代沟

The generation gap

Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is verymarked indeed.

Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment ismade from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than it istoday. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy morefreedom. They grow up quickly and are not so dependent on their parents. They think more ofthemselves and do not blindly accept the idea of their elders. Events which the older generationremembers vividly are nothing more than past history.

Just look at the teenage girls who scream hysterically over the pop stars and the teenage boyswho copy the stars and grow their hair long and are no longer ashamed of wearing "pretty" clothes, are simply breaking through the chinese traditional reserve and fear of showing theirfeelings. What is more, nowadays most boys and girls are good companions and some of themeven fall in "puppy love." A lot of older people sigh and say, "we did not use to do like this."

Do you think the older people's criticism stems from jealousy just because they could not ordid not behave in the same way when they were young?

新时尚

Exploited by New Fashions in Clothing. Do you Agree or Disagree with ThisStatement?

你是否同意现在衣服样式变化很大这种观点?

Over the years, the great majority of men have successfully resisted all attempts to makethem change their style of dress. The same cannot be said of women. Each year a few so called "top designers" in Paris and London lay down the law and women the whole world over rush toobey. This year, they decide in their arbitrary fashion, skirts will be short and waists will behigh; zip s are in and buttons are out. Next year the law is reversed and far from takingexception, no one is even mildly surprised.

If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame, because they are afraid of the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion. They are annually blackmailed by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have beenworn only a few times have to be discarded because of old fashion. When you come to think ofit, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes andannouncing that she has nothing to wear.

Changing fashions are nothing more than the deliberate creation of waste. Many women spendvast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women whocannot afford to discard clothing in this way, waste hour s of their time altering the dressesthey have. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort anddurability. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of thefact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, providing they look charmingand attractive.

When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusion to be drawn isobvious. Do the constantly changing fashion of women's clothes reflect basic qualities offickleness and instability? Do men's unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities ofstability and reliability? This is for you to decide.

彩票游戏

What is your view towards lottery games?

你对彩票游戏的看法

Nowadays a fashionable street scene is the buying and selling of lot tery tickets. People crowdaround either in front of big buildings or at street corners, purchasing coupons of various kinds, such as those of social welfare, sports industry and football games.

Investigations made among those "lottery citizens" show that they do it for different purposes. Some say that they play the game just for fun, others insist that they want to sponsorathletic development, still some others simply decide to try their luck.

However, I believe the aim behind the game, if fully exposed, is to make easy money, as it issaid the prize winner can get millions of yuan in an instant, which is obviously greattemptation. In my mind, lottery is much the same as gambling in nature and it certainlybrings more negative effects than positive effects, if any.

First, the overwhelming majority, being misled by earning-quick-buck mentality, areimpatient and impulsive to put their time and money into wrong investment.

Secondly, not a few people, being indulged in lottery, lose not only initiative for work but alsointerest in life.

Thirdly, some individuals, having gambled away all their money, may commit crimes.

fourthly, young people, particularly students (even pupils) may step by step become addicted tolottery and finally leave their studies. I think the cliche "reaping what one sows" is stillapplicable today and "sowing" takes time and hard work to have instant reaping is definitelyone's wishful thinking.

Last of all, since gambling and lottery both mean risking money on luck, why the former isforbidden by law and the latt er is so much encouraged?

关于手机

About the Mobile Phone

Human creativeness is boundless. With the advance of science and technology, a completelynew means of communication — the Mobile Phone — came to the world, which, being notfixed in one place like ordinary phones, greatly facilitates telephone communication.

The mobile phone spreads so rapidly, first from businessmen to office workers, then to townshipenterprise managers, then to journalists and then nowadays to people of all trades andprofessions. At present, it seems that nowhere we do not hear the musical ringing of the mobilephone . People at first buy phones for convenience and later for fashion. To occupy thisincreasingly big market, the manufacturers are worrying their brains into making various typesof phones, large or small, coloured or black and white, multi-functional or with video cameras, to satisfy the needs. New fashions appear almost every day.

However, it is a great pity that the inventors of the mobile phone did not expect the negativeeffects caused by their scientific merits. Because of the abuse of the mobile phone, aircraftmechanism refuses to work properly, libraries are no longer so quiet, restaurants are filled withnoisy phone talk, teaching is incessantly interrupted by the signals...

Here, in the picture, a concert is going on. The pianist is supposed to be playing Beethoven'ssymphony when, all of a sudden, a man with a tie stood up, talking loudly over his mobilephone and telling his friend that he was attending a concert of classical music. The audienceshuddered with panic and the pianist was nearly shocked to death.

It is not infrequent that the above scene happens in public places. True, human beings havethe right to enjoy modern civilization, nevertheless, should they know how to conductthemselves in the modern civilized society?

英国就业率

seeding employment in u.k.

As can be seen clearly from the graph, the difference in the numbers of people working in thethree major employment sectors in the u.k. economy in the early 1980s was relatively small, with about 4 million workers in engineering, 5 million in agriculture and 5.5 million in theservice industries.

However, the period 1980-1990 saw significant changes in the relative sizes of these threeemployment sectors. there was a rapid decline in employment in agriculture, with the numberof workers dropping by more than 80%. On the other, employment oppor tunities in the serviceindustries increased sharply, especially after 1986, whereas the engineering sectorexperienced a gradual but constant decline.

Trends in the above graph clearly indicate that the service industries will continue to employthe largest number of people at least for the next few years, while the engineering sector willneed somewhat fewer workers in the next decade. On the whole, the total number ofemployment offered in these three sectors was much smaller than ten years before and theredoesn't seem to be any likelihood for improvement in the near future. So, students who aregoing to graduate soon may need to prepare to seek employment elsewhere.