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1、1I. Are cars doing more harm than good? Arguments2. Traffic accidents caused by cars not only bring death and injury, but also make people suffer mentally and psychologically.3. Every year car owners have to pay vast sums to the exchequer: road tax, purchase tax, oil tax, etc. This is a big drain on
2、 their resources.5. Cars should be done away with. We should try to find a safer means of transport which will bring joy and comfort rather than injury and death.9. Cars often produce air pollution and fill the cities with unbearable noise.Counter-arguments1. Motorcars are highly desirable for obvio
3、us reasons. We should recognize this and adapt ourselves.2. Motor cars enable people to become more mobile. Without cars, the world would still consist of isolated communities.4. Possessing a car gives one a much greater degree of mobility, enabling him to move around freely.7. Buses are often crowd
4、ed and slow, especially during rush-hour. If there are more cars, people can get around more easily.9. Cars and motorists are not to blame for road accidents. Problems like too many road signs, faulty traffic lights, sudden narrowing of a street and congested parking are the real cause of traffic ac
5、cidents.2. Are pets good for mankind? Arguments 2. Watching the everyday activities of a pet helps a child to understand nature and cope with problems.3. Learning to care for a pet helps a child to grow up into a loving adult who feels responsible towards those dependent on him.4. The great virtue o
6、f pets is that they can keep us company. 27. Often a cat or a dog can comfort us at times when human words dont help.10. A pet dog brings its master (owner) a sense of confidence, for he can see in the dog that faithfulness does exist and he does have something to trust.Counter-arguments1. Keeping p
7、ets is just a waste of time and resources.2. The growing number of pets has caused serious hygiene problems that cannot be solved.6. People nowadays are so crazy about pets that they even neglect caring for their own children.7. A campaign should be launched against the overpopulation of pets.9. Its
8、 really against nature to cage birds, chain dogs and keep cats within the house.10. Pets are animals. They should be seen in their natural habitat rather than in the homes of human beings.3 Do Advertisements Play a Positive or Negative role in our Society?Arguments1. Advertisements provide the most
9、direct comprehensive and detailed information. We get to know about household goods from advertisements.2. Advertising itself is a business that has provided a great number of jobs.4. Daily life needs advertisements because the main function of advertising is to disseminate information on commoditie
10、s, services, culture, employment, student enrolment and even marriage.5. A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of news of calamities.9. Advertising creates mass markets. Without advertisements, manufacturers may find it difficult to sell their pro
11、ducts.310. Advertising helps stabilize industry and employment, improves quality, and, by competition, helps keep prices within bounds.Counter-arguments2. Advertisements on TV are a nuisance: they interrupt television programmes at a shocking frequency. 3. Consumers have to pay more for the goods ow
12、ing to the advertising expenses: high prices are maintained by such artificial means.4. Advertisements are simply misleading and cheating. They are filled with flowery phrases and empty promises.7. Advertisements are not -based on the quality of the goods, but on the principle that if one keeps talk
13、ing about the same thing long enough, eventually people will pay attention to it.10. Advertising cheapens the quality of life: most ads are in poor taste.6 Does television play a positive or negative role in the modern world?2. Television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a
14、comparatively cheap one.3. Television keeps one informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in science and politics and offers an endless series of programmes which are both instructive and entertaining.5. Television has been good company to those who do not work, lik
15、e housewives, lonely old people, etc.6. Television provides enormous possibilities for education, like school programmes via closed-circuit television.48. Television does the job of education in the broadest sense. Instructive programmes achieve their goal through entertaining the viewers.Counter-ar
16、guments1. Television is a great time-waster.2. Television makes the viewer completely passive because everything is presented to him without any effort on his part.4. Television takes up too much of our time. We no longer have enough time for hobbies, entertaining activities, and other outside amusement like theatres, cinemas, sports, etc.5. People rush home, gulp their food, which is often as simple as sandwich and a glass of beer, and start watching
