1.Talk about your favorite movie.There are many kinds of movies, such as action, documentary, crime, science fiction, cartoon, disaster, romance and so on. I like watching all kinds of them and have watched many movies. The one I will never be fed up with is “The Pursuit of Happyness”. In my eyes, it is not simply a movie but a lesson of how to stick to our dreams. The main character in the movie is Chris Gardner, a man whose wife left him leaving him struggling for a life with a little kid. He was almost broke and found a job with great difficulty. They once lost their house and had to spend nights in the subway station. Even the situation was very bad, Chris never lost his heart in future and passed his optimistic attitudes to his son. He told his son that “Y ou got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves,they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it”. He finally succeeded and moved to a big house with his son. The film tells me how important it is to fight for my own dreams and never be a quitter in face of difficulties.2.As your life-long partner, what qualities do you think he or she musthave?As my life-long partner, I hope he will be honest, loyal, warm-hearted, hardworking, dutiful, responsible and capable, and most of all, he will always love me. Honesty is a basic quality, because I believe only if a man is honest can I totally depend on him. It will be miserable to live with a liar. Loyalty is necessary in marriage life. It is not easy for two persons to meet, fall in love and get married. When the passion of love decreases, loyalty is the only thing to keep them together till death do they apart. Being loyal to each other can make them trust each other unconditionally. A warm-hearted man will always be happy to help others and he will be far away from selfishness. I don’t care if my future husband is rich or not, he must be hard-working, so we can create our happy life together. He must be dutiful, so he can take well care of our parents and set a good example for our child. A responsible and capable man will give me the sense of safety and the guarantee of a good life. As I said, the most important thing is that he must love me. Maybe he is not so handsome or always considerate, but as long as he loves me, we can overcome any difficulty in life. With love, we can accompany each other till we are too old to think, but we still can see love from each other’s eyes.3.Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of advertising.Everything has two sides, and advertising is no exception. We should see the good side of it in order to make the best of it. At the same time, we should also see the bad side of it in order to protect us from its harms.On the one hand, ads can provide a lot of information for us, telling us what new products and new opportunities are available now. Consumers can compare so as to choose the best, and it saves time and is more convenient for life. Various ads arecompetitions between various companies, so they can help decrease the prices and improve the quality of products. The sales promotion in ads can help companies sell more products and catch more market. As an industry, advertising offers many jobs for people and it is important to the development of some local newspapers, rad io stations and TV stations because it costs a lot of money. Besides, there are many good and beautiful ads, which help us enjoy life and make the world much more beautiful.On the other hand, ads can be harmful to our life. Some fake ads cheat consumers and the products they help sell may even threaten people’s lives. Some ads are not based on the quality of the goods. They may mislead and tend to make people spend more on unnecessary things. Y oung people can be easily mislead by those colorful ads and tend to buy some expensive things just to show off. Ads on TV are really annoying sometimes. They often interrupt the programs we are watching and just jump out again and again. What’s worse, the ads on streets, walls and posts are a serious pollution to the living environment. The cost of ads will finally pass onto consumers, that is, we need to pay for the ads.4.Why do many people like keeping pets?Pets are playing a more and more important role in modern society. Some people keep pets because they feel lonely and need company, and pets can give them fun and comforts. Other people keep pets for security for some pets can help them keep their house safe. Still some people buy pets just to be in fashion. For example, we can always see some girls in fashionable clothes walks on the street with a cute pet walking beside them. Many pets such as dogs are intelligent and loyal. They can do many things for their masters. Finally, some people keep animals at home just out of love or pity. Their hearts are full of love, so they may keep the abandoned animals wandering on the streets.I’d like to take dogs as an example. Dogs are more loyal to their owners than other pets are. They will stay with their owners even when they are very poor. Also, dogs are more intelligent. They can carry out human instructions and perform fairly complicated functions. For example, they can be good assistants to blind people by taking care of their life. They can also be helpful to the policeman, because they can help find out drugs or look for missing people. Moreover, the dog is capable of protecting the house and its master. (It is better if you use your personal story with your pet as an example)5.Are you for or against following the fashion trend? State your reason Make reference to the opinions on P83, and hope you can develop more personal ideas.For “following the fashion trend”:I think we might as well follow fashion trends so long as we do not go to extremes. There are various reasons for people to follow fashion. To begin with, a new trend often involves new ideas, which maypromote the development of human civilization. For example, when jeans and T-shirt first appeared, they might have looked strange to most observers, but later on people found them to be convenient and practical. Second, as often as not, fashion followers just need a way to show their determination to avoid tradition. Sometimes they do something different because they are not satisfied with their status or position. They want to show their difference by wearing different or even unusual dresses. The third argument I’d like to put forward is that the choice of a certain style can usually show one’s taste. We can often hear such comments as “Her dress shows a good taste”. Sometimes the fashionable clothes may give them more advantages over others in front of some opportunities. Here is my fourth reason. Some people wear fashionable, expensive clothes to show they have lots of money or are in a high position. In this way, they may feel more confident about themselves. Y ou may not like this, but it is cruelly true that some people judge you not by your personality or intelligence, but rather by your appearance. Just as a saying goes, “Clothes make the man.” Indeed there are many reasons for us to follow fashion, tho ugh I don’t mean that we have to do it all the time.Against “following the fashion trend”:I’m against following new fashions blindly. Though some people may give various reasons for adopting new trends, I think there is more harm than good in it. First, many fashionable things are not really practical. Do you think a lady wearing high-heeled shoes can walk fast or climb a mountain? Second, most fashion trends don’t last long. What’s high fashion this year may go out of style next year. This naturally leads to my third point. Fashion causes a lot of waste. If expensive clothes are thrown away next year, it’s undoubtedly a waste of money. In my opinion, students should spend their time and money on study. By acquiring more knowledge, they will eventually prove to be more useful to society, and, in turn, they’ll be rewarded sooner or later. If students lose themselves in fashion, what they’ll suffer is not only a loss of money but also career opportunities. In western countries, a guy with his hair dyed green may find himself rejected at one job interview after another. I think the above arguments are enough to come to this conclusion: Don’t follow fashion blindly. The most important thing is that what you wear should fit your personality and your status, and, you should feel comfortable.6.Talk about your ideas on money.In my opinion, money is important but surely not the most important thing in our life. If we want to live, we need to have enough money to buy food, clothes, water, and electricity and so on. If we want to live a better life, we need to make more money to improve our living standards. Of course, without money, we cannot buy a lot of things, but there are many more things that cannot be bought by money. Money can buy a big comfortable house, but it cannot buy a warm loving family. Money can buy lost of delicious food, but it cannot buy a good appetite. Money can buy expensive medicine and good treatment, but it can never buy health. Money can buy a luxurious life, but it cannot buy real happiness.The way we spend money directly influences the value of money. We shouldspend some money in helping those who need help, such as the poor people, the old people and the homeless people. In this way, we will feel that we are needed and we can make others happy. Money is not just pieces of thin cold paper, but a symbol of care and love. Our life will become more meaningful when we see the smiles and hear thanks.7.What are the causes of crimes?Every day, there are many crimes happening in the world. We can see the news about blackmail, theft, murder, drug-trafficking, kidnapping and even terrorism. They bring great damage to our world, for some people get injured or lose some money or even their lives. It is important to find out the reasons of crimes. According to my opinion, the factors can be poverty, the gap between the rich and the poor, lack of education, emotional outbreaks (anger, hatred or jealousy) and loose law enforcement.Among these factors, the most important reason for crimes is related to money. Some people are so poor that they cannot afford basic life necessities such as food and clothes, so they choose to commit crimes to make a lot of money in a short time. Some people are just jealousy of the rich people and they have no abilities to make as much as money as they do, so they want to steal from the rich. Some people are rich enough, but they still want to have more, so they choose the wrong way just to satisfy their eagerness for more and more money. We can often see some kids stealing on the street. Most of them come from a poor family and receive poor education, so they are easily cheated by bad people and are forced to do bad things for them.If we want to eliminate crimes, the essential matter is to improve the social welfare and education levels. There is still a long way to go.8.Describe an accident or a disaster you yourself have experienced orone you have heard or heard about.The most unforgettable disaster in my mind is the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008.I remember clearly that it happened on May 12th. It was supposed to be a common day, but the sudden disaster changed many people’s life forever. At that time, I was at school, far from Sichuan, but still I felt something. For a short moment, I just felt a little dizzy and my computer suddenly had no response. A few minutes later, I learnt from the news that there was a serious earthquake in Wenchuan. Then I called my parents and friends quickly to make sure they were all right. The following several days, all the news on TV or Internet were about the earthquake and the rescue job. The pictures showed that the situation there was very terrible. Many houses collapsed, some villages were destroyed and thousands of people lost their home as well as their families.One of my roommates comes from Sichuan, and she was so anxious after she learnt the news. What’s worse, she could not contact her families. We hugged her,comforted her and encouraged her. At last, she knew that her families were all fine and only their chimney fell down. There were student unions calling for donations everywhere on campus. And there were many students gathering on the school square who lighted candles to pray for people in disaster areas. Natural disasters are cruel, but people’s care and love can be great relief to those unfortunate people.9.What are you afraid of? How do you overcome your fears?When I was a child, I was afraid of many things, such as the darkness, water, insects, heights and public speaking. The shadows ahead would scare me stiff and I wouldn’t dare walk in the open field at night. I always screamed loud when an insect stopped on my clothes. I dared not go close to a swimming pool or look down from floors over five. I would even tremble and couldn’t speak a word in front of the public. With the time goes by, I gradually overcome some of them and I am dealing with the rest now. I believe I can overcome all of them. Now, I’d like to share my measures with you, and hope they can also be useful to you.First, I would write my fears down and give the reasons. When I look at what I’ve written down, I know that my fears are so ridiculous, and there is nothing to be afraid of actually. Then, I would face my fears again and again until I get used to it. Although this is really hard to do, it is indeed helpful. For example, I would observe insects closely, then I find them quite beautiful. Another efficient method is to take a deep breath and calm down, and keep telling myself “I can do it”, “I am the best”, “I am very brave” or “I am not a child anymore”. It can give me courage and help me overcome the nerves I feel. Besides, when I feel frightened, I’d like to do things I like to distract my attention from what I’m afraid of, such as listening to music or sing the songs aloud. Finally, I have learnt that some food such as nuts, meat and cheese can help us release our tension, but I’ve never tried.。
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