2016年12月大学英语六级作文模拟练习（4）

　　作文题目：

　　The Decline of Small Businesses

　　参考范文：

　　During the recent years, countless small businesses have closed their doors and gone bankrupt. The corner grocer's , the small dress shop, the beauty salon, all are victims of market competition. Most of them are replaced by other small businesses that temporarily fill the needs of the neighbourhood but frequently end up, sharing the same fate of dissolution. More often, the market served by small businesses is taken over by large stores and shops. Businesses like the corner groceries and the dress shops have gone to big department stores and supermarkets, which not only keep adequate store and variety, but also provide better environment and service.

　　Apparently, it is increasingly difficult for small businesses to succeed in the present complex economic structure based, as it is, on small profit margins and tremendous sales volume. Lack of enough fund and poor management may be the chief cause of this tragedy. In addition, the quality of their commodities often causes suspicion of the customers as many small businesses are found to sell fake products for more profit, thus earning themselves an evil reputation. As to shopping environment and convenient service, they are unmentionable. All of the above speed up their bankruptcy.

　　Today, with the establishment of more and more groups and big corporations, how small businesses can survive in the tide of the market competitive economy has become a hot social issue.

　　如今，信息技术越发领先，尤其是智能手机的普及，甚至能达到一机在手，万事不愁的地步;但是，在方便了人们生活的同时，它也促使人类变得更为懒惰，思考的也愈发少了，所以说，信息技术真的是万能的嘛?

　　作文题目：

　　For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short eaasy based on the sentences " We have lots of information technology.We just don't have much useful information." You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

　　参考范文：

　　Nowadays,more and more hi-tech tools, such as calculator,computer,smartphones,etc, appear in our daily life.We use them wherever and whenever we are, so that our life becomes easier and more comfortable than before.

　　However, does anyone think about what problems science and technology have caused to happen in this world? To some degree, it's more serious than that we consider. We human indeed use them to improve our living standard, but on the other hand, we are becoming lazier, more reliable than we used to be. All day long those hi-tech products accompany us,then we have either no space or time to think, as well, communication between each other decreases, and what takes place of it is the huge indifference and gap among human.

　　To solve these problems, we should in no time take measures to do with them. Firstly, communicate with others and think on your own more. Secondly, decrease the times you use hi-tech tools. For the advantages of technology, we should absorb, at the meantime, be independent and abandon the short-comings. Thus, we could combine technology and human progress much closer and not lose ourselves in this modern society.