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153. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A zoo has no useful purpose. Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.

When it comes to the issue whether a zoo has a useful purpose or not, different people hold different view. If I were faced with this question, I would probably say that a zoo has a useful purpose. In the following discussion, I would like to reason and provide evidence to support my opinion.

The most important reason I cannot neglect is that a zoo can be a wonderful and safe educational place. Nowadays, the cities in which we live are besieged with high rises and vehicles. We rarely have chances to see many kinds of animals in the city. If our children get knowledge about animals only from TV or books not from real life, how terrible it is. A zoo provides you and your children a chance to close the nature. Children can learn much knowledge which books don’t tell them exactly. Such as how large an elephant is, how tall a giraffe is , how fierce a tiger is and so on. Also adults can learn about and see types of birds they have never seen before. Unlike in the wild, there’s no worry of being harmed by an animal.

Another head and chief important reason I have chosen to put here is that a zoo helps us save endangered animals. As we all know, with the activities done by human, such as build houses and factories, many animals lose their living space so that the quantities of some them are decreased every year. How to save these animals is a big problem at current society. Give them a safe and warm home is a wise choice. A zoo is a home like this. It provides animals a safe shelter that they don’t worry about food and living place. They don’t worry about being preyed by other fierce animals or hunted by human. If you can understand this, you can understand my point better.

Last but not the least reason is that a zoo provides scientists a research lab. Research in a zoo is safer and easier to conduct than in the wild. Scientists can feel secure in the confined area of zoo. For example, while conducting a medical experiment in an open field, scientists have to worry about both the animal they have to work with, and also other animals nearby. In a zoo, however, they need only worry about the research subject. Don’t you think this example is persuasive?

To sum up, given all the reasons discussed above. We can safely reach the conclusion that a zoo has a useful purpose. The advantages of building a zoo carry more weight than disadvantages.

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