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I believe it is a common misunderstanding that young people cannot control themselves primarily referring to entertainment such as movies and television. The young age gives a lot of people the excuse to judge a group of people, i.e., the young. However, most young people can benefit from the modern industry of movies and television. I am sure that the positive effects can outweigh the counter effects brought from films and television.

Young people have a plan when they are watching movies or television for fun. Most of young people know what they are doing, and properly arrange their time for homework and entertainment. Some people are addicted to movies and television. Yet not all of those are young people. We can find adults and the elder among them, especially the housewives. Therefore, it is not fair to criticize young people as a whole.

Some of the young people wisely transform their favor for movies and television into the passion for learning a foreign language. In my country, many young people watch foreign movies like Hollywood movies to learn English. My study experience can serve as a good example. I study British accent by watching British TV series and learn American accent through watching movies produced by the United States. It is quite common in my country. Foreign movies and TV shows provide lively and economical language classes for second-language learners all over the world. Millions of young people benefit from this.

Admittedly, movies and televisions do have some negative effects with our society and some of our young people in particular. However, it is not the whole story. Most of the modern young people are wise enough to behave with reason. I believe the positive effects of movies and television can outweigh the negative effects in terms of our young people’s behavior.

I have a question: why did the examiner use “were” in the title “…than they were nowadays”? Is it grammatically correct?

Topic: all university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is.

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It has been a common sense that university students should acquire general knowledge in their early stage of college. In many universities of my country, college students are required to take not only scientific courses from their professional areas but also a certain proportion of humanities courses, including history. From my perspective, I agree that all university students should take compulsory history courses despite their major.

For one thing, I believe history is the past future, and the future is of interest to everyone. Knowing history has great significance for students to step into the future. Without learning history, people seem to be blind in facing the potential danger. History is like an experienced teacher who takes you walking through the fog of reality and leads you to the final truth. Most famous scientists made their ground-breaking achievements by studying previous scholars’ thoughts and results, for instance. Besides, great writers improved their writing skills by admiring the classic masterpieces.

Moreover, by taking history courses, we can learn from the mistakes that our predecessors have made. Accordingly we can avoid the same mistakes in the future. Everyone makes mistakes in each step of their life. However, if we can learn from previous mistakes of others, we can certainly reduce the number of our potential mistakes. In this way, we become outstanding by making fewer mistakes. I think that is one reason why in the handicraft area, there has always been keeping the tradition of face to face teaching between the apprentice and the master. It is because the master has to teach every single mistake in his professional life to his students so that this skill can evolve through time. That is how history helps people avoid repeating mistakes and make new achievements.

In conclusion, I believe college students should take history courses of any kind as part of college education, since it is crucial to their future career and life.

Writing topic: Because people are busy doing so many different things, they do very few things well.

In this ever-changing society, people want to involve in more stuff yet in a shorter period. It seems that everyone has the ability to handle multiple tasks overnight. I cannot tell since when we stop focusing on one topic at a time. From my perspective, a human cannot split their concentration and do various activities to increase their efficiency.

People nowadays seem to become busier than ever, but it only makes their life worse. They complain about ten seconds of the elevator’s operation, five minutes of waiting for the instant noodles, and eight hours of the working time. In daily life, we can see a lot of people being busy with several things at the same time. Young students listen to music while they are doing homework. Workers watch movies or TV shows when they are having lunch or dinner. In this way, they fail to go deeper and figure out the meaning behind the music or the movie and also fail to set up the scientific capacity by doing academic practice or find love and care by making use of the precious lunch and dinner time.

If we judge them by appearance, we might think busy people are quite successful. However, we overlook the most crucial point that successful people enjoy the process of every part of life. They do the right thing and take their time because they love what they do. That is the reason why they can always do things well, as they focus on doing what they love. People with wisdom do not care about the number of things they have to do. They keep things in perfect order and start with the most important task. That is the difference between outstanding people and ordinary people. Ordinary people are busy doing many different things and worry about some of which will not end well. Hesitation and distraction eliminate their possibility to success.

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Relation to others is a kind of software ability of people, while knowledge is more like a hardware ability of people. As for students making no sure of his/her future career, the best way to success is studying hard in school. It will not be late to connect to society after graduation. In an interview, the interviewer will not give you an offer by judging the number of your friends. From my perspective, the software ability largely depends on hardware ability.

Everyone has his/her circle. If you want to make friends with competent people, you must be one of them. If you work hard in the school library every day, you are more likely to make friends with hard-working students like you. A student staying in the dormitory playing computer games all the time, like males always do, will not meet a girlfriend in college. A girl will never show up in his dormitory.

Also, no matter how well you relate to your friends, you will feel hard to connect to your friends once your position goes much beyond your circle. It is because you are speaking different languages now. Great minds think alike. Your relation scope will keep changing since you keep learning new things in school and a future job. When you keep outrunning your old self, you will find you have exceeded most friends of your circle!

In conclusion, students should focus more on the study in school. That is what school education is meant to be, and that is where successful career is waiting. As an old Chinese saying goes, no need to worry about no friends ahead of you, since you have been known by people all over the world.

Version III:

People travel in different ways. I have a few competent friends who are loyal fans of the lonely adventure. They often climb mountains alone or ride their bicycles for several days without companions. Loneliness never becomes their problem, and their lack of local knowledge can also get solved by adequate preparation and search engines. They may be right to think that travel alone is the top option. However, from my perspective, the best way to travel is in a team led by a tour guide.

The decisive factor is that in many cases the personal ability of mine cannot substitute the role of a guider or teammate. Also, most of us do not possess that kind of incentive to face unknown adventures alone. An official report shows that most of the accidents occurring during trips happened to single tourists and inexperienced teams. When troubles come, teammates can help us out of the crisis, and a good guider can protect us from potential danger.

People may argue that what if their purpose of travel is to relax and to obtain some exotic experience. It seems that a proper holiday and google are all they need. Nonetheless, if they expect to get sunburn and some fresh air, a tour guide also suits them well. A guider has expertise in local restaurants, transportation, and accommodation. For example, my friend Mary plans to visit France this summer. The local tour guide can give her appropriate advice about the subway ticket, the local specialties, and the safest district to accommodate. Her teammates can share her expenses and make some brilliant adjustments to her tour plan.

Joining a team and having a tour guide can benefit us under many different conditions. Therefore, I agree with the statement that the best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide.