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1. Young people want to buy clothes, and they want save money to buy a new car or a stereo or a television. For example, my cousin Celia works at clothing store and buys all her own clothes. And one of my friends bought himself a used car just from the money he made after school. Young people want to make money for their future. Las week, she bought a nice leather jacket. An example of this is saving money for an education after high school. My cousin Roberto is doing this for his future. He also told me that he is saving some money to set up a household after marriage.

2. The driving lesson I got from my fiancé was a very distressing one. I started off very well until my fiancé started getting bossy. I did one wrong thing so he started shouting at me. The little incident occurred when he wanted me to make a U-turn in the middle of the street. As I was trying to do that, I turned the wheels too hard, and the wheels hit the end of the curb. My fiancé started yelling at me as if he were crazy. So I calmly put the car in park and started to get out to let him drive since I obviously wasn't doing it the way he wanted. But he grabbed my arm and told me to finish getting the car out of the middle of the street. Oh, I forgot to mention that when the hit the curb, the car stopped in the middle of the street. He also wanted me to move the car because there were cars coming in both directions. I guess that was why he was worried. I decided after this incident that my fiancé was not the right person to teach me to drive.

3. The way women shown in TV commercials today has changed compared with 20 years ago. Twenty year ago, commercials mostly showed women as brainless housewives. In those commercials, women were concerned about getting the best laundry detergents, the softest toilet paper, or the tastiest soup. (They were portrayed as sort of dumb and silly, as if the most important thing in the world was getting hamburger on sale.) Women in commercials today are no just housewives. They are shown as professional working people, too. For example, in one telephone commercial, a women with briefcase is saying goodbye to her child and husband as she is about to catch a plane. In commercial today, women are shown as housewives, but they are not portrayed as so dumb. For example, the woman in the commercial I saw last night seemed like normal, intelligent person. I think the same difference is true for ads in magazines.

No.12 In the book, page 147, journal writing.

 I had an experience about misunderstanding with my friend because of miscommunication. When I first come to United States, my English not very well that I just can use few words to communication. Although my oral not good, but I still make lot friends. Once, I talk to my friend who is from Peru after that he got misunderstanding. The reason is about I speak some words he cannot understand and sometimes he misunderstand when I talk about something, after that we talk different things, then he suddenly understand what am I talk about, so, I got lots of time misunderstand with my friends because I did not study English well.

P158 EX.4: 1.Write a controlling idea about the difference in comfort.

There are three different aspects for this two cars which for interior, seats, and cooling and heating.

2. Then write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the comfort of the two cars.

Comparing the Road Runner and Speed Demon are comfort of the cars. There are three different aspects for this two cars which for interior, seats, and cooling and heating. At first, the road runner is spacious interior; people can sit comfortably in the front and three in the back. But for the speed demon, the spacious is tight; two people can fit comfortably in front and only two can sit comfortably in back. Secondly, the seats for road runner are large, on the other way; they are vinyl and get hot in the summer. For the Speed demon, leather seats are cool in the summer and pleasant all year round. Moreover, the air conditioner does not cool the back seat area, the heater is effective. Look the Speed demon, the air conditioning and heating system is excellent.