Harmfulness of Fake Commodities（1998．1）
（假货的危害）
1. 目前社会上有不少假冒伪劣商品(fake commodities)。为什么会有这种现象？
2. 举例说明假冒伪劣商品对消费者个人、社会等的危害。
写作标题和提纲把短文定位为假冒伪劣商品目前在社会上流行的“现象”、“原因”、给消费者带来的“危害”极其“例证”，属论说文。第一段，指出目前社会上假冒伪劣产品在社会上存在的原因：一是投机商的利益驱使，二是打击力度不够。第二段，就假冒伪劣商品对消费者个人和社会等的危害提供例证，如山西假酒案等。
参考范文：As national economy develops for the better, fake commodities prevail in many places of our country. Some profiteers, regardless of people’s interests, can’t wait to make a fortune, so that they just take risks making and selling fake goods. On the other hand, the punishment is not severe enough to stop the violators. Today’s market, therefore, is swarming with fake commodities such as food-stuff, clothing and medicine.Fake commodities are extremely harmful to consumers as well as to the whole society. Take, for example, the 1998 fatal alcohol poisoning case in Shanxi Province of Northern China. By adding methanol to water, a peasant produced “alcohol”, dreaming of becoming rich overnight. The incident, with 27 people killed and around 700 poisoned, caused great sufferings to the victims and shocked the whole country as well. A carry-over of fear left thousands of others in confusion and panic: they no longer had a sense of safety. How terrible a case it was! It’s really high time we took measures to crack down on the production and sale of fake commodities.
