Essays for TOEFL exam
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Monday, September 30, 2013
Should governments spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should governments spend more money on improving public transportation (buses, trains, and subways)? Why? Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.
Should governments spend more money on
improving roads and highways, or should governments spend more money on
improving public transportation (buses, trains, and subways)? Why? Use specific
reasons and details to develop your essay.
All
means of transportation should be kept in good conditions. However, I believe
it would be most beneficial for a country or city, if its government spent more
money on improving public transportation. This would result insubstantial
standard of living improvements. The
volume of cars and trucks hitting the highways is dramatically rising every year. As a result, the number of traffic jams, accidents
and carbon monoxide emissions are doing too. All these factors have a
detrimental effect on our quality of life. Expanding subway lines and railroads
and developing an effective plan to combine buses and subways routes, would
eventually lead to a reduction in pollution levels, less traffic jams and less
stress for the people. If subway lines reached every corner of a city, people
would not need to use their cars to commute. Less cars on the road, means less
carbon monoxide emissions into the atmosphere; therefore, the air we breathe
would be more pure. Less cars also means less traffic jams, which translates
into less stress for drivers and better living conditions. Not every country has a well developed railroad
system. Consequently, they have to rely on trucks and
buses for ground transportation of passengers and freight. Expanding and upgrading
railroad systems will result in fewer trucks and buses on the
highways. Removing this kind of traffic from the highways and encouraging the use of trains, would be another way to reduce
congestion on the freeways. The reduction of traffic represents less
maintenance costs for the government. This surplus of money could
be used for other purposes. For example, a forest recovery program or a
national campaign against pollution. Highways, roads and public
transportation all require maintenance funds, but I think it is more important
to think about the future and how to make our countries or cities better
places to live in. Improving public transportation, will help reduce traffic jams, accidents and air pollution. A
safer, healthier and more enjoyable place to live a waits for us in the future.
What are some important qualities of a good supervisor (boss)? Use specific details and examples to explain why these qualities are important.
What are some important qualities of a good
supervisor (boss)? Use specific details and examples to explain why these
qualities are important.
It's surely not so easy to be a good
supervisor because you have to manage so many things and to deal with a lot
of people, including your employees. In my opinion, the most important
qualities a good supervisor should have are discretion, finesse and
impartiality.
Since a supervisor is usually responsible for
a company, project, or business,
etc., he will certainly meet many difficulties and problems and require him to
make correct decisions. If a supervisor has not discretion and hesitate to
solve the problems, he, of course, can't deal with them well, and he maybe lose
some chances of business or cause greater damage because of his hesitation.
Besides discretion, I think a good supervisor should have finesse and
impartiality. Usually a supervisor will supervise several employees. It is
common there is some conflict of interest among the employees. How to make the
employees get along with one another well is a task for a good supervisor.
Generally speaking, if a supervisor treats his employees impartially, he can
reduce or avoid the conflict of interest among the employees and make them work
hard. Jinny was a supervisor in my company, when there was a chance
of promotion in her department, she gave the chance to a employee who
worked very hard, not to her relative who also worked in her department. All
employees said nothing bad about the promotion but respected her. As a
supervisor, a person has to not only do his work well, but also manage his
company or team well. In order to be a good supervisor, the most important
qualities he should have are discretion, finesse and impartiality.
Some people think that they can learn better by themselves than with a teacher. Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons to develop your essay.
Some
people think that they can learn better by themselves than with a teacher.
Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. Which do you prefer?
Use specific reasons to develop your essay.
I support the view that teachers should be a
part of the learning process. Below are several beneficial reasons for which I
feel that teachers are needed in while learning. Below are also some of the
problems that come up without their presence. Primarily teachers are there for guidance
in a particular field or subject. They give you a systematic and better
way to approach a subject. A teacher normally teaches a subject in which he or
she has expertise in. Hence that person has made a study of the subject and can
guide you in order to help you approach the subject in a better way. This
guidance may be in the form of giving you names of reference books or
giving you notes. Without a teacher it would be extremely cumbersome to go
through large libraries for a certain topic. Besides this the teacher could
provide you help with any sort of problem that you come across while studying.
The teacher could provide you strategies that help you solve a problem. Without
a teacher, this problem would take up a lot of your valuable time or remain unsolved.
Teachers can also point out when you are going wrong. They point out our
mistakes and suggest ways for us to correct them. In the end it does depend on
the individual person to finally getting down to learn a subject. The actual studying
has to be done by the individual. But the learning process can be made much
simpler with the proper and continuous guidance of teachers. Hence it better to
learn with the help of a teacher rather than learning by yourself.
It has recently been announced that a new restaurant may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
It
has recently been announced that a new restaurant may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan?
Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
When thinking about a place where people can
gather and talk, I feel it a great
thing for the community. A restaurant, to me, is a great idea for my
neighborhood. Not only it a place that everyone can go to on special occasions,
but also it is good that people around my neighborhood have new kind of food;
since there is only one restaurant around my neighborhood. I really like this
plan because it really gives people a different restaurant to go to and another
place where new food can be found. Around my neighborhood, there is only one
Chinese restaurant for many years. I, myself, was tired of Chinese food and
really wanted another menu. One of my friends said no to me immediately when I
asked him to go to the Chinese restaurant. People around my neighborhood like
changes. Last week, a new shopping mall was opened and on the newspaper survey
of how people think about the new shopping place, everyone agreed that they
liked it. A new restaurant, to me, will be welcomed by my community. A place
where people around neighborhood can go to socialize with good food is very
important. The new ideas of the restaurant will give my neighbors another place
to come for business, special occasion, and much more. As I mentioned earlier,
the Chinese foods are very bland and almost everyone
hates it ; the new restaurant may
have a different menu that can give
everyone a fresh taste. The new restaurant is perfect for my neighborhood,
which likes changes and loves to go to place to talk and to eat tasty food.
This restaurant will take part to bring people together as a family and as a
community. The more people go to the restaurant, the more exciting and fun the
place will become. The restaurant may has many success and can leads to
more commercial building to be built.
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.
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.
From the very beginning of the development of
the society people live in small
groups. This helps them to face any problem easier .In my opinion a neighbor
must be first and foremost a good friend, secondly a person with good manners
and finally a sober-minded one. I will prove the importance of these qualities
one by one so you could understand my position. The importance of a
neighbor to be also a good friend can be proved by the following example. This
week, one of my neighbors was hit by a car. When this happened I was staying at
the balcony with my father, so we rushed out of the house and took our neighbor
to the hospital. If we came ten minutes later she would had died. That's why I
think a neighbor must be a good friend that would always help you. If you have
a neighbor with good manners, being neighbors becomes a pleasure for both of
you. A day begins batter if you get a "Good morning" from a smiling
and nice person. And finally, if your neighbor is a wise person you can always
get a good advice from him; he can always help you with to solve some difficult
problem. In conclusion, a neighbor must be an example of a man from a developed
society, because only then he can represent all the qualities mentioned above.
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