我稍微排了一下段落的順序還有寫了很虛弱的第一段和最後一段:P
剩下的就請幾位強者來做修正了
話說覺得BBS上的格式很煩的可以在MSN上找我或用推文跟我要.doc檔
BETEL NUT PROBLEMS
電機系
Like eating beef being a crisis in the U.S., chewing betel nut brings lots of
problems in Taiwan.
We all know that betel nuts do harm to Taiwan a lot. The problems have already
emerged as follows. First of all, chewing betel nuts would cause oral cancer
which takes away thousands of lives every year. Secondly, some people may
consider betel-nut girls on the street pose bad effects on society.
Furthermore, growing betel nut trees on the hills would damage the stability
of mountains which brings about mudslides. However, quite a few families make
their living by growing betel nut trees or selling it. We’ll discuss all the
issues above in the coming paragraphs.
Betel nut chewing leads to health problems. While betel nut chewers find it
stimulating and thirst-quenching, constantly chewing betel nuts causes poor
oral hygiene. The alkaline ingredients in betel nuts bring about ulcers. It may
even result in cancer. According to the statistics, 80% of oral cavity cancer
patients in Taiwan have the habit of betel nut chewing. It appears more
serious when considering the proportion of getting oral cancer among betel nut
chewers alone. Many people, even professionals such as dentists and doctors,
do not pay much attention to the changes in their mouths, treating them
lightly, and therefore not able to cure the disease in time. To make things
worse, betel chewing is highly addictive. That’s why some experts highly
suggest the government to ban betel chewing immediately.
Another disadvantage brought by the rampant betel-nut industry is betel-nut
beauties. Betel-nut beauties distract drivers’ attention causing the increase
in the traffic problems, such as car accidents and traffic jam. Besides,
those beetle-nut beauties have some negative effect on foreign tourists’
impression on Taiwan, and a lot of people who didn’t chew beetle-nuts before
give it a try just because they want to approach hot beetle-nut beauties.
What’s worse, it misleads teenage girls into thinking that as long as they
sell out their flesh, they can make money easily.
Undoubtedly, growing betel nut trees is bad for soil conservation and may be
a main cause of mudslides in Taiwan. Not until Herb Typhoon struck Taiwan
severely did people know the gravity of soil conservation. In terms of betel
nuts, we could read from the statistics that one hectare of betel nuts
consumes almost one hundred thousand tons of water in one year. Surprisingly,
in the year 2000, the total area of betel nuts has reached 56500 hectares, 6.28% of the total arable area in Taiwan. The water
consumed by betel nuts is equal to the sum of industrial water and daily water
used by populace. Why do the betel nuts trees lack the ability of soil
conservation? On one aspect, the betel nuts tree has so few leaves that the
rain can hit the ground soil directly and obviously the flow of rainwater will
carry away the soil. On the other hand, the root of betel nuts tree is
extremely short that it can’t hold the water underground effectively. We
should be aware of that the number of betel nut trees is still booming which
deteriorates the situation of soil conservation in Taiwan.
However, growing betel nut trees is a way to flourish the local economy.
Deep into the remote mountainous areas lacking the latest information and
employment opportunity, it seems that the locals have no choice but to sell
betel nuts just to make ends meet. In fact, this betel nut industry has
virtually improved the living conditions of numerous families; with the money
they have earned, they tend to gain the capital for other kind of business,
thus prosperity began to thrive.
Betel nut is an important and special product of Taiwan, and selling betel nuts
is also an important career that can’t be neglected. In Taiwan, there are
many young girls doing this kind of job. The girls may not have been well
educated, but they still can make abundance of benefits by selling betel nuts.
If selling betel nuts has been banned, many people will loss their own job,
and that will be a new and serious problem in Taiwan society.
Since there are still problems yet to be solved, it is indeed a hard
decision to make that whether should we abandon betel-nut chewing in Taiwan.
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