Do you agree or disagree： Celebrities are more important to younger people than they are to older people.

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题目太抽象了，结果写了两个小时。。。

名声对于每个人都很重要，特别是是年轻人他们可能更加在意自己的celebrity。

（1）年轻人相对于老年人有更广阔的社交，一个好的名声可以让他们交到更多的朋友，认识更多的人。而老年人的社交相对狭窄，不需要交太多朋友。

（2）年轻人需要找工作，有一个好的名声，可以相对容易的找的工作。而老年人找工作时，人们可能更看重他们的经验

（3）外界对于一个人的信任和认可程度，老年人的认识已经比较深，了解比较多。相对年轻人，可能大家对他们的认识不会太多，所以相对而言名誉也就更重要.

When we think about the importance of celebrities for a person, we can say it's more important for a younger people to have good celebrities than older people. There are several reasons for that, such as the social relationship for young people, the younger needing to find a good job and people's cognition to them.

First, younger people have wider social relationship than the elderly. Young people always have a lot of friends and they also like to make friends with other people. If a young people have a good reputation, people may like to build a relationship with him or her. For example, my friend Sally is a beautiful and hot-heart girl, she likes to help other people no matter what kind of problems they meet, so she gets a good reputation in our college. One day, one of my friends coming from another college asked me if I was acquainted with sally and he wanted to make friends with her. I was surprised since Sally was unlikely to have any interactions with him. Then I know the reason that it's the Sally's good fame making people like my friend want to make friends with her. However, the elderly have a relatively small social relationship and do not need to make many friends. Thus the celebrities to them are comparatively less important than then the younger.

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综合写作范文

In the reading material, the author raises three strong arguments to cast doubt on the existence of “burning mirror” in ancient Greek port city. However，the lecturer states that the burning mirror might have once appeared in history by refuting the writer’s arguments one by one.

First, the author argues that it was technologically impossible to build such a tremendous mirror by a single sheet of copper in ancient Greece. Yet the speaker shows by experiment that dozens of small polished copper may do the same job efficiently and Greek mathematicians were excellent enough to accomplish it perfectly.

Besides, in view of the author, it might take a long time for the burning mirror to set a wooden ship on fire and the enemy wouldn’t be stupid to stay still for ten minutes. The lecturer,however, points out that ancient warships were not built by wood only. A special material called pitch was used to fill the spaces between and pitch catches fire quickly. Thus it was possible for a burning mirror to burn the pitch first then the ship. In this way can a burning mirror be an effective weapon.

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The reading and listening materials have a conflict on whether the "burning mirror" worked as a weapon. While the passage states that Greek was never ready to build such a device, the lecture disagrees with it.

First, the writer states that in ancient Greeks, the technology was not advanced enough to make mirrors. However, the speaker thinks this idea does not hold water, by saying that the large sheet copper is not a single one, but to be collected by dozens of small pieces. And at that time, the technology can reach this process.

Second, the writer claims that the time to set the ships on fire might be very long, and the ship did not stay perfectly still. However, the speaker views it from an opposite angle. She reckons that ships are not only made by wood, but other materials, like pitch, a material can catch fire only by second. Once the pitch was caught fire, it can separate the fire to woods, and then, all boat may fire.

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TPO 30

A little over 2,200 years ago, the Roman navy attacked the Greek port city of Syracuse. According to some ancient historians, the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a “burning mirror”. A polished copper surface curved to focus the Sun’s rays onto Roman ships, causing them to catch fire. However, we have several reasons to suspect that the story of the burning mirror is just a myth and the Greeks of Syracuse never rally built such a device.

First, the ancient Greeks were not technologically advanced enough to make such a device. A mirror that would focus sunlight with sufficient intensity to set ships on fire would have to be several meters wide. Moreover, the mirror would have to have a very precise parabolic curvature (a curvature derived from a geometric shape known as the parabola). The technology for manufacturing a large sheet of copper with such specifications did not exist in the ancient world.

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In terms whether the zebra mussel will exert negative influence on North American, the passage and lecture are contradictory to each other. The author believes that zebra mussel might do harm the local species as they arrived while the lecturer holds a different opinion.

First of all, the author makes a point that the history events suggest the zebra mussel's invasion is unstoppable. In the past, human transportation makes it possible for zebra mussel spread around the whole Europe and it is likely to happen again in North American. However, the lecturer demonstrates a different idea that a change made in the "ballast water" will prevent the invasion of zebra mussel from continuing. He says that if we refill the "ballast water" with ocean water, the mussel will no longer survive because the saline water might probably kill them all.

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TPO18综合写作高分作文

原始稿

Experts in the reading passage have proposed three possible solutions to protect Torreya from extinction. The professor in this lecture, however, points out that none of these options provided by the experts turn out to be satisfying solution.

The professor disproves the idea in the reading passage that reestablish Torreya in the same location a good approach to protect Torreya from extinction. She contends that the global warming in recent decades has strongly affected microclimate in large regions in Florida. At the same time, the increased drier area in most of the region cannot meet the condition that Torreya needs to survival.

The second hypothesis of relocation is also refuted by the professor in the lecture. Despite claim in the reading passage that scientists believe assisted migration helps Torreya’s survival, the professor argues in the lecture by pointing out the unexpected outcome resulting from a similar experience of relocation of anther kind of plant. This is because the migrated plants grow quickly in the brand new environment and kill other kinds of plants and trees in the same region rapidly, whereas exerts extinction threat on itself eventually.

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Both the passage and the speaker mention a kind of social phenomenon—buzzing. The lecture refutes the reading’s points by stating that buzzers provide true information, consumers won’t buy the product until the buzzers anwser all their questions, also it might have a good effection on social relationships.

The speaker first says that buzzers tell the truth of a good to their costoms for many companies hire the users who feel very good about the products as the buzzers. Contrarily，the author holds that buzzers always provide incorrect information as they try to advertise the goods and to increase sales.

And then, the speech points out that most consumers don’t believe the buzzers easily. They often ask a lot of questions, such as the price, the service and how long can they use, and require all the answers before buying. However the passage disagree with it. It argues that buzzers pretend to be the users while working. In this way, consumers tend to be less critical and may easlier to accept the claims from buzzers.

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