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1. People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example newexperiences, career preparation, increased knowledge Why do you think people attendcollege or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.People attend colleges or universities for lot of different reasons. believe that thethree most common reasons are to prepare for career, to have new experiences, and toincrease their knowledge of themselves and the world around them. Career preparation is becoming more and more important to young people. For many,this is the primary reason to go to college, They know that the job market is competitive. Atcollege, they can learn new skill for careers with lot of opportunities. This means careers,such as information technology, that are expected to need large workforce in the comingyears.Also, students go to colleges and universities to have new experiences. This oftenmeans having the opportunity to meet people different from those in their hometowns Formost students, going to college is the first time they ve been away from home bythemselves. In additions, this is the first time they ve had to make decisions on their own.Making these decisions increases their knowledge of themselves.Besides looking for self-knowledge, people also attend university or college toexpand their knowledge in subjects they find interesting. For many, this will be their lastchance for long time to learn about something that doesn relate to their career.I would recommend that people not be so focused on career. They should go tocollege to have new experiences and learn about themselves and the world they live in.2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Usespecific reasons and examples to support your answer.Throughout my life, have been lucky enough to have very good relationship with myparents. They have supported me, given me necessary criticism, and taught me greatdeal about how to live my life. Parents can be very important teachers in our lives; however,they are not always the best teachers.Parents may be too close to their children emotionally. Sometimes they can only seetheir children though the eyes of protector. For example, they may limit child's freedomin the name of safety. teacher might see trip to big city as valuable new experience.However, it might seem too dangerous to parent.Another problem is that parents may expect their children's interests to be similar totheir own. They can't seem to separate from their children in their mind. If they lovescience, they may try to force their child to love science too. But what if their child's truelove is art, or writing, or car repair?Parents are usually eager to pass on their value to their children. But should childrenalways believe what their parents do? Maybe different generations need different ways ofthinking. When children are young, they believe that their parents are always rights. Butwhen they get older, they realize there are other views. Sometimes parents, especiallyolder ones, can't keep up with rapid social or technology changes. student who hasfriends of all different races and backgrounds at school may find that her parents don'treally understand or value the digital revolution. Sometimes kids have to find their ownways to what they believe in.The most important thing to realize is that we all have many teachers in our lives. Ourparents teach us, our teachers teach us, and our peers teach us. Books and newspapersand television also teach us. All of them are valuable.#( Books and newspapers Books, newspapers3. Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way peoplelive? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.The twentieth century has brought with it many advances. With those advances,human lives have changed dramatically. In some ways life is worse, but mostly it is better.Changes in food preparation methods, for example, have improved our lives greatly.The convenience of preparing food today is amazing. Even stoves have gotten tooslow for us. Microwave cooking is much easier. We can press few buttons and meal iscompletely cooked in just short time. People used to spend hours preparing an oven-cooked meal, and now they can use that time for other, better things. Plus, there are allkinds of portable, prepackaged foods we can buy. Heat them in the office microwave, andlunch at work is quick and easy.Food preparation today allows for more variety. With refrigerators and freezers we canpreserve lot of different foods in our homes. Since technology makes cooking so muchfaster, people are willing to make several dishes for even small meal. Parents are morelikely to let children be picky, now that they can easily heat them up some prepackagedmacaroni and cheese on the side. Needless to say, adults living in the same house mayhave very different eating habits as well. If they don want to cook lot of different dishes,it common now to eat out at restaurants several times week.Healthful eating is also easier than ever now. When people cook, they use new fatsubstitutes and cooking sprays to cut fat and calories. This reduces the risk of heartdisease and high cholesterol. Additionally, we can buy fruits and vegetable fresh, frozen orcanned. They are easy to prepare, so many of us eat more of those nutritious items daily. Ahundred years ago, you couldn imagine the process of taking some frozen fruit and icefrom the freezer, adding some low-fat yogurt from plastic cup and some juice from canin the refrigerator, and whipping up low-fat smoothie in the blender!Our lifestyle is fast, but people still like good food. What new food preparationtechnology has given us is more choices. Today, we can prepare food that is moreconvenient, healthier, and of greater variety than ever before in history.4. It has been said, Not every thing that is learned is contained in books. Compare andcontrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In youropinion, which source is more important? Why?“ Experience is the best teacher is an old cliché but agree with it. The mostimportant, and sometimes the hardest, lessons we learn in life come from our participationin situations. You can learn everything from book.Of course, learning from books in formal educational setting is also valuable. It inschools that we learn the information we need to function in our society. We learn how tospeak and write and understand mathematical equations. This is all information that weneed to live in our communities and earn living.Nevertheless, think that the most important lessons can be taught they have to beexperienced. No one can teach us how to get along with others or how to have self-respect.As we grow from children into teenagers, no one can teach us how to deal with peerpressure. As we leave adolescence behind and enter adult life, no one can teach us how tofall in love and get married.This shouldn stop us from looking for guidelines along the way. Teachers and parentsare valuable sources of advice when we re young. As we enter into new stages in our lives,the advice we receive from them is very helpful because they have already bad similarexperiences. But experiencing our own triumphs and disasters is really the only way tolearn how to deal with life.5. company has announced that it wishes to build large factory near your community.Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do yousupport or oppose the factory? Explain your position.New factories often bring many good things to community, such as jobs andincreased prosperity However, in my opinion, the benefits of having factory areoutweighed by the risks. That is why oppose the plan to build factory near mycommunity.I believe that this city would be harmed by large factory. In particular, factory woulddestroy the quality of the air and water in town. Factories bring smog and pollution. In thelong run, the environment will be hurt and people’ health will be affected. Having factoryis not worth that rise.Of course, more jobs will be created by the factory. Our population will grow. Toaccommodate more workers, more homes and stores will be needed. Do we really wantthis much growth, so fast? If our town is going in growth, would prefer slow growth withgood planning. don want to see rows of cheaply constructed townhouses. Our quality oflife must be considered.I believe that this growth will change our city too much. love my hometown because itis safe, small town. It is also easy to travel here. If we must expand to hold new citizens,the small-town feel will be gone. mould miss that greatly.A factory would be helpful in some ways. However, feel that the dangers are greaterthan the benefits. cannot support plan to build factory here, and hope that others feelthe same way.6. MA If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would youchange? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. If could change one thing about my hometown, think it would be the fact that there'sno sense of community here. People don't feel connected, they don't look out for eachother, and they don't get to know their neighbors. People come and go lot here. They change jobs frequently and move on. Thismeans that they don't put down roots in the community. They don't join communityorganizations and they're not willing to get involved in trying to improve the quality of life. Ifsomeone has petition to put in new street light, she has very hard time getting lot ofpeople to sign. They don't feel it has anything to do with them. They don't get involved inimproving the schools because they don't think the quality of education is important to theirlives. They don't see the connection between themselves and the rest of their community. People don't try to support others around them. They don't keep friendly eyes ontheir children, or check in on older folks if they don't see them for few days. They're notaware when people around them may be going through hard time. For example, theymay not know if neighbor loses loved one. There's not lot of community support forindividuals. Neighbors don't get to know each other. Again, this is because people come and gowithin few years. So when neighbors go on vacation, no one is keeping an eye on theirhouse. No one is making sure nothing suspicious is going on there, like lights in the middleof the night. When neighbors' children are cutting across someone's lawn on their bikes,there's no friendly way of casually mentioning the problem. People immediately act as if it'sa major property disagreement. My hometown is nice place to live in many ways, but it would be much nice if wehad that sense of community.#2-4(street light) streetlight7 How do movies or television influence people behavior? Use reasons and specificexamples to support your answer.Do movies and television affect our behavior? special concern is whether moviesand television make children and society more violent. believe that movies and televisiondo influence our behavior, both for the better and for the worse.Movies do make people more violent. The more we see violent acts on television, theless sensitive we become to them. Eventually violence doesn’t seem wrong .we may evencommit violent acts ourselves. This is especially true because we don’t always realize thatviolence has consequences. Actors can be killed and come back for another movie.Sometimes we confuse that with reality. We forget that killing someone is permanent.Movies and television also influence our behavior because they make us less active.Looking at films is passive activity. If we watch too much, we become unhealthy, bothmentally and physically. We stop using our own imagination when we see things acted outfor us. Mental laziness becomes physical laziness; we’d rather watch sports on to than playsports ourselves. we’d rather visit with the characters on “Seinfeld” or riends” than gochat with our own neighbors. Imaginary people have exciting lives. Is it any wonder thatsome people would rather live fantasy life than their own?Of course, watching movies and television can also be good for us. It can give us abroader window on the world. For example, seeing movies can expose us to people ofdifferent races and cultures. We can then overcome some prejudices more easily. Recentlythere have been more handicapped people in films, and this also helps reduce prejudice.The best influence on our behavior is that movies and television reduce stress.Watching films, we can escape our own problems for little while. Also, sometime moviesshow positive ways to resolve problems we all face. While TV and movies shouldn’t be away to hide from life, sometimes they can help us cope.It is true that movies and television can influence our behavior negatively. However, Ialso believe that they influence our behaviors in positive ways. How they affect youdepends on how much you watch, what you watch, and how you respond to what youwatch.#1-1 (behavior): behaviors8 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television has destroyedcommunication among friends and family. Use specific reasons and examples to support youropinion.Some people believe that television has destroyed communication among friends andfamily. think this is an exaggeration. my opinion, whether or not television hurtscommunication depends on what type of program is being viewed. ore importantly, itdepends on the type of viewer.There are empty programs and educational programs. Empty programs do notchallenge people. They have just enough storyline to keep them from switching channels.There are also passive and active viewers. passive viewer will just watch televisionwithout thinking about what be or she seeing. The combination of an empty program and apassive viewer makes communication unlikely. Passive viewers just continue to watch,actually enjoying the fact that they don’t have to think. They won’t break away to talk aboutprogramming with friends and family. Even with better programming, passive viewers stillwon’t think or communicate much. The probably even prefer the empty program becausethe better programming is too much work.On the other hand, active viewers watching educational programming always want toshare what they see with friends and family. ducational” doesn’t necessarily meandocumentaries on BBS. They could be dramas with realistic relationships or action showswith clever plotlines. When active viewers watch programs, they have ideas and talk aboutthem with others Good programming inspires them to change their thinking and their lives.Unlike passive viewers, they don’t want to watch more and more without thinking.Television may destroy communication among passive viewers. Those viewersprobably don’t want to communicate with friends and family much anyway. For activeviewers who already enjoy communicating, television is actually helpful!9 Some people prefer to live in small town, Others prefer to live in big city. Whichplace would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.I grew up in small town and then moved to big city, so have experienced the goodand bad sides of both. never thought that would like living in big city, but was wrong.After ten years of living in one, can’t imagine ever living in small town again.Small town and big cities both have some problems in terms of transportation. In asmall town, you have to own car to ensure comfortable living .you can’t get aroundwithout one because there isn’t any kind of public transportation. Big cities generally haveheavy traffic and expensive parking, but there you have choice of taking publictransportation. It’s not free, but it’s often cheaper than driving when you consider gas andtime, especially if you don’t have car, you’re better off in the city.I love the excitement of big cities. Small towns have slow pace. Large cities meanyou have to adapt to variety of situations, like finding new route to work or trvine newrestaurant. enjoy that challenge very much. Another part of the excitement of city living isthe variety of cultural activities available. There is wild assortment of theatre music anddance performances available in big cities. These things are rare in small ones.The final thing think about large cities is the diversity of the people. the United Statesis made up of people of different races, religions, abilities, and interests. However, youseldom find such ariety of people in small town. think that living in an area whereeveryone was just like me would quickly become boring.Of course, security is concern, and that one area where small towns are superior tobig cities. Still, would rather be bit more cautions and live large city than to feel securebut bored.#3-3 trvine ?10 When people succeed it is because of hard work, Luck has nothing to do withsuccess. Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific and examples toexplain your position.When people succeed, it is because of hard work, but luck has lot to do with it,too.Success without some luck is almost impossible. The French emperor Napoleon said ofone of his generals, “I know he’s good. But is he lucky?” Napoleon knew that all the hardwork and talent in the world can’t make up for bad luck. However, hard work can invitegood luck.When it comes to success, luck can mean being in the right place to meet someone, orhaving the right skills to get job done. It might mean turning down an offer and thenhaving better offer come along. Nothing can replace hard work, but working hard alsomeans you’re preparing yourself opportunity. Opportunity very often depends on luck.How many of the great inventions and discoveries came about through lucky mistakeor lucky chance? One of the biggest lucky mistakes in history is Columbus’ so-calleddiscovery of America. He enriched his sponsors and changed history, but he was reallylooking for India. However, Columbus’ chance discovery wasn’t pure luck. It was backed upby years of studying and calculating. He worked hard to prove his theory that the world wasround.Success that comes from pure luck and no hard work can be real problem. Forexample, consider teenage girl who becomes movie star.Imagine she’s been picked from nowhere because of her looks. She is going to feelvery insecure, because she knows she didn’t do anything to earn her stardom. On the otherhand, think about an actress who’s spend years learning and working at her craft. Whenshe finally has good luck and becomes success, she will handle stardom better, sheknows she earns it.People who work hard help make their own luck by being ready opportunity knocks.When it comes to success. think that hard work and luck so hand in hand.Trên đây chỉ là phần trích dẫn 10 trang đầu của tài liệu và có thế hiển thị lỗi font, bạn muốn xem đầyđủ tài liệu gốc thì ấn vào nút Tải về phía dưới.