西安建筑科技大学继续教育学院 What Would Happen If There Were No Power? Ever since early this century, electricity has become an essential part to our modern life. Electric power has greatly increased productivity. It enables us to have light, so we can work after dark. It also makes machines to run, which is more ficient than human labor. Electricity offers us many entertainments, such as watching TV. listening to the radio and surfing on the internet e.se If there was no electricity, our world would not be able to operate as we know it We would not be able to work in the evenings. Machines could not work and no oduction could be made. There would be no tv. radio. or internet and our life would seem isolated. Therefore. electricity is so essential that we cannot live even Writing 3 Directions: You are to write in no less than 100 words on the topic "Why Should we Increase Our Vocabulary?" You could base your composition on the Chinese outline given below 扩充词汇量的好处:表达不会重复、阅读理解更容易… [参考范文] Why Should We Increase Our Vocabulary? Increasing our vocabulary can help us in a number of ways. We will discover that knowing synonyms(a inJ), for example, will decrease the amount of repetition in our compositions and make them more enjoyable to read. Also, an increased vocabulary will make our own reading more enjoyable. We will find it much easier to follow the ideas in our textbooks or newspapers when we do not have to look up unknown words in dictionaries continually. If we are not al ways stumbling over(XEEl) unfamiliar words we will become more eager to read and not discouraged even when we do come across an unknown word. as a result. we will read faster and more intelligently, become more knowledgeable, and hence better informed about the world around us Writing 4 Directions: You are to write in no less than 100 words on the topic "The Use of Dictionary in Language Learning "You could base your composition on the Chinese outline given below 1字典是个行走的老师 2.坚持使用字典可以提高技能 3.但是也不能过于依赖字典。 [参考范文]西安建筑科技大学继续教育学院 2 / 6 What Would Happen If There Were No Power? Ever since early this century, electricity has become an essential part to our modern life. Electric power has greatly increased productivity. It enables us to have light, so we can work after dark. It also makes machines to run, which is more efficient than human labor. Electricity offers us many entertainments, such as watching TV, listening to the radio and surfing on the Internet. If there was no electricity, our world would not be able to operate as we know it. We would not be able to work in the evenings. Machines could not work and no production could be made. There would be no TV, radio, or Internet and our life would seem isolated. Therefore, electricity is so essential that we cannot live even a day without it. Writing 3 Directions: You are to write in no less than 100 words on the topic “Why Should We Increase Our Vocabulary?” You could base your composition on the Chinese outline given below. 扩充词汇量的好处：表达不会重复、阅读理解更容易…… [参考范文] Why Should We Increase Our Vocabulary? Increasing our vocabulary can help us in a number of ways. We will discover that knowing synonyms (同义词), for example, will decrease the amount of repetition in our compositions and make them more enjoyable to read. Also, an increased vocabulary will make our own reading more enjoyable. We will find it much easier to follow the ideas in our textbooks or newspapers when we do not have to look up unknown words in dictionaries continually. If we are not always stumbling over (难倒) unfamiliar words, we will become more eager to read and not discouraged even when we do come across an unknown word. As a result, we will read faster and more intelligently, become more knowledgeable, and hence better informed about the world around us. Writing 4 Directions: You are to write in no less than 100 words on the topic “The Use of Dictionary in Language Learning” You could base your composition on the Chinese outline given below. 1.字典是个行走的老师； 2. 坚持使用字典可以提高技能； 3. 但是也不能过于依赖字典。 [参考范文]