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1.(City Life and Suburban Life)Where do you like to live? That is an interesting question. Usually people like to live in big city. But recently, more and more people chose to live outside the city, to live in suburb. It is true that living in big city is convenient and entertaining. Your work place is not far away, and after work, it is easy for you to call your friends to go to a bar or cinema. There are supermarkets, shopping malls. You can easily buy any stuff you need. Want to have a dinner? No problem, there are plenty kinds of restaurants for you to choose. In contract, living in suburb is quite different. It serves fresh air and beautiful scenery and, for someone that is the most important thing, quiet.Though live in suburb has some inconvenient aspects, some people seem to prefer to sacrifice some convenience to live in quiet places. And as cars and internet are becoming more and more common. Living in suburb is not so boring like before. For me, I like to live in big city when I am young, because the colorful life and convenience for working. And when I was old, I may choose to live in suburb to enjoy the quiet life and fresh air. Do you think so? In recent years, a growing number of citizen has settled in the suburbia .Especially in some big cities . Why do people like this ?In my opinion, there life is different in city and suburbia. As the saying goes “each coin has two side ”,In the city ,everything is convenient here. You can buy everything which you want and the traffic is convenient,too. But the city life is very busy and air pollution is very serious. However, the suburban life is freedom and leisure . There are lots of trees behind your house and the air is very fresh.You can take part in some interesting activities. For example ,going fish、climbing mountain. In comparison ,I like the suburban life. The life is not noise. 其他 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 (1)In recent years more and more homes are being pushed outwards as the activities of business, government and pleasure tend to be concentrated in the centers of the cities. (2)Although most people are reluctant to move to the outskirts of the cities, I feel like living in the suburbs.(3)It is true that the city can provide much convenience and entertainment, the very reason people can’t bear to part with city life.(4)But the cost for the privilege of living in the city is also high.(5)Just think of the places where we live, full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the roar of buses and lorries day and night, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds. (6)Besides, as the housing problem in the central city gets more serious, people have to pay high rents for very tiny flats which I would certainly disdain to live in. (7)In contrast, living near the countryside one can enjoy the clean atmosphere, the closeness to nature and the quiet, peaceful surroundings—the essentials of a healthy life. (8)Nothing can be compared, as the pace of modern life is getting quicker, with the first cock crow, the twittering of birds at dawn, and sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and green fields. (9)Although living in the suburbs you may suffer a little discomfort brought about by the necessity of traveling miles to work every day, the situation will change soon as many highways and subways are being constructed.(10)The new suburban life is fast becoming a predominant pattern of living in most cities; and with the development of traffic and the perfection of services, it will prove to hold great superiority over city life. 2 Depart from your hotel to visit the Guiyuan Temple, which is one of the four largest Buddhist temples in Hubei Province as well as an important Buddhist temple in China. The temple is well known for its grand architecture, Buddhist scriptures, The statues of Weito, carved of oak, the 500 disciples of Buddha (arhat) with various looks and gestures. Then we will visit the Yellow Crane Tower. Located on Snake Hill, it is one of the three most famous towers along the Yangtze River and a symbol of the Wuhan city now. The top of the tower is the best place to viewing the surrounding scenery and the mighty Yangtze River. After having lunch at a nice local restaurant, visit the Hubei Provincial Museum, which is the best Museum in the central part of China, displaying the relics unearthed in the Hubei, mostly ancient Chu State, including some of the world's most exciting recent archaeological discoveries. Most important in the relics is a complete set of 65 ritual bells of different sizes. Be transferred back to your hotel after the tour. (Lunch) Remark: The above private tour is tailored for you and your friends exclusively. You and your friends will enjoy Private car, driver and tour guide. If you want to adjust the itinerary, please contact us. 3. A great many people, when they speak of home, tend to appreciate it with a certain atmosphere, certain physical surroundings, and certain emotional attitudes with themselves. This sentimentality(多愁善感)toward home is something that has come down to us from the past. Many modern people do not have it. In the old days, life was difficult. Enemies could attack you and kill or rob you, and you had little protection against them. People did not live in well-built houses where doors could be locked. They did not have the protection of an organized police force or telephones that could call the police at once. Small family groups clung (粘紧)tightly together for protection against beasts and against other men. Only the brave went beyond the small family area. Even in the Middle Ages only the most brave people went to lands beyond the sea. The feeling of loving their homes must have been very strong among the early people. They went to the new land where they knew no one could attack them. Even today this influences minority(少数的)groups who, because of a feeling of insecurity, still keep clinging to family ties. Thanks to(由于)modern transportation and well-organized societies, thousands of people willingly and eagerly leave the surroundings where they were born, and the oftener they do so, the less feelings they are likely to have for those surroundings. How has the meaning of this word “home” been changed by such activity? What does home mean to those people or to families who often move about, living first in one place and then another? Home means a place where they can have privacy. For them, the atmosphere and surroundings of the place where their parents live have no connection. Families are important to people all over the world although the structure of family is different from one country to another or from the modern family to the traditional one. The traditional and modern families are central families with parents and their children as only members. The differences between the two are also clear. For example, the traditional husband was the head of the family while today’s husband and wife share the role. And modern woman works outside the home even after she has children. No matter it is traditional or modern, every family has the sense as following: families offer us a feeling of ascription(归属), of love and security. 4. When you are working, if you think over why you are working for and how to make your job much more interesting. A job for living is easy but a job for career is not so easy. How to make a different depends on what goals you expect to achieve. Passion is more important than methods in job. An excellent worker must love his job. He also knows the sense of his job. So that the job for him is not a burden but a way to make true his value and find pleasure. When I make my career choice, the first I will consi der is whether I love my job or not. Then it’s the salary. Interest is a good a teacher. As long as you love your job. You want to try your best to do the best. So that you my are able to achieve your goals. If I love my job, I could work harder and grasp the opportunity, to make a difference. As we know, a good worker can not be a man that go to work on time but a man that work happily and plunge into his work with immense zeal. Just as there aredistinct differences between being a small fish is a big pond and a big fish in a small pond, so it is with working as a subordinate in a large enterprise and presiding in a small firm. With the former, you can derive a deep sense of satisfaction from being a member of a well-known organization such as General Motors, or the Bell Telephone System. You have the opportunities of learning from experienced executives and knowing about the standard working process. With the latter, you have greater responsibilities and your decision may bring immediate effect. Normally you are expose to various experiences and expected to do a great many thing without much help or guidance. Personally I prefer to work in a small enterprise, where my prospect of promotion is good as long as I work hard. To tell the truth, I'd rather become a well-known and important figure within my own small pond. Nowdays,many graduate students and unemployees are facing the problem of looking for a job.I wonder if they can choose,they prefer to be a small fish in a big pond or a big fish in a small pond? As a big pond,it has its own speciality.Because you just a small fish ,you only need to do your own job excellent.What you have done may contribute to your pond to be more sucessful,but your individual decision seldom influen the fate of the whole pond.Meanwhile,you can learn many things from the pond,such as its culture,and meet some sucessful men. While being a big fish in a small pond,you have to care for the whole performance of pond as well as you own job.Moreover,your personal decision may decide the destination or the fote of the whole pond.You can let the pond develop toward your goal. In my opinion,as I am a person who bave my own goal,and special thought,I will opt to be a big gish in a small pond,making effort to develop it to ba a big pong.So that I will be the big fish in the big pond. 5. As we know,sport plays an important role in our daily lives.Whenever you do some exercise,you can get a whole new refresh feeling through your body.It really does good to you.For example,going out to play ball games, which is becoming more and more popular these days,can get rid of bad moods,and help you be energetic again.In order to keep fit,you can keep a habbit of doing sports regularly.You'll benefit a lot from it. All in all,we'd better pick up our balls,and go out,to have an exciting game.Ready?Go? Consume excessive body heat and reduce body fat accumulation and maintenance of appropriate weight. Enhance cardio and promote blood circulation. Reduce suffering from heart disease, hypertension and diabetes, and other chronic diseases. Strengthen body resistance and reduce disease. Strong bones and prevent osteoporosis; Help welfare, and reduce confusion. Help improve the body, strong muscles. Increase the soft joints of the body and make more flexible, to reduce casualties. Improve sleep quality, more adequate rest. A more dynamic, more spirit, more efficient learning and work; Help relax, study or work with the removal of the stress. Tempered strong will, the courage to face challenges; Help increase self-confidence, to establish a healthy self-image. With family or friends to share fun opportunity for everyone feelings. Provide opportunities for understanding new friends and learn the spirit of cooperation in group activities. Quality fitness activities building quality leisure life management. 6. Traffic congestion has long been a problem of great concern and complaint in big cities. It has caused a lot of inconvenience to people's life and work. For example, people have to set off well in advance to get to work on time and come back very late when their work is over.There are many causes for this problem, but the following may be the most important ones.The first cause is the great increase in the number of private cars. Cars take up more space but they carry fewer people. Some private car drivers, ignoring traffic regulations, drive only for the sake of their own convenience, blocking the way of other public transportation vehicles. The second cause is the slow and inefficient construction and improvement of the roads and streets. With a large population and numbers of automobiles increasing, some roads still remain unimproved, which will surely lead to problems. The last cause is the insufficient management of the traffic system and the people's lack of awareness of traffic regulations. Many pedestrians cross the streets even when the traffic lights are against them, which is an obstacle to the flow of traffic. The problem of traffic congestion is an urgent one because it concerns the safety allofus. Wewillnot resolve it if we only rely on the government. Let all of us act now to solve it. Almost every city has a big traffic problem. Everyday, we walk out of our apartments and step into the sidealk and see cars in front of us parked on both sides of the street, driving down the street, stuck in traffic, speeding and honking. Although some measures have been taken to improve the city traffic, the traffic problems are not totally solved. So other measures are being sought continuously. Some people suggests that more roads should be built in order to speed up the flow of the traffic, and others insists that more public bus routes are requirted in order to limit the number of private cars. But building more roads must take up much land, which results in house shortage and destruction to the farmland , and limiting the number of private cars brings inconvenience for the people whose home are far from the bus stop. Therefore, efforts must be actively made to improve the city traffic. Before we take some measures to deal with the traffic problems, some causes that lead to them have to be recognized. To start with, vast population contributes to heavy traffic. Although the chinsese government keep enforcing birth controll policy, study shows that, China’s population will increase by more than 10 million each year in the next ten years. Apart from dense population in cities, more and more rural labor workers are pouring into the city, which adds much pressure on the severe city traffic conditions. Moreover, some people are not aware of the importance of obeying traffic regulations, especially for those people who couldn’t drive because they couldn’t share the same feeling with drivers when travelling on th roads. They think it is easy for drivers to control the vehicles. The second reason falls on increasing vehicles, especially growing private cars going with improving living standard. In previous years, a car was a consumer goods that Chinese families did not even dare dream of owning, but cars are now becoming more accessible to the masses However, the rate of increase of the road far lags behind the rate of increase of the car. As a result drivers have to compete with each other in case of delay or missing an important meeting, and some careless drivings are very common. The last but not least reason is unscientific road design. Although more roads have been built and some roads are broadened, without reasonable road design the traffic congestion and accidents are not likely to be avoided. For example, some road are not devided into the lanes for vehicles, nonvehicles and pedestrians traveling on their own lanes. Besides, if some broken road are not repaired in time, they will slow the flow of the traffic, and traffic congestion will occur easily especially at rush hours. Now that the causes for heavy traffic are organized, some solutions must be made in order to alleviate the traffic problem. Concerning a great amount of people and the increasing cars in the urban area, some people suggest that we should restrict the grow of the private cars. But if we control the cars we control the transportation which again hindder economic activity. In some international metropolises, such as Paris and Tokyo, the volume of private cars far exceeds the number in Beijing. However, 60 to 80 per cent of citizens in large cities in Europe or the United States travel on public transport, a rate two or three times that in Beijing. So both car owner and drivers should have traffic consciousness. So it is advisable to promote the advanced public transportation while encouraging person trips instead of car trips. We should open up more bus rutes and to equip the bus with advanced transportation monitoring system to adjust to the differenct traffic conditions in every minute. If a person can take a bus conveniently and safely anywhere and anytime with less expense, who like to drive the costly cars? As for pedestrians, we should have a sense of safety first. Crossing the road under red lights or walking on the vehicle lanes are very risky. With regard to the problem of traffic system, it is not easy to predict that the under being built roads will be effective in transporting for more than 100 years, but scientific and foresightful transportation system including road desigh are needed in order not to waste too much money for rebuilding the roads.relevant departments should focus on the rational layout of the traffic network, including metro lines, flyovers, platform bridges and pedestrian underpasses. For example, road intersections take much responsibilty to the traffic jam. One traffic jam in a intersection will affect traffic on several other routes if traffic administration departments lack a comprehensive management system for traffic flow. So we should learn from other countries, building an advanced informational system for drivers to get information of the traffic is another way to let them consider taking alternate routes, and deveoping advanced traffic monitering system to contral the traffic and deal with urgent happenings. Acturally, no sole way above can solve the traffic problems completely, and the present methods are far enough to cope with the fast speed of traffic development. So other kinds of effective measures are required. The problem from heavy traffic may not be fully understood. We have no idea after 50 or 100 years if we have space to walk or live, if we can breath freely outside. Anyway, attention to safety and harmonious living environment is a top priority 7. There is no doubt that we have more leisure time than ever before when we become college students. The way how we spend our leisure time vary from person to person, meanwhile, there is a definite relationship between our future and leisure time. So how to spend our leisure time is quite a big challenge. Many students especially boys spend their leisure time on playing computer games while some girls just chat or watch movies. What’s worse they are addicted in it. Frankly speaking, Internet is quite useful for most of college students, we can learn a lot from the internet. Such as we also can scan some news and learn some software. Besides internet, we also spend leisure time doing some open activities. All kinds of ball are available; we can play basketball, volleyball, table tennis and so on. Sometimes we may have a chat with our classmates, we talk about our lessons, our interests and our future. We also play Chinese chess with each other, sometimes we even play cards! Above all, As a student, I think study must come to the first. As the old saying goes,” All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.” To get good marks, we must pay more .Now, my classmates are now preparing for CET-4 or CET-6 and I think they’re preparing for their resumes, In a word, we should take advantage of it. So our college life will be colorful, our leisure time is wonderful! 8. Very often, when people seek suggestion from someone else, it is not because they don't know the solution, but due to the laziness or insufficient confidence to judge themselves or the need for someone to reassure them the correctness of the solution they already have in mind, or simply becasue there is someone else to rely on and, therefore, no need for them to make decisions themselves. By knowing this, everyone can start to be more confident and proactive and become a better decision maker. In your life, you should make a lot of decision, such as high education, major, job, a girlfriend, house, etc. if you want to make a good decision, I think there are a lot of things to face and deal with, I have some ideas how to make a good decision, here's how: 1. Collecting more and more information. you should try you best to collect more and more information, even if the information is bad, the information could be a piece of advice or theory in a book or article, it also could be from internet. Of course, it would take you some time, if you have not enough time, I do not think you could collect enough information; 2. Analyze the information to give up the bad information and keep good information. Firstly, you should understand what you want, then begin to analyze the information, and make aware of what it is the bad or good information, if you could differentiate it, it will effect your decision; 3. Making a detailed plan. The plan is very important for the decision, you should make more detailed plan, the plan should be very particular, in you plan, you should make some action to prevent the bad ending and correct it as soon as posible.If you finish the above step, you could make the decision. In order to make a decision, we must know what we are seeking. Most of us want long-term happiness, but we can’t decide how we would bring that happiness about. It may feel as though life is moving so quickly that we are not really deciding, we are just reacting. We are constantly being swayed by short-term pleasure. One of the great texts on rulership recommends that the king or queen carefully contemplate every decision based on how it will create benefit for others. This is a shortcut to the path of virtue. In the Tibetan tradition, “virtue”doesn’t have a heavily moralistic or religious overtone. It is a process of developing the wisdom to see clearly how the world works, and the compassion to always hold the welfare of others in mind.