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Do you agree or disagree:
when teachers assign projects on which students must work together, students will learn much more effectively than ask them to do alone.（Education)

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There are varied ways in schools, like universities or high schools, to enhance their students' learning abilities or acquisition skills. Some schools encourage students to learn alone because self-study seems to be more effective while others disagree with this pedagogy. I am for the latter idea that is against the learning-alone process for two main reasons.

One reason I am not agreed with learning alone is because of the comparison and the peers’ feedback. First of all, comparison between students would probably lead to alter or regular made by students themselves, which it is good for them to find out new problems or even alternative solutions when thinking seriously about others' performance, and would encounter new perspective when making reflection through others' opinions. Second, the power of peers' review is hard to anticipate for skilled learners, which is because peers often have similar knowledge backgrounds. And for the beginners, it is also much easier for them to accept ideas from the students who have walked one more step forward, which is also more effective than studying alone.

Another reason for supporting learning with other would make more efficiency is in terms of long-term perspectives. If students often study with others, the team-working atmosphere is excellent for cultivating students' personal characters and learning attitude. The more a student is shaped by this kind of atmosphere regularly, the more possible he would make change. If a student who possesses positive characters and correct learning attitude, how can he study ineffectively? Moreover, team-working atmosphere has essential advantage for students to attain a same goal through helping each other to concur difficulties. Try to imagine how a student who is good at practical thinking will work together with another student who has been trained to be professional theoretical thinker. This kind of cooperation would come up with multi-dimensional results than the team consisting of two practical thinking students.  

To sum up, I wish more schools or universities would choose to assign more  team-working projects rather than the individual studying projects in the future.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The environmental issue is too complex to be handled by the individual. (Environment)

There are some debates about whether the individual could make any effort to complicated environmental issue. In my personal perspective, I do believe the individual can do something for bettering the world's environment for two reasons as following:

Every environmental activity is composed of people, individually to collectively. Taking doing a typical case of dissemination campaign of an environment-protecting idea as an example. From analyzing the active scale and the possible consequence of spreading the specific environment-protecting idea, designing activity for reconciling the consequence, undertaking every single piece of work within the whole duration, impacting more people to participate till taking long-run records to follow up the results and the variability of the activity, all the actions mentioned above need to be achieved by and through individual person who work directly or indirectly with the campaign.
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哎病了快一个月身心都没劲了，今晚只憋出个太监的渣渣。。。明天开始捡起来捡起来！

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mpromanus 发表于 2013-1-16 00:10
如果你觉得很难写是因为不知道题目说的是什么概念的东西，你可以去google下'congestion charge'..论文这 ...

谢谢R老师指点，授我以鱼and渔啊:D

香港的贫富阶层大啊，还越来越大，没办法，有钱的越有钱，没钱的就继续被锁在玻璃天花板里很难超生。。。

原来R老师喜欢尖东的美术馆，展品是不错，去年有埃及文物和丰子恺，都很热门~大阪呀墨兰呀荷花呀sounds good，mark一下，哪天跑去看看:D

托你吉言，病了近一个月终于好了，不日开始继续写作文~

保重身体

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cdelee 发表于 2013-1-15 02:49
谢谢R老师的改正，一如既往的高质量改正~
这题我自己写的时候也很痛苦。。。最后只能盯着关键词，被你 ...

如果你觉得很难写是因为不知道题目说的是什么概念的东西，你可以去google下'congestion charge'..论文这个东西多读多写会有感觉的，加油~

香港还是不错的，就是消费普遍高哇，而且我觉得社会阶级超明显的~不过正好赶上了大阪市立美术馆的一批精品来香港美术馆展出，郑思肖的墨兰八大山人的荷花水鸟真迹神马的啊，非常重磅~那个神马你注意身体早日康复哈~

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mpromanus 发表于 2013-1-14 22:51
Drivers should pay a fee to be allowed to drive on the city streets during the time when there is  ...

谢谢R老师的改正，一如既往的高质量改正~
这题我自己写的时候也很痛苦。。。最后只能盯着关键词，被你看穿了【捂脸(*/ω＼*)
because的用法最近有点头晕，总想着分句分句于是分错了，R老师bingo了~
话说我想申很文科类的学位，看了一下在读孩子们写的论文，哎，真是文采飞扬意境深邃，觉得自己写的真是太稚嫩了，自卑感丛生。。。QAQ

ps：R老师你在飞机上看的电影，除了剑心和英国病人我也都看过（等等貌似ice age不记得看到第几了），同看不下去英国病人的握爪，一想到它是个BE就没兴致了~
pps：香港之行愉快否？最近天气忽冷忽热的（于是我中招生病了），不过好天气的时候真是晴空万里，让人心情十分愉悦啊！

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cdelee 发表于 2012-12-19 12:54
12.19
Drivers should pay a fee to be allowed to drive on the city streets during the time when ther ...

Drivers should pay a fee to be allowed to drive on the city streets during the time when there is the greatest amount of traffic. Agree or not?

There are some debates about whether drivers should pay a fee to get the permission of driving in the city (1. 'in' the city but 'on' the city streets. You can't take just the 'on the city' bit out of 'on the city streets'; 2. the question is not about whether they should be allowed to drive 'in the city' at all. It's about whether they should be allowed to drive in the city WHEN the traffic is the heaviest, i.e. during rush/peak hours.). Because ('because' heads a subordinate clause, which means any clause that starts with 'because' cannot stand on its own as one single sentence. You need to either merge this 'because' clause with the previous sentence, or say something like 'Because.., blah blah'.) the decrease in numbers of cars in the city could ease the tension of the traffic. In my opinion, I am agreed (You can't 'be agreed' with things. You can only 'be in agreement' with something. To 'be agreed' is like 被同意 in Chinese: you 'sort of' know what it means, and it has a certain contextual meaning that is almost idiomatic, but it's not, in theory, a completely grammatical phrase.) with this statement for two main reasons.

First, a/the payment could destroy ('destroy' is usually used in a malicious context, which doesn't really make sense here. Consider 'remove'.) the desire of using cars. If people could choose either (If you say 'both', it means 'both' – as in, the two must be used at the same time.) other vehicles and their cars at the same time, they would tend to use other vehicles because they don't want to pay more money to get to the same place even though using other vehicles may be more time-consuming than using the cars. If people have alternative vehicles, the payment could help with forcing people to give up cars. For example, when Beijing held its Olympic Games in 2008, the (local) government of Beijing Government had been exerted a regulation during the Olympic Games (Why would you want to repeat 'the Olympic Games'?). The regulation was that some drivers were forbidden to drive their cars in the city on specific days. If the drivers didn't follow the regulation, they would probably be caught by the police and paid a big deal of money as a penalty (A 'penalty' is paid when you do something illegal or 'wrong', but the money being paid in question is a 'fee', to get an access to a privilege over other non-paying people, rather than to serve as punishment. The difference between 费用 and 罚款 is subtle and often equated especially in Chinese practice, but I'd suggest you stay with the word 'fee'.). This regulation really worked magic since the number of traffic accidents and the amount of traffic both seriously decreased during the Olympics Games (The way you wrote the 'since' clause is extremely Chinese-like, to the extent that I can see the Chinese equivalent in my head word-by-word as I was reading the English version. And in this particular case, such a direct translation results in a subjectless English sentence.).

Second, a/the payment sets a new standard of driving in the city. Some people could pay this fee for a short period, but they may not afford to pay in the long run (Although there seems to be a trend to use 'for' instead of 'in' but the proper phrase itself is 'in the long run' as a whole.). A payment selects people who really need to utilize cars. Take people in China as an example. In most of the cities, people have to pay for driving on the city high ways. The payment is not a scary amount but people still have to sacrifice their money to get to use the high ways which belongs to the country. What Chinese people do is they often use the fewest cars to carry the most passengers, which could significantly minimize the budget of using national property, though some experts are worried about the safety problem (1. if you say 'THE safety problem', then it means a specific problem in safety, e.g. cars not properly maintained, rather than 'the generic, abstract idea that encompasses all problems on safety'; 2. if you don't intend to discuss 'the safety problem', which is not relevant to the question anyway, don't mention it at all. Mentioning an issue without a good reason or a good discussion is the best way to lose your coherence because it gives the impression that you write 'randomly'.). But what we can directly see is because of the strategy of how Chinese people minimize the payment, leads to fewer cars running on the high ways. So it is of great help to reduce the amount of traffic. (Again, the original sentence doesn't have a proper subject. As said before, 'because (of)' here leads a subordinate clause: the whole bit with 'because of' is a clause, and it cannot be a subject. The 'leads' bit therefore doesn't have a subject. If you're not sure about clauses and sentences, please do revise.)

To sum up, I wish more cities would try to use payment as a regulation method to control the numbers of the cars on the city streets.

总结：

请特别注意复杂句的句法。。另外题目问的不仅仅是在城里开车的事情，是在交通最繁忙的时段在城里开车的事情，于是你第一个例子还可以说奥运会属于交通繁忙的时段吧，但第二个论点就完全不靠题了。。请记住你讨论的话题是一句完整的句子，而不是一两个关键词。

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cdelee 发表于 2012-12-25 14:30
Good to have your revision, it is of great great help. =)

可以把"focus on"換成“ concentrate  ...

'focus' is fine. You can change 'talk' into 'discuss'.

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mpromanus 发表于 2012-12-25 05:54



Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In university students should take the hist ...

Good to have your revision, it is of great great help. =)

可以把"focus on"換成“ concentrate on”，把“is talking about”換成“mainly illustrate” or "mainly illuminate"?

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cdelee 发表于 2012-12-18 09:00
12.18
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In university students should take the ...

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In university students should take the history courses no matter what field they study.

Recently, some suggest that university students should take history as one of the courses no matter what the students' majors are. In my personal perspective, I am totally agreeing with this suggestion for two main reasons.('agreeD' only appears as the past tense, the perfective, or the passive – so you only say something is 'agreed with/upon'. But saying someone is 'agreed' has a certain literal playfulness to it, implying that the agreement is not voluntary but passively forced upon the person – it's akin to the use of 被 in phrases like 被代表了 in modern internet Chinese.)

First of all, students are educated for making contributions to the country in the future. So they have to learn something intentionally, fundamental or profound, about what their country has been through, especially some vital patterns which are still surrounded them (I'm confused as to what 'them' refers to. It cannot mean 'patterns', to start with. If it means 'students', then no, you don't say things like 'patterns still surround students', because it simply makes no sense. If it does not mean 'students', then there's nothing else in this sentence that is a plural noun.). Taking Chinese students as an example: China has a long and complex history. Some elements of the ancient Chinese ancient history, like the marriage ceremony, traditional festival gatherings and funeral practices, are still living vividly (This is again one of those literal translations of Chinese expressions that don't work in English. If you must be literal and poetic when describing your examples, try 'survive well'.) with the Chinese people nowadays.(Strictly speaking, these things are 'customs', or 'traditions', not 'history'. They are 'historical', but they are not 'history'. Quite a few pairs of noun-adjective in English have this difference in meaning, e.g. economic-economical, classic-classical, and this is unluckily not reflected in Chinese because in Chinese the noun and the adjective are the same in form. You therefore need to be extra careful when handling such vocabulary.) Absorbing some sort of historical knowledge like these will shed some lights on how China has been through in 5,000 years to students, (Or '..what China has been through in 5000 years'. But preferrably not 'how..in'.) which could broaden their ken of Chinese circumstances (This would mean 'the circumstances that pertain to the Chinese people/race', rather than 'the circumstances of China', which would be what you actually meant to express. 'Chinese' is an ethnical category as well a political/national identification, and often the two are the same for native Chinese from China. But they can be very sensitively different to certain foreigners..especially certain overseas Chinese.) in both ancient times and modern days, no matter what their subjects are.

Second, every major has its own history, consisting of history-changing events, revolutionary moments, birth of notable books, lives of significant persons or even unforgettable failures. Getting to know the history of their major will give students an in-depth insight of what their majors truly are. As far as I know, students majored in comparative literature have to take a course called Development of Comparative Literature Theory. This course is almost the same as The History of Comparative Literature, which highlights the historical events, moments and books and persons as I mentioned in the beginning of this paragraph. Not only students who studied social sciences will take history courses (Or 'a' history course, depending on which is more appropriate for your purpose.), students in computer science also attend a series of lectures called The Cornerstones of Computer Science as one of their compulsory courses in some universities.(Comparative literature is considered one of the 'arts' courses. You then go on to talk about students in social sciences and computer science without any signal for change. I'm not sure if this was because you thought comparative literature is 'social sciences', but it is in fact not. It is a pure arts major, which is not the same as social sciences majors..but arts and social sciences do often get meddled together under the same classification called 文科.) This course is focusing on the most updated technology of computer science but never ignores the history part, which is talking about the basic theory and well-known stories within this specific domain. (The 'this course is focusing..' or 'which is talking about' here in your essay are actually casual because this be+progressive construct emphasises the sense of 'now' and makes you feel as if you are having a conversation in real-time. That's why I use a lot of these in my comments. But remember this is not the best style for formal, academic English. If you want real proper academic English, read my sample sociolinguistics paper which you can download in my main post – you'll see I didn't use this kind of progressive construct at all in that entire paper. Of course, this is not forbidding you from using this construct. Just remember to exercise your own judgment.) But both social sciences students and computer science students are inspired by history, and know how to look forward more than before when they learn to look back through the history.

To sum up, universities could plan students for history courses no matter what field they study because history leads students to a new era through telling the stories of the old age.

总结：

总体上没有什么问题。主要的评语是有关语义和风格的问题，已经比较进阶了，供你参考就好~

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12.22
Does study of animals help us to learn human nature? (Society & Learn)
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There are some debates on whether studying animals could help human to know more about human being themselves. In my personal perspective, I think the more we discover from animals, the deeper we get to know what human truly are for two main reasons outlined as the following:

First reason is because we human are sharing basic needs with many kinds of animals. All of animals, need to eat and sleep, and could have new members through making love with the same kind of animals or similar species. Ever more, all animals should "work" for making a living due to though the mother earth has everything that animals and human being are in need of, she would not push everything as close as to animals' mouths or our lips. Animals and we are still forced to struggle for survive. On these senses, what human kinds do and what animals do are appropriately the same, which is: to fulfill the basic needs. Animals live in a relatively simpler and purer society than human being. Even the relationships built by animals are much less complex than human's. So to do research on animals' lives, like monkeys, one of our closer relatives, to observe what they feed their needs, could facilitate humans to reveal our basic desires more effectively within such a simpler circumstances.

Second is because we human are sharing basic emotions with many kinds of animals. Hundreds of animals, like most of human kinds, may change their emotional states according to external or internal stimulation, such as from happy to angry, from friendly to hostile, from peaceful to anxious and so forth. To understand these emotional states of animals could establish a vivid mirror for motivating human being to think about what factors and variations could cause the emotional changes, about how to satisfy the fundamental emotion requirements via interacting with each others. For example, scientists found that gorilla, the closest relatives of human kind, could also envy other members for many complex reasons as having more wives, possessing bigger territories, and even getting closer to the king of gorilla! All of those reasons could be found among human society. These reasons keep reminding us that we are not the only species on the earth consisted of complicated and changeable emotion response.

To sum up, based on the reasons mentioned above, I totally support studying animals in order to reveal more secrets of human being.


ps：今天把写好的东东放在word上之后，红色的大大减少了。。。可是。。。可是。。。写作超时了。。。嘤。。。还是不要想得太复杂，抓住一个小点就往深里写好了。。。

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12.20
It is better to finish one project completely in one period and begin to do another project than to do two or three projects at the same time. Do you agree or not? (Education)

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There some debates about multi-tasking versus single-tasking, which is better than the opposite, such as finishing a project firstly and the starting the second one versus undertaking all projects at the same time. In my personal perspective, I am agreed with the former, which is completing the previous project then embarking on the new one rather than doing all of them at the time for two main reasons as following:

First reason is because of man power problem. Maybe there are some chances for a group, say a department, to hire more people for doing different projects at the same period, but the people who are in charge of these projects would easily get lost when facing different feedback or circumstances from varied projects. According to a survey conducted by some human resources experts shows: there are no significantly emotional differences among junior staff when they conduct different projects at the same period, while the senior staff, such as Deans, Heads or Project Managers, suffer from dealing with high pressure of response to uncertainty of those projects. Such high pressure reduces the performance of those senior staff, who are the core decision makers of the projects and, the whole department. For these reason, the senior staff required to be given more time to complete their projects because they cannot ensure the quality of their projects. From the example above we can see, the outcomes and the efficiency of the projects undertaken at the same time are seriously affected by the man power problem, and the result is clearly not good.

Second reason is because of the academic quality problem which I have implied a little in the second paragraph. The same survey continues to show that: although junior staff did not suffer from heavy pressure, they stepped into a dire mire where was filled with thousands of data and information collecting from different projects. It is hard and troublesome for junior staff to follow data and information from different domains. Because though all projects have shared something in common within one department, they still have more things varied, from research objectives to evaluation standards. So it will probably cause errors, or mistakes, or even data loss if a new junior staff is in charge of these varied data. Then the new staff has to redo or re-collect data, which is not what we call "original data or raw data". The re-collecting data is just a replacement of those original one. Replacement may possibly lead to invalid analysis which affects the academic quality to some extent.

To sum up, I highly recommend to accomplish one project then to start the next based on man power issue and academic quality issue.

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mpromanus 发表于 2012-12-20 10:08
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: The advice from the grandparents is of no u ...

谢谢R老师的批改，认真看完之后很有收获呢。
确实是对英文的标点符号掌握的不好，断句的方式和连接词啥的，这也是和口语区别最大的地方之一。
但还好这一次你看到我写啥了，下一次争取切题吧XDD
Merry Christmas. =)

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cdelee 发表于 2012-12-15 11:10
12.15
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:The advice from the grandparents is of ...

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: The advice from the grandparents is of no use to their grandchildren because the world has changed a lot over the past 50 years.

The world changes, also the people, but not the wisdom (You don't usually need an article for a generic reference with abstract and uncountable nouns, e.g. 'Water is essential for life' or 'Capitalism is an economic system'.). There are some debates about whether grandparents' advice is still useful, according to the sentence mentioned at the beginning of this issue, (This is not an 'issue', but a 'statement'. And a statement doesn't need actual debates about it to exist to be debatable. My point is that this sentence really serves no substantial purpose to the essay other than pumping up the word count.) I still think that there must be something worthwhile to pay special attention to when grandparents try to give us suggestions for two main reasons.

First (You seem to think this can mean something like 'the first reason', but no, because 'the first reason' is a countable noun phrase in the singular, and whatever you replace it with must be properly used as a countable noun phrase in the singular, with an article and all. 'first' as a noun generally has a very specific meaning as 'a first class in academics' or 'a first place in a competition', anyway.) is because of the wisdom laying in their (Who? This is a new paragraph so readers won't automatically assume all your pronouns still stay the same as the previous paragraph.) experience. As researchers, we are really serious about quantitative data, which normally consists of the transcripts of the interviews or notes taken from face-to-face meetings (That's qualitative, not quantitative data. Quantitative data means numbers, i.e. statistics, percentages, etc. It doesn't mean 'a large amount of data'.) since people's ideas are highly recognized when we are tracing back of some  history which cannot be reproduced or re-experienced.(I don't see why this conclusion needs to be drawn from the fact that you do interviews, blah as researchers. The exact methods you do your researches with have no bearing on the conclusion that when you research on history you need old people's opinions.) Grandparents used to live in a period that we could never ever revisit, that means they can provide some sort of data which we could find nowhere else in the world especially among the current generation. So in a researcher's perspective, grandparents' advice based on their unique experience is full of wisdom that we could meet and only meet when listening carefully to what they talk. (But that doesn't mean that advice must be still useful to their grandchildren, unless you mean these grandchildren are all researchers of history and the advice will be useful to them as data. That, is exactly what the given statement is: this advice is irrelevant to their grandchildren now because the world and its circumstances are different. It doesn't matter if the advice is very useful for researches or full of wisdom. The only concern here is relevance to their grandchildren as the world changes.)

Second is because grandparents know us from the moment we were born. They love us and care about us. When they give advice, they give it based on that they want to protect us from being hurt. Sometimes young people are rude and bold: they make decisions just based on how they feel temporarily (That's not quite the same as 'at the moment'.); they don't or could not plan for long, and cannot foresee some bad impacts (You cannot run one sentence after another with just a comma between the two. It's perfectly fine in spoken English but very bad grammar in written English. You need proper punctuation or connectives.). But grandparents, if they could anticipate the bad impacts as outsiders, I believe they will try to give their utmost to stop their kids to do the impulsive decision. Even though they don't know how to make what they say sounds more fashionable or appealing to the youth, the core of why they take actions to talk to their kids usually is because of love. Why not try to respect advice filled with love even though the advice is less useful than those given by experts? (The question is not about respect. It's purely about usefulness to the kids. Whether the kids should respect their grandparents' advice has nothing to do whether the advice itself is actually useful.)

To sum up, I strongly support for taking advice from grandparents not matter how the 'usefulness' is defined.(Then you're arguing an entirely different question because this 'usefulness' and whether it still exists to the grandchildren in a changing world is what the question asks you to discuss. The question is not, I repeat, not about whether grandchildren should take advice from their grandparents. It is related to the question but it is not the question itself.)

总结：

结果你把is题写成了should题嘛。。问题是问那些建议是否还有用，而不是问那些建议是否应当从。。= = 有用与否和应该从之与否是两个不同的问题，就像猪肉好不好吃和大家是不是就该都吃猪肉是两个不同的问题。。另外请注意关系从句（a decision based on love, 不是*a decision bases on love）的语法。。

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12.19
Drivers should pay a fee to be allowed to drive on the city streets during the time when there is the greatest amount of traffic. Agree or not? (Society)
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There are some debates about whether drivers should pay a fee to get permission of driving on the city. Because the decrease in numbers of cars on the city could ease the tension of the traffic. In my opinion, I am agreed with this statement for two main reasons.

First, payment could destroy the desire of using cars. If people could choose both other vehicles and their cars at the same time, they would tend to use other vehicles because they don't want to pay more money to get to the same place even though using other vehicles may be more time-consuming than the cars. If people have alternative vehicles, the payment could help with forcing people to give up cars. For example, when Beijing held its Olympic Games in 2008, Beijing Government had been exerted a regulation during Olympic Games. The regulation was about some driver were forbidden to drive their cars on the city in specific days. If the drivers didn't follow the regulation, they would probably be caught by the police and paid a big deal of money as penalty. This regulation really worked magic since from the traffic accidents to the amount of traffic both seriously decreased during the Olympics Games.

Second, payment sets a new standard of driving on the city. Some people could pay this fee for a short period, but they may not afford to pay for a long run. Payment selects people who really need to utilize cars. Take people in China as an example. In most of the cities, people have to pay for driving on the city high ways. The payment is not a scaring number but people still have to sacrifice their money to get to use the high ways which belongs to the country. What Chinese people do is they often use the least cars to carry the most passengers, which could significantly minimize the budget of using national property, though some experts are worried about the safety problem. But what we can directly see is because of the strategy of how Chinese people minimize the payment, leads to fewer cars running on the high ways. So it is of great help to reduce the amount of traffic.

To sum up, I wish more cities would try to use payment as a regulation method to control the numbers of the cars on the city street.

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12.18
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? In university students should take the history courses no matter what field they study.(History)

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Recently, some suggest that university students should take history as one of the courses no matter what students' majors are. In my personal perspective, I am totally agreed with this suggestion for two main reasons.

First of all, students are educated for making contribution to the country in the future. So they have to learn something intentionally, fundamental or profound, about what their country has been through, especially some vital patterns which are still surrounded them. Taking Chinese students as an example, China has long and complex history. Some elements of Chinese ancient history, like marriage ceremony, traditional festival gathering and funeral mode, are still living vividly with Chinese people nowadays. Absorbing some sort of historical knowledge like these will shed some lights on how China has been through in 5,000 years to students, which could broaden their ken of Chinese circumstance in both ancient time and modern day no matter what their subjects are.

Second, every major has its own history, consisting of history-changing events, revolutionary moments, birth of notable books, life of significant persons or even unforgettable failures. Getting to know the history of their major will give students an in-depth insight of what their majors truly are. As far as I know, students majored in comparative literature have to take a course called Development of Comparative Literature Theory. This course is almost the same as The History of Comparative Literature, which highlights the historical events, moments and books and persons as I mentioned in the beginning of this paragraph. Not only students studied social science will take history course, students in computer science also attend a series of lectures called The Cornerstone of Computer Science as one of their compulsory courses in some universities. This course is focusing on the most updated technology of computer science but never ignores the history part, which is talking about the basic theory and well-known story within this specific domain. But both social science students and computer science students are inspired by history, and know how to look forward more than before when they learn to look back through the history.

To sum up, universities could plan students for history courses no matter what field they study because history leads students to a new era through telling the stories of the old age.