Topic 1：个人信用

Directions： For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of personal credit. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

How did you handle it when your kid asked you that embarrassing question, “Daddy, what's your credit score?”

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On the Importance of Personal Credit

A thought-provoking question is raised in the picture that how we handle the embarrassing question when our kids ask us about our credit score if we have a bad credit report. With the popularity of credit card in modern society, we must pay high attention to our personal credit to avoid such an embarrassing question.

Firstly, personal credit report is a mirror of our honesty and credibility, which is of great significance for us to gain a foothold in society since nobody will believe a liar. Secondly, we should set a good example for our children. As the famous saying goes, there is no job more important than parenting. Paying off the credit card on time is a living example to teach our kids how to be a responsible man. In addition, a good credit record could bring us some benefits and convenience, such as an efficient loan when we are in need.

A small credit card mirrors a big world. Never belittle your personal credit because it really matters.

Topic 2：抵制盗版

Directions： For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on knockoffs. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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My Views on Knockoffs

As is vividly depicted in the picture, the bears are painted to look like pandas. This picture reminds us of a social phenomenon that China is now suffering from an overflow of various knockoffs in the market.

Various knockoffs are so widespread in our market that almost everybody has frustrating experiences of buying them. Then, what should we do? In my view, it's our obligation to support authentic products and fight against knockoffs. The reasons are as follows. Firstly, we should support ingenuity and originality as well as authentic products, which are based on creativity. Secondly, knockoffs represent plagiarism in design and production. Thirdly, support for authentic products and fighting against knockoffs can help form a fine competitive atmosphere in our society so as to promote the comprehensive progress of the industry and the society.

In conclusion, we have every reason to fight against knockoffs and support ingenuity and creativity.

Topic 3：技术进步与生活方式的变迁

Directions： For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss the changes in lifestyle caused by the advances of technologies. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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The Technological Advances and the Changes in Lifestyle

In the picture, we can tell a gradual change of writing tools ranging from the brush to the pen and then to the computer with the handwriting growing poorer and poorer. This is the epitome of people's changes in lifestyle caused by the advances of technologies.

As is obviously demonstrated, the development of technology is a double-edged sword. It cannot be denied that people's life becomes more convenient and comfortable with the emergence of new and advanced technologies. However, modern technologies have also caused some negative impacts, which cannot be ignored either. In fact, some people are confined by technologies to a mechanical cage where they use machines at work and live like an ever-running machine, stiff and inflexible.

Therefore, to live a healthy life, people should make full use of the benefits brought by the technological advances and preserve the essence of the previous lifestyles.