Essay Writing （70’) Direction: For this part, you ...

Essay Writing (70’) Direction: For this part, you are allowed 60 minutes to write a five-paragraph essay based on one of the following topics. State your thesis statement clearly at the end of your introduction paragraph. Use specific reasons and examples to support your ideas. Remember to give a title to your essay. With more and more advanced high-tech offering VR (virtual reality) tours, people from all over the world can do sight-seeing on screens in the comfortable rooms and for free. Some people say, they are the future of tourism and some others believe the traditional sight-seeing will exist forever. Will VR tours replace the traditional sight-seeing？ 996 schedule represents working overtime. Jack Ma said, "No company should and can force employees to work on 996 schedule...but the young people should be aware that happiness comes from hard work. Should we embrace the 996 work culture？ Technology has been playing an increasingly important role in teaching and learning due to its conveniences and flexibility. Recently, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, technology is ever more widely used and becomes a necessary means of instruction, by which teachers around the world conduct their teaching and give instructions on a variety of platforms or through different tools. Some people embrace this change and like the new form of teaching very much while others are not fully prepared for it and a lot of problems arise. Please write an essay (100-500 words) about your view of online teaching and learning. You can support your views or explain the reasons with your own experiences.