Question

第四部分 讀寫任務(共l小題，滿分30分)

閱讀下面的短文，然后按照要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語短文。

The use of advertisement is certainly great both to the producer and the consumer. There is a great deal of truth in the saying that good quality and honest workmanship are best advertisement. Of course, people know that the manufacturers would have done better if they have used the money for advertising in making better products to sell. But in these days of far-extended trade, there is no doubt that advertisement is necessary to make the existence of even first-class goods known. And even goods that are already well known must still be advertised. Some manufacturers are aware of the value of it, for, when they try to save money by stopping their advertisements, their sales go down at once.

But advertising has its abuses. Many advertisements are meant to cheat, and do at times cheat the public by raising the price of worthless goods. There is only one comfort in this aspect that a lying advertisement cannot sell worthless goods for long, for the people who buy it will not buy it a second time. As an old saying goes, “You can take in all people part of time; and you can take in some people all the time; but you cannot take in all the people all the time.”

  [寫作內容]

1. 概括短文的內容要點,該部分的詞數約30;

2．就 “廣告的好與不好” 發表你的看法,寫一篇字數約120的文章，并包括

以下要點：

廣告對消費者和商家的作用；

廣告到處可見，是一個大的產業；

但有時商家會以虛假夸大的廣告獲取利益而損害消費者的利益；

你個人的觀點。

  [寫作要求] 

  1）文章可參照閱讀材料的內容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

2）題目自定。

  [評分標準]   概括準確，語言規范，內容合適，篇章連貫

Answer 1

  (Possible version)

Advertisements

Advertisements have become a must for today’s business world and even the decisive factor towards the business activities. But they are sometimes wrongly used at the expenses of consumers, too.

Advertisements are getting their way into people’s lives. People heavily depend on advertising for the choice of their daily necessities and other commodities while manufacturers make their products publicly known through advertising.

There are many ways to advertise and “ads” come in different forms. Newspapers carry advertisements. Some products are announced on TV and radio. Billboards also carry advertising and advertising is a big industry now. However, advertising is not always truthful. A product is often misrepresented. The advertiser exaggerates the benefits of the merchandise he wants to sell. Thus, he misrepresents the truth. The consumer falls with victim to such advertising. Millions of people have bought advertised products that they haven’t always been satisfied with.

Personally, there are advantages and disadvantages to advertisements. The emphases should be laid on the establishment of laws and regulations so that the consumers’ rights can be guaranteed