Topic 1: Increasing travels between countries enable people to learn different cultures or to increase tension between people from different countries

the good of  the community, 
a problem  that is disruptive  to the 
community.  So  greedy  are  some  people  that  they  can  go  so  far  to  engage  in  illegal  activities.  For 
example, some merchants earn 
handsome 
incomes from producing 
disqualified 
products and 
cajoling 
people to buy what they do not actually need. They, meanwhile, refuse to 
plough back 
any fraction of 
their income to the community. Individuals become indifferent to others' interests and the relationship 
between  individual  members  tends  to  become 
superficial,  transient 
and 
ad  hoc. 
People  remain  as 
onlookers 
when  neighbours  ask  for  help,  and  social  solidarity  has  been  dismantled  in  front  of  the 
overwhelming egoism. 
As shown above, greedy and egoism are set to bring both the society and the families in grave trouble. 
The  best  way  to  prevent  people  from  further  loss  in  social  solidarity  and  community  unity  is  to 
reconstruct 
the concept of family and community, show esteem to one's family, friends, neighbours and 
even 
acquaintances, 
and recover a sense of community and social 
cohesion.
 
1.
 
self-centred = selfish = egoistic 
2.
 
side with = support = back 
3.
 
bygone = past = onetime 
4.
 
tangible = touchable = concrete 
5.
 
obtain = gain = acquire 
6.
 
the good of the community 
7.
 
handsome = sizable-considerable 
8.
 
disqualified = banned = prohibited 
9.
 
cajole = entice = wheedle 
10.
plough back = reinvest 
11.
superficial = cursory = shallow 
12.
transient = fleeting = brief = temporary = transitory = short-lived = ephemeral 
13.
ad hoc = unprepared = unplanned = improvised = informal 
14.
onlooker = bystander = watcher 
15.
reconstruct = rebuild = restructure 
16.
acquaintance = friend = colleague-associate 
17.
cohesion = solidarity = unity 

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Topic 42: Creative artists should be given freedom to express their ideas through words, pictures, 
music  or  films.  Some  people  nevertheless  think  that  the  government  should  restrict  artists'