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2016：Challenge or Not Recently, the Ice Bucket Challenge has gone viral all over the world, particularly in the United States, with people posting videos of themselves online and on TV participating in the event. Despite the increase of the donation to fight ALS and more public concern, some are worried about the problems found with this kind of activity which is inserted a sense of entertainment. Personally, I think that charitable activities, if inserted with too much entertaining elements, will probably depart from their original intentions. This charitable blockbuster, luring hundreds of celebrities, politicians and athletes, has sparked millions of donations to ALS research and raised awareness of the disease. However, there are worries and different voices about it. Environmentalists are concerned about the waste of water on the national level, while doctors warn people of the risks of being poured with icy water from the perspective of health. On the one hand, we have observed that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has rubbed some people up the wrong way, especially as participants get caught up in the act of making videos rather than focusing on the essence of charity itself. It is said that when Barack Obama, the current American President, was challenged, he chose to make a donation of 100 dollars rather than pouring the icy water over his head. On the other hand, the original purpose of this activity is to provide aid and support for patients suffering from the disease. Accordingly, what we should focus on is whether the ALS association begins immediate funding for families in desperate need of home health care services and other care-related services. As a matter of fact, after a month in the spotlight, the much-hyped ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is finally starting to show signs of cooling down. Things in moderation are always healthy and lasting, and charitable activities are no exceptions 【 标准 excel标准偏差excel标准偏差函数exl标准差函数国标检验抽样标准表免费下载红头文件格式标准下载 模拟题】 PART V    WRITING    (45 MIN) The advent of the Internet has had an impact in our lives in all sorts of ways such as in the manner in which we communicate, flirt, date, and most importantly，how we shop. It seems that shopping from the comfort of one’s home has become a part of most people’s daily lives. The following are opinions from both sides of online shopping and traditional shopping. Read the following excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1.    summarize briefly the opinions from both sides; 2.    give you comment. Marks will be awarded for content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Traditional shopping Traditional shopping does have certain plus points. Immediate gratification that local brick and mortar shops provide is still liked by many people. If you want something right away, just now, getting it from a retail store is the only option. Seeing and touching a product is also an important factor for many people when they buy things. For example, most people would not buy a piece of expensive jewellery only on the basis of a picture on a website. The chances are slim for the Internet to capture a share of the market of industries which are more suitable for traditional shopping. While consumers can carry out research online for high priced items like properties and cars, people usually want to see the piece of real estate or visit a car showroom and test drive a car before finalising a deal. A traditional retailer bestows the personalised human contact which is not available on the Internet. Besides, for many people shopping is a source of entertainment, almost a social rite. People like to handle things, especially clothes, feel the texture, and try them on to see how they look in them. Online Shopping One of the main advantages of shopping online is the elimination of the need to drive somewhere to buy something. Online shopping saves precious time. With the busy lives that most of us lead these days, anything that saves time is a boon. When you shop online, it will take you about a minute to log on to the Internet, about a minute or two more to access the website of the store of your choice, it may take another ten to fifteen minutes to select the items you want to buy, and about five minutes more to fill in the information about your payment and get a print out of your receipt. Online shopping offers a sense of ease and comfort; as opposed to trudging all through the high street hunting for the things you want. You can truly understand the difference between online vs. traditional shopping when you step into a brick and mortar shop, especially during holiday shopping season. You have to struggle your way through crowds of jostling people, wait in queues to make your purchase, and you usually have to go from one store to another to find some item you may be looking for. And that is one of the main problems of a traditional shop. Usually, if you are looking for a particular item, you will find only limited choices of it. Having a limitation of shelf space, brick and mortar shops simply cannot afford to provide large varieties of products. For them, it makes economic sense to fill the limited space on their shelves with items that sell most. These products may not necessarily be the best, but probably are the ones that are marketed the best. Compared to a building made of brick and mortar, online websites are incredibly cheap to set up. And to top it all, unlike a building which is accessible only to the people of the locality, websites are accessible to the whole world.