例 1

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition. The title of it is: Film Is giving Way to TV. You should write no less than 120 words for your composition and it must include the following ideas (given in Chinese):

  1. 电影观众越来越少;

  2. 电视观众越来越多,因为⋯⋯;

  3. 然而,还是有人喜欢看电影,因为⋯⋯;

Remember to write your composition in readable handwriting.

Film Is Giving Way to TV

According to an investigation on the number of film-goers and TV-Watchers in the ten-year period (1975-1985), we can see that the number of film-goers decreased sharply form 85 000 to 15 000 in this period. More and more people disliked visiting the cinema.

Meanwhile, there were more and more TV-watchers. The number of TV-watchers increased twenty times in the period. I think such a rapid increase in mainly because TV offers its watchers great convenience, People can watch TV at home quite comfortably while drinking, eating and chatting with other fami-ly members. Besides, TV is more informative, with a great variety of programs. Of course, people are richer and richer, which means more and more people can afford TV. Nevertheless, There still a number of film-goers. They claim cinema has a special atmosphere which they can't enjoy at home. Film

grants them a formal and decent kind of entertainment.