【实战考题一】

　　Directions:

　　Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should

　　1)describe the drawing briefly，

　　2)explain its intended meaning, and

　　3)give your comments.

　　You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)

　　As is elaborately depicted by the drawing above, a couple has just finished their dinner, leaving lots of dishes on the table. But when the waiter packaged their dishes, the woman refused, saying "We are rich now, so we do not need to take away leftovers". This phenomenon can easily be found anywhere in our daily life.

　　Obviously, the picture is intended to reveal the phenomenon of extravagant consumption. A considerable majority of Chinese people are used to ordering too much dishes than needed. Symptoms of waste in our society are not difficult to find. Lots of foods on table which could not be eaten at a time are thrown away casually. Besides，new clothes deemed out of fashion are also discarded by people. Last but not least，people without habits of turning off the faucet or power switch in time abound in our life，they waste water and electricity without even realizing it.

　　To serve as responsible stewards of the planet, we must promote and popularize a low carbon life among the public from every detail in our daily life. We must change the past practice of sacrificing long-term environmental health for short-term rapid economic development, and shift to developing green economy, circular economy and low carbon economy. All these effective measures can help us to reach harmony between development of the society and health of the nature.