TOEFL® topic: What are the important qualities of a good son or daughter?

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46) What are the important qualities of a good son or daughter? Have these qualities changed or remained the same over time in your culture? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

1. Respect
a. Polite Manner
b. Being friends not means not to respect them
c. Respect opinions of the previous generation even if it's quite old fashion!
2. Loyal
a. Look after parents when they become elders (heath care, …)
b. Not to get busy with our own lives forgetting our parents
c. Not to let them feel lonely if we left them (visits, calls)
3. Obedient
a. Either to convince them with what we're doing or not to do it
b. Not to refuse their demands
c. Accept Advices

47) Some people prefer to work for a large company. Others prefer to work for a small company. Which would you prefer? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice.

Big Company: Advantages greater than disadvantages

1. Dramatic development in your career
a. Higher Competition
b. Provide more training programs
c. Experience of dealing with highly talented persons
2. Multi-Culture
a. Bigger opportunities to travel abroad
b. Foreign experts
c. Cultural exchange
3. Better Salary
a. Higher ranges of salaries
b. Not to be in the need of another job to promote your income
c. more focused, more motivated

4 People work because they need money to live. What are some other reasons that people work? Discuss one or more of these reasons. Use specific examples and details to support your answer.

1. Enjoying work
a. Love what you are working until working what you love
b. Enjoy dealing with co-workers in work environment
c. Enjoy helping customers solving problems
2. Sense of accomplishment
a. Successfully finishing tasks
b. Touching the product or feeling the results
c. Self-satisfaction
3. Practicing our skills
a. Applying knowledge & skills in a real world
b. Improving & increasing our skills
c. Gaining experience: The real wealth

49) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, email, or telephone calls. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

Agree: Face-to-face communication's Advantages greater than its disadvantages

1. Immediate feedback
a. Observing receiver facial expressions
b. Adapt the message according to the feedback
c. Assuring that the receiver is paying his attention
2. Better way to deliver message (the goal of communication)
a. Eye contact
b. Body language
c. Not just words: "It's not important what you are saying! The important, is how to say it"
3. Longer communication
a. The duration of the communication doesn't require more costs like calls
b. Suitable for important, argumentative messages
c. Strength relationships

50) Some people like to do only what they already do well. Other people prefer to try new things and take risks. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

Trying new things: its advantages greater than its disadvantages

1. Dramatic changes around us worldwide
a. Compete for survival in the society.
b. Trying new things improves our adaptation and independence.
c. Easily adapt to new environments
2. Build our personality
a. Gain new experiences
b. Increase creativity
c. Improve our skills
3. Wonderful Challenge
a. Risk seeking attitude
b. The boring routine is vanished
c. New things are often more interesting

51) Some people believe that success in life comes from taking risks or chances. Others believe that success results from careful planning. In your opinion, what does success come from? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Taking Risks or chances: is more necessary to success.

1. A great number of opportunities
a. Every day, new businesses are created; new opportunities are created as well
b. Accepting risk enlarge opportunities
c. The more opportunities the greater success in life
2. “Failures teach success.”
a. Gain new experiences
b. Increase creativity
c. Improve our skills
3. Wonderful Challenge
d. Risk seeking attitude
a. The boring routine is vanished
b. New things are often more interesting

52) What change would make your hometown more appealing to people your age? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

Changes for Internet Service: fast, free and reliable

1. Improve the way people learn
a. Various information resources (Information rapidly grows Everyday)
a. E-learning
b. sharing material becoming Easier: online lectures, assignment
2. Improve the way people work
a. Asking for technical support world wide (Sharing technical experiences)
b. Up-to-dated to the new evolving technologies
c. Improve our skills: online training & Virtual labs
3. Multi-Culture
a. Making friends all over the world
b. Cultural exchange
c. Sharing personal experience world wide

53) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The most important aspect of a job is the money a person earns. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Close to Essay # 48
Disagree: Money is important; however, there are other important aspects of a job

1. Practicing our skills
a. Applying knowledge & skills in a real world
b. Improving & increasing our skills
c. Gaining experiences: The real wealth
2. Helping others
a. Enjoy helping others & solving problems
b. Enjoy the feeling of contribution
c. Teachers & Scientists Example
3. Sense of accomplishment
a. Successfully finishing tasks
b. Touching the product or feeling the results
c. Self-satisfaction

54) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? One should never judge a person by external appearances. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

Agree: External appearance doesn't exactly reflect personality

1. You may be missing out on an opportunity to make a good friend.
a. People that are not so good-looking can be very good people internally.
b. Example: "Beauty and beast" and "Snow white and seven dwarves" stories
c. May be two persons have different habits to choose clothes, hair style and the way to live. However, both share common interests and hobbies
2. Mislead your understanding of the other
a. Sometimes you can tell the person's characteristics from his appearance. However, in most cases, you can't tell exactly what the person is like just from the external appearance
b. A person who has a pretty face and wears beautiful clothes may not have same kind of heart inside
c. The internal characters of a person can not be judged by his or her external appearances.
3. Judging a person by external appearances is unfair and one-sided.
a. To evaluate a person fairly, you have to know his family, his situation and entirely and clearly.
b. A person who is from poor family may be intelligent and diligent.
c. The one who can afford expensive clothes may be indifferent with others.

55) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A person should never make an important decision alone. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Agree: It's safer to take important decisions with a group not alone

1. Sharing Ideas.
a. Often, it's not easy to have a global view of a certain point from all sides. we might not observe one of its views
b. One-sided view of an issue often leads to wrong decision
c. Sharing Ideas enrich the power of knowledge needed to take the decision

2. Consultants deliberation
a. Sometimes, a decision requires experiences from related consultants. In such a case decision maker will find difficulties to take a decision alone
b. Having one or more brainstorming meetings with appropriate consultants as well as involved persons in the important decision maximize the possibilities of making prudent decisions
c. "Jack of All, Master on None", No one is expert in all things therefore asking for a consultation whenever required is essential
3. Wider affect
a. The wider affect of the important decision, the more cost is associated to the wrong decision if it's considered
b. Unlike personal decisions, business, political and environmental decisions are related to wealth, safety and future of many others
c. Therefore, having such entire risk alone in definitely unwise

56) A company is going to give some money either to support the arts or to protect the environment. Which do you think the company should choose? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Protect the environment: More Urgent than supporting the arts

1. Clean air to breathe
a. Pollution from factories and cars can cause dramatic damage to the environment
b. Air Pollution is one of the most dangerous kind of pollution since it causes health problems particularly for children and the elderly who have weaker immune
c. We need to ensure that there are controls on the amount of pollution when possible so as to prevent health problems caused by breathing dirty air
2. Healthy ecosystem
a. Trees, plant life, and people all depend on each Other
b. An unhealthy environment can have harmful effects on the ecosystem.
c. For example, if a plant dies because of changes to the environment and that plant is food for an animal, that animal won't have any food. If humans use that animal as a food source, there could be big problems.
3. Future for our children,
a. If we do not respect our environment now, it will continue to deteriorate
b. Next Generation & our children will suffer the consequences.
c. They definitely would suffer from unhealthy air to breath or even they would not have the same natural beauty to admire

57) Some movies are serious, designed to make the audience think. Other movies are designed primarily to amuse and entertain. Which type of movie do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Amuse Movies: More than just entertainment

1. Relax.
a. After a long day at school and work, I need a break and something to take my mind off of the troubles of the day.
b. An entertaining movie is an interesting break for this purpose
c. When I watch an amusing movie, I don't have to think. I just want to sit back and relax.
2. Laugh
a. The greatest benefit of amusing movies that they make people laugh
b. Laughing is important for the soul.
c. Medically speaking, it's proved that laughing is important for the health as well.
3. Keeps me in good spirits.
a. Regardless to my current mood, Amusing movies often keep me in good mood
b. When I feel good I can focus more on other important things like my studies and work.
c. Being in good spirits makes me feel better about myself and even gives me a positive outlook on life.

5 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Businesses should do anything they can to make a profit. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
Disagree: Businesses should NOT do anything they can just to make a profit; many other things must be considered

1. The people I work with.
a. My colleagues are a very important part of my business.
b. I depend on them to help me carry on the day-to-day operations
c. I must compensate them for their work. Thus, I can't take large profits without sharing with the people who made it responsible.
2. The customers I serve.
a. I would not have a business without my customers.
b. Many other competitors around. Thus, I should never forget that they could take their business elsewhere
c. I can't overcharge them. I want my customers to trust me and keep coming back.
3. The community I live in.
a. My colleagues and I all live in the same community as our customers. We can't ignore it. We must instead play an active part in it.
b. I think, It is important that some of the profits my business earns from the community be returned to the community.
c. We need to support community programs like summer jobs for high school students and efforts to make the shopping area more attractive.
59) Some people are always in a hurry to go places and get things done. Other people prefer to take their time and live life at a slower pace. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Take my time: We have only one life to live!

1. Life is short.
a. You never know what may happen tomorrow so it is important to enjoy today.
b. You have only one life to live. Therefore, savor every second in it as far as you can
c. Doing a few things slowly and doing them well, you can savor the experience.
2. Haste makes waste.
a. We are not machines. We can't rush through things mechanically
b. If we do, we might forget something; we might take shortcuts.
c. By taking our time, we can do a chore carefully, completely, and correctly.
3. Slower life = healthier one
a. Definitely, live the life at a slower pace is healthier.
b. Being always in a hurry to go places and get things done has a negative effect to health.
c. The main cause of terrible health problems like heart attack and blood pressure is the exhaustive endeavor as a result of being always in a hurry.

60) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Games are as important for adults as they are for children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Agree: Games are important for adults too

Relax.
a. After a long day at school and work, I often get tired and need some relax.
b. Some kinds of games can be considered one of the pleasant way to do so
c. When adults playing games alone or with their families; this gives support for adult as well as children to preserve their health, to lessen their stresses and to enjoy life too.
Adds more knowledge
a. People can learn some knowledge while play games.
b. There are some games may benefit to mental abilities.
c. Word game can build up vocabulary, play chess can train people to think more clever and to taking prudent decisions
Enhance the personal relationship.
a. Some kind of games particularly group games group game can build up a good relationship between people.
b. Persons with the same interest in certain game will get together more often.
c. The friendship will be strengthened and they can learn from each other more things.