1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In order to attract good students, a university should spend a lot of money funding social activities.（399）There is an ongoing trend that universities are investing more and more money into funding social activities, in order that more outstanding students will be attracted. However, from my perspective, spending a lot of money on such activities does not necessarily benefit the universities' reputation and may not attract many good students as they originally expect.Firstly,the priority of a university is to provide the best education for students sitting in the classrooms. There is no denying that nowadays when it comes to valuing the quality of a university or college, people generally refer to how many scientific prizes it gets, how much paper its professors publish and how well students get educated. These are, obviously, important criteria that are related to academic development, far from having something to do with students' social activities.Many excellent students have realized the significance of the academic level of a university when choosing their own ones. Therefore, it is not unusual that those universities that possess the best professors and have laboratories with pretty good conditions attract the most students. For instance, Peking University and Tsinghua University are two of the best choices for students to choose as their own universities, simply because these two colleges are renowned for their peerless academic level.As a result, universities with high quality of education generally attract more good students. These students tend to expose themselves in an academic atmosphere that allows them to drown in a certain field of study. Spending a lot of money on social activities has little to do to spread the universities reputation in cultivating good students. Thus a greater amount of money should be invested into the increase of the faculties' salaries, enhancement of laboratories equipment and other education related things.Granted, social activities do benefit the students all-round development by improving their communication and organization skills and enable them be more familiar with the operation of society. Nevertheless, we are supposed to keep in mind that students' priority is to learn more knowledge. And when it comes to priority, many unrelated things that contribute less to students' academic performance should give way.In summary, I suggest that universities should put most expenditure on the improvement of their education rather than on social activities. Only in this way can universities attract more good students and send the future elites to our society.2.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students could receivea better, more efficient education if they spend 11 months a year studying. (481)Most schools around the world provide students with at least two months vacation that aims to enable them adjust themselves and get temporarily relaxed after months of heavy academic burden in the schools. Nevertheless, I suggest that this will not result in the original expectation of schools. Rather, it can substantially decrease students' learning efficiency. Spend at least 11 months a year studying, therefore, will lead to a better education.Firstly, it is not unusual that nowadays students have been complaining about the large amount of homework after class assigned by their teachers. In addition, they have to take a lot of examinations during school hours as well. It seems that they are under great academic pressure and their lives are filled with homework and tests. That they should have more vacations seems reasonable. However, there is no denying that adolescence is the most valuable time for studying and absorbing knowledge. Thus, young students are supposed to receive heavy academic burdens that indeed stimulate their potential abilities and motivate them to go forward.Conversely speaking, if students have long vacations free from homework and tests , which restrict them from being distracted by temptation unrelated to their school works, the consequences can be serious. For example, they will no longer care about what they have learned in classrooms and seldom have a review on textbooks. Furthermore, some younger students who are not mentally mature enough may be mislead to think that studying has nothing to do with their future development. Obviously, this is not the initial expectation of schools.Judging from the statements above, it is simple to conclude that schools should not give students vacations such long as 2 months. A 11-months school year can be pretty beneficial to students in many aspects. First of all, teachers do not have to spend large amount of time to refresh the memory of students after long vacations, since students seldom review the knowledge they have learnt in the past semester. In addition, one month break is enough for students to get fully relaxed and do want they enjoy to do. Meanwhile, it will not be long enough for them to forget about the knowledge they have learnt, and it is still possible to pick up the memory rapidly after vacations.Consequently, one month vacation combines with 11 months in school can be very effective in improving students' learning efficiency. On the one hand, they get enough rest during the 30 days; on the other hand, they can make use of the 11 months to optimize the utilization of their sharp mind and stamina to learn more knowledge, which gets them well prepared for future career and lives.In summary, students will receive a better education if they spend 11 months in school and only take one month's break. In this way, both schools and the society can expect a better group of elites appearing in the near future.3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to truly relax and reduce stress is to spend time alone. （502）When it comes to relaxation, the ways to relieve one's stress vary from person to person. Some prefer to gather together with their friends to enjoy the hilarious atmosphere while the other choose to stay alone and relax by themselves. As far as I am concerned, the best way to relieve our stress and reduce pressure is to spend time alone.Firstly, there is no denial that staying alone can cultivate our mind in that we can calm ourselves down and temporarily escape the hustle and bustle brought by the busy society. Nowadays people are in such rapid living pace that they seldom have time to reflect on what they have done and their own psychological states. From most people's perspective, occupying themselves with works and assignments is a symbol that they are making endeavor, hoping that the result can be as satisfying as they originally expect. This, however, is not the case. Taking a break between heavy works also serves as an important role in allowing people to return to themselves and do something that they really enjoy.For instance, Albert Einstein had to write papers and read articles everyday and he only took four hours' sleep every day. Nevertheless, he still managed to squeeze out half an hour between works to practice playing the violin. It goes beyond saying that staying alone and take a good break gives us a valuable chance to organize our thoughts and thus enhance our working efficiency. Einstein also stated that drowning in the music world helped him to reflect on the abstract physics ideas that require scrupulous consideration. The rhythm of the violin music, therefore, provided him with this opportunity. Obviously, if we have a rest with many people, we will lose the opportunity to improve ourselves and get fully relaxed. (写得略跑题，例子也偏了,考试时改一下,比如从上一段开始可以说自己一个人可以做自己喜欢做的事，培养长期爱好)In addition, spending free time to stay together with others can even has nothing to do with making us feel relaxed. Many teenagers prefer to stay out at night in weekends with them friends, playing computer games or singing in music bars. The next weekday, of course, there is no surprise that they will be so exhausted and find it difficult to concentrate on the lessons. That is not a good way to reduce stress. The best way to take a rest not only enables us to forget about our heavy burdens, but also helps to restore our stamina and makes us feel much more energetic than before the rest. Therefore, staying alone seems to be a perfect way to get relaxed.Granted, spending time with friends allows us to share our experiences and renders us a chance to express our emotions to someone else. But considering the negative effect brought by staying together with others, I will suggest that it will be better for us to just stay alone and enjoy the relaxation by ourselves.In summary, the best way to reduce stress and to help us recover our stamina to get more prepared for future works should be to stay alone.机经第四题120525NAW24. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In the modern world, we should never be impolite to another person. （455）As the society becomes increasingly modernized, the conception of being polite to others has gained its increasing momentum among the public. From my perspective, people are supposed to be polite to everyone in order that they can stand out the fierce competition and be "the fittest" to survive.There is no denying that with the rapid development of the world, people are engaging with more and more contact with various kinds of people. When it comes to communication, it is not surprising that different people have different efficiency in conveying their own ideas or promoting themselves to others. What makes the difference is clear. Many people nowadays lack the realization of being polite to others, and with no idea of what may brings them if they behave impolitely. As a result, they may easily offend their customers when promoting their products, just because of a casual but inappropriate comment on products from other companies; or they may remain confused when they are blamed by people around them due to their loud talking in the libraries.It goes beyond saying that politeness is one of the most significant qualities of being a member of the society. A winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry once said that the most important lesson that he had ever took was in his kindergarten. His teacher told him some basic decorum and explained that always being polite to others could be a large amount of mental property, since it was this quality that drove people go forward both academically and socially. Therefore, when fighting for our academy scholarship, we should never refuse to give instructions for those in need of help just because we are afraid that we may be surpassed; when successfully finishing working on a project with co-workers, we should never seize the outcomes by ourselves and are supposed to share the good results and get rewards with them.Granted, there are some cases that we simply cannot tolerate a person who is very imprudent and offends us a lot. But in this case, instead of being impolite in the same way to him, we can choose some methods that are much more suitable. For example, we can avoid to argue with this person and try to deal with his problems mildly, in a more calm and suitable way. On the contrary, if we try to fight back and say some things impolite and inappropriate to those people, we simply become such kind of disgusting people as well.In summary, being polite to everyone is of vital significance in that it helps us go farther on the way to success. Only in this way can we communicate with people better and behave well to get more chances for future promotions.机经第五题5. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The food we eat today is much healthier than in the past. (513)(1)第一篇We are living in a world where diverse food has been put on the shelves and offered by various restaurants that provides the food with beautiful outlook to attract the customers. Nevertheless, even though that nowadays food has nicer outlook and seems to contain a higher amount of nutrients compared to that in the past, I still suggest that the food we eat today is not healthier but, instead, much worse than decades ago.There is no denying that the production of healthier and organic food has gained its momentum recently. Due to the enhancement of the efficiency of producing food, many companies need to seek other methods to attract more customers rather than merely produce large amount of food. The most convenient and attractive way seems to be putting a "healthy" label on their food and proposing that the food has an edge over others because it provides people with various nutrients that satisfy the basic intakes that a person need. Nutrients such as vitamins and proteins have been printed on the surface of the food containers, serving as an irreplaceable role to draw the customers' eyes. This is especially true when it comes to selling food that is specifically designed for the elder and children.Simply by printing some text on the food containers can attract more customers and boost the selling of the food, there is no surprise that food companies spend most of their time designing the outlook of the food rather than pay enough attention to truly increase the quality of the food. Most of the food we buy from supermarkets contains chemical stuff that can prevent the food from being out-dated; the fruits we buy from fruit markets may have high pesticides on their surface, which are harmful to our body. These examples are all effective illustrations to suggest that nowadays the food is not as healthy as before, but even has worse effect on human beings.Take a look at the past time. People in the past seldom bought food from others. Instead, they ate what they planted or cultivated, which was free from being polluted or over processed. In addition, they hardly had their meals outside and thus had no access to food that was not healthy and wholesome. Therefore, compare the past time with present, we can easily conclude that these days food becomes worse in quality and we even have more access to eat them, which means that we should pay more attention to what we eat every day since it is concerned with our own body health. Now that food companies are making endeavors to make the outlook of the food seems better, we are supposed to distinguish different kinds of food and choose the one that is the most healthy.In summary, the food we eat nowadays is worse than in the past so we should care more about what we take in as food every day in order that we can get food that is truly healthy and does not contain chemical stuffs that do harm to our body.(2)第二篇（470）We are living in a world where chips, fried chicken and other kinds of junk food prevail. Under such living conditions, it is very hard to say that the food we eat today is much healthier than in the past.There is no denying that nowadays people tend to value what they eat as something worth considering, unlike in the past time when people seldom had many alternatives to decide what to eat. Due to the development of the society, food diversity increases in a rapid speed, leading to various food being put on the shelves. People generally have much wider choices than long ago.Nevertheless, with the rapid development also comes the speeding living pace. People have to deal with heavy works day and night and thus leave less time to even enjoy a simple meal. Therefore, there is a tendency to buy fast food as temporarily energy supply. Instant noodle comes to the dining table, while microwavable canned meat serves as the major food. What people take in every day is increasingly in low nutrients and contains a lot of chemical stuff and artificial dyes which make the food look nicer or smell better. Obviously, these unnatural material added to the fast food cannot be beneficial to our health. Rather, it can be toxic and causes a lot of discomfort in the body.Judging from the statement mentioned above, it is easy to conclude that the food we eat today become less healthy than in the past time. In the past, what people took in as food mainly was those product that they planted or cultivated by themselves. Furthermore, they seldom had the opportunity to eat outside. Therefore, they had fewer chances to take in unwholesome food which may damaged their health. In addition, food in the past time contains almost no, if any, pesticides and other artificial chemical stuff which is added to the food in order that it grows better and attracts more customers.This situation can be very worrying. Now that every one needs food to survive, the food safety problem should alarm us of the worsening health conditions of us. It cannot be avoided. The food companies merely aim at earning as much money as possible, without any consideration that what they add in the food and how they process it are directly concerned with the health of the people who take it in. And we seldom pay attention to it, either. Therefore, the entire public awareness should be raised to realize the potential danger that unhealthy food may imposes on us.In summary, the statement that the food we eat today is much healthier than in the past is far from being correct. Thus we are supposed to care about what we take in as food every day in order to eat more healthily.effect on the society than the airplane has done.(455)We are living in a world where various ways of transportation provide us with unprecedented convenience. Mobiles are renowned for their agility and flexibility while airplanes are probably the fastest but feasible for general people to travel from one place to another. From my perspective, however, I think that the car has had greater effect on the society than the airplane does.The proliferation of technology has made it way too easy to produce cars. So there is no denying that nowadays, almost every modern family owns a car or even more. Therefore, people seldom give consideration to the distances when it comes to go outside, thanks to the convenience brought by mobiles. On weekends, they drive cars to the parks; on the weekdays, they drive cars to go to work, without having to take public transportations such as buses and subways. The fear of taking public buses or subways which are thronged by crowds adds to the wider use of cars.In addition, it is obvious to conclude that the mobile have also made irreplaceable contributions to the society in that it often serves as the main role in transporting goods quickly. Delivery companies are known for their incredibly fast speed in sending shipments to the customers by mobiles. And the mobile also possesses an important advantage that the train does not have-i.e. the mobile is very flexible in traveling to areas where the terrains are not suitable for trains to pass by, such as mountain areas. Therefore, the effect brought by the wide use of cars cannot be ignored.In other words, airplanes are of high speed and are relatively more safe than vehicles on the ground. Many people, especially businessmen, tend to take airplanes to fly here and there in order that they can save a large amount of time. Furthermore, taking planes can also be comfortable without the experience of the jolting and shaking of the moving cars. Nevertheless, it is hard to say that airplanes have done a lot in improving the development of the society. There are few, if any, examples that can be pointed out to illustrate the airplanes' influences on human-beings, while we have to admit that airplanes truly change the living patterns of some people.Thus, a world without airplanes could be as normal as before, but a world without mobiles is hard to imagine. People in that world would have to think twice before considering traveling to somewhere else; even though delivery companies could still use domesticated horses to deliver goods and letters, they would be impotent when it comes to large cargos.In summary, the car has greater effect on the society than airplanes do. It is hard to imagine a world without cars.strict rules to their children if they want them to succeed in the future.(473)There is an ongoing trend that parents are increasingly involved in the education of their children. Their high expectation on children is easy to understand, since every parent all expect to see that their children can become future elites of the society. Consequently, many parents set quite strict rules to their children to help improve their all-round development, i.e. both physically and mentally. And from my perspective, I agree these rules will certainly benefit children.There is no denying that young children are generally not mentally mature enough to behave themselves properly: they are just too young and naive to realize that speaking with their mouth full of food, pointing on others with their chopsticks and throwing rubbish on the ground are not what a civilized man should do. It is not their fault, however, since they are still under junior education and are forming the basic understanding of the relationship between themselves and the society. And in addition, parents play an irreplaceable role in guiding them and teaching them to conform to specific rules that are obeyed by all social members.Parents' education on their children, therefore, can be very effective in that they spend most of time with children and are most familiar with them, thus they can modify some bad behavior of their children according to personal situations. Furthermore, most children are clung to their parents so that they regard what parents say as truth. In this way, parents' proper instruction and guidance on children sometimes can even change their behavior entirely, leading to more developed minds.What's more, being restricted by strict rules often results in personal success. It is not unusual that many celebrities who had done great contributions to academic and scientific fields were brought up by strict mothers or fathers. Take Lu Xun, a renowned writer in China, as an example. In his childhood, his father seldom gave him time for entertainment. Rather, unlike other kids who had plenty of time playing outside, Lu Xun was always forced to read books and write articles at home every day. But eventually, he had written many famous articles and accomplished great success. When asked about why he succeeded, he simply said that it was due to his father's strict rules.Thus, it goes beyond saying that strict rules will be beneficial to children in the long run, despite that it may seems a little bit cruel to a little kid. Granted, compulsory rules limit children's freedom and deprive them happiness in their childhood. But giving consideration to their long-term development, there is no denial that these rules help them a lot on the way to success.In summary, parents should set strict rules to their children. Only in this way can children fully develop their potential and be better prepared for future career, which is of great significance.8. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to reduce the air pollution problem is for the government to raise the cost of fuel.(459)As the environment is becoming increasingly contaminated by air pollution problems, there is an ongoing debate as to what we can do to retrieve this situation that is getting worse. Some people argue that the best way to reduce air pollution is to raise the cost of fuel by government, but as far as I am concerned, this is far from a good idea.There is no denying that fuel is the main energy source for various kinds of vehicles, i.e. mobiles, motorcycles and etc. These vehicles serve as an irreplaceable role in transporting daily shipments and enabling people to travel from one place to another easily. Therefore, raising the cost of fuel may brings about economic and even social problems. For instance, the price of goods will raise according to the raise of fuel cost, which can influence people a lot since that some goods are often indispensable for daily lives. Thus, with the raising cost comes that more people cannot afford necessary goods to survive, and the shaking of the fabric of government can be expected.Obviously, we can conclude that raising the cost of fuel is not acceptable in that it may causes the instability of the society. Some other methods, however, can be very effective to deal with the worsening air pollution problem.On the one hand, It only starts up when people begin to realize how serious the problem is and determine to take some methods. For we citizens, therefore, many accessible ways in which we can contribute to the improvement of air conditions are presented to us. Using less electricity can be one of them, such as shutting off the computer screen when we are not using it or turning off the light when we are going to bed; in addition, we can even spread the basic conception of conserving the environment and protecting the quality of atmosphere to the old and young children, who are relatively less informed about the seriousness of the air pollution problem.On the other hand, governments also plays a significant role in controlling the worsening situation. It is obvious that if a government can encourage local industry factories to filter out the toxic gases before releasing them, a more clean and fresh sky can be expected. Furthermore, governments can strengthen the superstition of PM2.5 more frequently to provide the public with clearer ideas about the current air condition and thus can react to it. There are various responsibilities that governments should shoulder in preventing the air pollution from getting worse.In summary, the best way to reduce air pollution is not for governments to raise the cost of fuel. Rather, we citizens should combine with the efforts of governments to solve this long-lasting problem together.。
