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Integrated Writing:
*篇
药物电视广告是好还是不好。
阅读文章要点：
1. 药商会隐藏副作用，甚至他们自己都不知道一些潜在的风险，所以药物广告是不*面和不客观的；
2. 广告打出后，药品销量暴涨，会误导病人。病人会直接向医生要求要广告上的药品，而不是听从医生的建议；
3. 政府虽然制定了一些规则，但是因为没有逐一检查广告，有一些广告没有遵守规则，从而带来不好的影响。
听力逐一反驳：
1. 人们买之前会自己上网做研究，或者和医生讨论，所以人们自己能得到一个相对*面客观的理解；
2. 药品销量暴涨之后，人们会发现一些之前很少人知道但是很有用的药品，举例：戒烟的药；
3. 虽然不能逐一检查，但是如果有虚假广告，政府会收到投诉并采取相应的措施：比如开出巨额罚单，这样企业就得不偿失，不敢做虚假广告了。
2）生物燃料可以成为未来的主要能源，尤其是那些由藻类生产的燃料，但有人说藻类燃料有一些负面影响，所以不能用做常规能源。
阅读给出三种观点：
1. 耗尽资源，比如消耗大量土地和淡水；
2. 需要投入大量资金建立algae站，生产设备价格非常高；
3. Algae的生长需要依靠二氧化碳，没有被完*利用的二氧化碳排放到空气中会导致空气污染。
听力逐一反驳：
1. 藻类algae可以在任何土地和水的条件里生存，利用废弃的土地和水来生产燃料；
2. 藻类生长周期短，成长速度快，一个星期收获一次，并且收成是谷物的200倍，所以收益可以用来*高额的设备；
3. 海藻可以利用工厂排放的二氧化碳生长，反而对环境好。
Independent Writing:
1）同意与否
Do you agree and disagree with the following statement?
People should take time to relax with hobbies or physical activities that are very different from what they do at work.
参考范文
It is tiring to do the same thing day in and day out. From what I’ve seen, most people want to escape from their work during their leisure time by participating in activities that are very different from their work. As far as I am concerned, I just don’t see any benefit of doing the same thing at work and after work.
For one thing, it is natural that people feel bored when doing the same thing for a long time. Imagine that you are a chef and spend as long as eight hours a day in the kitchen preparing meals. Then ask yourself do you want to continue to cook food after work when you arrive home? The answer is probably not. No matter how interesting their work is, most people tend to do something else after work because they need a break. Photography, for instance, is an interesting occupation. But I don’t think many professional photographers keep on taking photos in their leisure time. It is beneficial for people to take up a hobby that is different from their jobs. In doing so, people temporarily forget all the troubles they face at work, which is a good way to relax and unwind.
For another, taking up different physical activities and hobbies is an opportunity for people to improve their health conditions, as well as make new friends. For example, white-collar workers often have to sit at their desks all day long, which is bad for their spines. Many of them have back pain. Such pain can be relieved by participating in swimming, yoga and other physical activities. In the meantime, they would be able to make new friends in yoga classes, public swimming pools and any other venues for different activities.
In conclusion, spending leisure time on activities different from their jobs is a good way for people to relax, to exercise, and to socialize. Although people have every right to choose what to do as a pastime, I suggest that they should try different activities instead of doing same things as what they do at work.
2）三选一类
A friend is trying to reduce living expenses. This person is trying to decide among the following three ways to do this:
a) Find a roommate (housemate) who can share living expenses
b) Buy new technology products such as the latest mobile/cell phone
c) Buy less expensive food to cook at home (instead of eating in restaurants or buying expensive food items)
参考范文
For those who are living in modern cities, the rising living expenses have become one of their concerns. In order to lighten financial burden, therefore, people need to sort out probable ways to cut down the cost of living, such as finding a roommate, buying technology products less frequently or cooking at home. In my opinion, choosing less expensive food to cook at home may be the most practical as well as effective solution.
Firstly, shopping for less expensive food to cook at home costs obviously much less than eating outside, since you are charged not only for the food ordered, but also for some other things, like the services and the rent in a restaurant. Considering the fact that the cost of food makes up nearly a quarter of our total living expenses, this approach is definitely recommended, especially in the long run. Sometimes, perhaps, eating outside can also cause extra expenditure on transportation as you may need to take a bus or taxi to the restaurant or cafe.
What’s more, it is widely acknowledged that cooking at home is comparatively healthy and safe, which drastically lowers the risk of suffering from certain food-related diseases such as diarrhea and sometimes even food poisoning. Hence, apart from reducing living expenses, it can avoid unnecessary medical expenses as well.
Finding a roommate who can share part of your living expenses, such as rent, on most occasions, seems to be a means of cutting down expenditure, but it may result in other financial problems, and it is also infeasible for those who are living with their family members or those who prefer to live alone. In addition, although buying technology products less frequently can save a small amount of money, it is not a long-term solution to this problem.
In conclusion, while finding someone to share the rent or saving money which would be spent on the latest technology products can be considered as probable ways of reducing living expenses, buying less expensive food to cook at home is the most practical and effective way to solve the problem.
3）二选一类
Schools always collect information about teachers’ performance and give rewards to the teachers who perform well. Which way do you think is more effective to evaluate teaching performance?
1. Evaluating teaching performance by students
2. Evaluating teaching performance by other teachers
参考范文
In order to get comprehensive understanding of teachers’ performance at school and give rewards to those who have outstanding performance, schools are supposed to make evaluations from the following two ways: evaluating teaching performance by students or by other teachers. As for me, I support the former way.
First of all, the target or the audience of education is students, therefore, it is their right to say “yes” or “no” to their teachers’ performance. After all, teachers’ job is to pass the knowledge to the students and as the recipient of the knowledge, students’ feedback is crucial. Furthermore, it is the students not other teachers that build direct contact with their teachers, thus, the direct or the real feeling to teachers’ performance must come from students.
On the other hand, if the evaluation job is done by other teachers, there will exit two possible problems: the first problem is that teachers will not evaluate from a recipient’s angle but from a teacher’s angle. In other words, they are not the students themselves and thus they can’t fully grasp students psychology and feeling toward their teachers’ performance. The second problem is that there may be unfairness in the evaluation process. For example, if two teachers are competitors, then one teacher possibly gives bad assessment to the other one. On the contrary, if two teachers are friends, then they may over-evaluate each other.
Thirdly, from the school’s perspective, evaluating by students will have much more benefit. For instance, such an evaluation system will encourage teachers to improve their academic ability and help schools to optimize their teachers. In addition, as private schools become popular, putting students’ feedback and feelings in the center is the general trend.
Above all, teachers are just like actors on the stage and students play the role of audience. They two sides build direct contact with each other. Therefore, students can give the most authentic assessment to their teachers’ performance.
