The following passage is incomplete with one body  paragraph missing. Study thepassage carefully and write the missing  paragraph of about 100 words. Makesure that the tone and vocabulary  you use are in unity with the passageprovided. No Regrets in Our  Twenties Life is filled with regrets. When I ask older people around me  what theirregrets are, they usually have no difficulty coming up with  many items ontheir “regret lists. ” And for some reasons their twenties  were full ofregrets —things not done —when they were still young .  They have learned theirlessons, but what lessons could we learn from  them? How should we make the most of our youth? When the people I  interviewed shared their stories with me, I could neverforget what they  had said about their regrets. Some people regretted nothaving had  better planning for the future . Mary said, “With more planning inmy  twenties, I'd be further ahead in my forties and perhaps a bit happier  aswell. ” Some people regretted not having traveled more. Mike said,  “Beforehaving kids, mortgages and marriages ,our commitments and  expenses were lower,and the opportunities for travel were much  greater, but for some reasons manyof us always wrongly thought we'd  have time for travel later. ” Most people,however ,regretted not having  pursued a more meaningful career. _______________________ Life is  short ,and time is precious. I do not want to regret in the future. Sofrom today on I will take actions to plan more, live more, and to  stretchmyself more when I have freedom and energy to do so in my  twenties.

Read the following passage carefully and compose a  sentence outline for it. S. O. S. The environment is everything that  surrounds us :plants, animals, buildings,country, air ,water—literally  everything that affects us in any way. Theenvironment of a town ,with its buildings and traffic and its noise and smells,where everyone is on  top of everyone else, is a far cry from that of thecountryside, with its  fields and crops ,its wild and domestic animals and itsfeeling of  spaciousness. And the environment differs in different parts of  theworld. Ecology is the science of how living creatures and plants  exist together anddepend on each other and on the local environment .  Where an environment isundisturbed ,the ecology of an area is in  balance, but if a creature dies outor an alien species is introduced, then the ecology of the district will beupset —in other words, the balance of  nature will be disturbed. Man is a part of the environment and has  done much to upset the ecology duringhis short span on earth than any  other living creature. He has done this byhis ignorance ,his greed, and  his wastefulness. He has poisoned the atmosphereand polluted both  land and water. He has carelessly wasted the earth's naturalresources  with no thought for the future. He is using up the earth's  naturalresources —fuels and mineral ores —at an ever-increasing rate  with no hope ofreplacing them. Even at this moment ,many of the  earth's natural treasures arebeing destroyed, many valuable animals  and plants are being killed off. What's more, the world is overpopulated and this overpopulation is growingcontinuously. For many years the  earth has been unable to provide enough foodfor these rapidly  expanding populations and the situation is steadilydeteriorating since  the vast areas that were once fertile have turned intodeserts. And the  trouble with deserts is that they tend to creep outwards ontothe fertile  soils. What is now the northern Sahara Desert fed much of thecivilized  world 2,500 years ago. Since human beings have done so much damage ,it is up to them to try to putmatters right —if it is not already too late .  If there is to be any remedyfor the illness on earth, the remedy  ultimately lies in the hands of the humanbeings themselves, and the  sooner they start taking actions ,the better.  _____________________________________________________________________________________

All education, primary, secondary and further education ,should be free to allpeople and paid for by the government .  Do you agree or disagree with thisstatement? Write a 300-word  expository essay expressing your views.  __________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________