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Week-long Holidays, Good or Bad? What's Your Opinion?
你认为长假好还是不好?
Our National Day is coming. We shall have days of rest, presumably
week-long holidays again just like the week-long May Day holidays. Many people
welcome week-long holidays and are busy planning where and how to spend the
seven days; whereas many other people do not applaud. As to me, week-long
holidays mean a span of dullness, boredom, melancholy and helplessness, and I
think anyone who had experienced the holiday sufferings in May would share my
feelings.
I well remember that from May Day, to be more exact, a few days earlier
than May Day, the shopping season started. Most shops extended their shopping
hours to respond to their overwhelmingly enthusiastic customers. There were
special sales with discount coupons and instant lucky draws and various sales
promotions in nearly every big store to lure potential customers into spending
more. Crowds of shoppers flocked towards department stores, enjoying their high
purchasing power.
There were traffic jams almost everywhere, people waited in long queues at
bus-stops and taxi-stands, looking entirely exhausted. Tempers flared when
people got pushed or if someone else cut the queue. Impatient drivers honked at
each other every now and then.
The railway station was congested with travelers who rushed to the platform
like a swarm of bees and then squeezed their way into the train for seats as if
there would be no tomorrow.
In the restaurants, tables were shared. A platoon of waiters filed out from
the kitchen armed with various containers of eatables. Orders were taken
feverishly and then shouted across to the kitchen. Excitement reigned everywhere
as waiters ran hither and hither to fill the orders.
The above are just some vivid scenes that happened a few months ago.
Everywhere was chaos and chaos everywhere. I am really afraid the drama will
soon be repeated.
True, week-long holidays help activate economy, but what about
after-holiday depression? No doubt, people can have a lot of leisure, but
leisure does not always bring a lot of pleasure.
作文结构分析：
·Gener al comment — theme + attitude (1) + attitude
(2) + my a ttitude (I hate weeklong holidays.)
·Development — before holidays
during holidays
after holidays
·Conclu sion — echo the beginning paragraph
作文内容分析：
本文是一篇议论文。作者首先在第一段中摆出了对长假的两种不同的看法以及作者自己的态度。第二部分包括四小段,每段均以作者亲身经历以及耳闻目睹的事实论证作者在第一段中的观点,
例证真实而生动。末二段为以上各段的小结, 最后一段是结论, 再次论证作者的观点, 十分有力。
单词词组：
busy + -ing. 忙于
meloncholy n. 寂寞
dullness n. 枯燥
share one's feelings 有同感
special sales 甩卖
discount coupons 打折卷
instant lucky draws 即时幸运抽奖
taxi-stand n. 出租车停靠站
cut the queue 插队
honk v. 按喇叭
share a table 同桌(就餐)
chaos n. 混乱
activate economy 激活经济
depression n. 萧条 |
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发表于 2018-8-4 09:07:24