【Tips】请点击标题下面蓝字关注TOEFLRepublic

S1: What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing students to eat in class? Use specific details and examples to support your opinion.

To be honest, I can only think of one advantage, which is students won’t be starved in the class. So for those who get up late in the morning and don’t have time to eat their breakfast at home, being allowed to eat in class means a rescue. However, the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages. When students eat things in the class, terrible smells permeate the room, sometimes accompanied by obnoxious chewing noises. So it’s impossible for other students to focus because it destroys the learning atmosphere. Often teachers have to wait until this student has finished his meal, which is certainly not fair to those time-conscious students. Once I had this experience of having the same class with a girl who kept eating stuff throughout the class. I’m sure she’s a nice girl personally, but we were all irritated because one, most of us were hungry, two, it was a tough class, and three, the noise was distracting.

S2: Some people like to collect old things such as newspapers. Others throw things away after they have used them. Which do you prefer and why?

Because I am some kind of nostalgia type, I prefer keeping old things to just throwing them away as rubbish. Many old things are filled with sweet memories which can remind people of their past. Thanks to my mom, I still have many toys I played with when I was a little girl. Secondly, old items may have great value for collection. Take newspapers for example. The one with Chairman Mao’s opening speech on the Founding Ceremony for China in 1949 surely will be a good bargain in an antique market. Moreover, from an environmental point of view, recycling used items such as newspapers and magazines is a good start towards reducing carbon emission. Finally, when it comes to old clothes, an interesting thing is that fashion always resurfaces after a few years. Old clothes may become vogue again so it makes sense to keep them instead of throwing them away.

关注我们：

人人公共主页：Go America

微博：TOEFLRepublic(http://weibo.com/ivahuang)

微信：TOEFLRepublic

网站：www.goamericaapply.com

QQ群：321770768

（点击左下角原文链接，即可进入微博哦）