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Topic: How do movies or television influence people's behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. (Erin Billy of www.TestMagic.com)
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 too 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.
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Topic: 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. (Erin Billy of www.TestMagic.com)
There is a humorous saying in English – “The grass is always greener on the other side of the
valley”. The saying is used ironically to point out that there is a temptation in us all to insist that others are more fortunate than we are. This is nowhere more true than on the question of luck and hard work. When faced with the “bad times”, we often find comfort in the idea that we are special in our degree of misfortune. I feel that such an attitude is negative, and that it can bring only further misfortune.
Many famously successful people have begun from small origins. Mao was the son of a (modestly prosperous) peasant; the explorer Captain Cook was so poor that, as a child, he had to work by day and study by night; many of the affluent Americans of today are the children of the poor immigrants of yesterday. Beethoven, it should be remembered, became deaf before the end of his career. There are many, many more people who have also made genuine, though Jess spectacular, successes against the odds.
Within his own terms, a person who is born into poverty in India is a great success if he manages to own a house in later life. Poverty cannot be reduced by merely complaining and blaming others: no matter how guilty other people are, each individual must reach out to success for himself. Indeed, some economists believe that the world operates by what they call “the rule of the jungle”. They believe that in economics a person a1ways attempts to gain profit from his neighbor: that given the chance the poor man would quickly make himself rich by trading to his own advantage.
Also, it is presumptuous to judge another according to his or her apparent fortune. No man can ever truly understand the sufferings of his neighbor. A man who appears comfortably rich may have suffered elsewhere in his life - through the death of a loved one, for example. Retired businessmen have often worked long hours in their youth. Surely, it must be wiser to respect achievement than to deny that anyone has achieved good in the world.
To rely on notions of luck - to believe that life is a kind of lottery - is an attempt to escape reality. Paradoxically, the only time a person can claim that luck is more important than work is when he reflects on his own success. Because of that modesty, the great man then becomes even greater.
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1. Idea: To attract more investment from China, Malaysia plans to lift up the barriers posed by entry rules for Chinese labor.
Key Words: attract, investment, lift up, entry rules
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- Aiming to attract more investment from China, Malaysia is taking steps to make some necessary changes, specifically, for its entry rules for China labor, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.
- Malaysia, in its attempt to make itself more open and attractive to investment from China, plans to relax entry rules for China labor.
Original Sentence (Cambodia Daily, Saturday Page 12)
Malaysia plans to ease entry rules for Chinese labor in a bid to woo more investment from the country, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.
2. Idea: Malaysian government is expecting that offering one of these various incentives will spur more friendly- business atmosphere between the two countries.
Key Words: incentive, spur, business atmosphere
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- As China has become a more and more important source of foreign investment, Malaysian government hopes that providing this incentive among the others will allow the government to promote friendlier-business atmosphere with China and benefit from this economy-booming country, said the source.
Original Sentence (Cambodia Daily, Page 12)
“It is one of various incentives the government hopes will allow it to reach out and tap into China as an increasingly important source of foreign investment,” the source said.
3. Idea: Places to sell during renovation and position of stands available inside the market are fundamental concerns of vendors and people working on the project saw them as their challenges.
Key Words: places to sell, renovation, position of stands,
concern of vendors, challenges, project
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- The program officer at Agence de Development Francaise, Herve Conan said that it is critically important to assure a workable space for vendors during renovation and position inside the new stands once the market is complete and these are the two main challenges that people carrying out the project have to find ways to solve.
Original Sentence (Cambodia Daily Page 12)
Herve Conan, program officer at Agence de Development Francaise, said that that assuring a functioning working space for all the vendors during the renovation as well as assuring their position inside the new stands once they are finished are just two of the major challenges (that) those working on the project have to deal with.
4. Idea: Successful operation of renovation project is accompanied by challenges.
Key Words: successful operation, renovation project, accompany(v),
challenge
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- Challenges always exist in big renovation project.
- In operating big renovation project, one must prepare to face challenges and overcome them.
Original Sentence (Cambodia Daily Page 12)
As with large-scale renovation project, successful operations do not come without their challenges.
5. Idea: Children are not always obedient and do not often follow their parents’ advice.
Key Words: obedient, follow, advice
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- In many cultures, many adolescents are believed to be stubborn and act against their parents’ advice.
- In many cultures, parents may be extremely upset by their ill-behaved adolescents.
Original Sentence
Adolescents are notoriously rebellious in many cultures and may automatically reject any advice from their parents.
6. Idea: Children tend to do the opposite when their parents force them to do something.
Key Words: tend, do the opposite, force
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- When my parents forced me to get married to a man, for instance, I purposely did the opposite way.
- My first marriage, for instance, was the best example to explain the consequence when my parents thought they could make me do what they wanted.
Original Sentence
My first marriage, for instance, was solely a matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to intrude in offering their advice.
7. Idea: Parents seem to be narrow-minded and out- of- date with current youth’s trends and fashions.
Key Words: narrow-minded, out-of-date, trends, fashions
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- Our parents cannot be easily convinced in regard to the current youth’s trends and fashions.
- Many parents, when getting older, are very conservative and seemingly do not give much appreciation to modern trends and fashions.
Original Sentence
Once our parents get older, they become more conservative and cannot always be objective in regard to modern trends and fashions.
8. Idea: It is a big exaggeration that damage is merely caused by just a factor: TV.
Key Words: exaggeration, damage, merely
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- Some people believe that television has destroyed communication among friends and family. I think this is an exaggeration.
- Other more powerful social factors rather than TV should be attributed for damage.
Original Sentence
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.
9. Idea: Many Americans work hard from nothing before holding a high status of today.
Key Words: work hard, hold, high status
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- Many famously successful people have begun from small origins.
- Many affluent Americans of today started their business from ground zero.
Original Sentence
Many of the affluent Americans of today are the children of the poor immigrants of yesterday
10. Idea: Complaining, blaming others and depending on luck are proved to be no use for poverty reduction.
Key Words: complaining, blaming, luck, poverty reduction
Sample Sentence(s) Possible With Close Meaning of Idea From Students:
- To rely on notions of luck - to believe that life is a kind of lottery - is an attempt to escape from reality and this cannot resolve the issue of poverty reduction.
- Ignoring your own duties and responsibilities for own enrichment and blaming others for not doing enough are poor excuses of failing to rescue oneself out of poverty.
Original Sentence
Poverty cannot be reduced by merely complaining and blaming others: no matter how guilty other people are, each individual must reach out to success for himself.
(Original sentences “5-10” are provided by Erin Billy of www.TestMagic.com)
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