Question

书面表达。
     去年日本大地震不但导致核电厂爆炸，而且还在中国掀起了一场人们抢购食盐的浪潮。请你针对人们抢购食盐这一现象，用英语按以下要求为你们校报写一篇150词左右的短文。标题自拟，不计入总词数。
1. 描述以上有关地震和人们抢购食盐的情况；
2. 分析抢购的原因(如听信谣言、缺乏常识，……)；
3. 简短表述你对这一事件的看法。
参考词汇：iodized salt碘盐；panic buying 抢购；rumour 谣言
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Answer 1

One possible version:
                                                          No Need for Panic Buying
      Last year, a major earthquake hit Japan,which not only led to the explosion in a nuclear power plant,
but also a wave of buying salt in China.
     Why did people rush to buy salt? One reason is that many people believed rumors that iodized salt
could prevent the hurt of radiation. As a result, they rushed to buy salt.Other people worried about an
increase of price so they followed. Another reason is the lack of common sense among the public. As
we know, it is not helpful enough to guard against radiation even by taking larger amounts of salt than
usual.
      So in my opinion, panic buying of salt is absolutely unnecessary.