A question about passive voice *The books sell well. Why in this sentence it uses "sell" instead of "are sold"? More examples like: *This cloth washes (is washed) easily. *The door won't lock. (won't be locked) So how to understand these sentences? And how to translate them into Chinese? I'm looking forward your answer.

What's the difference between "in no case" and "by no means"? I don't know which one should I use in this sentence: _____(In no case / By no means)should we be jealous of the progress the others make in their work.

To be confident The cartoon shows a football field, on which a player is preparing to shoot, but he thinks the goalkeeper is so giant that he may not kick a goal. However, the goalkeeper thinks he is too small to catch the ball. Both of them are afraid of facing difficulties. Nowadays, most people have a powerful image of their opponents in their mind, but they consider themselves as a small figure. They don’t have enough confidence to defeat their opponents. In the real life, many people are struggling for their life in this competitive society. And they have to bear on many pressures. However, most of them don’t have a certain goal and don’t know what they really want. Thus , when they meet with some challenges or difficulties, they are easy to give up. Additionally, they care too much about whether they will win or not and their courage just being weaken. Although there are many difficulties in our life, we should believe ourselves and be confident to challenge any difficulties. Everyone has infinite potential to be successful.

Transportation To the government officers, In recent years, haze weather becomes very common. And it seriously does harm to people’s health. Air pollution and noise pollution are getting worse. What mainly causes these is a large number of the cars. So I propose you to make some rules to limit people to buy the cars and improve the public transportation. And you can complete the bus system and increase the number of public bicycles. I hope that you will pay attention to this problem and take more real actions to solve it.

My View on Academic Dishonesty Academic dishonest has been a serious problem among students and experts. Many of them copy the others' essaies in order to get some benefits and to avoid complicated process of writing by themselves. Some people think that academic dishonesty should be punished and severely criticized. But some people hold the different opinions that copying with variations is an important form of creativity. As far as I concerned, academic dishonesty shouldn't be allowed. First of all, academic dishonesty will make us become passive and lack of creativity. Copying the others' work will block your thinking and control your mind. Although someone consider that copying with variations is an important form of creativity, the final result is just based on the other people's creativity and the ideas are also being limited. Secondly, the number of the real experts and scholars is reducing. And it is hard to distinguish who is the real one and has his or her own academic achievements. Nowadays, many scholars publish articles by copying to apply for a higher degree. And so do the professors and experts. The experts' saying is everywhere and most of them giving the misleading information for the people. The behavior of plagiarism should be punished and should be checked strictly. Finally, academic dishonesty is a mistake of moral. The other one spends a long time doing a research to get their achievements and writing articles. We have to respect their work and their opinions. It is inadvisable to regard the other one's products or ideas as your own. In a conclusion, academic dishonesty should not be allowed. We have to respect the other people's work. And we should pay more attention to the process of learning and have our own ideas to make an achievement.

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