Write about the causes of the fact that families now are not as close-knit as they were in the

past.
It is widely believed that home is where love dwells and that east or west home is the best. That means family
is so important to any of us that we hardly grow up without the care from family members. It is also true that
the social, economic changes make the traditional family formulas vary. Although different people have
different points of view on the matters, we all agree that families now are not as close-knit as they used to be.
The causes are various, but we can count for the three main points below.
The first cause is that in our modern life we all seem to have so busy lives and dynamic lifestyles. People now
are so busy with working, earning, getting promotions, taking part in social activities, etc. People are likely to
have longer working hours because of their demand of earning more and more. People seem to be never
satisfied with what they have. In families, under the economic pressure, both parents work so they have less
time for themselves as well as for other family members.
Another cause is that due to the explosion of modern technologies people are more interested in their online
lives than interacting with other family members. It is sometimes thought that people seem to isolate
themselves with their mobile-phones, tablets, personal computers, and other information technological
devices.
Having different viewpoints is the other cause of course. The generation gaps sometimes cause
misunderstandings or even debates. Information technology also brings opportunities to diverse viewpoints
within family members. Having different opinions pulls people far from one another.
Above all, though changes of traditional families are unavoidable, we are to shorten the gaps among family
members to be as close-knit as possible. Because family life is very important to any individual, each member
must be responsible for bringing all family members closer together.

Topic: Classes are really good for ones who attend? Discuss your opinion about this matter.
Nowadays, it becomes a heatedly debated topic whether a student should be required to attend classes or not.
Some people hold the opinion that the university students should be required to go to classes. However, others
have a negative attitude. If I were forced to agree with one of the two positions, I would stand behind the latter.
My Arguments for this point are listed as follows. I agree with the statement that going to classes should be
optional for university students without reservation since I believe a student is supposed to attend those classes
he or she is interested in.
Naturally, interest is the mother of study. When attracted by a wonderful class, you will attend it unforcedly
and immediately. Nevertheless, not all classes are so popular in reality and no one has interest in every class.
Consequently, you should select the classes you like to attend for a higher efficiency of studying. It can be
given a good example, in current universities, many excellent students almost have the record of skipping
some boring and undesirable classes.
Another reason that can be seen by everyone is that it contributes to build a university student's ability of
learning by himself or herself. Obviously, by choosing good and meaningful classes, giving up those
undesirable, or studying these classes you cannot attend somehow by yourself, you will learn how to distribute
your study time and acquire the capability of learning by yourself, which is tremendously important to modern
university students. Many celebrities, such as Bill Gates, have such powerful ability by not attending some
classes when they were in university.
Admittedly, being required to attend classes has advantages of disciplining the student, however, considering
most university students can discipline themselves on their own, I believe it is sagacious to agree with that
going to classes should be optional for college or university students.

Which is more important, knowledge from books or experiences from life?

We gain our knowledge about the world and our life from two sources: from experience and from books. These
two resources are both important, but which of them is more important?
Knowledge from books forms a very important part of our knowledge structure. In schools and colleges, we
learn knowledge which is fundamental to our future career. We learn knowledge from books in order to make
our contributions to this society in the future. A student learns mathematic equations and other scientific
knowledge and become a scientist or engineer. We will be illiterate and ignorant without learning knowledge
from books. Moreover, we acquire knowledge about life and the world by reading books, magazines and
newspapers. This is also very important as we cannot experience everything all by ourselves. Therefore books
are a very important source of knowledge.
On the other hand, we can't learn everything from a book. “Experience is the best teacher” is an old cliché,
but I agree with it. The most important, and sometimes the hardest, lessons we learn in life come from our
participation in situations. We learn how to get along with others or how to have self-respect from our
experience, not from books. We cannot learn emotional feelings, such as love and care, through books; they
come from our real life experience. Knowledge from experience is also a very important supplement to
knowledge from books.
Needless to say both learning sources, books and experience, are very important to us. But in my opinion
knowledge from experience is more important, because without knowledge from experience, it is impossible to
get a real understanding of knowledge from books, and how to apply this knowledge to real world situations.
Topic: why do people want to go on university education?
People study in college or university for many different reasons. I think the most important reason is to gain
more knowledge and learn more skills. Of course, there are also many other reasons that people study in
college such as to get more friends, and increase one's self-confidence.
These days, most jobs require people who are educated and have good job skills. Therefore, the people who
want a good job have to study hard and at least graduate with a high education. Furthermore, as technology
advances all over the world, more and more education is required of people.
Some people who study in college or university want to make more friends and increase their interpersonal
skills. They enjoy their lives in university or college and tend to socialize a lot. They can meet more people
who have the similar interests with themselves. They can go to university after school and make more friends
who they trust.
The people who graduate from college seem more confident in our community. These people are more
respected by society. Many people want to be respected and to be important by family, friends, their bosses,
and others in their lives. They find that most of them can confidently talk and do their jobs as they are more
educated. Therefore, most people want to get the confidence through the university or college study. In today's
society, people need more knowledge and skills to be adapted. The university and college study is a good way
to achieve this.
Write to discuss the opinion that women make better women than men.
Women for long are said to be more suited for being mothers and housewives. That means the natural roles of
women for many people are child-bearing and home-making only. That is why there exists the opinion that
women make better parents than men.
Naturally, many people agree that women have better intuitive intelligence than men. Women are better at
reading the children’s signals, so they can easily satisfy children’s needs. They also have better emotional
understanding of what the kids are going through. In addition, women have a closer bond with their children.
They create that during the nine months pregnancy and the early period of child rearing. It is true that on
average women spend more time than men on child rearing and care taking. Commonly, men tend to be out to
work a lot and they seem to spend little time with their children. Significantly, breeding makes the relation
between women and their children more close-knit.
On the contrary, there are many single fathers who can totally dedicate their lives to their children. And,
according to some researches, children of single mothers tend to have more chance of crime. It is also true
that no one come to parenthood and immediately knows everything. Learning and practicing can help fathers
perform as well as mothers. Moreover, men and women bring different benefits to their children. People
believe that fathers can teach their children better than mothers in many ways. Commonly, children regard
their fathers as more energetic, strong-willed, and ambitious whereas mothers as more kind-hearted, sensitive,
and emotional.
To sum up, there are different good things women and men can do for their children. It is obvious that parents
who love their children can do their tasks well, and both fathers and mothers give their children good things to
some extent. It will be lucky and far better for a child to be brought up by both good father and mother.
Parents should join hands to give their children good life and education.

: Write about the changes that information technology brings to your life.
We are now living in the Era of the Information technology, and we feel happy to be supported by modern
technologies which make our lives more comfortable and convenient. For me, information technology brings
me so many positive changes though sometimes it does cause some troubles.
It is undeniable that information technology helps bring my family members closer together as we always
keep in touch with help of telephones, internet, and other conveniences. Beside, information technology helps
us stay in touch with the world around. Every day, we are well-informed by reading news, watching videos,
browsing websites. We can also learn much about the entire world from our own tables or even beds.
Information technology provides us more choices of how, where, when and what to do things. Beneficially, we
have more chances to earn because there are always numerous jobs available in the IT field that helps us
make money and shop. Moreover, information technology helps us to broaden our knowledge as we can learn
or take various online and offline courses. Socially, we seem to have more and more friends both at home and
overseas, we can also share opinions, date with the help of information technology.
On the other hand, modern technology can also make us more isolated when we are absorbed in
technological devices. We sometimes feel annoyed by bad and poisonous information, images, or websites. We
are also afraid of losing confidential documents and files. Seriously, spywares are now so popular that they
make us very much worried and we have to spend more to protect our technological products.
Good or bad, I really think I am lucky enough to live in this information age. I cannot imagine my life
without the help of information technology. The most important thing I need to do is to take full advantages of
the information technology to better my life and try hard to reduce the bad effects that may bring to my life.
Write an essay to express you wish to work for an international organization, giving the reasons why you
choose the organization.
When still a little boy, I read an article about the World Health Organization (WHO), I realized that health is
of the most important factor affecting one’s quality of life, and that helping to improve people’s health is a
noble profession. Since then, I have harbored the dream to work for the Organization for a number of reasons
as following.
First, working for the World Health Organization (WHO) gives me opportunities to live abroad, to use
English at work, and to have high salary. I am an active and dynamic person so I think it will be an interesting
life to have chance to travel far and wide to meet different people of different personalities and nationalities.
Second, I will be able to further my biology knowledge by doing numerous medical researches. I can also
understand more about life mechanism, the reactions of the bodies to the changes of the surroundings. Of
course, working for the World Health Organization (WHO) will offer me occasions to meet, to have talks with
well-known people worldwide.
As far as I can say, taking care of other people’s health is always a respectful job. Working as an official of
the World Health Organization (WHO) helps me to be more aware of the value of life. Looking after the ones
who struggle to survive will give me strength and hope, help me think more optimistically and do more positive
things.
Living is sacrificing. I for long have considered this proverb as one of my life approaches. I will try my best
to realize my dream some day in the future.

TOPIC: In today’s competitive world, many families find it necessary for both parents to go out to work.
While some say the children in these families benefit from the traditional income, others feel they lack
support because of their parents’ absence. Discuss both these views and give your own opinions.
In the business-driven culture nowadays, in order to adopt all of the so-called symbols of advanced life, in
many families; both parents have to work hard all day long for their children to enjoy the best. It’s true that
those children benefit from the joint income and the same, those grew up lacking parental support, and this
practice is creating a negative feedback loop.
 On the first note, one of the external influences on a child’s development is economic status; children
in impoverished or low-income families are, often times, more prone to emotional difficulties than other
children because parents have limited resources to address the children’s needs as an asset to a child’s
overall development. Therein, the income of parents is directly influential in the quality of care as well as of
life a child has. So out of the love for their children, willy-nilly, both parents have no choice but work outside.
However, gaining higher economic status does not guarantee better child development, in return to
this, something must be lost. Parents with the help of close emotional bonds with children will be able to
enhance a child’s motivation to comply with rules and requests and is associated with positive long term-
outcomes so that they will grow up more independent, emphatic, and socially competent. Secure attachments
to parents will underpin a child for positive, self-fulfilling expectations about other people which he will take
into future relationships.
In an evolving culture where parents spend more time working and less time with their child, the
child’s overall development is the one to suffer- the long-term implications of which not yet fully realized. Yet,
it is important to step back and consider the quality of the current cultural environment and the ill-developed
children it may produce, obviously this leads to the disability to handle relationships and the child fail to
function better both socially and professionally, and this may impact generation after generation.
Children need their parents to be affectionate, caring beings, whether working parent or stay-home
parent; it doesn’t matter much. What really counts is that the parent loves the child, fosters secure attachments
with her child and fathoms of what the child’s needs are. Otherwise, it is society that bears the consequences;
its citizens are all ill- developed ones.

Topic: Media are said to affect in different ways. Discuss the matter in a composition.
I think the media pay too much attention to the private lives of famous people. Television, newspapers,
magazines and web sites dig up all kinds of past bad actions. They say that these are true reflections of a
person's character. This may be true if they occurred only a few years before, but some of these are things
people did as teenagers. People in their forties are expected to explain something they did when they were
fifteen. If they killed someone, obviously that's more than a youthful mistake. Usually, though, these incidents
involve experiments with drugs or being reckless in a car. They're not something that the public needs to know.
The media love to say that the public has a right to know. That's not true. We don't need to know if a movie
star or politician has had an extramarital affair. That is something of concern only to the people involved. We
do need to know if someone we're electing to public office has been involved in shady business deals, but we
don't need to know if he or she defaulted on a loan twenty years ago.
It seems the media dig up these facts without giving thoughtful consideration to what might happen. It has an
effect on the celebrity's family, especially the children. A celebrity's good name and credibility may be ruined
before he or she can prove that rumors are false. If a case goes to court, paying a lawyer can use up all their
money. Even if it doesn't come to that, they may find their career ruined.
When are we, the public, going to make it clear to the media that we're tired of having to watch this kind of
thing on the news? Wouldn't it be better if they would concentrate on more important issues?

Topic: Man is the main factor to worsen the Earth.

People have been living on the Earth for thousands of years. Human activity influences the Earth. Some
people believe that the Earth is being harmed by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the
Earth a better place to live. In my opinion, the earth is being damaged by human activity. There are many
statements supporting my opinion.
Human activity has damaged natural environment and almost exhausted natural resources. Modern industry
needs more and more resources, including minerals, fuels and water. So we confront of the serious problems
such as the lack of fuels and water. Ecological balance is damaged because factories occupy many places
where animals and plants live. More and more buildings are constructed and forests become less and less. If
we cannot recognize these problems and solve them soon, we would finally lose the environment suitable for
our living.
Another serious problem is "the green-house effect." Human activity decreases forests and increases the usage
of fuels so that the gas of carbon dioxide is output more and more and there are not enough plants to absorb
it. The green-house effect is more obvious and more sensible these years. Due to the effect, icebergs in the
south polar and north polar melt and the sea level becomes higher than before. I am worried about the cities
nearby the sea and hope scientists find an effective method to eliminate the green-house effect.
Although we have advanced machines and our life seems more comfortable than before, we have less chances
to approach natures and less spaces to act. The cities become bigger and if we want to have a picnic with our
friends, we have to drive a long distance to find a natural place. In fact, the spaces of human activity are being
damaged by the skyscrapers and factories.
From the above statements, we can conclude that human activity brings the Earth many damages. Fortunately
people have recognized the point and I believe that the Earth will become a better place to live with our
ceaseless efforts.

II. Topic: Human are said to greatly benefit from destroying their environment. Do you really think so?
The quality of human life has improved greatly over the past few centuries, but Earth is being harmed more
and more by human activity. As we develop our technology, we demand more from our planet. Eventually, this
will harm people as well.
Our planet gives us everything we need, but natural resources are not endless. Strip mining devastates whole
regions, leaving bare and useless ground. Deforestation removes old growth trees that can't be replaced. Too
much fishing may harm fish populations to the point where they can't recover. We are too careless in taking
what we want without giving anything back.
There are more people than ever, living longer than ever. So is it any surprise that many areas suffer from too
much development? Anyone living in or near a city has experienced "urban sprawl." There is a new shopping
area on every corner and new houses, townhouses and apartments everywhere. Traffic gets worse and worse
because planners can't keep up with growth.
Keeping up with human demand is hard enough. Environmental concerns come in last. With growth comes
pollution. Companies and communities dump waste into water. Landfills are full of trash. Emissions from
factories pollute the air. Barrels of industrial waste and worse, radioactive waste, have no safe place to go. If
we're not careful, we can harm our planet beyond repair.
People need to respect the Earth and try to preserve it. If we don't, what kind of future will we have?

II. Topic: Saving energy is saving our earning.

When faced with the decision of saving your money for some time in the future or enjoying your money when
you earn it, quite a few would claim to enjoy their money, but others, in contrast, deem to save their money as
the premier choice and that is also my point. This quite different view is based on the every possible reason.
For most reason for saving the money for future use is when you need a lot of money to deal with some
emergent things that happen to you, you should not worry about the fund or lend some money everywhere at
that time. For example, two years ago, I spend my summer holiday in a famous scenery pot, after a wonderful
trip of the first day, I lost my wallet unconsciously, then I took out some money in the bank to finish the trip. If
you did not have some deposit, you can imagine how embarrassed you are.
Second, I have finished my college study, and I am going to go abroad to get a master degree to enhance the
ability to face the challenge in the society. Plenty of money is very important to me, so I have to save all the
money that I economized for future use.
Third, the economy condition of my family is not so good that I decide to earn enough money to buy a big
house for my deeply loving parents.
This is arbitrary to judge saving money for future use according only to the excuse I mentioned in the above
paragraph. But I do not deny that enjoying the life is also important to everyone because of brief life. That is
to say, I will enjoy my money if I deposit enough.