Wednesday, April 16, 2008

TOEFL practice essay ~ Amanda 10

3. Nowadays, with the invention of the microwave and with the popularity of fast food restaurants, food has become easier to prepare than ever. Do you think microwave ovens and fast food restaurants are beneficial to society? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Microwave ovens and fast food restaurants are important inventions for human beings. They are used for every kind of food throughout society. However microwave ovens and fast food restaurants have their own advantages and disadvantages.

There are a lot of people that believe that microwave ovens and fast food restaurants are the solution to wasting time, valuable time! Nowadays people are occupied with a lot of activities, so they can not spend a lot of time preparing to eat. They find cooking by microwave or visiting their favorite fast food restaurant the bet way of saving time. Students that stay for a long time in their schools find fast food as a fast and delicious alternative for their lunch. Fast food is the best liked food of teenagers, as it is SO delicious.

On the other hand, these are a lot who believe that microwave ovens and the food they prepare and fast food restaurants create very unhealthy foods which can damage your body. Besides all this, this kind of food is high in fats that are also very unhealthy. Microwaving food is very unhealthy, as it is said that by cooking by the microwave, your food absorbs a lot of harmful rays that destroy your system; for example if you boil rice or eggs in a microwave it is harmful to your body as it absorbs a lot of rays.

I think microwave ovens and fast food restaurants can either be a good solution or a bad solution. It can be a good solution for busy people that don’t have that much time at their disposal. If people prefer to eat fast food only because they are delicious, I think they should stop doing that because they should consider themselves lucky that they can eat healthy alternatives. It depends on the way that you see it, if they are good or bad solutions. They are not healthy but they are practical.