全国出国培训备选人员英语水平考试（BFT）BFT写作3 Essay.ppt

Exercise Read the following advertisement. RADIO LGC We would like to receive short reports from listeners for a future series of programmes on travel experiences called My Most Exciting Journey. Reports must include practical details about the journey and describe any interesting incidents which happened on the way. A. Mr. Wang didn’t come to the class this morning. B. On the contrary, he came the first. We should not be lazy in our study. On the contrary, we should double our efforts. The air pollution in the city is very serious; in contrast, the country air is very fresh. Small though the bottle is, it is good in quality. Semicolons can also be used to join two items in comparison and contrast. Sometimes, when the context makes it sufficiently clear and natural, we can dispense with the transitional words. Example essay: My Father/Myself Children are often reflections of their parents, but not in my case. In temperament, my father and I are completely different. My father is a very impatient man. He likes rapid progress; in fact, for him, there is no such thing as slow success. Everything has to be done quickly and right the first time. Such is the case at his job. He is an accountant, and working with numbers requires great skill, speed, and accuracy. He demands these qualities of his co-workers as well as himself. Mistakes are not tolerated since a mistake in the record books could cost his company thousands of dollars. On the other hand, I am extremely patient. This quality serves me well in my work wit mentally retarded children. Once a small girl labored six weeks just to learn to write her name, but I stayed beside her with encouragement. It would have been easy to get discouraged with such slow progress, but to me the end result was worth the wait. My father has a hair-trigger temper, especially when someone disagrees with him or crosses him. I remember times when someone bumped him on the street or tried to pull into his parking space