大学英语第二学期期末作文

1. Developing Economy or Protecting the Environment

发展经济还是保护环境

Some people think that the urgent task is to develop economy on a large scale. First, they hold that many people, especially in rural areas, are living in poverty. As a result, many children drop out of school（辍学）and can’t afford even the compulsory education. Second, they believe only by further balancing and developing our economy can we get rid of poverty and gain the overall prosperity.

On the other hand, many people insist that environmental protection should be a top priority. First, they claim that we have only one mother earth. If our ecological environment is heavily polluted or ruined, we could not even survive on this planet. Second, they believe, it’s the rapid and advanced development of economy that leads to the present situation that most parts of the world are polluted. If the problem left unsolved, one day we may have nothing to drink, let alone develop our economy.

In my opinion, both economy and environmental protection are our urgent tasks now. Without economic development, we would remain backward. Moreover, we might be conquered or bullied （欺侮、威吓） by other powerful countries. And without environmental protection, we would lose our home. Therefore, the best solution is to develop environmental-protection-oriented industries and agriculture so as to kill two birds with one stone.

2、Advantages and Disadvantages of the Cell Phone

手机的利与弊

Nowadays, with the rapid development of IT(Information Technology: 信息技术) and information industry, cell phones play a dominant role in townspeople’s life. But, like everything else, they have both favorable and unfavorable aspects.

First, it’s useful. As a wireless mobile telephone, it’s easy and handy to carry it wherever one goes and call the callee however far away he is. Therefore, it greatly facilitates people’s life. Second, it’s convenient. whenever one meets trouble or something urgent, one can make a call immediately. Most important of all, it’s a very helpful companio n. With a multifunction cell phone in hand, one can easily get on the Net（上网）, browsing the useful information, conducting e-commerce （电子商务）and doing whatever one can do via Internet.

However, just as everything has two sides, the cell phone also has many disadvantages. To begin with, it’s expensive to buy and costly to pay the bills, esp. that of global service. To make matters worse, it’s also easy to lose and costly to get it repaired. Worst of all, it’s not as clear as a family telephone and sometim es the number dialed is often not available. Last but not least, it’s alleged the micro-waves in it might do harm to people’s health.

In my opinion, with its expenses greatly reduced after China’s entry into the WTO, it will face an ever brighter future in its development. Someday most of them will be developed into new Internet-enabled mobile phones, which will be as useful as pocket computers. And I believe its advantages will not only offset（抵销、弥补） its disadvantages, but also far outweigh them.

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