Recently, our class held a discussion about whether Chinese people should celebrate foreign festivals or not. Opinions are divided on this issue.

60% of the students think that it is wrong to do so because people will waste a lot of money observing these festivals. Besides, people are likely to forget their own tradition and culture if they focus too much on foreign festivals.

However, 35% of the students argue that it’s a natural trend to celebrate foreign festivals. As we all know, with the development of science and technology, the earth has, in fact, become a global village. Those festivals that were once foreign to us are now familiar to us.

As far as I’m concerned, if we can strike a balance between our own festivals and foreign ones, it’s not a bad idea to have more festivals to celebrate.

题目分析：本文属正反方观点的议论文作文，主题是对“中国人该不该过洋节”的不同观点，题目给出了大部分要点，也要考生给出自己的观点。文章结构清晰，先是一些同学反对的观点，然后是赞同的观点，最后是自己的观点，要求考生用地道的英语表达自己的观点，要求观点明确，驾驭语言的能力强，选择词汇的时候要选择相对高级的词汇，也要运用多种句型，让文章更有变化。难度在于选择合适的词汇和句型表达文章需要的意思，可以变换使用一些容易驾驭的句子或者词汇实现同样的目的。在写作的时候要运用合适的连接词把要点串联起来，使文章成为一个整体。

【亮点说明】文章结构清晰，观点明确，有不少好句子和短语：focus too much on“太关注”，be familiar to“为…熟悉”，As far as I’m concerned“据我所知”, 60% of the students think that it is wrong to do so because people will waste a lot of money observing these festivals. 这句话用了it做形式主语， people are likely to forget their own tradition and culture if they focus too much on foreign festivals.这句话用了固定句型， As we all know, with the development of science and technology, the earth has, in fact, become a global village.这句话用了非限制性定语从句。还有范文使用了Besides,这样的词，使文章更加连贯。