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本帖最后由 mpromanus 于 2011-6-3 17:40 编辑
3# luyanda
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The best way to travel is led by a tour guide.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
My parents always like to hire a tour guide to arrange (‘likes +doing’ usually refers to a permanent hobby, e.g. ‘likes playing basketball’, and is more like describing a ‘state’ rather than an ‘action’, compared to ‘likes to do + something’. If you say someone likes ‘hiring’ a tour guide, it’s like saying he does ‘hiring’ of a tour guide as a hobby.) their travel plans and introduce the historical backgrounds of the scenes (THE scenes of what? If you use ‘the’, the noun must be specific, e.g. ‘the cat that I saw yesterday’. You can’t say ‘I saw the cat’ without explaining which specific cat it is. Likewise you can’t say ‘the scenes’ without saying which specific scenes they are, e.g. ‘the scenes they see’. ). However, I do not like this. Whatever my parents` opinion is, I still prefer having a trip without tour guides. (The question is not about whether you PREFER to travel with or without a tour guide, but whether to travel with a tour guide is the BEST way to travel. You can of course say that you prefer something because it is the best, but this is not universal truth – people may, can, and do prefer things that may not be the best, as the idea of ‘best’ depends a lot on which and whose value system you are using. This question needs to be addressed either in a less personal manner, or backed with an early definition of ‘best’ == ‘my preferred’.)
First, the most (the most ‘what’ disadvantage’? ‘most’ is an adverb. It goes with adjectives, not nouns.) disadvantage of hiring a guide is spending too much money. Being a student, I have not much expense (I think you mean ‘budget’..’expense’ is the money you actually spend.) on my trip, so hiring a guide looks like a luxury thing for me. In Beijing, China, a local guide costs fifty dollars (US dollars? )one day. Without hiring them, I can save this money on other more valuable things, like tasting local delicacy or buying some beautiful clothes in Chinese style. Both are more attractive for me than having a trip with a tour guide.
Moreover, another disadvantage is that I cannot enjoy my trip by my own time schedule. In our country, the income of a tour guide depends on the numbers of the scenes (I think you mean ‘spots’ or ‘locations’ or ‘places’..) which he accompanies his guests to. So, to earn more money, a guide always arranges limited time for each scene. In this case, even I am visiting some scenes I am very interested in, I must finish the trip in a short time and cannot deeply explore them in depth. (Again, this is not a question where you simply list disadvantages of travelling with a tour guide – it is not good, but it can still be the best if other ways of travelling are all even worse. Think about it this way: 5 is the smaller number compared to 10, but it’s still the largest out of {0,1,2,5}. The question asks whether something is the best. This is a question with an implied scope. You need to show an understanding of the limits in the expected discussion, define what you are ‘best-ing’ against, and write comparisons to show that something really is or is not the best.)
On one trip to Shanghai, China, owing to my unfamiliarity with the city, I hired a local guide. He woke me up at six o`clock in the morning and guided me to six scenes in one day. Especially in the Oriental Pearl, the third tallest tower in the world, I wanted to overlook the whole Shanghai from this high building (This sentence reads ‘I wanted to …from this high building, especially in the Oriental Pearl’.. You haven’t really mastered the use of inversion with ‘especially’, so just don’t do it. Your essay is already pretty adequate without this so-called ‘complex sentence structure’.). But to my disappointment, I even have not reached the top of the tower when he urged me to leave. After this terrible experience, I began disliking hiring tour guides. (This seems like an example for the previous paragraph. Do you really mean to separate this into an individual paragraph? I’d say don’t even if you want to..)
Finally, without a tour guide, I can find out the historical backgrounds or any other information about the scenes by myself. When visiting the Westminster Abbey, I would buy a book, read it carefully and find out who built the Abbey, why he built the Abbey and how many people were buried in the Abbey (This is not a complete sentence. ‘Like’ precedes a noun, so it does not lead a full sentence. If you want to give an example in a sentence, use ‘For example’, and follow with your normal sentence.). How interesting it is! Maybe it will waste some time, but I think it is an essential part of a trip. (Erm. If you can get this same information from a tour guide without the ‘waste’ of time, then what makes this better than hiring a tour guide? Again, this goes back to what I said much earlier: your preference doesn’t necessarily be based on an absolute ‘best’. This question is not asking about your preference.)
In sum, a trip without a tour guide can not only save my money but also give me the feeling of freedom. Furthermore, I can have the exciting feeling of exploring new things. So, no doubt will I not hire a tour guide. (An inversion + double negation..this is just too hard to read for an examiner who reads some 100 essays per day. Keep things simple. Your meaning would not be less expressed with ‘no doubt that I would travel without a tour guide’..)
总结:
请认真注意一下词性的问题。。=.=
题目是问你跟导游旅行是不是最好的,结果你从头到尾都在回答:我喜欢不跟导游旅行因为跟导游旅行有不好1不好2不好3,基本的文不对题。。所以请看清题目到底要你写一篇什么样的文章,而不是上来就把关键字全部转化成优缺点列表再说。。这不是说你写这些不好1不好2不好3不对,你的内容材料,基本论述神马的都没有太大问题,就是要注意一下论述的方法,如何以能切中题目的方式去表达你的材料。。 |
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