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3.17.2011
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Does advice given by older people more valuable than from people at your age?
Should we take advice of our peers or people who are older than us, as the statement contents? In my opinion, I prefer to choose the latter one for their advice are always more thoughtful and useful, especially at the points when the decision is significant to my life. There are two arguments to support this.
The first argument lies in the fact that suggestions from older people are more thoughtful and deliberate, for the reason that older ones’ consideration from various aspects provides better solution or a thoughtful decision, rather than the monochrome thinking mode of young people. In other words, the more experience and problems people have come through, the more thoughtful they will be. Older people definitely experience more than the young ones, so that their advice involves empirical views which young people have not yet encountered. For example, I wanted to enter a nearby high school as most of my former classmates do, while my parents insisted to send me to a completely strange one with better education quality. Ultimately, upon graduation the best university in my country sent me a permission but others didn’t, which made me realize the importance to listen to older people.
Besides, many young people argue that older ones are not able to interpret their thoughts because older people are no longer young. Although that is an undeniable truth, this statement fails to take account for a important issue that every older one has passed through their young age. What is in young people’s mind, therefore, can’t be more familiar to older ones, because they not only have those experience as young people, they also have passed through the period. Moreover, older people are even afraid of the same mistake that might happen on young people, which make them place an affirmative duty on their own to guide young people. So their advices shouldn’t be ignored.
To sum up, I strongly agree that young people should take advices of older ones. Older people have more experience which makes them more thoughtful. Besides, they know exactly what young people think because they have passed through the period of being young so that their advice should be paid more attention.
TPO4
The lecture and the passage both concentrate on the issue that whether dinosaurs are endotherms or not. The professor in the lecture contends that dinosaurs are not endotherms against the three reasons demonstrated in the passage.
First, the polar region might be much warmer than today which was enough for dinosaurs to survive. And even if the weather was fairly cold, it is also possible for dinosaurs to migrate to other warm places or hibernate as most modern reptiles do.
Besides, the position of the legs can not be an evidence to support the demand for physical activity with high energy consuming. According to the professor, it is only efficient to support the heavy body so that dinosaurs could grow into a large size.
The last stance in the passage lies in the bone features in dinosaurs’ fossils. Although there are haversian canals, the growth rings also exist, which represents that dinosaurs’ growth rate varied throughout the year. It might grow rapid in the warm weather and slow or even stop when it is cold. |
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