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1 （一）My Opinion on Cell Phones 1. 使用手机的好处。 2. 使用手机的弊端。 3. 我的看法。 Cell phones do play an important role in people’s daily life, but every coin has its two sides. To start with, as a wireless mobile phone, it’s convenient for the user at any time to contact others. Secondly, it’s helpful companion. With a multifunctional cell phone in hand, one can easily surf the net, downloading what he needs. However, the cell phone has many disadvantages. For one thing, the machine itself is very expensive and its local service is very costly, not to mention its global service. For another, the radiation from the mobile phones might do harm to the user’s heath. In my opinion, with its expenses being reduced sharply after China’s entry into the WTO, its development will have a brighter future. Therefore its advantages will far outweigh its disadvantages. （二）The Change of Communication Methods

With the rapid development of science and technology, communication methods of people have changed a lot. In the long history of the past, people communicated with people who were far from them only by letters, which took a very long time to get the message. In the late 19thcentury, telephone was invented, but it was not widely used. Letter is still the main method. Later, telegraph came into being and was popular, which was much faster than letter, bringing great convenience to people. As time goes by, telephones become increasingly widely used. Now, the phones has been developed as mobile phone, fixed telephone, Internet telephone and other categories, being an essential communication tools in modern information society. In addition, network communication is popular as well. A great number of people communicate with others on the Internet, such as the chat room, BBS, MSN and so on. People can make video calls that not only can hear the sound, but also can see the people you talk to. In short, there are various communication methods in modern world, which bring great convenience to people. 随着科学技术的快速发展，人们的通讯方式发生了很大改变。在过去的历史长河中，人们只能通过书信与远方的朋友沟通，要过很长一段时间才能收到消息。十九世纪末期发明了电话，大事并没有广泛地使用，信件仍然是主要的通讯方式。后来，电报问世了并且很受欢迎，它比信件快得多，给人们带来了很大的方便。随着时间的流逝，电话越来越被广泛使用。如今，电话已经发展成移动电话、固定电话、网络电话和其他种类，成为了现代信息社会必不可少的通讯工具。此外，网络通讯业很受欢迎。很多人通过网上聊天室、BBS、MSN等与他人沟通。人们可以进行视频通话，不仅可以听到声音而且可以看到和你通话的人。简而言之，现代世界有各种各样的通讯方式，给人们带来了巨大的方便。 （三）More and more people using mobile phone and computer to instead of letters.

Will letter disappear completely? Agree or disagree? How important of letter writing you think are? Mobile phone and computer have filled the shoes of letters as primary means of communication in our life. Technology enables us to get in touch with each other with unparalleled speed and convenience. But as the oldest and one of the most cherished ways of communication, letter will maintain its presence people’s life instead of disappearing completely.

Letters have a sense of personal touch, which is much less apparent in cell phone and computer communication. The reason is very simple. Letter writing takes considerably longer time than developing an email on a computer. After finishing a letter, people need to drop it in a mailbox or go to a post office to mail it. In modern time, the idea of spending more time on something indicates the importance attached to it. The recipient of a letter, therefore, appreciates it more than answering a call or getting an email from a friend. We use letters to send printed or signed documents that could not be delivered by phone 2

talk or computer. Under many business circumstances, contracts or business corespondents could be enclosed in a mail to the other party. In addition, letters correspondences are safer than communicating via phone or computer, both of which could be subjected to information interception by people with ill intention. Admittedly, the wide use of modern technology in communication has influenced the more traditional way of social contact and information exchange such as letter writing. Still due the uniqu123ss of letter, it will continue to exist in our life. In conclusion, mobile phone and computer have given people superior means of communication, but letter will not disappear completely because it is more personal, safer, and useful than other ways of communication. （四）EMAIL的利与弊 There are always two sides to everything,and it is without exception for E-mail. 事物都有两面性（即好的一面和坏的一面），电子邮件也不例外。 The advantages of E-mail are mainly as follows：it is faster than normal mail；it is safer and more reliable than normal mail；it can be accessed at any time, when an E-mail message is received, it can be opened and read at any time and anywhere on a computer that has internet access；E-mail messages can be sent to many recipients worldwide at once；E-mail is cheaper for persons and organizations that send e-mail to many recipients as this results in savings in stationery costs and postage. 电子邮件的优点主要如下：比其他信件更快；比其他信件更安全、更可靠；随时可以收发，当邮件信息收到时，在联网的计算机上随时随地都可以打开看邮件内容；电子邮件的内容可以一次性地发给世界各地的许多收件人；对于要向许多收件人传递信息的个人和组织而言，电子邮件更经济实惠（即更便宜），节约文具及邮寄成本。 The disadvantages of E-mail mainly consist of the following aspects：persons must have access to the internet to send and receive e-mail; too many messages (usually spam) can be sent to a user creating a mail overflow; E-mail is a source for computers to become infected by viruses; users cannot send tangible items such as parcels by e-mail. 电子邮件的缺点则主要包括如下几个方面：人们只有先联网才能传收邮件；太多信息（通常指垃圾邮件）被传给用户，致使邮件泛滥；电子邮件是计算机感染病毒的源头之一；用户不能以电子邮件的方式寄送有形物品，例如包裹。 （五）论电话与写信(Will Phones Kill Letter Writing?) 1.许多人都认为人电话将取代写信，你认为呢？ 2.请列举能支持你观点的论据 3.给一个简短的结论 [范文] Today, more than ever before, we depend on the expediency brought about by such modern devices as phones. As a result, when we feel the need to communicate with friends, instead of picking up the pen to set down to serious writing, we pick up the phone. Indeed, we speak so much and write so little that some people begin to suspect that phones will kill letter writing. However widely used it is today, the phone will not take the place of letter, for both phone and letter writing have respective functions to perform. There are at least two reasons, as far as I am concerned, why this will not happen. For one thing, although phones admittedly have already taken over many roles traditionally played by the letter, there are certain areas such as commercial transactions and legal correspondence, in which black and white sincerity and confirmation is still a must. For another, in no way can a quick phone conversation convey and accomplish as much as a deliberate, well worded letter does. For instance, there seems to be no better device than letter writing to express deep, heart-felt, profound love, a fact underlined by the enormous love letters of great men and women. As we know, in the 1960’s, there had been so much talk that TV would kill newspapers. And it has never happened. Today we are in a similar situation. We can be certain, for the reasons discussed above, that letter writing is irreplaceable.