背景介紹：

Over recent several years, the concept “Gap Year” is becoming more and more popular in China. It is from western countries and was traditionally viewed as the activity of taking time out before university. Nowadays, however, the range broadens, including pre-university gaps, during and post-university gaps, career gaps, pre and post-baby gaps, post-wedding gaps and even pre-retirement gaps. A gap year is constructive time out -- it can be anywhere, anytime, doing anything. As you head through each life stage, you can take a “gap” to prepare yourself for the transition ahead. It is about living life to the full and realizing that there is a world of opportunity out there just waiting to be explored.

話題：

1 Have you ever had your gap year?

Y—Share your experience with us.

N—Tell us your plan: Where are you preparing to go? What do you expect to get from

it? Why do you need a “gap”?

2 Do you think it is necessary to take a gap year? Give reason to support your idea.

You can also use the strengths and weaknessesof gap year to finish it.

Just choose one respect or two to write.

范例1：

Recently, I am reading a best seller named Gap Year, a Girl on the Road. The writer shares us a lot of unbelievable experiences in her “gap” which is so fantastic that I am certainly touched by it. The touch from it let me start thinking about my own gap year. I really long to visit Africa. Mysterious and attractive, the land is characterized by contradictory temperament: she has suffered large amounts of pain but is still full of primitive strength and haunting simplicity. I hope I can get the true meaning of my life there, ignoring my negligible pain and stepping out of negative emotions. As Kahlil Gibran, a famous poet, said, “We already walked too far, down to we had forgotten why embarked.” So why not just make a small pause in your life before you decide your next destination? Life is short, so I prefer spending time finding what I like to wasting time doing things I don’t enjoy.

范例2：

When I saw "Gap Year" at first sight, I wondered what the "Gap Year" is. After reading today's topic, I know what it is, and I never have a ?"Gap Year" until now. It is so funny that you have a year to enjoy yourself. But why only a year? The importance of "Gap Year", I think, doesn't lie in its form, but in ?its real meaning that to do what you want to do to enjoy your life no matter where and when you are. So I can do the "Gap Year" things at any time only if I want during my all life. I always say to myself if you want to do it, just go to do it, because you only have one life to spend on.