Part B

52. Directions:

Look at the flowing picture and write an article on advertisement. Your article should cover the points below:

1) The omnipresence (无所不在，普遍)of advertisements

2) Their advantages

3) Their disadvantages

You should write 160-200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2 (20 points)

参考范文

Advertisements come into our lives in a variety of forms. Newspapers carry advertisements. Billboards carry advertisements. More conspicuously, TV advertisements are incessantly influencing people’s life from various aspects.

Advertisements have many advantages. Firstly, advertising is informative, which provides us with a quick access to the product needed. Secondly, many advertisements, especially TV advertisemnts are so beautifully made that they themselves can bring us great enjoyment. Maybe that’s why the daughter in the picture is so attracted by them.

However, advertising involves some defects. Firstly, the cost of adverting will definitely be passed on to the customers, which makes the products be sold at much higher prices. Thirdly, Secondly, The advertisers often mispresent the truth by exaggerating the benefits of the merchandise they want to sell. Thirdly, advertisements often interrupt audiences’ appreciation of their favorite programs, which may lead to diasspointment and frustration, the expression written on the face of the father in the picuture,

As far as I am concerned, I tend to be in favor of the positive effects. Undoubtedly, nothing is more important than convenience for people living in a so quick-paced society. I believe that the negative effects can be minimized through sustainable economic growth and education.