【正文】 cities, I have chosen to live in one of the biggest cities in my country Beijing, since I have found a pretty good job here, and a decent pay. I think I would prefer living a small town when I get retired one day. [392 Words] 17. Some people think that they can learn better by themselves than with a teacher. Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons to develop your essay. Whether we need a teacher or not depends on circumstances. The relationship between a teacher and a new subject is somewhat similar to that between a tour guide and an unknown city. When we e to an unknown city for the first time, we definitely need a tour guide. We might have a detailed map, but it is unlikely functional – it isn39。 love sometimes has astonishingly magic power to their children. Albert Einstein39。 the public in whole in deed lack skills of critical thinking, and therefore they are often led by the media. In brief, mass media, by offering topics and affecting the ways in which we discuss the important issues”, has a strong influence on our perception of the truth, of the world or of the structure of our society, we have to admit that it has a role in our lives as a source of information, experiences, entertainment, amusement and relaxation. [431 Words] 8. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television has destroyed munication among friends and family. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. While television has been somewhat harmful in its effects, it has hardly destroyed munication among friends and family, although for some people, the assertion that television has destroyed munication among friends and family seems true. Television, invented in last century, with its wide availability, increasingly prosperous programs, bees one of the most powerful means of munication in the history, and is more and more difficult to ignore. Television is as much a part of our lives as are our meals, work, or school。s longevity of people are three most obvious ones: the improvement of food conditions, the development of modern medical technology, and finally current stability of economy in our country. Food conditions are better than before and are still being developed with a rapid pace. First of all, foods are more hygienic. People today drink untainted mineral water, sterilized skim milk, which are cheaply supplied in supermarkets. Furthermore, foods are more nutrient. Not to mention various carefully designed nutrient products, people can just ignore the possibility of being dystrophic, in that they can keep nutrient balance by simply taking a cheap pill of vitamin pound every day. Another essential improvement that contributes to people39。t want to go to concerts anymore, because I became more and more reluctant to present in crowd public places, besides I have bought a super HiFi which always brings me identical pleasure. And I don39。s struggle, today39。 whatever we are learning, just remember, like people always say, practice makes perfect. After another period of time, we might have bee others39。 they wear jeans in each and every season, usually knees of which are deliberately tattered。s experiences. Take Joyce Carol Oates for example, her productivity has been prodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verse, plays and literary criticism. Although some of them appear to e from her own direct observations, her dreams, and her fears, much more is clearly from the experiences of others. Her fictive world remains strikingly akin to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television news and talk shows, and the popular magazines of our day. Yet either experiences or books may give us wrong information. Our direct observations always are subject to our beliefs, hopes, fears, expectations, and our bias, which might make observations unreliable. People vary in their powers of observation, and the reliability of our observations is no better than the reliability of our memories, which as we know can be deceptive. Information printed in papers sometimes is unreliable either, it may be misprinted, or even deliberately distorted. For example, Definitions such as Marxism, Capitalism, Zionism are totally different in the Oxford Learner39。t matter. Now that we are able to recognize those mysterious symbols on the map, what we need perhaps is not a tour guide but a more detailed map. Similarly, we need richer references for learning. Yes, there are still many fields unexplored。 lives during the constructing process! We may categorize things into two groups, the enjoyable and the unenjoyable。t reckoned as successful after graduation, among many signs is the fact that almost all his classmates went abroad while he was each and every time refused by officials in visagranting office for unexplained reasons. Yet he never gives up, which makes his later success inevitable. Psychology teaches us that we do get what we want, if we know exactly what we want and want the right thing. First of all, we must make sure that our clearly defined goals are achievable, and that our carefully designed means are practicable. A superficial claim like I want to be a millionaire brings nothing. And an unrealistic goal like inventing a perpetual motion machine is absolutely meaningless. But if we want to acquire a second language, it is either realistic or meaningful. By careful planning, and relevant persistence we have no reason to fail. And numerous examples tell us that even if the methods are problematic, many still finally attain great achievements. Therefore, in most cases, Never, never give up is really something that we should always bea