九 擁有手機的優點和缺點

　　Advantages and Disadvantages of the Mobile Phone

　　With the rapid economic development，the mobile phone has found its way into campuses and a host of students take advantage of this wonderful gadget to communicate with each other. This phenomenon gives rise to this question：What are the advantages and disadvantages of the mobile phone?

　　It is widely believed that it greatly facilitates students’ campus life. Many instances could be found to support this type of opinion. A graduating student in our university bought a mobile phone in the course of hunting for his job. He told me that through the mobile phone he could easily keep in touch with the employer of the company he intends to work with and would not miss any opportunities.

　　However，everything has both positive and negative facets. The mobile phone also has many disadvantages. For instance，the ringing of the mobile phone often disturbs the teacher’s teaching and other students’ learning.

　　Personally，the advantages of the mobile phone outweigh the disadvantages of it as long as we don’t interfere with others while using it.

　　十. 有一個會議在你所在的城市召開，你想去參加。給會議的組織者寫一封信。說一下你想參加的原因，并簡單介紹一下自己。并請他提供一些會議的相關信息。

　　Dear Professor Huang，

　　I write for information regarding the forthcoming International Education Conference to be held at your prestigious university.

　　I am a first�瞴ear student from Nanjing University majoring in Education，and have a particular interest in the teaching of work place skills and employer’s perceptions of new graduates.

　　I plan to attend the conference and would like information about the contributory speakers，the content of their talks，and their research interests. However，although I have been living in Nanjing in the past four years，I am unfamiliar with Nanjing. Therefore，if you could please also send the details of how to get to your university it would make my arrangements much easier.

　　In addition，if you could let me have details of the accommodation that is available I would be more than grateful.

　　I look forward to receiving the information and meeting you in person.

　　Sincerely yours，

　　Frank

　　十一、1.私家轎車越來越多，有些問題隨之產生

　　2.比較明顯的大問題有……

　　3.我對這種現象的看法

　　Cars and Air Pollution

　　Too many cars have created a lot of serious problems in our world. Besides congestion, accidents and fast fuel consumption, cars are responsible for a good part of air pollution in big cities. All the time, they are pumping huge amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere. These gases are very harmful, causing disease and even death.

　　One possible solution is to design and develop clean cars and clean fuels. In Shanghai, some of the public buses begin to run on natural gas, which does not give off as much carbon dioxide as the petrol. But it may take decades for the new models of clean cars completely replace the traditional ones.Another solution is to develop modern public transportation systems and restrict the use of private cars. If the price of petrol rises constantly and the public vehicles are efficient and convenient enough, most people will not buy private cars. And the total number of cars in big cities will reduce greatly.

　　On the whole, the elimination of air pollution needs the collective efforts from the government, the public and the environmentalists.

　　十二、.目前很多父母在孩子高中畢業前就送他們出國學習

　　2.導致這種趨勢的原因是什么

　　3.我對此的看法

　　Overseas Study at an Early Age

　　Nowadays more and more parents are eager to send their children to study abroad before they finish high school by whatever means and at whatever cost.

　　It is quite understandable for parents to send their children to study overseas because they place high expectations on their children. They are encouraged by the success stories of those who have completed their overseas study. With the development of economy, companies and institutions at home are giving more and more emphasis on overseas experiences, too. Consequently, pursuing overseas study became a kind of short cut in gaining a better future. Moreover, there is still one underlying reason for this rush�瞖conomic reason. The rapid economic progress in the past few years in China has enabled more and more parents to afford the huge cost for their children’s overseas study.

　　As for me, overseas study is surely a helpful way to get both advanced knowledge and necessary experiences, but overseas study at an early age is neither necessary nor beneficial. The students may be too young to either tend for themselves or think for themselves. I do think that overseas study can contribute to one’s self�瞚mprovement, but it’s better to be pursued after one has finished his college study at home, when he is more capable of learning and living on his own.