4. What is the difference between the newspapers and the magazines?
報紙和雜志都是最為傳統的獲得信息的方式。此題要求考生比較報紙和雜志的不同點，當然也需要提及共同點，而且暗含了需要比較兩者的優缺點。比較兩者可以從價格、內容、及時性等各個層次進行分析?？忌砂l揮的余地比較多，可以穿插自己的觀點，即自己更喜歡讀報紙還是雜志，并說明原因。

Candidate 1: As we all know, newspapers and magazines are all printed media which report news by text and images, but there are also some differences between them.

In my opinion, firstly, newspapers' timeliness(及時性) is better than magazines.

Secondly, newspapers' audience is usually the general public while magazines targets at the specific fixed society groups.

Thirdly, from the scope of the reported incident, the newspaper is more comprehensive.

Fourthly, the newspaper's income is mainly from advertising revenue(exception for some weeklies), but the magazine depends on the revenue of issue(發行收入) more.

Candidate 2: In our daily life, you may know that some people like reading newspapers while some others who prefer magazines. We live in a world filled with all kinds of newspapers and magazines, but do you know the differences between the newspapers and magazines?

As you can see, most of the newspapers are more comprehensive, while many kinds of magazines are more profesional. As for newspapers, for example, in the China Daily and the New York Times, you can read news divided into many sections(版面) such as international events, business, life, sports, science, entertainment, literature and so on. Regarding magazines, however, you will enjoy many articles just about one area. Maybe for this reason, more people prefer reading newspapers every day.

The timeliness of newspapers is better than magazines. Daily paper is just a piece of cake for us. Newspapers provide the latest news which is always brief(簡明的). On the contrary, magazines will supply details for us. We can not ignore the fact that magazines are always designed more beautifully, which leads to their higher price.

Candidate 3: Nowadays, newspapers and magazines are both the main media. They give people much convenience in daily life. They both provide people with necessary information, but there are also differences between them as following:

Firstly, newspapers are published more often than magazines. Newspapers are often published every one or two days while magazines are published once half a month at least.

Secondly, the information in the newspapers is fresher. This difference can be explained apprantly(明顯地) by the first. We can always read the latest news in the newspapers.

Finally, the keeping time is also different. Newspapers are always thrown away after being looked through while magazines are kept for a longer time, maybe all the life time.

In a word, newspapers and magazines are different from each other in some aspects. But both of them are important for man's life.

Candidate 1回答比較簡單，從四個方面指出了其不同，仔細看來，考生前三點回答的是報紙相對雜志的優點，即及時性、大眾化、內容豐富，最后點明其收入來源的不同，報紙依賴于廣告收入而雜志主要靠發行收入。如再多論述下一雜志的優點就更加完整了；Candidate 2首先以一個問句自然引出自己的話題，接著指出報紙和雜志的一點不同，即報紙內容比較豐富而雜志專業性較強，這是為什么大眾偏愛于報紙的原因；Candidate 3也是從及時性、存儲時間等來論述。