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WritingA survey conducted in Tianjin found that 98% of high school students and 92% of elementary school students have to spend most of their weekends doing homework.Write an essay of about 120 words. You may include the following points:1. Discuss the negative effects of too much homework on children.2. Discuss the disadvantages of the present exam-oriented education system.3. Call for efforts to ease students' burden and help them lead a colorful and enjoyable life.「参考范文」Too much homework has become a common complaint in high schools and elementary schools. Students have to spend most of their time doing homework, even on weekends. As a result, they have no time for their hobbies, or for their parents or friends. All they do is what they have to do, not what they like to do.The underlying cause for this phenomenon lies in the present exam-oriented education system. National College Entrance Examination has become the sole focus of teachers, parents, and students themselves. High score becomes the ultimate goal, to the neglect of practical abilities, personality development, and all that.It is urgent that we deepen our educational reform. We must allow for students' overall development, not just evaluate their test scores.WritingAccording to some surveys done by the Ministry of Education, there are about 153 million illiterates and semi-illiterates in China. Its illiteracy rate in the western region is much higher than the country's average level and it is as high as 40 percent. The rate for the country's whole population stands at 14 percent. Write an essay of about 120 words, stating your opinion about this issue now confronting China.「参考范文」The task of educating a huge population can be challenging to any country. Though China has shown great concern and done much in education, and in eliminating illiteracy, it still has 153 million illiterate and semi-illiterate citizens, according to some statistics is sued by the Ministry of Education. So, in my opinion, raising China's education level, to a large extent, depends on greater educational achievement in its vast western region and some other backward areas.In the past decade, China has moved to combat illiteracy and promote nine years of compulsory schooling, especially in poor areas and areas inhabited by minorities, and has achieved a great success, but it seems a difficult task in regions where educational opport unities are limited. However, we should set a target that, by 2010, nine-year compulsory s chooling should be realized and the illiteracy rate among young and middle-aged adults sh ould be reduced to the minimum. Only in this way can China raise its national education al level.An article in a newspaper once said: "As China strives to develop its western area, s ome effective measures should be taken to improve forestry in the region." Write an essay of about 120 words, stating what effective measures should be adopted to improve forest ry in the western area.「参考范文」Over the past 10 years, China has made much headway in its afforestation and soil c onservation. For instance, the national forest acreage has increased by 13.7 million hectare s since the fourth national survey on forest resources in 1990. Despite these great achieve ments, some serious problems still remain to be solved such as how to improve forestry i n the western area in the course of its economic development.Forestry build-up in the west is a long-term task. In order to have this goal materiali zed, I think some concrete and effective measures should be taken immediately. For exam ple, to protect the natural environment of the west, some previously cultivated areas shoul d be returned to forest and grassland. In the course of improving forestry, some strict law s should made and their enforcement must be guaranteed. Those who violate forest protect ion laws must be severely punished. Only by taking these effective measures can forestry in the western area be improved.WritingAs is known to all, computers are becoming more and more popular in our daily life no wadays, especially in education. Write a short essay of about 120 words, describing how i mportant computers are in education.「参考范文」It has turned out that computers have become quite indispensable to education. With computers, students can do their homework more quickly and more efficiently; with comp uters, teachers can reduce their work load and improve their teaching. For instance, compu ters can free teachers from certain kinds of time-consuming bookkeeping; help teachers "b ank" test items, thus greatly reducing the time required to produce a new test, and mark t est papers. More importantly, they can analyze test results, indicating to the teacher which points may need further treatment in class. They can also make it possible for a teacher in the classroom to give individual attention to students who are having trouble in their studies. While the rest of a class is working on an educational program, the teacher can t ake the time to work directly with a student who is falling behind. So it goes without sa ying that computers are extremely important in education at all levels.Below is a chart showing the global water supply. Write an essay of about 120 word s making references to the following points:1) describe the percentage of different kinds of water supply of the world;2) analyze the current situation of fresh water on earth;3) give the possible reasons for this situation.「参考范文」Water is a precious resource. Although we are surrounded by it in oceans, lakes, rive rs and streams, our supply is limited. The chart given shows that most of the water on e arth —97.4 percent —is salt water stored in oceans. Only 2.6 percent of the earth's wat er is fresh water, and 2 percent is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. Thus the fresh wat er left for us to use is only 0.6 percent of the total water supply.There will never be any more fresh water than there is now. In fact, the earth is sho rt of fresh water. Besides, the increasing growth of the world population, the growing de mand of industry for water, the serious pollution of our environment —all this makes th e world in danger of running out of fresh water. In some large cities such as Tianjin, fre sh water cannot meet the daily needs.Since water is essential to all life and the supply limited, we must manage it intellig ently and carefully.WritingA certain college lacks some qualified teachers of English. Write a letter of recomme ndation of Mr.Zhong Yong, a teacher of English at a middle school. Your letter should re fer to the following points:1. Personal data2. His work experience3. His qualificationsYou should write approximately 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your letter. Use "Zhang Ping" instead. You do not need to write the address.「参考范文」Name of Applicant: Zhong YongMailing Address: Flat 602, Building 98Sibei Rd., Xiamen, Fujian Province, ChinaEmail Address: zhyggu@Present Occupation: TeachingEmployer: the Education Bureau of Xiamen CityProgramme of Study: EnglishArea of Specialization: Applied LinguisticsDegree: M.A.Name of Reference: Lin LongMr.Zhong Yong graduated from the English Department of the Zhangzhou Teachers' College in 1998. During his college years, he achieved excellent results in study. He has some capacity to do research work and shows much promise as a college teacher.Mr.Zhong Yong has a fairly good ability to read and speak English. He is, however, a bit weak in writing and must work harder to improve himself in this respect.I recommend Mr.Zhong Yong and hope that he will be chosen as a college teacher.Yours very truly,Zhang PingWritingBelow are two graphs showing the changing of the working hours per week in China from 1980 to 2001 and the changing of working days per week from 1994 until now. L ook at the graph and write an essay of about 120 works making reference to the following points:1. the changing of the working hours per week in China from 1980 to 20012. the changing of working days per week from 1994 until now3. the way the Chinese people use their leisure timeHours worked 1980～2001Weekdays worked 1949～2001「参考范文」Leisure Time in ChinaFrom the graphs we can see that Chinese people now have freer time and holidays t han they did before. The average working hours per week decreased from 50 hours in 19 80 to 40 hours in 2000, and non-manual workers tend to have a rather shorter week, aver aging about 37 hours. In addition, full-time workers now have totally about 120 holidays a year, about one third of the days of the year.Since the reform and open policy was carried out, Chinese people have had more tim e to spend on various kinds of leisure activities. A lot of people love both to play and to watch team sports like basketball or football. Many people stay at home having a rest, r eading books, watching TV, and so on. In recent years, more and more people love to tra vel during longer holidays. They go to visit some scenic and historical sites, and some pe ople even make a tour abroad to see the world.。