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chances for you to get to know society by doing parttime jobs. Sample 2: College life is tiring. People often say college is like a heaven, but to me college is just like a hell. It is even worse than my high school. We have to take many more courses, and do much more homework. And the teachers are never available to help us out when we need them. They seem to care less. Besides study, we have to do the laundry, shopping and cleaning all by ourselves. Students in college are all smart. Competition here is much fiercer. You can never expect to be the best. The worst thing is that in college you don’t have a clear goal. In high school, college entrance exams were what we were working for. But here, there’s too much for us to read and know, and sometimes we feel lost. Unit 5 (Page 178) The Animal I Like Best Sample 1 Dogs are the kind of animals I like best. Firstly, they are capable of helping human beings plete different tasks. For instance, dogs are trained to pull sleighs, to guide the blind, to guard people’s possessions and so on. Sometimes they are even used in medical service to help treat some patients, because of their obedience and great understanding of human beings. Furthermore, dogs can be wonderful panions. They are loyal to their owners, and always act as quiet listeners when people plain and as a source of joy when people are blue(憂傷 ). This kind of emotional intimacy between humans and dogs can’t be matched by any other intimacy between humans and animals. No wonder dogs are perceived to be the best friends of human beings, and undoubtedly I consider them my favorite kind of animal. Sample 2 It is a sheer coincidence that my favorite animal and Walt Disney’s are the same. We both like the socalled (所謂的 ) “notorious” mice, but our reasons vary largely. As Walt Disney’s legend is told, the mouse he met in his garage played such an important role that it helped him survive loneliness and overe his mental depression at the beginning of his artistic career. My reason is much simpler I was born in 1984, thus naturally and traditionally began to like mice (rats). It is true that the mouse has been a symbol of dirtiness and ugliness, and everybody seems to bear a deeprooted hatred against it. Nevertheless, they are cunning and swift, and some are even lovely. This accounts for why there are people who like to keep mice as their pets. Moreover, rats, carrying the plague, had once brought tremendous disaster to human beings. But the interesting thing is that the carriers themselves had not been ruined. This has already opened up new fields of study in biology in the hope of exploring human beings’ true physical nature. Nowadays, hundreds of rats die in laboratories every single day in all kinds of experiments operated by scientists. In this sense, mice’s contribution to the human race perhaps has outweighed their destruction to us, which makes me like them still more. Unit 6 (Page 207) Sample 1 The Sphinx in Egypt The Sphinx in Egypt is one of the greatest mysteries in history. It has the face of a man, and the body of a lion, and it faces east. It was carved out of a single piece of stone weighing hundreds of tones. Who built it and for what purpose? When and how was it built? It has long been argued that the Egyptians couldn’t have built the Sphinx. An advanced civilization 8,000 to 10,000 . may have built it. Whatever the origin of the Sphinx, it has been a symbol of strength and intelligence of Egyptian culture. Sample 2 DO UFOs really exist? Many people claim to have seen UFOs in real life. The first reported UFO sighting in America was made by an airplane pilot in 1947. Some people have even taken pictures of UFOs. But do UFOs really exist? Many of the UFOs sighted have been found to be planes, weather balloons or shooting stars. Others may be explained by optical illusions or people’s psychological desire to interpret the images as UFOs. However, a recent public opinion poll shows that many people think the UFOs do exist, in spite of the lack of evidence. Unit 7 (Page 243) Who Should Pay the Bill? Sample 1 In my opinion, Wu You was right not to pay the bill. In the first place, he didn’t invite Zhang Fang to dinner. If he had paid the bill for Zhang Fang, should he pay the bill for any other classmate showing up without being invited? In the second place, Zhang Fang is not on good terms with Wu You. If he had been one of Wu You’s good friends and Wu You had just fotten to invite him, then his arrival would be wele. And Wu You should pay