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Advantages: 
 
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Gains experience on real-life problems 
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Prior practical knowledge will help to excel in studies 

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Develops communication skills 
 
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Disadvantages: 
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University itself provides internship opportunities 
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Possibility of losing interest in pursuing university education 
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Unnecessary gap in education 
 
Conclusion: 
Summarised the advantages and disadvantages. 
 
 
 
52. Demand for gas and oil is increasing and so finding new resources in 
remote and untouched areas is a necessity. 
 
Do the advantages of this outweigh its disadvantages? 
 
  
The increasing demand for oil and gas has made it necessary to look for these sources of energy 
in remote and untouched natural places. Some people think the advantages of locating oil and gas 
in these places outweigh the disadvantages of damaging these places.   
  
There are benefits to such a strategy. People wish to improve their living standards, particularly 
in developing countries, and fuels such as oil and gas contribute to it as they enable the running 
of cars and planes and machinery for the production of goods. All of these result in higher living 
standards, and thus we need to keep finding new sources as we will eventually run out.   
  
However, despite this, there are major problems with exploiting fossil fuel in natural places. 
They could cause a great threat to ecology and the environment. For example, a serious oil spill 
accident happened in the Gulf of Mexico several years ago, resulting from a mishandled 
operation within the process of oil drilling. This accident caused a series of problems, such as 
mass fish deaths and ocean water pollution. Furthermore, extensive extraction of oil could lead to 
earthquake and ground sinking. All of these activities will ultimately lead to global warming and 

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