【正文】 0。understanding, or, as the English maxim has it, seeing eyetoeye. We can (9) never see eyetoeye with a native speaker of English (10) until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.VIWriting PracticeParagraph development — Comparison and ContrastComparisonandcontrast is a method of development that will essentially pare and / or contrast. Comparison brings similar things together for examination, to see how they are alike. Contrast, on the contrary, emphasizes their differences.There are three major ways to organize a parisonandcontrast paragraph:1. We first present the differences and then the similarities or the other way round. What is to be emphasized (the differences or the similarities) almost always es later.2. We make a parallelorder parison, where we discuss first one subject, then the other:1) All of subject A, point by point。2) All of subject B, point by point, so that it parallels the points about A.We will finish our whole discussion of the first person (place, or thing) at one time. Then, in discussing the second person (place, or thing), we will take up the major qualities in exactly the same order as in discussing the first one. In this case, the parison often takes two paragraphs, instead of one.3. We make a pointbypoint parison. We discuss one aspect of both subjects, then another aspect of both subjects:1) Aspect one of subjects A and B。2) Aspect two of subjects A and B.…Exercises: Now write two separate paragraphs based on the following two topic sentences with the parisonandcontrast strategy. The pointbypoint method is remended.1. I prefer South Korean love stories on TV to the Chinese ones.Ideas for reference:feasibility of lovesmoothness of lovefun of loveSample:I prefer South Korean love stories on TV to the Chinese ones. Korean love soaps never fail to convey the important message that love is somewhere ahead waiting for you, in spite of your humble origin, weight problem, or unladylike manners. In contrast, love on Chinese TV is, more often than not, an unworthy adventure that brings pain rather than joy. Lovebirds in Korea seem always to be so much luckier than those in China, where people in love often find themselves caught in a hostile financial or social environment. Unlike those Chinese youths who are seriously and gravely wondering about the purpose of life and love for most of the time, those Korean girls and boys always have so many witty, funny, and amazing verbal blows to hurl at each other。 I always cannot help laughing out at them. In one word, love on Korean TV is a wonderful medicine to cure everything, while on Chinese TV love is a disease from which one suffers inevitably sometime in one’s course of life.2. Riding a bicycle is preferable to driving a car.Ideas for reference:healthfinanceglobal warmingSample:Riding a bicycle is preferable to driving a car. First of all, bicycling is healthier. It develops balance, coordination, and strength, while at the same time toning the body, burning calories, strengthening bones. Therefore, it helps building up our body. In contrast, resulting from a lack of exercise, car drivers are often faced with such health problems as heart disease, addictions, drug dependency, overweight, obesity and diabetes. Besides, cycling helps improve personal finances. Needing no fuel, no insurance and minimal maintenance, a good bicycle costs about 2% to 3% as much as a car. What is more, cycling suggests slowed pace of global warming. More autos on the road mean more carbon emissions that are driving global warming while more bicycles increase the time we have to prepare for major climatic changes so as to avoid refugee and food crises.