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Topic101：有人用手工做工作，而有人喜欢用机器，你更喜欢哪一个?
Topic101 Some people like doing work by hand. Others prefer using machines. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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Topic: 101
Here's the problem. I'm sloppy. That's why I like to use machines to do my work rather than do things by hand. Machines can be creative, precise, and efficient.
Most people think that you can only be creative if you do things by hand. However, it takes creativity to set the machine up. Once it's set up, it can repeat the same task over and over and over perfectly. If you want to write ten letters, you can set up your word processor to do it, press a button, and ten letters will be printed. It would take me forever by hand, and I would make a lot of mistakes. By hand, each letter would be different. By machine, each one is perfect.
Machines are very precise. They don't get tired and cut the wrong way. They don't get distracted and drop some mustard on the paper. As I said, I'm sloppy, but I like neatness. That's why I prefer to use machines.
Machines are also more efficient. I'm too tired to pick up the phone and see who is calling me. My answering machine isn't tired. It's always on duty. It doesn't get tired, upset, or moody.
I can depend on my machines, but I can't always depend on my hand to be creative, precise, or efficient.
Topic: 101
In general, there are two ways of making products, one is by hand and the other is by machine. It is undeniable that products can be manufactured easily and efficiently by machine due to simply repeated operations. But for me, I prefer hand-made items for their features of individualism, acceptability, and flexibility.
First of all, hand-made products are more personal. Take birthday cards as example, instead same pictures on selling cards in the market, the well-chosen images on a self-made cards, such as people’s own photos, surely distinguish the card from those selling ones. Owing to the uniqueness, the self-designed card will be of greater value for the person who receives it.
What’s more, things made by hand are fitter and more suitable. This can be seen from the story of ordering formal clothes, such as men’s suit and lady’s evening dress, the ready-made kinds of which actually are easy to find in fashion shops. Needless to say how often famous figures, like Princess Diana, visit worldwide known fashion designers. Nowadays more and more ordinary people go for tailor-made clothing rather than buy those machine-made clothes from market simply because tailors can make clothing precisely according to customer’s measurement and their own styles. Obviously, fitness and suitability are what those people care about most.
Finally, producing items by hand is more flexible. It releases people from being confined by some models that are necessary for machine-made manufacturing. For example, in hand-made pottery making, people can work out their new design at any time. In machine-made manufacturing, however, models have to be developed in advance, and afterward all finished products based on one model have completely same looks. If a different look needed, people must devise another model first. Moreover, there are still some things cannot be produced by machine because of no matched models.