1) Why do you think people attend college or university?

Use specific reasons and

examples to support your answer.
College is a place that the students can learn more and new knowledge and experience in it.
Of course, different people have different reason to study in college. For example, some
people want to be to go on a further study after they graduate from the college; some people
hope to find a good job after their studying in the college and also some people wish to
exchange their present situation through studying in the college. In my opinion, no matter
what reason people study in the college for, studying in the college is just a preparation for
their future’ life.
First of all, students can learn new knowledge and experiences from the studying in the
college. There are many teachers, professors with abundant teaching experience who teach
students lots of new knowledge and help them to solve the problems in their study. With
their help, student can learn a lot of useful basic and professional knowledge which is very
helpful for their future’ work and study. After they finish their study in the college, students
go to work in the society and contribute to the different fields.
Secondly, students can learn how to arrange their own time reasonably. Before their studying
in college, their life often arranged by their parents and their study often arranged by their
teachers. It is very different for them to live and study in college, because students studying
in college have to arrange their life and study by themselves. They have right to arrange their
part time, such as when to get up, when is the sport-time, when to finish the assignment etc.
This is very important experience for students’ work and life in the future.
Thirdly, studying in the college make students having opportunity to live with other student
and learn how to cooperate with other people. Usually, people often have uncomfortable
feeling to live with a stranger, because they do not know each other and perhaps their habit
and personality are different. But for the long run, it is good for them. They have to
cooperate with each other and solve a lot of problems they will face together. Gradually, they
can learn how to care and understand other people. It is a preparation for students to go to
cooperate with other people in the society.
All in all, students not only can learn lots of new knowledge from the books but also can
learn much more necessary experience such as how to arrange time and how to cooperate
with other people. It is very important for their future work and life.

2. People study in college or university for many different reasons. I think the most important
reason is to gain more knowledge and learn more skills. Of course, there are also many other
reasons that people study in college such as to get more friends, and increase one's self-
confidence.
These days, most jobs require people who are educated and have good job skills. Therefore,
the people who want a good job have to study hard and at least graduate with a high
education. Furthermore, as technology advances all over the world, more and more education
is required of people.
Some people who study in college or university want to make more friends and increase their
interpersonal skills. They enjoy their lives in university or college and tend to socialize a lot.
They can meet more people who have the similar interests with themselves. They can go to
uni ball after school and make more friends who they trust.
The people who graduate from college seem more confident in our community. These people
are more respected by society. Many people want to be respected and to be important by
family, friends, their bosses, and others in their lives. They find that most of them can
confidently talk and do their jobs, as they are more educated. Therefore, most people want to
get the confidence through the university or college study.
In today's society, people need more knowledge and skills to be adapted. The university and
college study is a good way to achieve this.

2) If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you
change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. (a) Everything in the
universe is in constant change. And everything needs continual improvement if the ever
changing and increasing demands of humankind are to be met. If I were ever given the
chance to change one important thing about my hometown, it would be Internet service.
Needless to say that nothing generally revolutionized the way we live as Internet in the past
decade. Thus, an improvement in this vital service would mean an even more, unheard
betterment to the people in my hometown.
It is said that information is power. True saying indeed! I can envision how everything in my
hometown could improve dramatically if the Internet service in it were made free, fast and
staying out there like electricity, telephone or water all the time. One thing, a fast free and
reliable Internet service could improve in my hometown is the way people work. If there is
this said service people in my hometown must not necessarily commute to a far place to do
their job. This in turn would mean less traffic jams, spacious work place, more time for
family and recreation and so on.
The way people learn would be another important thing that a fast, free and reliable Internet
service could better in my hometown. People will have the chance to go through tremendous
and different information resources in a very small amount of time. They apparently will also
take less time to share it. This assures a more fulfilled life for my hometown people.
Since its advent, Internet touched every part of our life. It in a dazzling way improved the
way we do business, learn and communicate. A change in Internet service implies good way
of living for every one in my hometown.

3) How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons and specific
examples to support your answer.
(a) Hesitating I enter my house, the light outside is dimming and the shadows make
everything appear unfamiliar. I know that my husband has not returned from work yet,
simply because his car is not in the garage. I am alone. I carefully check all the rooms,
almost expecting something to happen suddenly. I hold my bag in my hand as if it were a
weapon. After the whole house has been declared “clear,” I start to breathe normally again
and a smile appears on my face as I realize, once again, how a simple movie seen at the
cinema a week earlier can modify my actions.
Sometimes I wonder if I should watch TV, with all its shows that make me wonder whether I
exercise enough, whether I am slim enough, or whether I treat my pets with the care they
deserve: am I really concerned about their mental health. Not to mention the hundreds of
commercials that try to make me believe I need a water purifier to remain alive since the
water I am currently drinking is heavily polluted! And countless are the times when I have
heard people talking by quotations learned from movies… We need to watch shows and
films to know what to say, how to be, how to act. We are so addicted to all this that it almost
seems like we cannot think on our own.
I cannot help thinking about what happened to me some days ago, an example that clearly
shows what kind of power TV has over people. My husband and I were in a restaurant when
I heard my young neighbor pronouncing violent words in a low angry voice. Surprised, I
turned to better understand the situation and I saw that he was holding a fake military device
and was acting as if he were filming a war movie. I am sure that if I had been a little be more
updated about this type of movie, I would have recognized what he was saying as a
quotation. Now, I wonder if he uses such a language also with his friends and with his
parents, if he is aggressive, and if so, whether his attitude has really nothing to do with what
he watches on TV.
That same evening on the way home I saw two cars stopped one next to the other at a traffic
light and as soon as the light turned green they started racing, in the middle of town. In this
case not even a major knowledge of movies and TV programs would have helped me: there
are just to many of them on the market showing the exact same thing: people racing with
cars.
I am sure that everybody, if asked, could easily list many other examples of how TV and
movies can modify our behavior and therefore our life but, I wonder, if we will always be
able to draw the line between a TV show and real life, between what they make us think we
want and what instead we really need and are and believe.
4. Television has destroyed communication among friends and family. Use specific
reasons and examples to support your opinion.
(a) Television is undoubtedly one of the most powerful means of communication in the
history of humankind, rivaled only by such other forms of communication as the Internet, the
telephone, movies, and, of course, simple, low-tech speech. Television, with its wide
availability and rich media with image and sound, is difficult to ignore and even seductive in
its appeal. Television is as much a part of our lives as are our meals, work, or school; studies
consistently show that the average American child spends almost as much time watching
television as she does in school. Furthermore, because television is so rich in its media, it
often requires our full attention or is more attraction to us than are our daily lives. Naturally,
the more time one spends watching television, the less time she has with her family and
friends. Thus, we can clearly see why some have claimed that television has been harmful for
communication among family and friends. However, I believe that, while television has been
somewhat harmful in its effects, it has hardly "destroyed" communication among family and
friends for most people, although for some, this may be true.
Most people prefer spending time with their families and friends to spending time watching
television. Television is of course an important part of many people's lives, but most people
would gladly choose family and friends over television were they given the choice.
Furthermore, most educated people are aware of the deleterious effects of too much
television and either avoid excessive time watching television, or actually do not enjoy it. I,
for example, after a long day at work, would much rather spend time talking with my wife
and playing with my children than I would watching some unrealistic portrayal of life on
television. For my family, and me our time together is precious and beautiful, and could
never be replaced or hurt by television.
Furthermore, the effect of television is simply not so great that it could be said to have
"destroyed" communication among family and friends. Granting that communication
among family and friends in industrialized countries has decreased in recent years, it might
be tempting to blame this problem on television since its rise roughly coincided with the
decrease in time we spend with our families. However, I believe this situation is more likely
due to increased pressures relating from work, school, and the economy. In my case, for
example, I find that my pressures from work are so great that I must often sacrifice time at
home so that I can meet the challenges of running my own business. Many of my friends
are in similar situations--my best friend, for example, has just finished law school, which
took about sixty hours a week of his time. In a word, people nowadays have very little time
for anything, but television is not the cause--it is increased desire to succeed.
In some situations, however, television has surely contributed to a decrease in
communication among family members. In my childhood in the countryside, I often saw
parents and children watching television for hours on end, rarely speaking with one another.
It seemed for them that television was a way to escape from their sad, miserable existence.
However, even in this case, I would say that television merely contributed to the bad
situation, but did not cause it; were television not existent, surely these people would have
found other escapes, alcohol or gambling, for example. In other words, people always find a
way to do what they want to do.
In short, I do not believe that television has destroyed or even harmed interpersonal
communication among most people. Most people realize that television is merely a
temporary diversion and do not use it to replace interpersonal communication. I believe that
the damage attributed to television is greatly exaggerated and that such damage is most likely
attributable to other more powerful social factors.
5. “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with
success.” Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and
examples to explain your position.
I fully agree with the claim that there is no correlation between success and luck.
Moreover, I understand success to refer to one’s ability to achieve the predominant part of
his goals in his lifetime, which in turn leads to a correlation between success and income
since the accomplishment of such a natural goal as to provide a good future for your loved
ones demands the means. What is the simplest and most lawful way to earn enough to
consider you a successful person? To receive a good education and to find a good job. Both
receiving an education and making a career presuppose one’s readiness to work hard, and
success without hard work is simply not possible for the vast majority of the world's
population. The reasons and examples listed below will strengthen my point of view.
First of all, considering an education and a career as key factors of success, one will choose
to pursue a degree from a college or a university. One wishing to be admitted to the
university will have to take several tests. It is doubtful that someone will be so lucky that
knowing nothing; he could pass the test with a high score. A low score means failure, and
that test taker will not likely be admitted. Therefore, in order to be successful, one should
prepare for the tests and work hard, because a good education will provide him with a good
job and an opportunity to accomplish some of his goals and dreams. In my lifetime, I have
never met a person who could graduate from a college without working hard.
Secondly, it is impossible to make a career if one is indolent and lacking knowledge, at least
in developed countries. Luck plays no role in achieving this success. Even if someone was
unbelievably lucky enough to become a manager not being qualified enough, he will be
asked to resign in the near future because of his inability due to lack of knowledge and
experience to make right decisions. For instance, I used to work for a very small company
owned by a friend. This company was later closed because of bankruptcy. The cause of
bankruptcy was wrong strategies and decisions made by the owner. After the failure, he
went to a university and worked for another company so that he could obtain experience
and become a successful businessman. Nowadays, he considers himself a successful person
because he had turned into reality his two biggest dreams of producing consumer goods of
high quality and making charitable donations to needy people.
In sum, as long as someone understands success as an ability to turn into reality some of his
dreams and goals, he will have to work hard because he will need money. And his chances
to earn that money will remarkably increase if he could graduate from a college and make a
career. All of these things are simply not possible without hard work. Luck has no place in
such a scheme of events.
6) Neighbors are the people who live near us. In your opinion, what are the qualities
of a good neighbor? Use specific details and examples in your answer.

(A) Neighbors are part of our daily life. They are part of the process of socialization. Socialization is
the process in which we interact with other people. In our lives we are always trying to look for a
good area to live, a nice house, and most important of all good neighbors. This will influence in the
decision of either moving to the area, or star looking for another area. In my opinion a good
neighbor will be those who are respectful, friendly, and helpful.
The first quality that good neighbors should have is to be respectful. Respect is the most important
aspect of being good neighbor. Neighbors should respect your space and privacy in order to live in
a peaceful environment. Being a respectful neighbor means not invading your personal space as
well as your property. Another example will be to maintain a quiet environment not allowing loud
music, or noise that will bother others. Respect to one another is the most important quality that a
neighbor should have in order to live in harmony.
Another quality of a good neighbor is that it should be friendly. All people should be friendly to one
another, but this quality is most important when it comes to neighbors. Neighbors are close to you,
to your home, property and most important to your family. You might not see them every day, but
they live next to you all the time. These are the reasons why they should be friendly. One of the
ways to be friendly is by showing they care about you, and they should welcome you to their
neighborhood. Friendly neighbors make a good and united society.
The last quality of good neighbor is that it should be helpful. Neighbors as well as everyone should
be helpful to one another. Helpfulness is a characteristic that everyone should have. A helpful
neighbor is that, that in the times of need is there for you. For example, if a person is in a situation
where he/she needs a moral support for the lost a loving family member, the neighbor should give
this person all the support he/she might need and encourage he/she that they can count on them
no matter what. Overall good neighbors are those whom are respectful in every way. Friendly, that
every time you see them they greet you with a good smile. And good neighbors are those whom are
helpful when ever you need a supporting hand.

B) Neighbors are the people who live closest to us, so close that there maybe only a cemented wall
separating their abodes. Therefore, I believe that a person has many responsibilities towards his
neighbors. In my opinion the qualities of a good neighbor are, that he should be helpful, friendly
understanding and trustworthy,
I would like to quote a personal example here. This incident just happened last year when a couple
of my relatives came with arms to threaten my father. My mother and me were on the door and
screaming our lungs out at them. Hearing our voices my neighbor, a very pious lady, came to our
house with her guards and sons. She helped us to get our relatives reported to the police and that’s
not it she walked beside my family in every trial concerning this issue. Now that truly is a quality of
a good neighbor! She turned better then our relatives also, a helpful and faithful friend, indeed.
Another quality of a good neighbor is to be trustworthy. A neighbor always has some knowledge
about what is going on in the four boundaries of a house. This is because he lives so close to you, he
can hear voice, see your appearances, and observe who comes to your house and who goes; at what
time. Basically, a neighbor can gossip about half of the things happening in your life. That is where
the quality of a good neighbor comes in. A good neighbor should be trustworthy and sensible
enough to not leak out one's family secrets.
I believe that neighbors are very close people and being a good neighbor is a duty that everyone
should fulfill. It highlights the basic concept of give and take. As a neighbor is the nearest person to
one in the darkest hour of the night also, therefore one should always be a good neighbor so that he
is also treated in the same manner when he is need.