Topic(题目)：
Your school has enough money to purchaseeither computers for students or books for thelibrary. Which should your school choose to buy—computers or books? Use specific reasons andexamples to support your recommendation.
Model Essay(范文)：
Our school has been given a grant to make necessary improvements to its facilities. We canspend it on new books for the library or on more computers. Our school already has books in itslibrary and it already has computers. Since we have more books than computers, I think thatnew computers will benefit the student more.
Computers can access up-to–date information on the Internet. Right now, the reference booksin our library are very outdated. Our encyclopedia set is eight years old. But if every studenthad access to a computer, we all could have the latest facts and figures on everything.
Unfortunately, giving every student a computer means we need a lot of computers. Right now, the ratio of computers to students is one to twelve. This means students only get to work onthe computers three or four times a week. But if every student had a computer, we could use itwhenever we wanted.
“Information on demand” should be our slogan. Students today need lots of information rightaway. Life goes by too quickly to wait. It takes forever to identify a book that you think mighthave the information you need. Then you have to go to the library and look for the book. Usually it’s not even there.
With a computer, information searches are instantaneous. If we all had computers, we couldaccess more information and access it faster by computer. We could have all the information weneeded for our schoolwork. We could all improve our grades. For these reasons, I feel thatpurchasing more computers will benefit us more than buying more books.
重点单词 全部解释
encyclopedia[en.saikləu'pi:diə]n. 百科全书
recommendation[.rekəmen'deiʃən]n. 推荐，介绍
purchase['pə:tʃəs]vt. 买，购买
n. 购买，购买的物品
grant[grɑ:nt]n. 授予物，补助金; 同意，给予
n. 财产
reference['refrəns]n. 参考，出处，参照
n. 推荐人，推荐函<
specific[spi'sifik]adj. 特殊的，明确的，具有特效的
n. 特
identify[ai'dentifai]vt. 识别，认明，鉴定
vi. 认同，感同身
benefit['benifit]n. 利益，津贴，保险金，义卖，义演
vt.
outdated[.aut'deitid]adj. 旧式的，落伍的，过时的
slogan['sləugən]n. 标语，口号
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