2000年：College life should be varied and colourful.And extracurricular activities are an important aspect of it.However,at present,there is much room for improvement in this regard.Write an article to the university radio entitled:The Importance of Extracurricular Activities.The Importance of Extracurricular ActivitiesYou shuttle between vocabulary tables and chemistry equations like a painstaking Puritan, axis of life joining only the classroom and dormitory, then you risk being called "bookworm" at best, and "geek" mostly. The fact is, outside the chalkboard and tomes there is a need for something complementary yet critical.For one thing, extracurricular activities animate your body. Intensive study and sedentary lifestyle have taken a toll on the well-being of many students. Myopia being a national epidemic, we see our youth wearing appalling glasses. Lack of exercise leaves millions suffering from overweight, if not obesity. However, in extracurricular activities you stretch your muscle and spare some time for your body. May it be a stroll in the park or 2 hours’ workout in the gym, these activities revitalize you and keep you in shape. For another, extracurricular activities refresh your mind. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Without somethi ng ”extra”, school courses amounts to unbearable toil and moil and everyday degrades to a miserable repetition of yesterday’s routine. The inevitable consequence is stifled imagination, stale thoughts and dumbed senses, and we are doomed to become a group of bigoted scholars responsive only to impersonal dogmas. Extracurricular activities actually expose you to a world full of new experiences. You get to know people, visit places and develop skills. Through excursions and parties, social investigations or community work, you gradually are molded into a sociable extrovert receptive to new ideas with a wide prospective.In conclusion, extracurricular activities are essential in that it ensures a more satisfying existence, both physically and mentally.2001年：Travel has become part of our life.And more and more of us have come to know the significance of travel through our own experience.Write on answer sheet two a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:Travel Broadens Our Mind.Travel Broadens Our MindTravel has become a world-wide activity. Never before have so many people traveled to so many different parts of the world. With new modes of fast and comfortable transport more and more people are tempted to leave their homes to see more of the world. It is very exciting to visit different places, and the experiences will remain in our mind all of our life. While traveling, we'll see landscapes very different from those in our homeland, witness cultures different from our own and meet people of different forms and races,Travel may help us broaden our mind. First, by traveling we can focus our eyes on the beautiful scenery in different places as well as the wonders of mankind. When captivated by the picturesque landscapes and spectacular view of the scenic spots, we can forget our dull routine and leave all our troubles behind. Either high mountains or running water can awaken our imagination, from which we derive immense enjoyment and inspiration. Second, travel can widen our knowledge and broaden our horizons, and makes one open-minded as well. When we set out on our travels, we can learn about different cultures, customs and local colors of different places. Apart from the distinctive geographic features, the historic sites often record some historicalevents or are associated with some historical figures. With the help of tourist guides, we can learn when the sites were built and what role they played in history and so on. In this way, we can gain a lot of knowledge of history.To sum up, traveling is a good way of broadening a person's perspective. Once we have had the pleasure of meeting people of other countries, our thoughts and decisions in the future will be likely to be affected by the impressions of the peoples and nations we have visited. Most importantly, we may revive those good memories and again enjoy the pleasure of our past experiences some day.2002年：Nowadays people are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of health.And they have different ways to stay healthy.For example,some exercise every day;others try to keep a balanced diet.What do you think is the best way to stay healthy?Write on answer sheet two a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: The Best Way to Stay HealthyThe Best Way to Stay HealthyNowadays people are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of health. And they have different ways to stay healthy. For example, some take exercise every day; others try to keep a balanced diet. For my part, the best way to stay healthy is the combination of proper physical exercise and a balanced diet.Both physical exercise and a proper diet are essential to health. For one thing, proper physical exercise makes you strong. As the saying goes, life lies in sports. Now in this modern society, people tend to be busy with their work, and they are inclined to neglect physical exercise. They know that taking exercise is important and necessary, but they are often too lazy to go and have sports. This is coupled with their possible overnutrition. Gradually, their health will be damaged under great work stress and due to lack of physical exercise.For another, a balanced diet can provide a person with the right kinds and amounts of nutrition required for the normal operation of our organs. As we know, a multitude of trace elements are effective in keeping our body operating smoothly. A deficiency in any of them will result in some dysfunction. Therefore, a balanced diet may prevent this condition from happening. It also prevents people from putting on weight.All in all, I believe that the best way to keep fit is taking proper physical exercise plus staying on a balanced diet. It is indispensable if we want to enjoy a good health.2003年：People in modern society live under a lot of pressure,from education,career,or family.So it is important for them to keep a good mood under whatever circumstances.Write on answer sheet two a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: The Importance of Keeping a Good MoodThe Importance of Keeping a Good MoodPeople nowadays are living under heavy loads of pressure from education, employment, family, and other matters. A good mood helps them keep a positive attitude towards life and overcome many difficulties that life brings about.Keeping a good mood is no doubt highly important. First of all, when one is in a good mood, he tends to consider things more positively and therefore is more willing to face up to any challenge and other forms of pressure in life. He will not give up easily in times of trial. He will optimistically cope with any difficulties that arise in life and work. He is confident that he willreach the apex of his career sooner or later. Secondly, keeping a good mood is conducive to one’s physical and mental health. As a proverb goes, a cheerful heart is the best medicine to one’s mind and body. Research shows that people who constantly keep themselves in a good mood are happier and healthier than those who have a gloomy disposition. They will benefit a lot from such a character. It is no wonder that a sound mind and a strong body are essential to success in one’s career. Thirdly, when one keeps a good mood, he can effectively influence people around him, thus creating a very favorable environment for life or work. In family life, he can infect the whole family with his laughter; in work, he is more likely to be friendly and encouraging towards his colleagues, for which he will in return win the good opinion of his colleagues and thus cause them to happily support him and cooperate with him.When we live in this world and deal with people around us, we surely will not be free from difficulties and other troubles in life. Therefore, the best way to deal with them is to look into the reality and confront any problem in life directly. We should develop a strong will to prepare ourselves for any possible challenge in life. We should be philosophical about worldly affairs such as money and social status. In a word, we should learn to be optimistic about anything.2004年:Nowadays young people tend to phone more often than write to each other.So,some say that phones will kill letter writing.What is your opinion?Write on answer sheet two a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: Will Phones Kill Letter Writing?Will Phones Kill Letter Writing?Nowadays, people choose to telephone each other often rather than write letters often. But even if they phone so often, I still firmly believe that letter writing will never be killed by the phone, though we have stepped into the information age.Letter writing in itself has its own charms. Firstly, letters can express subtle feelings that you cannot speak out directly over the telephone. It is true that with the acceleration of the living tempo of modern society, we now tend to write less and less for lack of time. But sometimes when you are speaking to someone on the phone that you love, for example, you are so timid that you dare not bare your soul to him or her straightforwardly over the telephone－your throat seems to have a lump inside! At this time, writing letters is the last resort. You can write down on paper what you want to say but dare not say on the telephone, without any embarrassment. When you drop the letter into the pillar-box, you feel that what he or she will receive is not merely a simple letter, but the deep love from the bottom of your heart.Secondly, letters can be kept as a permanent physical record of memory, while phone calls are less easy to do so. Just imagine, when years later you open a box of old love letters and read them once again, a lot of vivid and pleasant memories will surely be brought back to you. What precious memory it is! This feeling, I believe, is something that you will never experience through several phone calls.All in all, letter writing, no matter how it seems to be marginalized, will absolutely survive this information age and plays a special role in our life. Phones can never kill it, neither will anything else.2005年：The Students’ Union of your university is planning to hold an arts festival next semester,and they are inviting students to contribute their ideas and suggestions as to how it should be organized or what should be included. Writeon answer sheet two a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: My Idea of a University Arts FestivalMy Idea of a University Arts FestivalThe University Arts Festival is supposed to provide the students with a platform on which they can not only show off their talents of arts, their capabilities and intelligences in organization and cooperation, but also can have a chance to know each other better, thus enhancing their friendships . To make the arts festival more lively and colorful and in order to meet the aims of holding it, there are several aspects we should pay attention to.First, the arts festival should be widely ranged according to the various interests of students, such as singing, dancing, instrument playing, drama performing, chess playing, drawing, calligraphy, photographing, cooking and so on, so that every student may be able to find something that he is interested in and take part in it . It is a good chance for the students to stimulate their interests in arts and expand the range of their knowledge.Second, the arts festival should be organized in different forms, such as performance, lectures and shows. For example, there should be a stage on which students can sing, dance and perform whatever they are interested in according to the program list made on their own. But only performance on the stage is not sufficient for an arts festival. There should also be some lectures given by artists and professors on arts knowledge and the important relationship between arts and life. Besides, some shows of drawings, photographs and calligraphic works are essential. We can show the students’ works on campus and ask the passers-by to vote for the best ones. In this way, students can compare and see the good and bad points of themselves and other fellow students. They can also share their ideas with each other and thus improve their communicative skills.In other words, university arts festival should not only give the students a chance to appreciate different arts, but also provide them a platform to learn, to communicate and to entertain. The essence of arts festival is to enhance the college life and to benefit university students spiritually.Recently a Beijing information company did a survey of student life among more than 700 students in Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi’an, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shenyang. The results have shown that 67 percent of students think that saving money is a good habit while the rest believe that using tomorrow's money today is better, what do you think?Saving Money or Spending Tomorrow's Money Today?Money is to our life what blood is to our body. In the world today, nobody could live without money. According to a recent survey conducted by one authoritative information corporation, an estimated 67% of college students in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, etc. think saving money is a good habit. On the contrary, the rest are convinced that spending tomorrow's money is better. As far as I am concerned, saving money best suits me and renders me the greatest enjoyment.Admittedly, spending tomorrow's money, as advocated by many, has its active role to play in our economic life. It can spur people to make more money to enjoy life. And consumerism brought about by this trend can of course do a great deal to drive forward our economy. However, there are numerous merits for saving money. First things first, saving money is a preparation for a secured life. The best way to secure a safe and sound life and be free from poverty, want and anxiety about future is, of course, in current situation, to have a certain amount of money in hand.In our daily life, various things unexpected and emergent may fall upon us. In these cases, if we have savings, we can manage to overcome these crises more easily. In addition, money dissipating and luxurious life can weaken us. By contrast, just as Albert Einstein put it, "a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally."By and large, why so many people advocate spending tomorrow's money and so many exclaim the dogma is beyond my understanding. It seems that it can bring us nothing but anxiety and more uncertainty about our life, while saving for the rainy day, a fine tradition of Chinese nationality, can provide us with the greatest security and the best satisfaction of life.2007年：Nowadays the Internet has become part of people’s life,and millions of young people have made friends online.Write on answer sheet two a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: Is It Wise to Make Friends Online?Is It Wise to Make Friends Online?With the Internet becoming an indispensadle part of modern people’s life, making friends online enjoys its great popularity, especially among young people. However, is it wise to make friends online, as many parents and teachers are worrying about? As far as I am concerned, I strongly oppose being addicted to making friends online.Fristly, too much attention to online friends distracts yours concerns to the true friends and families in the real world. If we look around, we often find a lot of young people staying online and chatting with online friends all day long. At the same time, the communication between them and the friends around them are becoming less. Therefore, they feel lonelier in real life and spend more time on the Internet. Besides, online friends are often disguised. A large number of cases have proved that many criminals make use of Internet to cheat of money or love. Even if they are not cheaters, they tend to be totally different persons when you get in contact with them. There’s always a gap between the real world and the imaginary one .Nevertheless, it is unwise to make friends online. Those who are indulging in Internet should cast your eyesight to the friengship and kindship in the real life. What you should do is seek solution, but not escape.2008年：December 5th is International Volunteers Day.Since 1985,when the United Nations announced the special day,tens of millions of people around the world have volunteered to help those in need.China now has 4.5 million registered volunteers who have provided more than 4.5 billion hours of volunteer work.What can you gain from volunteering. Write on answer sheet two a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: The Benefits of VolunteeringThe Benefits of V olunteeringV olunteering has grown into a fashion these years, with volunteers ranging from college students to white collar workers. It is reported now China has 4.5 million registered volunteers having provided more than 4.5 billion hours of volunteer work. Why would so many people like to do volunteer work? Are there any benefits of volunteering?The answer is absolutely yes. First of all, through volunteering we can gain more experiences. Whatever volunteer work we do, either being a volunteer teacher for a village school or a volunteer worker in a social club, we can taste different lifestyles and broaden our horizons.Secondly, through volunteering we can acquire the sense of being needed. Many people feel frustrated with travails in life and empty with the cycling of working and resting. They gradually become numb, losing the sense of being needed. By joining the volunteer group and offering help voluntarily to people who need it, we may feel happy and fulfilled again.Thirdly, through volunteering we can learn more good qualities. Volunteer work is team work, which needs good cooperation. We can know people with different personalities and different background joining in the volunteer group and devoting themselves to the volunteer work together. From our co-volunteers we can absorb many good qualities that could help us become better persons.In conclusion, volunteering is of great benefit in that we can gain more experiences, acquire the sense of being needed and learn more good qualities.2009年：Tourism is a booming business in China.However,some people worry that too many tourists may bring harm to the environment,while others don’t think so.What is your opinion? Write on answer sheet two a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: Will Tourism Bring Harm to the Environment?Will Tourism Bring Harm to the Environment?Recently tourism has developed rapidly in China. Many people believe that tourism produces positive effects on economic growth and we should try our best to promote tourism. But what these people fail to see is that tourism may bring about a disastrous impact on our environment. As for me, I'm firmly convinced that too much more tourists bring harm to the environment.The bad impact of tourism on the environment has mainly expressed itself in various ways. One way is the process of exploiting a new scenic spot. In order to attract tourists, a lot of artificial facilities have been built, which have certain unfavorable effects on the environment. This process usually breaks the ecological balance of the area. In some mountainous places, trees are being cut down to build hotels for others to see and explore the beauty of the mountains. Then landslides and mud-rock flows come up. Another way the development of tourism has damaged the environment occurs when tourists go to scenic spots. Some tourists don't have the awareness to protect the environment, and ignorantly throw their garbage here and there. Some people even kill the local wildlife to eat, which badly damages the balance of the natural environment.It is wrong to sacrifice the environment for the growth of tourism. We must keep in mind that too many tourists bring harm to the environment. We need to find a balance between satisfying the needs of tourists and reducing to a minimum the pollution they cause.。
