     Taking exercise is good for our health.  By taking exercise, we can 
relax our body and mind.  We'll be in good spirits afterwards and then can 
work better.  At the same time, we can strengthen our muscles and trim our 
figures.  If we don't take exercise for long, we may easily fall ill or get 
fat.
     I enjoy several outdoor sports.  To begin with, I like swimming in the 
sea.  Swimming itself is not only a survival skill but a good way to put 
all the muscles at play.  Swimming in the sea is especially enjoyable, 
since you're close to nature and away from the crowds in a swimming pool.  
Playing badminton is also fun.  It is a sport for my whole family.  Early 
in the morning, my parents and I like to seek a quiet place in the nearby 
park for playing badminton.  Besides, I enjoy dancing.  Social dance is 
graceful but what really appeals to me is aerobics.  I always sweat a lot 
and feel good about myself after a rigorous workout.
     I've always been a basketball fan since my childhoods.  I've been 
crazy about such NBA superstars as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Chamber-
lain, and so on.  Even though I am only medium in height and build, I prac-
tice playing basketball a lot and luckily I was picked as a member on my 
school team.  We have a very strong basketball team in the northern school 
district and received several championships in the basketball tournaments.
     It takes a great deal of strength and skill to play basketball well.  
Certainly, the more you practice, the better skill you will have.  Because 
of my height, I play front.  As a front, I have to cover my teammates, or 
block or opponents.  I am good at dribbling and I am also a nice three-
point shooter.  Basketball is my favorite sport, and most importantly, I 
make some friends by playing games on the court.
     The traffic problems in Taiwan have become more and more serious be-
cause some people don't abide by traffic rules.  Many terrible accidents 
result from reckless driving.  Let's take a look at what's happening on the 
streets.  Drunk drivers weave in and out, showing no respect for (to) other 
people's lives.  Speeding is forbidden but is (a) common practice in Tai-
wan.  Pedestrians are at risk while jaywalking.  The pervasive disregard of 
traffic regulations makes people killers or victims.
     Ensuring the safety of every citizen's life should become our top pri-
ority.  In my opinion, we should, first, severely punish those drivers or 
riders who don't obey traffic rules.  Traffic violators are responsible for 
the confusion of the road.  Next our law should be strictly enforced; thus, 
those drivers or motorcyclists will think twice before running (through) a 
red light or parking their cars at random.  As for pedestrians, they should 
not jaywalk at will, or they should be punished too.  In all, only through 
the cooperation of both the driver and the pedestrian can safer traffic 
conditions be achieved.
     Our environment is danger of serious pollution.  However, many alar-
ming reports in newspapers seem to have little effect on the offenders. As 
we know, most rivers in Taiwan today are polluted and the marine life is 
endangered, but still many factories and families discharge chemical and 
human waste into the rivers.  Also, more and more people are suffering from 
respiratory diseases but cars and factories still keep emitting smoke.  
What's worse, piles of garbage have been an eyesore and a nuisance (a 
source of epidemics (diseases)) but so far we haven't done much about it.  
[Taiwn has been polluted to such a degree that many people cannot stand it 
and some of them bring up several methods to improve this.]
     There are many ways for us to protect our environment.  First, every-
one should share the consensus (/have a common sense) that environmental 
protection is everybody's business.  Besides, engineers as well as our 
government should find out the pollution sources and think (figure) out 
proper ways to halt the pollution.  Finally, strict anti-pollution laws 
should be passed and enforced as soon as possible and heavy fines should be 
imposed on those offenders.  A clean and healthy environment is good for 
everyone and it is a goal that we should work hard for.
     Food is not cooked on the airplane.  It is cooked either in the air-
line's own kirchens located near the airports or by special caterers in 
different cities.  Private catering companies deliver the prepared meals 
to the airplanes, where they are help warm and ready to serve in the galley 
of each plane.
     Miss Wang turns on the public address system to speak to the pass-
engers.  "We will be passing out special immigration and custom declaration 
cards to all of you.  Please fill these out before we land.  You must give 
them to the immigration and customs officials at the airport.  We'll be 
happy to help you fill them out, thank you."  On most commercial airlines, 
announcements to passengers are in English.  When the plane belongs to the 
airline of a country where another language is spoken.  The declaration 
cards ask for information about the passengers that is needed by the 
immigration and tourism officials.
     Smith denied the charges in 1,000-work letter to the paper and said 
yesterday that he had "every confidence in Hualon" and added:  "every pro-
ject IDB supports involves a degree of risk."
     The factory mirrors a similar Hualon operation in Malaysia but the 
company believes competitive power and land costs will outweigh the fact 
that northern Ireland labor costs are 15 percent higher than in Asia and 
give it a European foothold.
     We are quite certain that we can produce products here that will be 
internationally competitive for Europe and the US, Hualon Vice-chairman 
Andrew Oung told a news conference.