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Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for governments to make it a legal requirement.
To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?
1. the waste from homes:
household waste
residential waste
2. recycle:
participate in recycling
participation in recycling
engage in recycling
recycler
3. legal requirement:
legally required
mandate
4. curbside recycling
5. have no access to
6. recycling center
7. discourages...from...
8. accessible to
9. awareness/publicity campaigns
10. be aware of
11. campaign against
12. get alert to
Some people believe that allowing children to make their own choices on everyday matters (such as food, clothes and entertainment) is likely to result in a society of individuals who only think about their own wishes. Other people believe that it is important for children to make decisions about matters that affect them. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
1.decide on mundane matters
make up their own minds about mundane matters
make everyday decisions
2. give children the right to
empower
comply with
3. selfish individuals
selfish individualists
4. impact on
5. train their ability to make good decisions
hone(磨练) their decision-making skills
better decision makers
6. weigh their options
7. negative consequences
8. indulge in
9. overweight
10. be laughed at by their peers
11. form/develop the habit of selfishness
selfish/self-centered
12. on a daily basis
13. become accustomed to
14. stay with them as they grow up
15. second-generation rich children
16. raise
In some countries, owning a home rather than renting one is very important for people. Why might this be the case? Do you think this is a positive or negative situation?
1. home ownership /homeowner /buying/purchasing a house or an apartment
2. nation
3. renter
4. financial status
5. evaluate
6. perceived
7. house prices
8. people in the lower middle class or working class
9. high-paying job
10. doing well financially
11. comfortable family life
12. life satisfaction / satisfied with their lives
13. mortgage loans
14. hundreds of thousands of dollars
15. pay their mortgage
1. residential activities
2. residential /domestic water consumption
3. households
4. water usage/consumption
5. is used/consumed by
最大值
1. account for the greatest proportion of water consumption
2. water consumer /consumer of water /water user /user of water
3. the largest source of water consumption
Some people say that advertising is extremely successful at persuading us to buy things. Other people think that advertising is so common that we no longer pay attention to it.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
1. advertising
2. advertisements
3. commercials(网上看到的广告不叫commercials)
4. is very effective at
5. buying decisions
6. draw people's attention
7. social media/social media platforms
8. feed someone with something
9. tremendous amounts of
10. influencers
11. post
12. a promotion of a certain brand
13. be insensitive to /be immune to
14. promotional posts
15. scroll through their feed
16. yield sales
17. create desire
18. plant a seed of desire in consumers’ minds
19. advertisers
20. lingerie manufacturers
21. arouse their desire
22. I purchased many unnecessary things which I wouldn’t even have thought of buying if advertisers hadn’t planted the ideas in my head.
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