新托福口语练习材料——关于学生兼职的讨论(4)

    III. Consider
   Is it good for students to have part-time jobs?
             Arguments
   1. It’s good for students to have part-time jobs because this helps cultivate independence among young people.
   2. part-time jobs in business can foster a sense of competition, which is important for students in the future.
   3. After-school work enhances a young person’s social development.
   4. Being able to earn their own money gives students a feeling that they’ve become adults and, therefore, makes them feel more mature.
   5. Part-time jobs make students more confident in themselves because through the work they can realize their own value and prove that they are capable people.
   6. Part-time job experience gives students an insight into what work is about and prepares them psychologically for their future jobs.
   7. after-school work teaches students how hard it is to earn money and helps develop thriftiness in our younger generation.
   8. Part-time jobs can help students apply their knowledge in practice, and, in return, their experience will make them know better what they have learned in classes and books. 
   9. Part-time jobs give students a feeling of achievement through contributing to national construction.
  10. Part-time jobs can make students’ lives more colourful and are good fro their personal development. 
  11. Students’ part-time jobs contribute a lot, in one way or another, to our socialist construction.
  12. Students who have part-time jobs can relieve, to some extent, the economic burdens of their parents.
  13. With the money earned, students can buy many of the books they like.

Counter-arguments
   1. It’s not good for students to do part-tome jobs because they will become money-oriented
   2. Many students who have part-time jobs have shown a decline in their studies.
   3. Part-time jobs do not help develop a sense of thriftiness among young people because many students spend the money on high-priced items, luxuries that their parents can hardly afford.
   4. Part-time jobs often distract students’ attention from their studies, and some students even play truant.
   5. The main task of students is to study hard and learn what is needed for the development of our nation. Social experience can be gained later after they finish their studies.
   6. Since students are in their formative years, part-time jobs may expose them to social ills at an age when they can not differentiate good from bad.
   7. Some students become juvenile delinquents because they come under the influence of bad people through part-time jobs.
   8. Though students who have part-time j

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