A best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide. Do you agree with that? Why? Nowadays, with the development of society, an increasing number of people choose to travel to relax themselves and have some fun. In my opinion, the best way to travel is independent travel, rather than in a group led by a tour guide. First of all, travelling in a tour group has some drawbacks. It has fixed schedule that we have to follow. For example, in my last journey led by a tour guide, I went to a beautiful beach with fresh air and golden sand and I liked this beach so much that I wanted to stay there for a couple of days. However, my tour guide planed to stay there only for half a day. It was really a pity that I would not stay there for a longer time. In addition, sometimes, I was forced to go some places that I was not interested in, such shopping malls, and it ended up that I bought something that I did not want originally. Furthermore, the best way to travel is independent travel, which improve my problem-solving ability, communication skills and enable me to have a good understanding of local culture. In order to travel to other places, I need to buy tickets, book hotels and make schedules by myself, which is really a good chance for me to be more mature and independent. Moreover, during my tour, I will have some trouble, such as missing my way to my hotel, and I will ask local people for help, which enhance my communication skills. Most importantly, I have more freedom to enjoy my journey more slowly. I can go where I want to go, talk with some people and make friends with them, and never worry that my tour guide might tell me to hurry up. Finally, I admit that travelling in a group has some advantages, for instance, everything is settled by our tour guide, so we do not need to set up a travel plan on our own and worry about too much about where we should live and which places are famous. Especially, this is a good way for older people or younger kids. However, I still do not agree that it is the best way to travel. I think trips make us slow down, incorporate us into local culture, explore stories of different people or sites, which only can be achieved by travelling independently.

How do movies or television influence people's behavior? As time goes by, technology has changed people’s lives a lot and the most important invention, in my opinion, are definitely movies and television. Because they influence people’s behavior, both for the better and for the worse. On the one hand, television and movies are good for us. They give us a broader window on the world. They let people to know almost everything happened around the world, which give us a great understanding of things that we were not familiar with before. Let us come back to 1920 before television was invented. People got news merely from FM radio, newspaper and magazine. Without visual videos, the information people got was limited and thus, people who live in the north may know nothing about people who live in south, and they may not have common interests to talk about. However, as television comes to people’s lives, whether people from north or from south watch the same movies and talk about the same popular TV shows. People can grasp news from all over the world quickly. As a result, people will know different people with different races and cultures better, overcome some prejudices more easily, and they are more likely to have some interests to talk about, such as an exciting football game last week or a celebrity gossip yesterday. On the other hand, television also has some bad influences to us because they make us less active. Some people are addicted to watch television, which means that they watch television too much so that they don’t spend time on exercise and social activity. They would rather watch sports on TV than play sports themselves. They would rather visit with the characters on “Friends”than go chat with their neighbors. Is it any wonder that they would rather live a fantasy life than their own? Eventually, they become unhealthy or isolated. To solve this problem, people should balance their time between television and social activity to make sure that they are healthy, both mentally and physically. Generally, television and movies are definitely influence people’s behavior. In good aspects, television make the world more harmonious and progressive, while in bad aspects, some people become unhealthy because of an overdose of watching television. How they affect you depends on what you watch, how much you watch and how you respond to what you watch.

Governments should spend much money exploring outer space OR for our basic needs on Earth? We have watched various movies that tell us a mysterious and fictional story about outer space. But imagination sometimes is not real and people need to drive a spacecraft to find out what's beyond our solar system. In my opinion, government should spend billions of money on space exploration. Space exploration brings us new resources and new plants. Everybody knows that environment in outer space is totally different from that in earth. Outer space is vacuum and sterile, some plants will grow faster and be more fruitful/prolific in outer space than in earth. Therefore, human will benefit from the outcome of planting in outer space and don’t worry about limited resources in our planet. Moreover, we can search and explore another life in outer space, just like aliens you see in the movie named Space War. As we all know, universe is now considered infinite and endless. Because of inadequate technology, space exploration is limited in solar system and there are larger spaces that spacecraft don’t travel in. Therefore, people believe that it is possible that we will find another life in universe, and we will make friends with each other. Furthermore, if another life in universe exists or we find water or air in another planet, we can conclude that this planet could be colonized by human beings. Earth has limited life span, and eventually, it will break to ash. In that time, there is no home for human. Human will die out just like dinosaurs did. In the other hand, overpopulation is a huge problem on our planet. People are living longer, more healthy lives, and that’s a good thing. But it means that there are fewer people dying and more people being born. Eventually, we will have less space, fewer resources, and major distribution problems. If we can find another planet to live on, we can relieve the problems of overpopulation on our planet. Therefore, it is vital for human to find another planet in which people can survive. Extra money and advanced technology are major requirements, so government should spend more money on it. Generally speaking, exploring outer space is significant for human survival, new resources and finding another life. Government should spare no effort to support this mission.

In general, people are living longer now. Discuss the causes of this phenomenon. Nowadays, people have a longer life spans than ever before. Since human experienced industrialization, our technology in various fields has got great improvements, ranging from entertainment to medicine treatment, making people become healthier mentally and physically. In my opinions, the most important reasons why people are living longer is medical care, safety of transportation, and foods. No one can deny advancement of medical care plays a significant role in longevity. A majority of diseases that could not be treated/ were considered fatal in the past can be cured today. During a long time of researches of medicine, our doctors become more professional, and technology of medicine becomes more advanced.In addition, because of convenient medical service, more illnesses can be detected at an earlier stage. Therefore, people are suffering from fewer diseases and are living longer now.(The better detection and treatment enable people’s longer life.) (Years ago, doctors only knew about the most basic diseases and treatments. people could die from something as simple as an infection from a cut. Now, we have antibiotics and other medicines to help cure infection.) Apart from medicine, the transportation is safer and faster. In ancient time, people went out by horses or camels, which were not safe at all. Those animals sometimes got bad temper, which would hurt riders. Or the terrain was too complicated to be overcame by those animals. However, with the development of human society, automobiles, bullet trains and airplanes came to our lives, and totally changed the means of our transportation. Our transportation is up to a higher safety level and thereby, fewer accidents happen. Last but not least, foods. In recent days, people get so many different ways to protect foods from spoiling. For example, freezers/ refrigerators help us restore our foods so that we can eat them after a couple of days. Or microwaves can heat foods more conveniently. Or liquid detergents are excellent cleansers to make our dishes clean and stay away from bacteria. However, ancient people did not have these machines for food preparation or cleansers for food cleanness, so they got a higher possibility to eat dirty food or get infection of bacteria. To sum up, people really get so many benefits from current technology: advanced medicine treatment, safer transportation and foods free of more kinds of bacteria(the quality of food). Generally, we are living longer now.