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There are a number of drawbacks to people using Facebook as a way of communicating even though it is admittedly one of the most common social networking platforms for both individuals and businesses. |
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Due to the lack of exercise taken by average people, obesity and other weight related problems are on the rise. |
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Unemployment and poverty, especially in urban areas, is often deemed to be the cause of rising crime rate. |
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Despite the rise in urban crime, more and more people continue to move to cities looking for a better life. |
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More children are becoming obese and therefore schools should be encouraged to provide more sports lessons and outdoor activities. |
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Global warming should be taken more serious as it can result in a number of disastrous consequences. |
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To give a clear example, the melting polar ice caps have not only caused a loss of habitat for polar bears but also threatening seas levels worldwide. |
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More and more women are choosing to start a family later in life. 20% of women giving birth to their first child, for instance, are over the age of 30 in the UK. |
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Crimes should not have the same punishment. Minor crimes, such as pick pocketing and traffic offences, should not have the same penalty as major crimes, namely, murder and manslaughter. |
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Children often learn behaviour from the adults around them subconsciously. |
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To illustrate, around 50% of children who are brought up by aggressive parents often use aggression to solve their own problems later in life. |
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Parents should be responsible for teaching their children right and wrong. |
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If, for example, they see their child using bad language, they should spend time explaining to their child the serious consequences that can result from this type of behaviour. |
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More and more people are leading sedentary life styles due to work conditions. |
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Take, for example, office workers in the UK who spend at least 8 hours a day, 5 days a week sitting in front of their computers. |
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When the snow falls, it covers the ground with a protective layer. |
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As soon as her cubs are born, the lioness licks them all over. |
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Once the paper is collected, it is sent for recycling. |
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Before volcanos erupt, they send huge amounts of smoke into the air. |
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When the plants perspire, the air becomes humid. |
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The trees are cut down and the forest is gradually destroyed. |
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As soon as the food is processed, it is packaged and then it is distributed. |
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When the cycle is completed, it repeats itself all over again. |
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After the rubbish is collected, it is sent to a centre for sorting and then it is recycled. |
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Once a new model of the bicycle is developed, it is tested. |
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When the TV is assembled, it is sent to the shops. |
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As soon as the water is purified, it is bottled. |
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The data about the weather is collected, and the information is then broadcast. |
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Sometimes, computers make mistakes and prevent things happening, which wastes valuable time and can cost money. |
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TV programmes provide people with information about the world around them, which is often very useful. |
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Machines now give us more freedom, which means that we have more time for leisure activities. |
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Technology saves us more and more time, which can be used to create more machines. |
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More and more household tasks are now carried out by robots, which will be even more common in the future. |
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Everything seems to be available at the touch of a button, which makes people expect instant responses from other people. |
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The situation, which has now become much more complex, is effectively out of control. |
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The problem, which the public blame the government for, is everyone's responsibility. |
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The cause of the problem, which is not immediately obvious to everyone, is the lack of basic training. |
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The solution, which in my opinion, is by far the best, is to have a day at work where people do not use computers or other machines. |
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Office technology, which requires only basic training to use, is the cause of much frustration at work. |
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The pie chart describes the proportions of each group reading particular numbers of articles each week. |
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The numbers represent percentages of people. |
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For all students, the most noticeable feature is that the majority read 1-5 articles. |
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Far fewer female lecturers as opposed to male lecturers are employed at the university, 25 and 75 respectively. |
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The sales for all four companies showed similar trends. |
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Far fewer junior lecturers read over twelve articles a week compared with PhD students. |
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The average junior lecturer reads more journal articles than the average student. |
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The average PhD student reads more articles than the other students at the university. |
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Those students who are researching for a PhD have more time to read articles than junior lecturers. |
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We see from the chart that nearly one in four of students failed to finish their university degree. |
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In 1990, the overwhelming majority of engineering students were male, but by 2000 this figure had fallen to 75 per cent. |
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In 1960, one third of science graduates went into the teaching profession but in 1970, the figure was just one out of ten. |
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50 per cent of the student population were members of the union in 2001, but five years later the figure was under two out of three. |
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A vast majority of people surveyed felt that mixed sex schools were preferable. |
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Meanwhile, the pattern of postgraduate students was substantially different. |
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Overall, the proportion of postgraduate students who spent fifteen hours a week or more in the library was very close to the entire student body who spent 1-7 hours per week in the library. |
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A minority of undergraduates (nine per cent) used the library for fifteen or more hours per week. |
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There is a clear trend towards using the library more as students move towards graduation and post-graduation. |
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Undergraduate students were less likely than postgraduate students to use the library with just under two thirds of the former spending 1-7 hours there. |
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About a quarter of undergraduate students as opposed to nearly a third of postgraduate students spent between eight and fourteen hours studying. |
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