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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A job with more vacation time but a low salary is better than a job with a high salary but less vacation time.
People have different life styles nowadays, some prefers the jobs with more vacation even though the cost lies in the low salary, while others pursue high salaries for their careers regardless of the vacation time they have left. As I see it, although I fundamentally agree with the comfort part of our lives that high salary might bring about, work shouldn’t occupy most of our times. There are two compelling arguments that support my point of view. The first argument has to do with the essence of life. In my opinion, life is about experience. People are not able to take their property away by the end of their life but experience and memory is something that remains in their mind which would not fade away. Meanwhile, as various experience aggregates, people grow up and learn to think about their life and themselves. But the high salary job with no free time just put people in a chamber in which their life is monochrome and stressful, leaving no space for them to experience the world outside. Thus, life becomes dull and meaningless when people have no time for their own. The second argument lies in the fact that more vacation contributes to people’s health mentally and physically, which few would disagree. Those high salary jobs are always accompanied by huge pressure that results in a certain tension to people both physically and mentally. Admittedly, the large sum of the money those jobs brings enhances the overall standard of life and comfort level but little vacation time hardly allows people to enjoy it. Some might argue that ultimately they can live a free life when they are retired, while the truth is stressful work damage to people’s health in the long run and the disease as the by-product of the high pressure work for decades will consume your money that supposed to spend on other entertainment aspect of life. As a whole, high salary jobs with few vacation won’t bring a happy life- at the expense of our health and our time to experience various lives, which more vacation job allows us to, even though with low salary. Consequently, I agree that the lower salary job with more vacation time will be better for human. 综合: TPO10
The passage and the lecture both discuss on the explanation for the declination of the population of sea otters. The passage asserts that it is because of the pollution along the coast, while the professor in the lecture proposes that the declining results from orca, as the predator of the sea otter.
First, as there is no dead sea otter body that is found near the coast, the reduction can’t be led by pollution, the professor argues. On the contrary, this evidence supports the professor’s opinion for the reason that if the otters are eaten by orca, there shouldn’t be any bodies.
Second, another explanation for the declining of other sea mammals along the coast, according to the professor, lies in the changed diet of whales. The reduction of sea otters pushes whales to search for other small sea animals for food, such as seals and sea lions, that’s why other species also declined.
The last point stands on the location or the concentration where the sea otter declines which is probably the active area for orca, as the professor demonstrates. Another evidence shows that all the concentration points are not located in the shallow water where orca can’t get access to, but in which pollution is more possible to occur because the source the chemical pollution exists on band. |