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Topic 1 Should students of science take any courses in the humanities? Give your reasons. Topic2 Are you influenced by advertising? For example, when you go to the grocery store do you buy products that you’ve seen or read about? Give examples. Topic2 Are you influenced by advertising? For example, when you go to the grocery store do you buy products that you’ve seen or read about? Give examples. As is known to all, angels and evils are poles apart. But is there anything that combines the two perfectly? Some there is-the advertisement. Nowadays, with the growing influence of mass media, advertising invades every aspect of our lives. Whenever we turn on the TV, look through a newspaper, open the mailbox, or surf on the Internet, advertisements would immediately jump into our sight. Advertisement has been called “the voice of business”, for it announces new products and describes new uses and improved features of familiar ones. It seeks to make people know the things they need and to lure them buy these things, and it tells what products or services are on the market, and how they can be obtained. As they make things so attractive, we often end up buying things that we do not really need. The advertisement plays a vital role in the spread-out and flow of goods. It puts up a bridge between factories or companies and shops, or stores and customers. Either side of them has no difficulty in finding cooperative partners. Advertising not only adds to the price of the goods, thus harming the consumer＇s interest, but also imposes a kind of materialistic value upon the audience. But that is only part of the story-advertisements are informative as well as persuasive. They provide us with up-to-date information about the latest products. Some advertisements are so elegantly presented that we are inspired or even moved. No matter it is an evil or an angel, advertisement has become an indispensable part of our modern life. Advertisements lead to improving products by stimulating