Question

Do you often see silly words or drawings scratched onto the desks in your classroom? Have you ever found chewing gum on the floor of your classroom or around the campus? How many times have you seen broken windows in the classroom and school buildings? This is vandalism, the destruction or damaging of public property for no obvious reason.

Vandalism in schools is becoming a growing problem, and it is costing us more than money. It is expensive to repaint the desks, clear them of chewing gum and repair school furniture. Moreover, it costs us our sense of self-respect and feeling of pride in our school. Many students see this damage and lose some pride in their school.

How, then, can we prevent vandalism in schools? First of all, we need to make students realize the importance of taking care of public property. School property should be treated with care so that it can be used by all the students. Therefore, damaging school property means damaging the enjoyment of other students. If we can explain this to people, then they will be less likely to damage school property when they know that it will only hurt themselves.

Secondly, we should learn to obey school rules and regulations. These rules and regulations are there to look after both the students and the schools. Whenever we see any acts of vandalism, we need to remind the people of the rules and try to prevent these acts from happening. If it is serious vandalism, we need to report it to the teacher.

Thirdly, anyone who vandalizes school property should receive some kind of punishment. For example, if someone has torn a page from a library book, he or she would have to carefully tape the page back into the book. If someone writes or draws on a desk, he or she should stay behind school and clean the desks in the classroom. Such punishment is not harsh, but can make them know their misbehavior.

Vandalism costs schools money that could be better spent educating students, and it harms students’ pride in their school as well. If we educate people about vandalism and work to prevent it from happening , then we will begin to see cleaner schools and happier students.

 

Vandalism, a growing problem in schools
The meaning of vandalism	It means the public property in schools is 71 or damaged.
Some ugly  72 you can see in schools because of vandalism	1.with words and drawings scratched on the desks 2.with chewing gum found here and there 3.with windows broken in many buildings
The  73  of vandalism	1.becoming a growing social problem 2.being  74  to repair the desks and so on 3. not feeling  75  of schools
The  76  to the problem	1.to make students  77  of the importance of taking care of public property 2.to have school rules and regulations  78 3.to make students  79  for their bad behavior
Conclusion	Cleaner schools and happier students will appear if people receive more 80_and work together to prevent vandalism from happening.

Answer 1

71. destroyed  72. phenomena 73. results/effects  74.expensive/costly  75.proud 

76.solutions   77. aware/conscientious  78. obeyed/set  79. punished/responsible/answer  80. education