With the rapid development of modern society, lifelong learning has been increasingly important. People need to improve themselves all the time by learning in order to adapt to the fast changes and fierce competition in the society. They have to learn about the latest development and techniques to equip themselves.
We can achieve lifelong education in several ways. First, you can choose distant education. Most famous universities have set up their own distant education college to help people realize their dreams. Secondly, there are various kinds of training courses and night courses. People can take advantage of their spare time to learn what they are
interested in, such as English, computer skills and drawing. In addition, people can study all by themselves. They can read books in a library or a bookstore in their free time.
I prefer to distant education provided by some universities. As is known, colleges have excellent faculty, modern teaching facilities and strong learning atmosphere. By
distant education courses, we can enjoy these resources, learning more knowledge and making bigger and quicker progress
Making Friends Online
With the development of high technology, computers are playing a more and more important role in our daily life. A lot of people, esp. young people prefer to make friends online rather than go out to meet friends in person. In their opinion, they can save time and energy by talking with other people through computers. What’s more, making friends online is considered a fashion and young people always want to keep up with the fashion.
There is no doubt people can benefit a lot from making friends online. On the one hand, it can save time and money for people and give them more free time which is very precious in this highly competitive society. On the other hand, people can make more friends than they used to do because it is very convenient to make friends this way.
However, just as each coin has two sides, making friends online sometimes may bring us problems. Since people don’t need to meet each other face to face, many give false information and cheat online, while, at the same time, they are being cheated, too. In addition, people spend all their free time sitting and chatting in front of their computers, which may cause health problems. Therefore, we must avoid the extremes and have a proper attitude towards making friends online.
Diligence Is the Key to Success
All people dream of being successful in what they are doing. Some of them think talent plays a critical role in people’s success while others argue they obtain their success because they have good luck. In fact there is more than one way to success. But we can see almost all successful people have one thing in common—they all have made great efforts to make their dreams come true.
There is an old saying that success belongs to those people who are well- prepared, which means if one wants to be successful, he must work hard. To put it in a different way, in spite of good luck, one cannot actually succeed if he doesn’t make efforts. An artistic talent will not turn into a great artist if he doesn’t practices every day. A scientific genius will not become a scientist if he doesn’t spend much time and energy observing and experimenting with things around him. All these have proved that diligence, instead of luck or talent, is the key to success.
As for me, I strongly contend that success depends on diligence. No pains, no gains. If we want to succeed, the only way for us is to work hard. Remember, diligence is the key to success.
How I Overcome My Difficulties in Learning English
With the rapid growth of globalization and the continuous deepening of internationalcommunication, together with China’s entry into WTO, English, as an internationallanguage, is becoming more and more important. People spend much time on English study every day. It seems we cannot live better without a good command of English language.
However, English is not as easy to learn as people have expected. As a learner of the English language, unexceptionally, I met with many difficulties. At the beginning, I had big troubles in my pronunciation and intonation. Then, I had difficulties in understanding and mastering sentence structures because they are quite different from those in Chinese. And it seemed I was forever struggling with the vocabulary, the grammar and the usage. In order to learn English well, I tried every means to cope with these difficulties. Following my teacher’s advice, I read after the tapes of authentic dialogues and speeches again and again for a better pronunciation. At the same time I did a lot of reading and writing and translation exercises to improve my understanding of the English structures.
In addition, I tried to enlarge my vocabulary by memorizing a dictionary. Of course, I also did a lot of reading at the same time in order to strengthen my memory. Through my hard work, now my English has improved a lot and I am sure I can speak and write
Harmfulness of Fake Commodities
Despite the continuous efforts of anti-fake campaigns, fake commodities can still be seen everywhere. There are two major reasons contributing to this phenomenon. On the one hand, those profiteers take a risk to produce and sell commodities with lower quality just to make higher profits. On the other hand, some consumers tend to buy cheaper commodities without considering their quality.
Fake commodities do great harm to not only consumers but also our society. From the media, we can learn so many cases in which consumers’ rights were harmed because of the fake commodities. Even some people were put to death owing to low-quality commodities. What’s more, the economic system of the society is severely disturbed. Patent and trademark holders find their intellectual right being infringed; lawful manufacturers find their sales volume sharply declining, even on the edge of bankruptcy. All these lead to the distrust to government authorities. Therefore, it is urgent to take effective measures to put an end to fake commodities.First, people should be educated the harmfulness of fake Commodities. Second, our government should draw up strict law to punish those profiteers. If everyone takes immediate action to prevent fake commodities, they will definitely disappear in our society.
Environmental Protection
With the development of industry and the increasing of world population, the problem of environmental pollution is getting more and more serious. There appear different kinds of pollution on the earth such as air pollution, water pollution, and noise pollution. Every day, factories give off a huge piles of wastes. People discard and release a mountain of daily garbage and rubbish. Vehicles send out sharp noises. How terrible the environment we are living in.
People are now showing a real concern over the problem. Since the pollution does a great harm to our environment, esp. to our health, people more and more realize that we should take effective measures to get rid of pollution. Therefore, there are frequent reports about pollution in the media. Every country often holds conference in order to come up with good ways to control it.
Fortunately, a lot of measures have been taken to cope with the current situation. Firstly, every government has made the strict law to punish those who destroy the environment in different degrees. Secondly, scientists have found out the efficient waysto reuse and recycle wastes. Thirdly, city builders have designed properly to reduce the pollution to the minimum. Finally, trees, flowers and grass have been planted in many places. If everyone on the earth makes up his mind to protect the motherland, the environment around us will become definitely clean and beautiful again quite soon.
A Letter to the University President about the Service of the School Hospital
Dear Mr. President,
I am sorry to disturb you. I’m one of the freshmen from the Foreign Languages Department. I’m writing this letter to you just wanting to say something about the service of our school hospital on behalf of most of the students of my department. Generally speaking, we are quite satisfied with the service of our school hospital.
The medicine here is comparatively cheaper but effective in treatment. The staff are friendly and patient. Most of them have high medical skills. However, we find some of the young doctors are not so patient to the patients and sometimes they don’t know what medicine to prescribe to the patients. So it’s urgent for them to improve their skills and service as soon as possible.
Another thing we want to mention is the environment of the hospital. It’s quite clean. But it is always crowded and many patients stand there waiting for a long time since there is not enough space and seats for them. Therefore, we also hope that this problem can be solved as soon as possible. We are looking forward to your feedback.
Yours sincerely, Li Ming
College Students’ Doing Part-time Jobs
Nowadays, more and more college students take part-time jobs. People have different ideas about this phenomenon. Some people argue that doing part-time jobs is beneficial to students. As we know, many college students at school are only children. They have been depending on their parents completely before entering the college. Therefore, taking part-time jobs can not only cultivate their sense of independence and responsibility but also train their abilities and willpower. What’s more, students from poor families need part-time jobs to relieve their financial burden.
However, others contend that doing part-time jobs does have disadvantages. The biggest problem is some students spend too much time on part-time jobs, which makes them fail to concentrate on their study. What’s worse, some students surrender to bad temptation from outside campus and get some evil influences, even a few commit crimes.
As for me, taking part-time jobs properly is good for college students. You must keep a balance between part-time jobs and your study. If you have enough time and energy, you can have one. But if you can’t cope with your study while doing a part-time job, you must stop it.
Traveling Abroad In recent years more and more people in China choose to travel abroad on holidays. There are some reasons for this tendency. First, with the rapid development of China’s economy, people’s income is increasing and many people can afford to spend their holidays abroad. Second, a lot of people hope to enjoy themselves and broaden their knowledge by visiting the foreign countries in person.
However, while people are traveling abroad, they may encounter some unexpected problems. For example, some tourists, esp. older ones are poor in English speaking. Others may be able to speak English, but they can’t speak other foreign languages. So it is difficult for them to get around the non-English speaking countries or the cities they are visiting by themselves. Another common problem is tourists have to wait for some time to get their visas. And sometimes people can’t adapt to the life style of the foreign countries which usually makes them frustrated.
As for me, although there are inevitably some problems when traveling abroad, an increasing number of people are still going abroad. Just remember the old saying: When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
An Invitation Letter Dear Professor Brown,
How are you recently?
I would like to write this letter to invite you to give a lecture for all the students in our university. We sincerely hope you can come. Our university is a non-leading comprehensive university and we offer students courses concerning science and technology, arts, law, economy, management and education. Most students in our university study very hard and a lot of them take a particular interest in English study. However, many of them find their English study is of low efficiency. It seems that they are not properly guided in the process of English learning. Therefore, we wonder whether you could help them with their English by giving a lecture on English learning, especially the proper method of learning English. Also, we would like you to give them some help on how to acquire language skills quickly and efficiently.
We really appreciate it if you can accept the invitation and we are looking forward to your reply at your earliest convenience. Best regards! Sincerely yours, Li Ming
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