Part Ⅵ Writing (45 min)
With the largest population in the world, many Chinese cities arecrowded. So some people suggest that pets should not beallowed for the well being of humans. But others insist that petsare the best friends of human beings and that they cannot livewithout their animal friends. Write a composition of about 400words to state your view.
In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second partyou should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring whatyou have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow theabove instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Pets Should Not Be Abolished
Imagine such a picture, after a whole day’s exhausting work, you go back home and find yourselfgreeted by the lovely dog, with your slippers in its mouth. What a lovely and enviable scene!Nowadays keeping pets is gaining increasing popularity and I believe it is beneficial to people.
In the first place, pets can keep such a good company to people so as to bring pleasure and driveaway loneliness. Pet owners involve people of different ages and backgrounds. And the animalspeople raise vary from dogs, cats, birds to fish and pigs. After a long period of staying together,people view their lovely and faithful pets as old friends and even as family members. With thequickening tempo of life, people grow emotionally more fragile and need more comfort than ever,especially childless couples, children in high buildings, old people living alone and etc. . Even inhappy and healthy families, keeping pets brings more than just pleasure to life. Kids can learn howto love and take care of others from living together with their animal friends.
In the second place, some pets can perform a variety of services such as guarding houses,providing professional assistance and so on. As an intelligent and faithful animal, dogs have beentrained to be doorkeepers since long time ago. It is reported in the newspaper that when a thiefattempted to break into an empty apartment, a brave pet dog clung to his trousers and bit him inthe leg. As a result, he could not help crying out of pain and was caught by the neighbors. And it isalso known that some pet dogs and monkeys serve as personal assistants to disabled people.Having received some special training, they can follow simple instructions from their masters andprovide faithful company to human friends.
From what has been discussed above, the benefits of keeping pets speak for themselves. In spiteof the large population in China, keeping pets will not interfere with the well being of people. On thecontrary, the payoff is worth the effort. Therefore, bearing all the comfort and assistance theselovely animals have brought us, I hope that a second thought is given to the abolition of keepingpets.