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we believe it is the best way to solve power insufficiency also in that it will help people to establish thrift awareness. Many problems including power sufficiency are caused by waste. If young children learn to save every unit of power and every citizen learn to take social responsibility, in the long run, power insufficiency and many other problems will be solved forever.
From the above evidence, we can easily see the effect of the advocate for turning up air-conditions a little higher. We expect everyone will be the expert of saving energy. 六．掌握TEM-4 作文的命题范围
1．校园生活五大看点：学习，活动，考试，就业，校园现象 -- 上大学的目的是什么？
— 学习期间的最大压力是什么？
— 课外活动，课外打工的意义是什么？
— 和同学（室友）和谐相处最重要的是什么？
— 毕业时如何面试？什么样的职业？到什么地方就业？继续读书还是马上工作？ — 大学期间如何理财？ — 如何看待大学生谈恋爱？ — 如何看待大学生结婚解禁？ 经典表达： 大学的意义 What we desire in a college is much more than a degree, nor a job prospect, but a chance to get high education. It is an education for a civilized mind. Namely, the business of college is not only to train us, but to put us in touch with what the best human minds have thought. Through reading books, man’s peculiar accomplishment, we add to our human experience and enter the worlds we have not the time to travel in literal time. Reading Shakespeare, for example, we have the experience of Shakespeare, which takes us into his world. A civilized mind is, in essence, one that contains many such lives and many such worlds. 考试作弊 According to a recent poll, 65 percent of college students have admitted cheating on exams at least once. To deal with the widespread dishonesty in examination, some educators advocate a trusting practice, in which no invigilate keeps watching students in exam, showing much trust in students. One conspicuous argument is that distrust can be contagious; some efforts to prevent cheating may actually encourage cheating – a person may feel “they don’t trust me anyway,” and be tempted to “beat the system.” This practice has turned out effective in preventing cheating on exam. 大学生结婚 The decision by the educational department that college students are permitted to marry has aroused a heated discussion. Some people for the decision base their argument on the law about the age of marriage. They hold that any citizen beyond 24 has the right to get married no matter what identity he/she has. Others against the decision hold that the permission will affect college students in the following three aspects. Firstly, marriage life is time consuming and it will tear students away from learning, students’ main task. Secondly, marriage life is money-consuming and it will exert more burden on their families besides tuition when students have no ability to support themselves. Thirdly, the permission is very likely to promote some unpleasant incidents on campus. Admiring others’ marriage life, some students are likely to find temporary companions hastily to get rid of the loneliness. Thus things like living together and even pregnancy are very likely to happen. 2．社会与家庭六大看点：社会规范，社会生活，社会问题，家庭模式，家庭关系，家庭教育 — 交流促进社会关系的重要方法
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— 你认为解决城市交通的最好方法是什么？开辟道路？减少车辆？ — 你对公共场合吸烟，高声打电话又什么看法？
— 如何看待这些浪费现象：饭店里剩菜剩饭，水龙头不关紧，空调温度调得过低？ — 关于贫困，作为学生你能够做什么？ — 家庭模式有哪些? 你喜欢哪一种？
— 家庭关系：怎样看待代沟？能消除吗？解决办法是什么？
— 家庭教育：表扬还是惩罚？孩子和游戏；孩子的零用钱；孩子和兴趣班。 经典表达 公共场合打电话 In public, such as libraries, cinemas, and department stores, we can find such slogans as “no smoking” and “no spitting”. But we never find such thing as “no loud calling”. Yes, it is people’s right to make a cellphone call in public, but a loud call is quite troublesome. The most serious problem is that it interferes in others. When you call loudly, others are forced to share your stories though what they need is quietness. A loud call may distract people form what they are reading, may interrupt their movie appreciation, and may make them irritable and restless in making purchase decision. So when you enjoy the convenience a cellphone brings to you, try not to bring incontinence to others. Should Lucky Numbers be Auctioned? “So many people, so many minds”. It is the same case for the answers to the question: should lucky numbers be auctioned? Some people may argue that lucky numbers should be auctioned so that the money from auction can be used to improve the public welfare. Namely, we use the money of the rich to do the good to the public without any loss. However, this seemingly convincing opinion can be challenged in many ways. Lucky numbers should not be auctioned. For one thing, such a practice may encourage superstition. Numbers are only symbols, but in Chinese tradition they are attached some special meanings to. Superstitiously, some people try to avoid 4, for its pronunciation happens to coincide with that of another Chinese character “si”, meaning “die”. 6 and 9 are viewed as lucky numbers. If auction is permitted, numbers must be previously decided lucky or not. In this way, the superstitious implication of numbers will be rationalized and made public. For another, the practice may produce inequality of social wealth. Numbers are the social wealth, and every person has the right to enjoy them. However auction for lucky numbers will make the rich have more chances to have the so-called lucky numbers; in this way others’ rights will be deprived of. Therefore, auction indirectly encourages the inequality among people. These are only parts of our arguments against auctioning lucky numbers, but from the evidence we have presented, we can naturally come to the conclusion that for the sake of the healthy development of the society, no auction of lucky numbers should be allowed.
3．科技与媒体六大看点：媒体，网络，书籍，电脑，手机，电视 — 计算机利弊，优缺点，用途
— 计算机代替人脑，计算机翻译代替英语学习 — 互联网的利弊
— 通信手段：电话，手机，电子邮件，写信 — 娱乐渠道：电视，电影，网络
— 信息手段：读书（书籍，报刊，漫画）与读图（电视），广告 — 科学技术评论
经典表达 Electronic Dictionaries Will Not Kill Printed Dictionaries - 18 -
TEM-4 Writing A large number of students are using electronic dictionaries to study English. They hold that it is light to carry and convenient to find the meaning of a new word. Some people even think that such dictionaries will replace printed ones. But I don’t think so. My view that electronic dictionaries will not replace printed ones lies in the following aspects. Firstly, printed dictionaries cannot be replaced by electronic ones for their much richer content. We know that in a printed dictionary, almost all aspects of a word are introduced: its usage and the situation in which it is used, its translation, its etymology, the comparison with other words, and of course a lot of examples to illustrate its usage. What’s more a printed dictionary may provide us with the denotation and connotation of a word, so that we can learn to use it properly. But an electronic dictionary cannot spare too much room for such detailed information for a word. Second, printed dictionaries cannot be replaced by electronic ones for their low cost. An electronic dictionary costs us at least 300 Yuan if we expect it has some functions to meet our daily use. Compared with it, the most expensive printed one will cots us only around 100 Yuan. For the sake of the rich content and low price of a printed dictionary, I insist that it should not be killed by an electronic dictionary. 4．环境与自然四大看点：人与动物，人与自然，污染，环境可持续发展 — 环境污染（水，噪音，空气）的根源及其解决办法 — 人与自然的关系 — 人类与动物
— 环境的可持续发展中你认为最重要的是什么？ — 森林保护（如：方便筷和森林资源） — 全球变暖 经典表达 环境污染 The reasons for increasingly serious environmental pollution can be summarized into the following aspects. Firstly, people’s awareness of environmental protection is to be strengthened. People carelessly discard life wastes like used batteries, without any consciousness of the possible troubles they may bring to the present and the later generations. Secondly, though the whole society has agreed on the “sustainable development”, the rapid economic development is still made at the cost of environment. The toxic gases emitted form factories pollute the air. In some places, birds are forced to fly away, and people dare not open their windows. The use of chemical fertilizers in agriculture, though seemingly increases the output, leaves poisonous residues in the tissues of organisms and leaves the soil itself deteriorate. The environmental has endangered human beings. Are You Still Using Disposable Chopsticks？ It is reported that every year large acres of forest have been destroyed for the production of the disposable chopsticks. If we take this problem into serious consideration, we will find how stupid this behavior is. Disposable chopsticks should be controlled concerning its cost and benefit. According to the economic rule, we should have the largest output from the least input. What have we got form disposable chopsticks? Some people present that a square of wood costs 200 to 300 Yuan, but if they are made into chopsticks, they can get 200 to 300 Yuan more. And they argue that producing and selling disposable - 19 -
TEM-4 Writing chopsticks can solve many people’s employment. However, what have we put in to produce such profits? It is estimated that by one deputy to the National People’s Congress that China consumes 45,000,000,000 pairs of disposable chopsticks, which means 1,660,000 square meters of wood, 25,000,000 trees, and 200 square meters of forest. At this speed, all the forest will be destroyed in 20 years. Therefore, no matter how much we have gotten form chopsticks, we have suffered a great loss. At that time, who will provide us with fresh air? Who will give man shade? And who will prevent fertile topsoil form being washed away by heavy rains? Many years later, when our later generations ask where the China’s forest is, we can answer sadly, “Sorry, we have made it into chopsticks.” Therefore it is time for us to say “no” to disposable chopsticks. 5．人体主义六大看点：衣食住行，娱乐，健康，工作，观念，婚姻 — 饮食结构的改变，平衡
— 娱乐形式中你最喜欢哪一种，为什么？ — 健康的重要性和保持健康的方法
— 工作的意义？你理想工作是什么？你认为择业什么更重要，兴趣还是高薪？ — 如何面对现代对传统的挑战？
— 家庭模式的变化？你如何看待“丁克”家族？
经典表达 工作 We are used to thinking that work provides the material things of life – goods and services that make possible our modern civilization. But we are much less conscious of extent to which work provides the more intangible, but more crucial, psychological well-being that we can make the difference between a full and an empty life. A good share of the benefits of job rests in the kind of pride that is stimulated by the job. The human longs for a sense of being accomplished, of being able to do things, which his hand, his mind and his will. All these longings can be realized in work. It is easiest to see this in the craftsman who lovingly shapes some cheap material into an object that may be either useful or beautiful or both. You can see the carpenter or bricklayer stand aside and admire the product of his personal skill. 失败 When failure knocks you down, will you have the guts to get up and get going? Or will you give up? Achieving success can be difficult. At times, distractions, delays and defeats discourage everyone. Giving up seems better than going on. But the principle for rising after each fall to try again applies to all struggles. History informs us that stories of success are the stories of great failure. Take young Winston Churchill?When you fail, don’t quit. A second effort or a third or a fourth pays off. On Foreign Snacks Fastfood shops like KFC and McDonald’s can be seen in almost all big cities in China. Most of their customers are children and young people, who take eating fastfoods as a fashion. But recently these foods are criticized as “junk foods”. Such a hostile attitude toward fastfood is quite reasonable. The first harm fastfoods may bring us is that frequent consumption will lead to unbalanced nutrition. Some experts investigate that most fastfoods are rich - 20 -