是否年长者所给的建议就比同龄人的建议要更有价值？

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Does advice given by older people more valuable than from people your age?

It is difficult to decide whether the older people give more valuable advice than people of my age. Of course, older people, because they have experienced far more things than we have, so under some circumstances, they can make right judgment based upon their sufficient experiences. But, it is too hasty to jump to the conclusion that advice given by older people is more valuable than our classmates and friends of our age. They have similar experience and thought with me, and they get in touch with more new things than older people, so they can get on well with the pace of modern time. To some extent there are more chances for them to make right decisions than older people.

Admittedly, older people, with more experiences, have suffered from bitterness caused by failure and gained happiness from success, so they have more long-term view than us, which could be obtained upon their experience. Their experiences are their treasure from which they can get useful things and good advices. Take my father as an example. He is older than me, of course, so sometimes he can give me right choices and decisions. I remembered the time when I got the opportunity to be recommended for further study in graduate school, I was confused whether to choose going to other university or stay in Xiamen? My father thought that going outside and experiencing different cultures would be beneficial for my future development, so he recommended me to apply universities in Beijing. Now I think that’s quite a judicious decision.

However, having more experiences doesn’t necessarily mean they could always make right decisions. As everybody knows, nowadays, the development of economy and culture as well as technology goes on so fast that older people is reluctant or not ready to accept changes in society to some extent. The circumstances change, their experiences may not valid today. So advices given by friends and classmates, those who are of my age could be better and more suitable. There are two reasons to support this idea.

First, it is easier for people of my age to accept new things in society than older people, which facilitates them to know new things quickly and know how to deal with them as well. With familiarizing nowadays environment, they know better, when meeting situations different from those in old days, how to resolve the problem. Take renting house in Beijing for example. My parents don’t understand why people would love to rent house and spend their lives in other people’s house, what they concern most is saving money and buying a house, that’s their goal. But in Beijing, the situation is different, the price for house is so high that we graduate students could not afford it; at the same time, it is suffering to save money and buy house. That’s not our young people’s attitude toward life. So at this moment, friends’ advice may be more suitable for specific situations in Beijing.

Second, people of my age have similar experience and thought with mine, so they can understand me more easily. Concerning how to deal with relationships with boyfriend, for instance, my friends may know more precisely than my father does. So the advice given by my friends is more useful for me.

All in all, nobody can deny that older people could give sound advices, because of their experiences; but at the same time, the society is developing, the mind of older people may be obsolete under some circumstances, especially meeting new situations, so advices from people of our age may be more beneficial and substantial.

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综合作文：TPO3 Integrated Writing
In the reading material, the speaker suggests that there are some problems in the painting so the painting could not be a work by Rembrandt. However, In the lecture, the professor claims that the painting of a woman was proved to be true. She gives three reasons to debate the ideas illustrated in the reading material.

First, in the reading, the speaker says that because some inconsistent feathers about the way the woman is dressed existed in the portrait, so the painting was fake. While in the lecture, the professor disputes this idea with statement that the fur collar was added over the top of the original painting about 100 years after the original painting was made, maybe because of someone wanted to improve the value of the painting so the painting was made to be a portrait of aristocratic lady.

Second, there is no wrong in the painting about light and shadow. In the reading material, light and shadow were seen as evidences that proved the painting was not real. These elements, light and shadow, didn't fit together. However, the statement was also debated by the professor. She says that due to the fact that the original painting was covered by other colors, so after removing these colors, we can see that it was a light-color cloth that was wore by the woman, which could illuminate the woman's face. The light and shadow were so realistic that they were just expected from Rembrandt.

Finally, the professor holds different opinions about the wood that made up of the painting panel. In the reading, doubt was raised due to the fact that it was painted on a panel made of several pieces of wood glued together, and no painting known to be by Rembrandt uses a panel glued together in this way from several pieces of wood. While the professor doesn't agree with the statement given in the reading either. She says that once the painting was not the original one, so after removing the fake features on the painting, we can find that it was so grand and more valuable than it looked, and the original painting panel was on single piece of wood. Besides, the wood used in the portrait of a woman was from the same tree that another Rembrandt's painting panel's wood was from.