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FAQ Canon for Task 2
Problem + Reasons + Recommendations (Causes + Consequences)

1. Some people say that children should be disciplined in their early age, and punishment should be used. To some extent do you agree? What kind of punishment can be used by teachers and parents?

1. Yes, they should.
a) Punishment can teach the children right from wrong (tell right from wrong).
b) Punishment can teach them a lesson to prevent similar mistakes from reoccurring.
R: We should encourage mental punishment rather than corporal one, which will lead to children’s anger and disgust towards parents’ opinion. The specific methods include 1) distraction of pocket money 2) allocation of more housework 3) decrease their leisure time to a certain extent.
What is worth mentioning is that no matter what kind of punishment we take, we should not deprive children of their basic human rights.

2. In most parts of the world, the volume of traffic is growing at an alarming rate. In the form of an assignment, discuss about the main traffic problems in your country, their causes and possible solutions.

a) The government is lacking in infrastructure construction, such as the restructuring of the Metro system, elevated ways, light tracks and superhighways.
b) Overpopulation leads to the high population density, causing limited social space for residents.
c) Abuse of private cars would take public transport instead.
d) The citizens lack social awareness and consciousness for traffic situation in order such as DAD (Driving after Drinking)

R:
a) Increase investment and appropriate funds to the infrastructure construction of the city
b) Carry out a severe and through check over the immigration regulations or build satellite cities in the outskirts.
c) Levy high tariffs on the luxurious products.
d) Increase people’s A&C through social campaign and promotion.

3. Many people stay off working and studying. What reasons cause stress and how to solve it? Refer to your own experience.

a) Physical: Physical deficiency as a result of malnutrition and insomnia can cause body dysfunction for stress.
b) Mental: Fierce competition in work and society cause people’s unevenness for a rainy day.

R:
a) (Physical) Body building-up through more nutrition intake and body exercising and polish your healthy life styles with wholesome hobbies to cultivate.
b) (Mental) Enlarge mental edification and spiritual abundance by filling –up, cover-up or appreciation of aesthetics.

4. At present people obtain information from news reporting. However, some people think that we should not believe journalists. What is your opinion? What qualities do you think a journalist should have?

a) Don’t be overcritical about news reports. Except for journalists, you have no information source to refer to news.
b) There is often fluctuation in the reportage of fashion and trend with a result that you will be the aimless wanderer through different reportage.
R: Reliability instance (high speed of delivery) and characteristics are three necessities of a qualified reporter
a) Everything is good news except the fake one.
b) News without ‘s’ is ‘new’.

5. The world of work is changing rapidly. Working conditions today are not the same as before and people no longer rely on taking one job for life. Discuss the possible causes of these changes and give your suggestions on how people should prepare for work in the future.

a) (Physical): salary. If offered higher salary, every employee has the probability of hunting for job.
b) (mental) People are always seeking for the best employment, which seems to be endless. It’s natural for people to transfer their jobs.
c) The knowledge renovates so fast that it’s hard to be an avant-garde in the relevant area.
R:
a) Taking sustainable development for work and not only for accumulation of money.
b) Save it for a rainy day.

6. Many people say that we have developed into a “thrown-away society”, because we are filling up our environment with so many plastic bags and rubbish that we cannot fully dispose of. To what extent do you agree with this opinion and what measures can you recommend to reduce this problem?

a) Enterprises are in pursuit of maximization of profits, taking no consideration of any environmental aftermath.
b) Government is lenient with check-over and regulations.
c) The residents are lacking in public A&C (Awareness and Consciousness) of healthy life style of better quality.
R:
a) Impose severe fine and penalty on the lawbreakers.
b) Create an alternative to the plastics non-biodegradable by environmentally friendly materials and products.
c) Raise people’s awareness

7. Happiness is considered very important in our life. Why it is difficult to define? What factors are in achieving happiness?

a) Everyone has his own standardization and criterion of assessing happiness. Difference: a1) pursuit in accumulation of wealth a2) pursuit in mental edification.
b) According to philosophy, everything is in the process of development including happiness, definition of which, as a kind of stabilization, is contradictory with the Theory of Renovation.

R:
a) Seeking for accumulation of abundant wealth is indispensable. Although money isn’t everything, without money you could do nothing.
b) Enlarge mental edification and spiritual abundance by filling –up, cover-up or appreciation of aesthetics.

8. Since cities have changed a lot, the size of the cities has grown enormously. Discuss the causes and consequences of the enormous size of cities.

a) Special functions of the city to draw enormous number of residents such as the business attraction of those metropolises.
b) Financial and industrial drive for development entails more space to fulfill its city purposes.
R:
a) Overpopulation leads to limited natural resources.
b) Environmental pollution and inconsiderate city planning will deteriorate the urbanization.

9. Some people think that the character and personality of a person are formed in the place where he grows up. To what extent do you agree with it? What factors do you think contribute to the formation of character?

a) The environment from one’s childhood to his adolescence has the final say in the formation of one’s character and specialty. Except for the inborn factors, we should not ignore the exterior contributing factors.
b) The unique and specific customs and traditions of locality mirror the local cultural perspective, affecting the people ingrained in the definite environment and atmosphere.

R:
a) Wealth and material status can reflect one’s character. As is known to all, physiological need is the prerequisite of Maslow’s Theory. Without solving the basic issue, people’s characters are easily ruined and feeble.
b) Mental edification is also another significant criterion to assess one’s character. People with higher appreciation for aesthetics usually have the pristine and mighty characters.
c) As I have mentioned, environment helps decide on one’s character.