Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on living in the virtual world. Try to imagine what will happen when people spend more and more time in the virtual world instead of interacting in the real world. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

It is well acknowledged that the virtual world has exerted great influence on the way people live. However, with an increasing number of people indulging in the virtual world, some people are worried our real life will be ruined in the coming future.

On the one hand, with social networking sites becoming pervasive, real-life communication is largely reduced. As a result, inter-personal relationship becomes worse and worse. Moreover, people fail to present a real self in virtual world because they tend to create an image that others expect them to be. On the other hand, technologies are so advanced that people no longer have to handle complex working stuff all by themselves, because computer programs will deal with it. Thus they do not interact with others any more.

All in all, we spend too much time on and become too dependent on virtual world. Immediate measures should be taken at the moment: we must dedicate more effort to real-life communication and control our time spent on virtual world.

译文：

必须承认虚拟世界对人们的生活方式产生了巨大影响。然而，越来越多的人沉迷虚拟世界使得一些人担心我们的现实生活会在不远的将来被摧毁。

一方面，社交网络变得盛行，现实生活中交流大幅减少。结果，人际关系变得越来越糟糕。此外，人们在虚拟世界呈现的并不是真正的自己，因为他们虚构了别人期望的形象。另一方面，技术如此先进以至于人们不再需要处理复杂的工作内容，因为计算机程序可以处理。因此他们也无需与别人互动。

总之，我们在虚拟世界花费了太多时间，太过于依赖虚拟世界。必须马上采取措施：应该在现实交流上多努力并控制在虚拟世界上花费的时间。

本题要求就“虚拟社交越来越频繁．真实社交却越来越贫乏”这一社会现象展开论述。首先表明虚拟社交泛滥可能会摧毁人们的生活，然后具体展开虚拟世界如何影响正常生活，最后总结全文，提出改进意见。