized in the domestic university and made my decision to find a Ph.D program abroad.
Just like talking to a friend, the amiable appearance of movies and television attracts us, letting us go close enough to understand their stories and reasons, showing us the possible results we never imagine, demonstrating for us how powerful our potentials are. We obtain recognitions, solve contradictions, and get busy changing our behaviors.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Luishui Lake: A New Pearl in My Hometown
[6] If you could change one important thing in your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The Lushui Lake in my hometown was formed due to the experimental dam and power plant built in the earlier years of China, which is one of the most important treasure my beloved hometown possesses and the one I desire to change.
There are all sorts of fishes and shrimps living in the unpolluted water of the lake, which offers a nice resource for fishery. However, the current fishing goes without demanding administration and over fishing might endanger further development. Therefore, it's urgent to set up regulation for the fishers and encourage them to preserve their traditional food made from fish and devise new dishes, which will contribute to the tourism I would propel.
The small islands on the lake, which were small hills when the damn wasn't built, are now habitats of all kinds of birds. The plants on the island are wild but given some interference will be attractive to those citizens who have long been under the roof of skyscrapers. The green water, yellow soil, red rocks, green trees, white birds and the blue sky will make the lake a big hit in the tourism market. There are not enough dinghies and boats for the travelers now and the lake is still of no reputation. An investment of advertisements for the lake must be made as soon as possible.
Near the dam, it's convenient to set up equipments for entertainment, which provides the residents near here and the tourists great fun, erasing their tire after work or long trips. Now there are swimmers coming in the summer, but the security is not ensured. As the water guards are employed and more equipments for water exercises are ready for renting, more and more people would like to come. Then the fishermen could sell their delicious food when they are hungry after playing in the water.
The lake will enhance the local economy by providing fishery, tourism and entertainment. Given proper management, it will prosper, yielding more jobs for local youth, without polluting our environment. Without any doubt, it will surely become a new pearl in my hometown.
30 min, 349 words.
被人吵了，觉得写的很差... sigh 继续读范文可能比较有效。
The Lushui Lake in my hometown was formed due to the experimental dam and power plant built in the earlier years of China, which is one of the most important treasure my beloved hometown possesses and the one I desire to change.
There are all sorts of fishes and shrimps living in the unpolluted water of the lake, which offers a nice resource for fishery. However, the current fishing goes without demanding administration and over fishing might endanger further development. Therefore, it's urgent to set up regulation for the fishers and encourage them to preserve their traditional food made from fish and devise new dishes, which will contribute to the tourism I would propel.
The small islands on the lake, which were small hills when the damn wasn't built, are now habitats of all kinds of birds. The plants on the island are wild but given some interference will be attractive to those citizens who have long been under the roof of skyscrapers. The green water, yellow soil, red rocks, green trees, white birds and the blue sky will make the lake a big hit in the tourism market. There are not enough dinghies and boats for the travelers now and the lake is still of no reputation. An investment of advertisements for the lake must be made as soon as possible.
Near the dam, it's convenient to set up equipments for entertainment, which provides the residents near here and the tourists great fun, erasing their tire after work or long trips. Now there are swimmers coming in the summer, but the security is not ensured. As the water guards are employed and more equipments for water exercises are ready for renting, more and more people would like to come. Then the fishermen could sell their delicious food when they are hungry after playing in the water.
The lake will enhance the local economy by providing fishery, tourism and entertainment. Given proper management, it will prosper, yielding more jobs for local youth, without polluting our environment. Without any doubt, it will surely become a new pearl in my hometown.
30 min, 349 words.
被人吵了，觉得写的很差... sigh 继续读范文可能比较有效。
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Please give us a serene community!
[5] A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantage and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position.
A proposal of building a large factory has been released recently. It is said it will provide the community with all the best it could offer. But I don't think it will do us any good.
The factory will of course take a certain proportion of its profit for our community, with which the community could provide its residents with better gyms for exercising, better parks for taking a walk and even a better library with more books. And the manager of the factory promises to give priority to the youth here looking for a job. The comparatively cheap production could be sold to the residents too.
All those proposals sound great, except what the factory will impose upon us. It takes so much space that we have to spare them part of our public park. The noise it inevitably produces will drive crazy everyone in the park for a nap or just a short walk. The exhaust and dregs of production, though under strict surveillance, would still be a haphazard to our environment, let alone those trees we would lose when being cut down to build the factory. And the ingredients the factory requires have to be transported by large trucks, which will burden our roads and sending annoying noise in the morning, awaking those of us who would like to be still asleep.
Further more, it's not necesary to find a job in such a factory. Most of the youth living here work in IT companies. So the factory will seldom recruit someone who is meant to work in such an atmosphere. The money we pay to our community is enough to accommodate ourselves. If necessary for special events, we are all willing to donate extra to help set up something like a festival celebration.
So, it is unnecessary to build a factory that would provide us absolutely indispensable joy or facility. The promise they make, though intriguing, would only disguise the profit they make for themselves and the trouble we all have to tolerate. What we all need is just a community immune to noise and pollution.
26min, 350 words
typos: necesary -> necessary
necessary 用得太多了，换词！
A proposal of building a large factory has been released recently. It is said it will provide the community with all the best it could offer. But I don't think it will do us any good.
The factory will of course take a certain proportion of its profit for our community, with which the community could provide its residents with better gyms for exercising, better parks for taking a walk and even a better library with more books. And the manager of the factory promises to give priority to the youth here looking for a job. The comparatively cheap production could be sold to the residents too.
All those proposals sound great, except what the factory will impose upon us. It takes so much space that we have to spare them part of our public park. The noise it inevitably produces will drive crazy everyone in the park for a nap or just a short walk. The exhaust and dregs of production, though under strict surveillance, would still be a haphazard to our environment, let alone those trees we would lose when being cut down to build the factory. And the ingredients the factory requires have to be transported by large trucks, which will burden our roads and sending annoying noise in the morning, awaking those of us who would like to be still asleep.
Further more, it's not necesary to find a job in such a factory. Most of the youth living here work in IT companies. So the factory will seldom recruit someone who is meant to work in such an atmosphere. The money we pay to our community is enough to accommodate ourselves. If necessary for special events, we are all willing to donate extra to help set up something like a festival celebration.
So, it is unnecessary to build a factory that would provide us absolutely indispensable joy or facility. The promise they make, though intriguing, would only disguise the profit they make for themselves and the trouble we all have to tolerate. What we all need is just a community immune to noise and pollution.
26min, 350 words
typos: necesary -> necessary
necessary 用得太多了，换词！
Beyond Books
[4] It has been said ``not everything that is learned is contained in the books.'' Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more imprtant? Why?
Books were, are and will still be the media of knowledge. They record the ideas from ancient giants of wisdom, propagate the brand new technologies in our contemporaries, and prospect all kinds of possible futures. However, not all knowledge of human beings are availble in books and 21 century has seen several other ways to obtain knowledge.
Books are written for several purposes. One dominant purpose is to summarize a theory or a procedure others might find interesting or useful. Mathematicians and physists, such as Gauss and Newton, put their strict theory about geometry and gravity into their immortal works. Novelists and poets contrive plottings and capture their delicate feelings with poems, which are later assembled into novels and booklets. Historians and photographers tell stories about their findings in the past or with their lenses. We read them to appreciate their deep cognition of the universe, their understanding of beauty and the bitterness and happiness in our lives.
But there has always been knowledge we can't find in any book. Though there are books on traveling, we can still enjoy it by travel instead of reading them. The fun of travel is not only the sighting of famous scenes, which could be told by photographers or writers in books, but also the sweat you spend in managing yourself to be there, talking with other peers on the same way, and even the frustration you have to overcome. Lots of trivialities are missing from all kinds of books. Only the time you yourself come to the point, you will find a whole new story and quickly learn from your experience.
What's more we have more and more media to obtain knowledge. Internet, for example, must be one of the convenient alternatives. There are on-line encyclopedias, forums and chatting rooms. You might find the meaning of almost any unknown professional terms by typing them in the search box of wikipedia.org. By posting your questions on forums or sending instant message in chatting rooms, you might get the most instantaneous feedback from other users. As long as you get to know how to explore the Internet, you migth get obsessed with it and forget about books, since there are more interactions: you might create an entry in wikipedia.org to tell other people a new term which hasn't been included, and you might also answer others' questions and win their admirations, while facing a dull book will put all those excitement away.
But books will still play an important role in the following few years. We might find it more leasureful by sipping a cup of coffee under the afternoon sunshine while taking a book in hand, flipping page by page slowly and thinking as we wish. All other competitors will help us learn more and help us enjoy learning knowledge.
34 min, 467 words
an interruption, too bad... poor vocabulary @@
typos: availble -> available, physist -> physicist, migth -> might, leasurefu -> leisurely
other mistakes: in our contemporaries -> from...
excitement -> excitements
add ``At the same time,'' to the last sentence.
Still slow!
Books were, are and will still be the media of knowledge. They record the ideas from ancient giants of wisdom, propagate the brand new technologies in our contemporaries, and prospect all kinds of possible futures. However, not all knowledge of human beings are availble in books and 21 century has seen several other ways to obtain knowledge.
Books are written for several purposes. One dominant purpose is to summarize a theory or a procedure others might find interesting or useful. Mathematicians and physists, such as Gauss and Newton, put their strict theory about geometry and gravity into their immortal works. Novelists and poets contrive plottings and capture their delicate feelings with poems, which are later assembled into novels and booklets. Historians and photographers tell stories about their findings in the past or with their lenses. We read them to appreciate their deep cognition of the universe, their understanding of beauty and the bitterness and happiness in our lives.
But there has always been knowledge we can't find in any book. Though there are books on traveling, we can still enjoy it by travel instead of reading them. The fun of travel is not only the sighting of famous scenes, which could be told by photographers or writers in books, but also the sweat you spend in managing yourself to be there, talking with other peers on the same way, and even the frustration you have to overcome. Lots of trivialities are missing from all kinds of books. Only the time you yourself come to the point, you will find a whole new story and quickly learn from your experience.
What's more we have more and more media to obtain knowledge. Internet, for example, must be one of the convenient alternatives. There are on-line encyclopedias, forums and chatting rooms. You might find the meaning of almost any unknown professional terms by typing them in the search box of wikipedia.org. By posting your questions on forums or sending instant message in chatting rooms, you might get the most instantaneous feedback from other users. As long as you get to know how to explore the Internet, you migth get obsessed with it and forget about books, since there are more interactions: you might create an entry in wikipedia.org to tell other people a new term which hasn't been included, and you might also answer others' questions and win their admirations, while facing a dull book will put all those excitement away.
But books will still play an important role in the following few years. We might find it more leasureful by sipping a cup of coffee under the afternoon sunshine while taking a book in hand, flipping page by page slowly and thinking as we wish. All other competitors will help us learn more and help us enjoy learning knowledge.
34 min, 467 words
an interruption, too bad... poor vocabulary @@
typos: availble -> available, physist -> physicist, migth -> might, leasurefu -> leisurely
other mistakes: in our contemporaries -> from...
excitement -> excitements
add ``At the same time,'' to the last sentence.
Still slow!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Easier Food, Harder Lives
[3] Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answers.
The advanced technology has helped us prepare our food much easily nowadays. Massive production and nice encapsulation have cut down the time from the moment we buy them to the time we thurst them into our mouth. But does that improve our lives? The answer is perhaps no.
One important factor is the greed of ourselves. Though there are fast food in the market, we seldom take them, because their flavor is not diverse and they are of poor nutrition. Now that we have time for food preparation, why not make something of our taste and fill up our appetite? Even if the raw gradient now requires less time for preparation, our imagination will always bring us far enough to make more delicate styles or try new flavors, though the cooking procedure might cost us as much time as before. Who cares? As a result, we still spend the same time preparing our dinner and enjoy doing so, leaving the same amount of time for other important things in life.
The other factor comes from massive production. Food, when taken, must be deemed as delicious by its taker. But usually different people have quite different favorites. What's more, if there is no strict supervision in the food production, it might cause diseases or even toxications on a large scale. China recently reported a strikingly tragic news that thousands of children have been found of rare diseases at their age, simply because their milk was polluted by a certain chemical compound in the production. It is a danger to our lives when it is not managed properly.
Maybe the government will pay more attention to the massive food production later, which encourage us to benifit in buying food half-prepared or almost fully-prepared. New technology will make those food more diverse and meet more flavors. But who knows? Human beings always have a high standard on what they eat. Maybe they will never give up their own pleasure in cooking themselves dinner and making dishes out of everyone's imagination.
25 min, 337 words.
typos: thurst -> thrust, benifit -> benefit
toxication -> intoxation
The advanced technology has helped us prepare our food much easily nowadays. Massive production and nice encapsulation have cut down the time from the moment we buy them to the time we thurst them into our mouth. But does that improve our lives? The answer is perhaps no.
One important factor is the greed of ourselves. Though there are fast food in the market, we seldom take them, because their flavor is not diverse and they are of poor nutrition. Now that we have time for food preparation, why not make something of our taste and fill up our appetite? Even if the raw gradient now requires less time for preparation, our imagination will always bring us far enough to make more delicate styles or try new flavors, though the cooking procedure might cost us as much time as before. Who cares? As a result, we still spend the same time preparing our dinner and enjoy doing so, leaving the same amount of time for other important things in life.
The other factor comes from massive production. Food, when taken, must be deemed as delicious by its taker. But usually different people have quite different favorites. What's more, if there is no strict supervision in the food production, it might cause diseases or even toxications on a large scale. China recently reported a strikingly tragic news that thousands of children have been found of rare diseases at their age, simply because their milk was polluted by a certain chemical compound in the production. It is a danger to our lives when it is not managed properly.
Maybe the government will pay more attention to the massive food production later, which encourage us to benifit in buying food half-prepared or almost fully-prepared. New technology will make those food more diverse and meet more flavors. But who knows? Human beings always have a high standard on what they eat. Maybe they will never give up their own pleasure in cooking themselves dinner and making dishes out of everyone's imagination.
25 min, 337 words.
typos: thurst -> thrust, benifit -> benefit
toxication -> intoxation
Our Parents are Our Best Teachers
[2] Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples
to support your answer.
Someone might deny a simple fact that our parents are our best
teachers. They argue that friends, or professors in the
universities are much better than our own parents in lots of
professional areas. And they question fiercely with "How could
they, old and ignorant guys be our best teachers?" But the truth
is that they are absolutely wrong.
Our parents are usually the first teachers of our languages,
communication skills and what's more important they almost build
us a theory on what's good and bad, and what's to value.
Even since the birth of each child, its parents seldom leave them
alone. They provide its food and help it survive the dangers
hiding in the start of life. By playing with it, their voice and
guestures impress deeply in the young mind. They create the
circumstance for the child to try the first step of standing up,
striding and making a meaningful sound. The suitable environment
help the baby develop all necessary skills for the human
society. As is known, those babies without tender cares of their
parents, brought up in the jungles by wild life, seldom come back
to our society with ease.
Later, as the child begins to understand the language he is
applying in daily life, his habits and values are more or less
influenced by his parents. Researches have shown that boys tend
to be curious about what their fathers do for work and girls find
their mothers' job interesting. And in daily life, parents'
favors are more frequently picked up, since the young are usually
awarded with this choice and they begin to find the merits of the
choice. This influence is fundamental in everyone's life, even
years after when we get into universities and make new friends.
There are other teachers in our life, some of whom might be as
good as our parents. Their ideas might conflict and we will even
feel frustrated when our old arguments are challenged. The
frustration, no matter whose argument we will favor later, shows
the impression of our first teachers. They are best in planting
unnoticed seeds of thinking methods, cognitive procedures in our
minds. And the seeds sprout and strive. Maybe year later we find
that their banal arguments are wrong. But they indeed helps us
overcome the difficulties enountered in the early life and make
us be ourselves, who're standing here, writing this essay.
time 34min, 400 words
typos: guestures -> gestures, enountered -> encountered
strive -> thrive and flourish
it's poorly written I guess...
Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples
to support your answer.
Someone might deny a simple fact that our parents are our best
teachers. They argue that friends, or professors in the
universities are much better than our own parents in lots of
professional areas. And they question fiercely with "How could
they, old and ignorant guys be our best teachers?" But the truth
is that they are absolutely wrong.
Our parents are usually the first teachers of our languages,
communication skills and what's more important they almost build
us a theory on what's good and bad, and what's to value.
Even since the birth of each child, its parents seldom leave them
alone. They provide its food and help it survive the dangers
hiding in the start of life. By playing with it, their voice and
guestures impress deeply in the young mind. They create the
circumstance for the child to try the first step of standing up,
striding and making a meaningful sound. The suitable environment
help the baby develop all necessary skills for the human
society. As is known, those babies without tender cares of their
parents, brought up in the jungles by wild life, seldom come back
to our society with ease.
Later, as the child begins to understand the language he is
applying in daily life, his habits and values are more or less
influenced by his parents. Researches have shown that boys tend
to be curious about what their fathers do for work and girls find
their mothers' job interesting. And in daily life, parents'
favors are more frequently picked up, since the young are usually
awarded with this choice and they begin to find the merits of the
choice. This influence is fundamental in everyone's life, even
years after when we get into universities and make new friends.
There are other teachers in our life, some of whom might be as
good as our parents. Their ideas might conflict and we will even
feel frustrated when our old arguments are challenged. The
frustration, no matter whose argument we will favor later, shows
the impression of our first teachers. They are best in planting
unnoticed seeds of thinking methods, cognitive procedures in our
minds. And the seeds sprout and strive. Maybe year later we find
that their banal arguments are wrong. But they indeed helps us
overcome the difficulties enountered in the early life and make
us be ourselves, who're standing here, writing this essay.
time 34min, 400 words
typos: guestures -> gestures, enountered -> encountered
strive -> thrive and flourish
it's poorly written I guess...
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Notes on 2007-08-22~2007-08-24
more:
fungi, fingicide
furbish
furlough
fusillade
fustian
fusty
gallop
gambit
garble, garbled
gargantuan
garner
garret
garrulous, garrulity
gauge
gaunt
gazetteer
genealogy
genuflect
germane
gerontology
gerrymander
geyser
gibe
girder
fungi, fingicide
furbish
furlough
fusillade
fustian
fusty
gallop
gambit
garble, garbled
gargantuan
garner
garret
garrulous, garrulity
gauge
gaunt
gazetteer
genealogy
genuflect
germane
gerontology
gerrymander
geyser
gibe
girder
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