Writing自主学习安排

大目标：从写作入手，辅以阅读、听力材料，全面提高英文逻辑思考、英文口头表达、英文书面表达的速度和能力。

本学期需实现的量化目标（考场目标）：

1、在看到作文题时，能在10min内列出逻辑清晰的outline

          2、能在考场规定的20min内根据已列outline，写出作文（正确语法、合理用语）

目前现状分析：

1、  根据上学期作文考试看来，思考缺乏逻辑，写出outline时间超过15min

2、  没有专门话题的词汇量积累，导致喜欢边写边查单词，导致写出初稿时间过长（多于1h）

3、  完美主义倾向，导致喜欢不断修改，写出一篇作文用时过长(多于2h）。因为初稿，总是不够好，包括用语不合适、可能存在的语法问题。归根是：少练，词汇量积累不够，语法知识不熟

4、  语法知识不熟（语法是硬伤啊！o(╯□╰)o）

5、  有写作恐惧症，潜意识里不想练习，从而把练习写作的任务一拖再拖（上个学期就打算写英文日记，结果到现在都没有开始T-T）

练习针对：

1、 着重提高速度。包括写outline和写作文。

方法：

1）写作文：第一、二周练习时给自己写作文的时间是40min，一开始会比较困难写出来质量也不高，但两周适应期后，速度能适应了，质量也有所提高，以后每两周限定时间递减5min，例如：第三、四周目标35min，第五、六周目标30min，第七、八—25min，第九十周—20min，第十、十一周，巩固该速度后，根据之前的积累，能够开始更加着重写作质量（用词准确度生动性）。

   2）写outline的类同，起始速度第一二周为15min，第三、四周10min,以后不断巩固的同时，更加注重新意和深度。

2、 不断积累主题词汇量。

方法：每周练习定topic，先进行相关的阅读，和词汇积累，在开始写作。（详细见周计划表）

3、 不断克服写作恐惧症。

方法：

1）  通过给自己制定详细明确的计划去强迫自己落实

2）  同时也定期和老师、舍友交流以便他人监督。（其中包括善于利用写作课老师布置的一个学期20篇的关于写作的reflective journal）

4、修改事实上是好习惯，可是在考场上没时间，所以必须养成初稿就达到比较高的水准的习惯，至少语法正确、语意明晰。方法：每周都针对性学习薄弱的语法知识。（详细见周计划表）

周计划表：

1.       最终确定使用《英语专业4级考试 写作热点话题top 100》作为写作练习用书，并根据其中划分的四大类进行练习。

语法知识使用向师姐借来的语法专题配套练习（我真的看不下也不想看懂那本太专业又冗杂的老版《新编英语语法教程》T-T）

2.       每周至少要有4篇专题写作作文的练笔。（不包括作文课作业、综英课练笔、journal等）

3.       每次的写作练习时间为2h30min：1h用于相关的好词好句积累，1h用于写作，30min用于对比范文修改和好词好句记忆

4.       每周3次语法专题学习，第一次：学习专题语法知识；第二次：复习+练习+对答案+巩固；第三次：复习画出的关键知识点+看错题复习

检查方式：

1.       期末上交profolio:练笔作文、reflective writing、语法练习

2.       consultation hour 问答

第二篇：20xx-20xx英语专四写作writing(全部整理在一起的哦)

2000

The Importance of Extracurricular Activities

Dear Editor,

People have different ideas about how students should spend their school days. Some believe that students should spend the whole day on academic studies. Others believe that extracurricular activities should be a required part of every school day. I think both ways have their advantages. But I prefer the latter.?As a student, our main task is to concentrate on our academic study. We have to attend classes, reading books and doing assignments. Only by working hard can we learn our courses well. But I don?t think we should spend every hour and minute on academic study. A proverb says, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Without good health and strong body, how can we improve our study efficiency and make great achievements in our academic study? Besides, spending the whole day on academic study may make us exhausted and weak. We should find other meaningful things to do besides studying. For example, doing extracurricular activities can make students? life more colorful and beneficial. There are various forms of exercise. My favorite one is football. I play football with my classmates for one hour every afternoon. After a day?s hard work, how nice it is to stretch my arms and legs! By playing football I?ve got both joy and strength. I always lookenergetic.

Actually doing extracurricular activities doesn?t disturb our study if we make full use of our time. Instead it does help us study more efficiently. We can be good at learning as well as extracurricular activities. So I suggest that students do extracurricular activities along with their academic studies.

2001

Travel Broadens the Mind

Nowadays, travel has become a popular activity. More and more people have enough money to travel abroad or at home. As a matter of fact, travel has become part of our life. This situation is encouraging, for it not only broadens people's minds to the extend which may not be reached previously, but also relaxes the physically, which help people work out mental problems more actively.

One of my best friends is so exclusively engaged in his works that he did not even know what was happening out of his own discipline. What?s worse, his progress was nearly little. After accepting my advice, he travelled a few cities and towns. The experience gave him a good opportunity of learning. Today, he gets a bumper harvest in his knowledge——the longstanding dream of entering graduate school comes true. In conclusion, travel opens our mind because it enables us to know about the history and culture of a nation. In a way, going on travels is like reading books..

2002

The best way to stay healthy

1 With people?s living standards improving considerably and steadily, nowadays people are becoming increasingly health-conscious. While how to stay healthy is now a problem of common concern, the best way in that regard remains open to debate.

Some suggest a balanced diet; others believe in the power of tonics. For my part, the best way to stay healthy is to do physical exercises regularly.

2 As the living standard improves, more and more people are paying attention to their healthy conditions. Different people usually have different ways to stay healthy. In my opinion, the most important thing is to keep a healthy attitude toward life. It is true that physical factors affect one's health conditions a great deal, but at the same time, we should not neglect the mental factors. Many scientific researches have shown that anger, suspicion and anxiety do great harm to human bodies

3 Nowadays 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 over nutrition. 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 (n. 群众/许多) of trace elements is effective in keeping our body operating smoothly. A deficiency in any of them will result in some dysfunction（功能紊乱）. So 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.

4 The Best Way to Stay Healthy

As the modern society assumes a scene of human flourishing and economic prosperity, human beings begin to pay more attention to their health with the hope to enjoy a longer life. And the combination of proper physical exercises and a balanced diet may come to their mind. But my best way to stay healthy is keep a positive mind. First of all, it is the positive mind that makes you happy, rather a perfect figure formed by taking physical exercises and keeping on a diet. And as is often the case, a pleasant mind situation is accompanied by a long healthy life.

Furthermore, when you are cheerful, you?re likely to do everything more passionately and efficiently. Unlike other students or employees, you?ll be far away

from anxiety and grumble(抱怨). In addition, you?ll have more confidence in yourself. And actually success, care freeness（不需要操心）, confidence are all important points that make you delightful. Therefore, you are in a wonderful state.

Wearing a smile a day keeps the doctor away. Because when you smile at the life, it will smile back at you.

2003

THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING A GOOD MOOD

People in modern society live under a lot of pressure. I see three kinds of pressure working on people today: pressure from education, family and career. It is easy to blame the school for charging too much money, the family members for the heavy burden, the society for the fierce competition. I think people should relax. It is important for them to keep a good mood under whatever circumstances.

Long gone are the days when people lived their life with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of activities—film, music, art, poetry. But now, a lot of people suffer from a lot of pressure. They can?t communicate well with co-workers and family members, and have unbalanced, one-dimensional lives. Some people complain of symptoms of stress, for instance, loss of appetite, a complete sense of exhaustion, insomnia and low morale. Thus have destructive effect on their health. People tend to lose temper easily, and this may interfere personal relationship. What?s more, a high rate of suicide may warn people of their emotional well-being.

To be a healthy person physically and psychologically, one should keep a good mood, according to some psychology experts. Those little things may seem relatively insignificant—reading mystery novels, playing volleyball, spending time with family and friends, maintaining your emotional well-being, getting plenty of rest, going fishing. They can help you keep a good mood.

2004

Will Phones Kill Letter Writing？

Nowadays, young people choose to phone each other rather writing letters. But even if so, I still maintain that letter writing will never be killed by phones, though we have stepped into the Information Age.

First, letters can express your subtle feelings. With the increase of the living pace of modern society, we find that there is a lack of communication now. Sometimes when you are speaking to someone that you care and love on the phone, you are so shy that it?s too hard to express any of your feelings towards him/her. Your throat seems to be blocked! At this time, letters will help. Without any embarrassment, you can just write down your deep concern and love on a piece of paper. When you drop the letter into the pillar-box, you will feel what he/she will receive is not only a letter, but also your deepest love. Secondly, letters can be kept as a record of memory, while phones cannot. Just imagine, when you open an old box of letters and read them years later, a lot of beautiful and indelible memories will be brought back to you. What an irreplaceable feeling it is! And I believe, this feeling is something that you can definitely never experience through several phone calls.

All in all, letter writing will absolutely survive and even thrive in the Information Age. Phones can never kill it, neither will anything.

2005

My Idea of a University Arts Festival

An arts festival will no doubt add much to our campus life, since it, like other group activities, will be a stage on which students from different colleges and departments communicate and share their interests. This festival, of course, needs to be well organized, so as to get everyone involved. While all kinds of activities contribute to this great festival, lectures by leading artists in this country will surely make it more successful.

First of all, influential ?stars? are always an attraction to involve the greatest number of participants. The main purpose of this festival, just as other campus activities, is to add variety to students? life. Its results and influence need to be measured more by the number of participants than by their artistic level it will display. The more people get involved, the more successful the festival. While a few of the students are busy performing during the festival, lectures permit the majority to sit there listening and asking their ?masters? questions.

Secondly, face-to-face communication between students, some of whom are potential artists, and the leading artists is always a bridge linking textbook knowledge and practice. University students spend most of their time learning from textbooks or at the library, but knowing how to do is quite different from doing it. The experience of and advice from those practitioners in the fields of music, movie, and painting help university students to think what else they need to learn and what they will do in the future.

What?s more, lectures by well-known experts will enhance the influence of the arts festival and the university. Arts festivals are held in many universities in the city, but they are organized in more or less the same way. As far as I know, lectures are seldom part of them. Therefore, it will promote the reputation of our festival, which is a new comer in the city.

In a word, it will be beneficial to invite some experts to give lectures. It will get more students to get involved, students will benefit from lectures by experts, and it will draw more public attention to the festival.

2006

Saving Money or Spending Tomorrow’s Money

Recently a Beijing information company did a survey of student life among more than 700 students in Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi?an, Chengdu and Shanghai, etc. To my surprise, almost 67 percent of students regarded saving money as a good habit. As far as I am concerned, spending tomorrow?s money today is a better and wiser option.

First of all, spending tomorrow?s money may improve our living standards and enable us to live a happy and well-to-do life. Still remember the wide-spread story about two old ladies—one is American and the other is Chinese. In her life the American lady spent tomorrow?s money, enjoying the capacious houses, luxurious

cars and all the modern electrical appliances. Before she died, she had paid off all her loans, and she said she had no regret in her life and she had led a happy life. On the other hand, the Chinese one just saved money, living a hard life. When she died, she finally could afford the luxurious houses with her savings, but she had no time to enjoy it any longer. What a poor lady!

What?s more, spending tomorrow?s money also plays a significant role in the economy of our country. Since it can spur people to make more money to enjoy life, the consumerism by this trend will undoubtedly drive forward our economy. With the country?s economy developed, the best beneficiary is our common people. In other word, it is the best way to ensure a life free from poverty and anxiety about future.

All in all, with benefits to both our personal lives and the development of the country, spending tomorrow?s money in advance will be a sensible choice, comparing with a life of saving money all life long which will surely brings us poverty.

2007

Is It Wise to Make Friends Online?

Internet, as one of the most important inventions of the twentieth century, has greatly changed our life. Nowadays, more and more young people have many friends online, which, as far as I am concerned, has more benefits than negative efforts.

Firstly, Internet enlarges our circle of friends considerably. No other ways of communication enable us to makes friends all around the world as easily as Internet does. As long as we can speak English or other foreign languages, we are able to chat with Americans, Japanese as well as European people, and therefore, to broaden our views by exposing ourselves to various cultures and experiences. Apart from that, we tend to be more honest and straightforward when we make online friends than in real life. Since in the cyberspace, we cannot see others? faces, we do not have to worry about the negative results brought by direct communication. For instance, we are free to air our opinions on some sensitive issues of the society, and share our little secrets with our online friends with ease. In this way, online friendship gives rise to more openness and less stress or pressure at the same time.

While many people argue that making friends online is not stable or even dangerous, I posit that embracing this technological innovation by becoming a true netizen is definitely a wise choice.

Is It Wise to Make Friends Online?

With the Internet becoming an indispensable (必不可少的) 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.

Firstly, 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 .By 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(投你的视力) to the friendship and kinship in the real life .What you should do is to seek solution, but not to escape.

I think it is wise to make friends on online.

First, it is fun. You can know so many friends from different places. You can broaden your knowledge about others' culture and convention which you may not find in books.

Secondly, when talking to friends online, you don't have to care about your appearance (except you use webcam) or manners, you feel much more comfortable than talking in the reality.

Thirdly, it saves your money. If you invite your friends to your home or meet them in the cafe, you will spend money anyway. Online chatting must be cheaper!

Last but not the least, you can improve your English if you make friends with people in English-speaking countries, you have more chances to practice English in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Recently as the mean of communicating is more and more developed and convenience, people begin to create a social relationship circle on the Internet. For instance, people especially the young people begin to make friends online by QQ, E-mail, MSN and so on. I fancy it is somewhat good and wise for them to do so. My reasons as follow:

First of all, it is well-know that the globalization is the tendency of the whole world, and all kinds of information begin to exchange widely and fully. Even we set off to do business activities on Internet. The world on the Internet is fundamentally a real world, why we can not have a try to make friends online?

Furthermore, we can make friends across all over the world on the Internet, which in a certain way widen our horizon of sight and enrich our knowledge. The widely communicating world breaks the booth we used to coop in and offer us a chance to enjoy the feast of different cultures and customs.

The last not least important, by making friends online, we contrive to touch the spiritual world inside ourselves. We sometimes suffer from troubles and trap in poisonous mood, while we do not want to tell the people around lest we should embarrass later. Then we choose to have a conversation with friends online.

According the facts I have referred, I advocate making friends online, but as crime and cheating exit in real world, that kind of things also appear now and then, more or less on the Internet. So please take care and keep an eye on your friends you made.

Is It Wise to Make Friends Online?

Recently, making friends online has become increasingly popular. Although it may provided us with an opportunity to communicate with people from various fields, with whom we share our ideas and knowledge, making friends online does poses a lot of problems for the personal life as well as the whole society. Therefore, from my viewpoint, it?s not wise to make friends online.

In the first place, spending too many hours before computers and too much radiation do great harm to our eyesight and may lead to obesity. Moreover, people who are lonely, depressed and not satisfied with their real life may find themselves addicted to making friends online. Without online life, they will feel dull and empty. This will certainly affect their relationships in real life. What makes things worse is that it may result in cyber crimes. As sometimes it is difficult to tell who are the goodies and who are the baddies, especially someone you are not familiar to, some people take advantage of it to commit crimes, which cause physical injuries and property damage to people.

To sum up, in order to maintain a regular and wholesome lifestyle and ensure the safety of us, we should refrain from overindulgence of making friends online and try to work at relationships in real life.

Is It Wise to Make Friends Online?

Making friends online has increasingly grown in popularity in last few years and now and then we hear some appalling stories of disasters as a result of it. As far as I am concerned, it is not wise to make friends online as there are potential dangers to it.

Some people?s dependence on online relationships can build up the risk of having potential psychological problems. People can be easily attracted to online life and those who are lonely, depressed or not satisfied with their real life can easily develop an addiction to the “perfect” online life, as they can make up life stories. Too much addiction can gradually affect one?s abilities and functions in the real world. Gradually the addicts become isolated from others and unconcerned with people or events around them. In addition, cyber relationships have the magical power of destroying intimate relationships between family members and friendships that exist in real life. Teenagers of the generation of Instant Messaging are also too keen on their online friends to care about their relationships with their parents.

In conclusion, though people are finding it entertaining to make friends online, it dose harm in several ways. Too much trust and dependence on cyber life can cause net addition that may lead to several psychological disorders or physical problems. Moreover, relationships in real life have been affected by online relationships. Extreme cases indicate the most dreadful consequences caused by cyber criminal. As making friends online is still spreading its attractions, people need be aware of these dangers and take proper actions to protect themselves.

Is It Wise to Make Friends Online

With the development of internet, a growing number of people are using internet and making friends online. Making friends online is increasingly popular nowadays, but as far as I am concerned, it is not wise to make friends online, because there are

potential dangers.

Above all, some criminal gangs commit their crimes through the internet. To a certain extent, the internet is unreal sometimes, when we communicate with strangers online, we do not really know their identities. Some people can conceal their real identities and use frauds to gain unjust advantage, so there are some dangerous elements to make friends online.

Moreover, making friends online can cause net addiction; some young people make friends online and extremely depend on these relationships. Because they build intimate relationships with their friends online, it is easy for them to ignore the relationships in real life. It also can make them weary of studying or working.

Although so many people are eager to make friends online, to a great extent it is not wise but dangerous. If they are rather too free with the friends made online, they would be in uncertain dangers. Dependence on online relationship can destroy the relationships exist in real life and lead their life into a mess. So it is not wise to make friends online, and we should realize these dangers exist in internet and protect ourselves carefully.

2008

The Benefits of Volunteering

Volunteering 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 volunteering work we do, either being a volunteer teacher for a village school or a volunteer worker in a retired house, we can taste different lifestyles and broaden our horizon.

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 to the volunteer work together. From our co - volunteers we can absorb many good qualities that could help us be 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.

The Benefits of Volunteering

The rapid evolution of the society should be accompanied by fast-pace mental

development of people. Therefore, our society is following the trend by the mounting number of volunteers. In my perspective, three benefits we can gain from being volunteers respectively are gratitude, reputation and elevation.

First and foremost, being a volunteer is the very way to pay back the society, showing your gratitude. No one can disclaim the positive influence, which the society has posed on them during their growth. Meanwhile, to be grateful is also a lesson we have been taught by the society. That is exactly why a great many of people from different walks of the society find donate more or less their possessions meaningful.

What?s more, doing voluntary work is apt to repay you with prestige. Praise or even celebration will fall on you stealthily. Even if being well-known does not come to you, at least you possess the experience and the sweet memories hold by the people have helped. Especially for students who yearn for studying overseas, they will be highly admitted to schools when one of the items on their resume is having been a volunteer.

Last but not the least, volunteers? morality will be elevated and the spiritual civilization of the whole society will be improved when people do voluntary work. Being volunteers contributes to making acquaintances of people from different classes. In the course of time, it is in your esteem to identify the beauty and the evil of people. As to the society, increasing volunteers is impacting hugely on other individuals. Undoubtedly, mutual help will be in the fashion.

As a saying goes, if you want happiness for an hour, take a nap; if you want happiness for a day, go fishing; if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. Being a volunteer, we gain nothing, but we gain everything.

The Benefits of Volunteering

Volunteering, in many people?s opinion, is almost a waste of time. Volunteers seem to gain little, if not nothing from their work. But actually it is not the case at all. Volunteers always find their work meaningful and worthwhile.

The most apprent benefit of volunteering is that volunteering is that volunteers can get valuable chances to get close to real society. As most vulunteers are young and inexperienced college students, it will help them a lot to witness social reality and take part in social activities. Another major benefit volunteers can gain is the cultivation of a sense of resposibility. By helping the weak members of our society, volunteers always feel on their shoulders the duty of citizenship which is necessary in maintaining good relationship in a family, a community and a whole society. A third benefit that is often overlooked by people is the happiness at the bottom of the heart. This is gained by simply helping others.

Being a volunteer may not bring you any money, but surely one can gain a lot from their volunteering work which benefits their later life and work.

The Benefits of Volunteering

Volunteering is a tiny word, but needs great actions. As we all know, December 5 is the international Volunteering Day, and our country now has 4.5 million registered volunteers who have provided more than 4.5 billion hours of volunteer

work. Someone said that this kind of work is nonsense and waste our time. But in my view, we can get much from it.

First of all, volunteering is a good way to broaden our horizon. We may do something we never touched and meet different kinds of people. We can talk with them and seek many ideas. After that, as undergraduates, we are lack of opportunities to get involved in activities. At this time, volunteering just creates precious opportunities for us to experience new things.

Secondly, volunteers can learn much from practice especially students. As students, we are absorbed in books and learn the knowledge from it. When it comes to volunteering, we have the chance to apply our knowledge to real problems. And we can also get some enlightenments from it.

Thirdly, volunteering is good for our future job application. That is to say, when we take part in the extra job without pay, we can get some experience and know how to deal with some problems we never met. Moreover, during the work, we start to learn our society, and begin to derive ability to communicate successfully and politely with others. It really can make it easier for us to adapt the society after graduation.

All in all, volunteering is a form of practice, experience, benefit, etc. we should not say no to it. It can bring you benefits to catch your bright future.

The Benefits of Volunteering

Since 1985, when the United Nations announced that December 5th is International Volunteers Day, more and more people around the world have volunteered to help those in need. Volunteering is not a job, so it will not pay. It can be regarded as a test of people?s kindness and love. It is beneficial to many people, including the one who offers help, the one who receives the help and the one who witnesses the process.

Firstly, it can bring both mental and material helps to those who are in serious depression. When a disaster or a war strikes, many people especially the poor have no ability to survive themselves. In that case volunteers? help turns out to be the most hopeful and precious. All they need is a steamed roll and confort.

Secondly, it can give volunteers special memories, experiences and happiness. Helping others is the basis of happiness. In their common life, people just work or study day after day insignificantly. As volunteers, people can experience different roles and help or even maybe save those in need. They can get happiness and achievement at the same time the one they help get out of the delimma.

Thirdly, volunteers set examples and make an appeal to the other people for volunteering. Nowadays, a group of people still have no concious of helping others. They need examples and appeal. If volunteers take their duties sincerely and successfully, and if volunteers share their happiness of helping others with their friends, many people will follow their steps undoubtedly.

In conclusion, volunteering is significant to the society, to those in need and to volunteers themselves too. All capable peole should register volunteers no matter how rich they are, no matter how powerful they or no mattter how famous they are. Where it needs, volunteer arrives.

2009

Will Tourism Bring Harm to the Environment?

In recent years, tourism has developed rapidly in China. Many people believe that tourism produce 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 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 land slides 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 much 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.

Will Tourism Bring Harm to the Environment?

The economy of China is booming in recent decades, so is the tourism. People spend more time on travel, appreciating various sceneries and cultures and broadening their minds. However, the increasingly flourishing tourism is damaging the environment by polluting the environment and decreasing species diversity.

For one thing, thousands of people pour into a scenic spot may cause serious pollutions. The more tourists there are, the more garbage they produce. If the tourists and government doesn?t pay enough attention to waste disposal, the local environment suffers. The more tourists there are, the more buildings such as factories, hotels, and restaurants, will be built. The discharge of the waste water and gas will certainly do harm to the soil, air and sources.

For another, the well-developed tourism also leads to biodiversity decrease. Because of the increasing number of buildings, resident species have less space to live and they may lose their homes. Besides, the pollutions have made it even tougher for resident species to survive. If things go on like this, resident species will be driven to the brink of extinction. As a result, we will have less diversity in the environment.

Tourism brings great joy to us, but in the meanwhile we have to take care of the environment before it gets worse. Therefore, some measures must be taken to improve the situation, for example, releasing laws, reducing pollution and propagandizing environmental protection.

Will Tourism bring harms to the environment?

The flourishing tourist industry should not bring grave harm and damage to the environment provided that travelers are environmentally conscious of the importance of protecting the tourist spots they visit. Solid evidences from tourism of developed countries and booming coastal areas of China strongly prove this claim.

Tourism does not deteriorate the environment of many developed European countries because the people there in general, the visitors in specific, are more conscious and friendly to their visiting destinations. This is true if one takes a close look at European countries, the United State, Australia, Canada, and Japan, where almost every street is free of littering, garbage, and cigarette buts. Tourist scenic spots frequented and haunted by swarms of travelers in those countries are also found clean and pleasant. This is also true with coastal cities such as Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Qingdao and many others, where people take better care of the environment and where places or interest are scarcely polluted. It is evident that the environment is not worsening because of tourism.

Tourism itself is an environmentally friendly industry. It is not the industry that worsens the environment that we are living in, rather, it is the tourists themselves that pollute the environment. Once the tourists are conscious about building up a clean environment, tourism should not be a threat to the environment.

Will Tourism bring harms to the environment?

Tourism has been booming and thriving unprecedentedly in China in recent years. Many people believe that tourism produces positive effects on the environment and therefore we should try our endeavors to promote tourism. However, these people largely ignore the fact that tourism may bring about risks and disasters to the environment. For me, I'm firmly convinced that tourism brings harm rather than benefit to the environment.

The negative side of tourism on the environment is self-evident. Take a close look at the tourist spots and amenities, you will find out how our environment is suffering from the tourist industry. For example, in order to attract tourists, a great number of artificial scenic spots have been built, which have certainly brought forth unfavorable effects on the environment. As a result, the ecological balance of these areas is broken. In mountainous areas, for instance, trees and bamboos of various species are being chopped down to build luxurious hotels, causing landslides and hillslides and damages to the natural beauty of these places. Tourists themselves also have damaged the scenic spots. Some of them are totally unaware of environment protection and ignorantly throw garbage, banana skins, cigarette buts here and there. Some even cook their dinners on the scenic spots, like what they do at home. These indecent behaviors all contribute to the deterioration of the natural environment. Tourism should not grow at the heavy cost of environment, which, once damaged, is hard to recover. We must take every measure to protect our environment from worsening, for the betterment of tourism development and the environment.

Will Tourism bring harms to the environment?

As we know, tourism had played a very important role in the rapid growth of Chinese economy. But at the same time, it also bring about risks and disasters to the local environment. Too much tourism may damage the environment in different ways. In my opinion, the reasons why tourism can bring harm to the environment are obvious. They can be concluded as follow. Firstly, the qualities of the tourists are different, some of them will throw about all kinds of garbage and left their names on the buildings by caving them with knives and so on. Secondly, the scenic spot cannot afford too many visitors. The large amount of people damage the nature beauty. If we don't limit the number of visitors, the situation will be serious. For example, too many climbers on the mountain may damage the plants. What 'more, some relics like the Dunhuang frescoes were damaged because of being visited by too many people who produced too much harmful gas. Thirdly, in order to develop the tourism, the local people make use of the field and resources. There are few space for farm .

In a word, too much tourism will break the ecological balance and damage the environment. So it is unwise to sacrifice the environment for the increasing of tourism. We should find a balance between the tourism development and environment protection.

2010

Should College Students Hire Cleaners?

Recently, the report that some college students hire cleaners to do laundry and cleaning in the dorm has immediately sparked a heated debate. Personally, I believe that such practice should not be encouraged at universities.

Firstly, college students should have the capability to do the laundry and cleaning. Doing family chores is only a simple way to cultivate independence. If college students cannot do it, they cannot take care of themselves, let alone other complex things. Hence, it is a bit ironic for those young adults, who always claim they are totally independent of their parents in this respect.

Secondly, college students should feel shamed of disposing of their parents? hard-earned money in this way. With a large proportion of their living expenses and tuitions covered by their parents, wasting money for laundry and cleaning is not justifiable.

Those who have good reasons to hire a cleaner argue that college time is for study, not for doing the laundry and cleaning. But I?m afraid that the so-called “busy” is just an excuse for being reluctant to do the laundry.

In conclusion, hiring cleaners should not be encouraged at universities, whose purpose is to cultivate responsible and independent adults, instead of lazy parasites.

Should College Students Hire Cleaners

It is report that some college students hire cleaners to do the housekeeping of their dormitory. When it comes to the topic, different people have different opinions. As far as I concerned, college students should not hire cleaners. The main reason for my propensity for the opposite opinion is as follows.

First of all, as students of university , We have the ability to Clean the dorm by ourselves, which is our basic duty. Just like the old saying goes if you can not do those little things,how can you do things such as managing the world. Secondly, we have achieve the age of adults and shouldn't keep away from our society. As college students, in comparison with who are the same age as us, we should make sure that we have no advantage. They all relies on themselves, while most of us depend on our parents. They can do it ,why we can not? Last but not least, in the event which we are discussing ,we also should make clear where the money used to hire cleaners comes from. If it earned by yourself,of course, you can spend on anything you want. But if you money was from your parents, you should consider what are your parents doing when you hire cleaners.

From what I have been discussed above, it can be concluded that we had better do cleaning by our own rather than hiring cleaners.

Should College Students Hire Cleaners

Should college students hire cleaners? Different people will offer quite different ideas about it. Some people assert that college students can hire cleaners. In contrast, the objectors do not think so. In my opinion, I think there is no need for college students to hire cleaners.

In college, some students seem too busy to have time to do laundry and cleaning in person, so they hire cleaners to do these for them. But in fact, college students enjoy more spare time than high school. Why do some college students still hire cleaners? I think that they just spend too much time in association activities, playing computer games, date, shopping and so on, or simply because they are too lazy to do laundry and cleaning. College students should not hire cleaners. First of all, as a college student, one should learn to be independent but not always rely on others when parents are not with them. And students should learn to steel themselves in labor. Besides, it is well known that college students must pay high tuition and fees, and it is not easy for their parents to earn money for their education. So, as a pure consumer, college students should learn to be diligent and thrifty to shoulder heavy burden on parents.

In a word, it is nit necessary for college students to hire cleaners, and they should not do that.

2011

Should private car owners be taxed for pollution?

With the rapid increase of private cars, the quality of air condition is decreasing day by day. Running on the city roads are cars which produce large amount of poisonous fumes, black smoke and unbearable traffic jams. A heated discussion has been aroused about whether the private car owners be taxed. I believe the owners should be taxed for the pollution their cars produce.

You may ask why we should tax private car owners? The reasons are obvious as I am concerned. Actually, in China, traffic jams are becoming more and more severe during these years. Several cosmopolises, especially Shanghai, are suffering from

disastrous traffic jams which lead to road ranges and other social problems. Furthermore,

As John convert, a professor in Harvard University, and his teams studies show that 76% of launch cancer, 82%of heart diseases are related to air pollution including carbon dioxide and other poisonous fumes which are closely related with private cars. Last but never the least, the growing number of private cars refers to increasing energy consumption and mounting emission of the carbon dioxide, which contributes to the deterioration of the whole ecosystem, such as climate change, acid rain and greenhouse effect. As a consequence, the existence of human beings will be threatened as well as other creatures.

Due to the negative effects of the soaring number of private cars, as far as I am concerned, it is high time for governments to tax private car to limit them. Only if we control the number, can we enjoy far more harmonious environment and fresher air.

Should Private Car Owners Be Taxed for Pollution?

Recently government agencies in some big cities have been studying the possibility of putting a ' pollution tax ' on private cars, which has caused quite a stir among the public. As far as I'm concerned, As is known to all, environmental problems are one of the biggest threats we are faced with. However, no forceful measures have been taken to limit private car owners, whose cars release various kinds of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. So it's necessary to carry out this ' pollution tax ' . It will let the potential buyers have a second thought before purchasing a car, and make the owners take the necessity of driving a car into consideration. All that will cause a decrease in private car owners. No doubt it will ease the environmental stress.

In addition, more and more people who give up the cars will use the public transportation. As a result, higher demands will be made on transportation facilities. Then our government needs to improve the current condition, and it may attract more private car owners to choose the public transportation. So a virtuous circle forms. To sum up, with benefit to both environmental protection and public transportation improvement, the ' pollution tax ' ought to be put on the private cars. You pay the tax because you use a car. The car you use does harm to the environment, while the tax you pay can be beneficial to the society. Don't you think it's really reasonable?

Should private car owners be taxed for pollution?

With the development of society, many people can afford a car. As the number of the cars is rising, we are facing some problems. One big problem is the pollution caused by the use of cars. In order to solve this problem, government agencies in some big cities recently suggest that a “pollution tax” should be put on private cars in order to control the number of cars and reduce pollution in the city. For my part, I agree to this viewpoint, and my reasons are as follows:

To begin with, cars contribute to the environmental pollution. For example, a lot of big cities in China are now plagued by serious air pollution. Then it is the responsibility of these private car owners to pay for the pollution and they should be taxed. The purpose of collecting environmental pollution tax is to raise the fund, and then utilize the tax revenue lever to protect our environment.

Secondly, it is a good way to raise people?s environmental awareness by putting a pollution tax on private cars. If people suffer from the financial loss when making a decision, they will think more about their decision. Then they will consider more when deciding to buy a private car. Consequently, the increase rate of the number of the private cars can be controlled.

In a word, it is a very good and necessary attempt to use the means of taxation to treat the pollution. Of course, it must be kept in mind that all people, including the private car owners, should try their best to protect the environment.