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2) Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and
examples to support your answer.
(a) 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.
(b) 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
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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.
3) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
(a) Obviously, the first teachers we have in our lives in most cases are our parents. They
teach us to walk, to speak, and to have good manners before we reach "the real world."
More than even the professional teachers that we have in school, parents are generally the
most involved in the development and education of children.
Almost for sure our parents are the best teachers at the beginning of our lives, which
actually corresponds to the parents' role in nature. Parents are most committed and
involved in teaching their children; they have a kind of instinct to sacrifice a part of
themselves for the betterment of their children. They love us and have great patience while
passing down their knowledge to us. They wish us a success and thus will not teach us bad
things. And of course, implicit learning occurs when children unconsciously copy some of
their parents' habits and styles of behavior.
During the second stage of child development, adolescence, parents can still be in the best
position to offer advice even though the children might not accept it. In this case, perhaps
the child's friends would be the best teachers. Adolescents are notoriously rebellious in
many cultures and may automatically reject any advice from their parents. My first
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marriage for instance, was solely a matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to
intrude in offering their advice. So in such matters, parents should be much more flexible
and be rather the partners with their children. So we can see that being a teacher of
growing child become more and more complicated case as the time passes and many
parents are simply not able to meet the increased demands.
On the other hand, I would say that parents are not professional teachers and they tend to
be very biased by their love of their children. So wishing good things and an easy life may
prevent children from maturation. In any case, parents usually can present only one
viewpoint of the world, while good teaching should be based on different attitudes. Thus,
when children go to school and have a great diversity of teachers, they learn much more
than their parents could probably give them. Furthermore, once our parents get older, they
become more conservative and cannot always be objective in regard to modern trends and
fashions. Thus we need to take their advice with caution during that period. However,
some kind of intuition, which I believe, shared between relatives about what everybody
needs and great love, which exists in families, still makes our parents very good teachers
and advisers at any time.
In conclusion, while parents are not the ideal teachers, and well-rounded children will
generally need a great diversity of teachers in their lives in order to have a more accurate
view of the world, parents are generally the most committed of all teachers and have the
greatest emotional investment in their children and their future
4) Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way
people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
5) It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and
contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your
opinion, which source is more important? Why?
(a) People always are learning and practicing through their whole lives. From reading
words in textbook such as toy, car, train etc., people have the concept and ideas. They
further understand the actual meaning of these words by playing toys and riding or driving
cars, trains etc.
Education (books) and experience are the main two channels for People to gain their
knowledge. Each plays different roles for people. In my opinion, knowledge from
experience is more important than that from books.
Experience first can prove if the knowledge formbooks are true or false. Textbooks are
very wonderful in teaching people essential principles, how is the world looks like? What
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