article task Task: Some people think that the government should establish free libraries in each town. Others believe that it is a waste of money since people can access the Internet at home to obtain information. Discuss both sides and give your own opinion. Article: Among all the infrastructures in cities established by the municipal government, should a city establish a free library? Different people hold different views. “It is a necessary move for the government to build a free library for its citizens”, some people say. Firstly, the growth of economy depends on the average educational level of the people in a country. A free library is an excellent access for people to learn. Human capital, especially for the educational level of human, is a critical impetus of the GDP. Secondly, a free library helps to improve the civilization level of the society. People spend more time in library will tend to spend less time on crimes and that leads to a harmonious society. Thirdly, a library is a perfect place for the government sending out messages. For example, if the stress of the society is quite heavy, then some books with respect to mental health can be put at the obvious position. Fourthly, there can be some book sharing salons or discussing groups set up in the library. These activities bring people together and increase the face-to-face communication among people. Fifthly, parents will be glad if there is another place for their children to kill time, gain knowledge and make new friends at the same time. And for the young people, the library can be a quite good dating place too. The tastes of books may easily make girls or boys to decide whether he or she should keep dating the current partner.

National Holiday's Trip part2 It was nearly 1 p.m. and we begun to cook some lunch using a portable gas burner which we bought yesterday. We boiled water and made noodles and eggs. We enjoyed our lunch by the lake. As I was eating lunch, I felt an inner piece of mine. I felt grateful for this trip, my friends and what I saw there. I think that is the meaning of travelling - embracing a wonderful scenery and noticing that life is worth discovering.

National Holiday's Trip part1 I had a fantastic trip with four of my friends during the National Festival this October. If you ask me, what I remembered the most during this whole journey, I would say the scenery of splendid Yardan without hesitation. It was the third day. We drove a car and hit the road since morning. The scenery that passed by outside the windows was desolated and uninhabited. This grand view really amazed me as I live and work in a big city crowded by people everywhere. After a while, the Yardan landform spread out before our eyes. The vast and boundless land was full of rocks which have been gradually eroded by the wind over time. Larger ones are tens of meters high and smaller ones are only several meters high. As the car was running, the marvelous scenery was passing by in the front of our faces. Suddenly, a lake jumped into our sight. It was not an ordinary lake. The color of it was neither blue nor green, but astonishingly emerald. We shouted out “stop the car” as soon as we saw this lake. Then we parked our car next to this lake and jumped out of the car. “Wow, how beautiful it is!” one of my friends couldn't repress a sigh of admiration. As we walked deep into this land, we saw another two lakes with different colors from the first one. All I heard at that time were “wow”, “my god” and “amazing” around me from my friends. There was a bizarre lake and the color of it was white. There was another lake boundless and beautiful and the color of it was blue. The reason why they have different colors is because the different salinities of them. I checked out the white one and I found out that it was only salt without any water in it. It has dried up. I even touched the salt in the lake and it was tough and steady. I took a careful look at those rocks and then I learned that these were earths like mud piles before. Those mud piles have now weathered by winds and been made into rocks. As we started to discover this marvelous land, we found there was absolutely nobody besides us in our sight. We felt free to run around and shout out loudly. We jumped and climbed those rocks. At the top of one rock, we saw the largest lake was shining under the sun lights. I tried my best to describe what I saw there but it was actually beyond description. This landscape is the masterpiece of the creator. I even never saw one picture as beautiful as it.

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Virtual Reality is Changing the World Part1 Several years ago, I watched a film called Her, which is a fiction movie mainly about artificial intelligence. However, the main actor also played several cool virtual reality games in the movie. It was fictional at that time; however, it is nearly real now since technology has developed quickly.     What’s virtual reality? It could be some game or some environment you walk around or some video that’s playing all around you when you look around.     I remembered the first time I played VR games with a headset about two years ago. The headset was connected by a wire up to the ceiling. I found this constricting, but I still had a lot of fun.     Compared to the first time, my last time with a VR game was more interesting. Without the wire to the ceiling, we could move quite freely in a fixed area.     With our headsets on, the visions were totally different. Other friends might still see us in a green field and we were walking randomly in this empty field. On the contrary, what we saw was an incredible scene-several walls were facing me and those walls together formed a puzzle.     Our gaming enemies were standing at the other side of the room. And each of us stood in one corner of the room. Surrounding us were five walls and we needed to go around them to reach our enemies. We could also use these walls to shield ourselves from our enemies’ bullets. With the guns in our hands, we could shoot, shield and use bombs. If one were to die in the game, he could run to the revival point, then wait for 10 seconds and he would be alive again. I found it most hilarious that when we were waiting for the ending of those 10 seconds, we could rush to our enemies’ back and shoot them as long as we were alive. Although in the end I lost the game, I enjoyed it very much!

Virtual Reality is Changing the World part2 Besides games, VR has already filtered to every aspect of people’s life and has great effects. At first, the VR system was applied for pilots training. Using VR training instead of actual training, not only saves a lot of costs of money, but also avoids injuries and deaths of pilots. Especially during simulated air combats, VR system avoids tons of destruction of buildings and equipments. In school, take astronomy courses for example, students could put their headsets on and see the grand universe and get specific conception of Galaxy and so on. In future-which I suppose not far from now, we could enjoy a fantastic world with VRs. No matter how far between couples, they could see each other face to face using VR. People could travel around the world without long-time airplanes or trains travelling, without being pushed by crowds. Even for some busy people who work all day and don’t have enough time for travelling to far places, they could see the splendid scenery at home. And this only costs them several minutes as long as they put their VR headsets on. People may argue that virtual reality is not reality and what we see is not real via VR. They point it out that VR can easily cause addiction. Some children and even adults may indulge in VR games and VR travelling and so on. This may trigger a phenomenon that few and few people attend real activities. Also they hold a view that indoor VR communications maybe convenient, but it will make people find reality less interesting. They would rather talk to the doppelgangers of people in VR than in reality. When new technology comes out, it always bring benefits but also trigger troubles to the society. Just like a coin has two sides. We can’t focus only on the benefits or the troubles it brought. What we need to do is trying to strengthen the benefits and also preventing as possible as we can from the problems it triggers. Since VR is changing our world, we must prepare as much as we can.

My trip in Bali When summer cicadas wake me up every morning, I blame them for depriving me of my beautiful dreams. In my dreams, I was swimming in a sea that feels like jelly, while around me played a bunch of dolphins. All of these are based on my true experiences in Bali and it is the first day in Bali that impressed me the most. It was 4 o'clock in the morning when we arrived at the Lovina Seaside beach. At first, the sky was totally dark and I could only feel the gentle breeze. A few minutes later, several rays of sunlight ripped through the sky, it turned into dark pink, I began to get on board. It struck me with a frightful thought because I was afraid of how cold the water could be（freezing）; however, to my astonishment, the water was so warm that I didn’t hesitate to walk into it. The ship /i/ looked like a crab - it had one handrail on each /i:/ side of it. In no time, we had arrived far away from the land. (It took no time for us to arrive far away from the land.) The water was tranquil; the sky was beginning to turn red. Suddenly, a team of dolphins jumped out of the water and made a beautiful arc then disappeared into the water. The ship began to chase them while the sky was getting brighter. Those dolphins were so happy that they jumped again and again. There was a little fat one that even did several spins out of the water. When it fell sideways into the water, there was a splash of spray. The boat started its engine and changed direction. After we arrived at a wide area of water, we jumped into the water - warm as milk, soft as silk and I began snorkeling. Under the sea, there were various aquatic creatures. The splendid scenery was beyond description. On that day, I realized life is full of new experiences. I will cherish these opportunities to see the world.

About "toward" Whether should we use toward or towards? I'm confused about the difference between these two. When should we add s ? there is a sentence followed, "People hold divergent attitude towards this issue." Why towards but not toward? Thanks!

Is Ceramics a plural or singlular word? I noticed there are two different sentences, so I am confused about that word. Here follow these two sentences: 1. Chinese ceramics IS a predominant section of Chinese culture. 2.Ceramics ARE also important for historians and archeologists. It has ‘s’ in the end of the word, but I'm still not sure is it a plural or a singular one?