The Most Unforgettable Person I Ever KnewDirections: For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic The Most Unforgettable Person I Ever Knew. You shouldwrite no less than 150 words and base your composition on theoutline (given in Chinese) below:1．我生活中最难以忘怀的人是……2．为什么他(或她)一直在我心中3．结论In my life I have met many people who are really worth recalling. But perhaps the most unforgettable person I ever knew is my Chinese language teacher.What frequently bring back memories of my school teacher is his special qualities. First of all, I was attracted by his lively wit. I remember that we students always anticipated his class with great eagerness because his lectures were humorously delivered, never failing to provoke chuckles or loud laughs. Second, he gave us the greatest gift a teacher can offer, an awakening of a passion for learning. He not only led us to an appreciation of the beauty and perfection of Chinese and literature, but also aroused our great interest in exploring something deeper in this field. Finally, I was deeply impressed by the respect he showed for us. As the treated us like friends rather than students, we all liked to visit his home for social activities as well as for academic advice.Although it is nearly 10 year since I attended his last class, he is the talk of our old classmates, and I know part of him has already stayed in my heart.Why I Came to CollegeDirections: For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Why I Came to College. You should write no less than150 words and base your composition on the outline (given inChinese) below:1．我为什么选择读大学2．现在读大学是否值得3．结论Why have I chosen to attend college? —a question I have put to myself many times in the past two academic years. But the answer is always the same: college education is something I truly want to have in my life and it is worthwhile.There are many reasons for my choosing to attend college. The main one is that I enjoy learning and gaining knowledge. I remember that as my high school education was drawing to close, my desire for continuing to learn felt increasingly strong, and the decision was naturally made when I realized I would not be simply end my educational career with high school and enter the working world so soon. I decided to enter college not only because it is a place where I can continue to seek scientific truths, but also it is a place where I can be exposed to various new, original ideas. It helps to expand my horizons and make me a well-rounded person. Of course I must admit that I took to ensure a secure future for myself. For in today’s world, a college education has become almost essential if was a practical and necessary step I took to ensure a secure future for myself. For in today’s world, a college education has become almost essential if one wishes to compete in the job market and to find a worthwhile position.For these reasons, I never mind spending beautiful nights on paperwork; I never consider myself miserable and unfairly burdened; and I never think college education is a waste of time and money.Holiday EconomyDirections: For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Holiday Economy. You should write no less than 150words and base your composition on the outline (give in Chinese)below:1．假日经济的由来2．假日经济的益处3．假日经济带来的问题The lengthy holidays have caused unexpected great travel craze and brisk economic activities. Holiday spending, however, adds fuel to the Chinese economy, which in turn leads to the creation of a new term “Holiday Economy”, But, meanwhile, it sparks a hot debate about it.Some economists are in favor of the Holiday Economy. They believe it has many advantages. First, tourism-based Holiday Economy will raise consumption, up spending and, therefore, help to spur the domestic demand. In addition, it benefits tourism, transportation, catering hotels and service industries and service industries and enables them to thrive during holidays, which in turn adds fuel to the overall economic growth.However, others overstate its disadvantages and hole that it brings undeniable problems. First, the travel craze puts a heavy burden on the traffic system, causing serious traffic jams. Besides, thousands and thousands of tourists flood scenic spots, jamming railway stations and airports, causing some over-crowdedness and safety problems. Therefore, we shouldn’t neglect the new problems.I believe its advantages far outweigh its disadvantages. After all, it greatlybenefits our overall economy. Finally, I suggest the government take effective measures to solve the aforementioned problems. Only in this way can we let the Holiday Economy develop in a sound way.Work is More Important Than MoneyDirections: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Work is More Important Than Money. Yourcomposition should be no less than 150 words and based on theoutline (given in Chinese) below:1．有不和人认为钱对他们来说非常重要2．但是工作却是人生的幸福不可缺少的东西3．结论Would you quite your job if you made a fortune or had a lot of money? In a 1995 poll conducted by the Gallup Organization, quite a few people said they would do so, yet researchers find that work is one of life’s chief satisfactions for many people.Consider Liu Yian, 23, a former school teacher. Before she quit her job in 1994, she taught at a high school. Although the salary was quite moderate, she liked her job and worked so successfully that in only one year’s time after her graduation from college, she not only won a prize for excellence in teaching, but also enjoyed wide popularity among her students. In her second teaching year, however, she met a millionaire and got married; and went to live in Hong Kong with her husband. There she led a very comfortable and easy life, spending most of her days doing shopping and going traveling. After one year of endless vacation, though, she began to miss her work and asked for the return to her teaching position. “I’m so tired of this kind of life,” she explained in her letter to the school she had previously worked for, “that I miss more than ever the days with my students.”A job is more than a paycheck: doing something one likes can contribute greatly to his or her happiness and contentment.Should Class Attendance Bo Required?Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Should Class Attendance Be required? You should write noless than 150 words and base your composition on the outline (givenin Chinese) below:1．许多大学都实行上课出勤点名制2．你认为有无必要实行这种制度3．为什么Required class attendance is so common at colleges and universities that may teachers and even students themselves simply assume it is a good thing. In fact, required class attendance does more harm than good.There are several reasons that teachers should not require attendance. First, rigid attendance policies do not benefit students; studies. For example, a student may have to give up a lecture which he finds vital to his studies simply because he dare not run the risk of being penalized for poor attendance in his course. Second, the lectures of some teachers are not always constructive. A student should be allowed to decide for himself whether an in-class experience is worthwhile when his teacher merely repeats material from the textbook or wastes class time by telling irrelevant stories. Finally and most importantly, there is no proven correlation between attendance and performance, but who knows whether or not he is just sitting there daydreaming all the time?Required class attendance may secure one hundred percent attendance for a course, but it does not make much sense.Problem of PiracyDirections: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Problem of Piracy. You should write about 150 wordsand base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:1．盗版现象日益严重2．盗版造成的后果3．我对抵制盗版问题的看法Nowadays, the problem of piracy has become more and more serious. Books, tapes, VCDs and other high-tech products almost all have been pirated. When a new product comes into market, very probably, its pirated counterpart will soon make its appearance in the market, too.Piracy has caused a great loss to the legitimate (合法的) producers, inventors and writers, and made great confusion in the markets. Because the pirated products often cost much less than the genuine ones, they enjoy a pretty good selling in spite of their relatively poor quality, The genuine products, on the contrary, sell poorly. This happens especially to some high-tech products, whose prices are often expensive. In addition, in the case of the pirated books, sometimes, they do great harm to the authors’ names due to some misprintings. However, piracy doesn’t benefit those customers who buy the pirated products, because in the long run, customers will suffer a big loss for the sake of small gains. Shouldn’t we solve the problem now?In my opinion, the problem of piracy should receive due attention now, and it’s time everyone stated the battle against piracy. First, customers should develop their consciousness to resist the pirated products. Besides, government should take effective measures to stop piracy. Finally stronger laws must be strictly executed to completely ban piracy. Only in this way can we wipe out piracy.Cyber CrimesDirections: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Cyber Crimes. You should write no less than 150 words andbase your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:1．网上犯罪的形式很多，如……2．网上犯罪的根源3．如何打击网上犯罪现象Nowadays cyber criminals seem to be everywhere, with a few clicks committing all kinds of cyber crimes. To illustrate, some commit fraud or lift intellectual property. Others subvert deals, snatch passwords or disrupt e-commerce. Still others unleash viruses to crash computers.As a result, these hackers do a great damage to companies and computer users, causing computer losses up to 10 billion dollars per year.Naturally, there are many causes for the cyber crimes. In addition to the wicked nature of the hackers, the frailties of Internet partially nourish the crimes. Just because there are holes in Internet-the complex software is buggy and often infested, the cyber vandals can find out the weakness in the Website software programs and by manipulating software glitches, gain access to Website, committing all kinds of crimes.However, we shouldn’t tolerate these cyber criminals any more. And it’s high time for us to take all the effective steps to battle the cyber crooks. First we should reinforce the cyber laws to protect the Web, the powerful engine of economy. Besides, we should use high techniques to improve intrusion detection, encryption and computer security. Finally, we should train more talented people to build up more fire walls so as to make the Net immune to all kinds of viruses and unassailable to all kinds of cyber criminals.How to Solve the Energy ProblemDirections: For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic How to Solve the Energy Problem. You should write noless than 150 words and base your composition on the outline (givenin Chinese) below:1．有人认为解决能源危机的方法是厉行节约2．有人则认为开发新的能源是最好办法3．我的看法When asked about one of the biggest problems today, many people say that an energy crisis is approaching and is threatening mankind’s survival. They are afraid that the world is likely to run out of oil and metals and to run short of food in the near future.To this problem, most countries respond with the demand for more rigid conservation of our natural resources. Indeed, this is urgently needed, for the present waste of energy in industrial and personal consumption in so serious that it has become habitual and traditional. If the natural resources are used economically, we can certainly slow down the present drain on the limited energy supply. However, conservation alone is not the answer. It is obvious that even if we can save much energy, we can only delay the energy crisis, but cannot solve the problem completely. However abundant certain natural resources may be, they cannot reproduce themselves and are bound to be used up ultimately. So in the long run we must develop new sources of energy instead of merely conserving the known, limited supplies.Man is highly adaptable and creative, and sine he is able to tap such resources as oil and metals, why can’t he develop and harness solar energy, unclear energy and other unknown energy resources?To Leave or to Stay—My Choice on GraduationDirections:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic To Leave or to Stay—My Choice on Graduation. Youshould write no less than 150 words and you should base yourcomposition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:1．一些学生一毕业就想离校找工作2．另一些学生想留在学校深造3．我的想法Some students want to leave college and find a job on graduation. Four years study has well prepared them for future career. It is time for them to make use of what they have learned in the real world. They can gain practical experience from their job. Or course, earning money is another motivation for their leaving.However, some other students choose to stay and pursue their further study in college. For another, they are keenly interested in their subject and university is a good place to do more research and study. For another, the development of society demands people have better qualifications. The higher degree one holds, the more competent one will become.As to me, I belong to the second kind. I like my major and want to learn more. With several more years in university, I will be a better-educated person with surer control of myself and a better understanding of the world. Naturally, it will be easier fro me to find a more satisfactory job in the future.Once a Thief, Always a Thief?Directions: For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Once a Thief, Always a thief? You should write no lessthan 150 words and base your composition on the outline (given inChinese) below:1. Some people believe that once a person has committed some kindof crime, he will never be a respectable man.2. Whereas I believe that …3. Conclusion“Watch him. Maybe he will steal something from you. He used to be a thief.” We often hear others talk about somebody like this. People often do not believe a person who has once been a thief. But one has once been a thief, one is always a thief?Some people believe that once a person has committed some kind of crime, he will never be a respectable man. They think that the fact a person once has been a thief shows that he want to be a thief deep in his heart. His subconscious of being a thief will let him do wrong again and again. So they will never believe a person who was once a thief. They will always consider him a thief.Whereas I believe that a person can become a good person, though he once has done wrong. Deep in a person’s heart, everybody wants to be a respectable man. It is the bad outside environment that causes him commit some kind of crime. So a good environment can also make him a good man. If we all treat him fairly, and show him the right way to do, everybody can give up evil and return to good.From this point of view, we should not consider a person that once has been a thief as a thief forever. We should believe that he can return to good, andwe should help him to do this. There is an old Chinese saying “It is the best of best that a person correct his own mistake.”。
