Teng+Yang

Internet has a far-reaching impact on the whole society and the whole world in the 21st century, we cannot deny that the Internet must have the positive and negative sides in society. the positive sides are that there are so much information blocked out and people cannot see important information, so, everyone transfers their focus on the internet not the TV or newspaper and then, the internet is regarded as a stage that people can discuss their problems, talk about the events and so forth. one thing can be sure of is that the internet connect everyone in the world. the negative sides are that when some people start to take advantage of the function of the internet to spread the wrong messages, the disadvantage to people or to country will appear and distort the truth or give the world the wrong direction. nonetheless, the positive sides are better than the negative sides, government doesn't need to shut down the internet and they just monitor it. people should have a place that they can express their opinion and have some voice to say. internet will not be a threat or concern for their rule if they can balance it.

2.The first permanent movie theater opened on this day in 1902 in Los Angeles. What is your all-time favorite movie and why? 04/03/2012

There's one point I want to say that i am definitely curious about movies, I spend a lot of time watching movies at home or at the theater alone or with my friend when i have nothing to do, which is like my personal style to entertain myself. My favorite movie is "The Pursuit of Happyness" played by Will Smith and his son. The reason why I like is that this movie came from a real thing and a real experience. when I watched it 2years ago, I was totally touched and moved by the contend. I still can recall one plot in the movie that when the man cannot find a house to live in, his son accompanies with him and they live in the metro.

3.On April 11, 1968, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. This act protected the rights of people, including African-Americans and women. Do you think it’s important for all people to be treated equally? Why or why not?

When the president Johnson signed the Civil Right Act, everyone had their own right to do whatever they wanted at that moment. from my own perspective, it's definitely vital for all people to be treated equally. we are living in the same world, we should not have any racial segregation and racial discimination. in other words, we all have voice to express ourselves and the right to do what we want, which can be part of the Civil Right Act. no one can judge others because of their skin color or language or something else. In contrast, we are supposed to help each other, for we are a big family. we should know one thing that the way that you treat people is the way how people treat you, if someone have any ideas of discimination or treading people unequally, there's no doubt that they should be punished.

4.In 1936, Henry Ford established the Ford Foundation. This organization supports a variety of causes, including artistic and educational programs. If you were able to create your charitable foundation, what type of foundation would it be and who would you help?

if I have a chance to set up the charity or charitable foundation, I absolutely will treasure it. every foundation has their own name that they can easily run it and people can remember you, so i decide to figure out the name which is the foundation of Daniel-with-you. i have two focus or responsibilities, one of which is concentrating on the impoverished people in the world especially those living in the third-world. another one is paying attention to their health service. They are the two main things I have to do. Since I set up it, i will make it popular, the celebrities, noble people and multinational companies will be gathered here to protect and give people hands. we will provide the financial aids, medical service to help those who don't have money to support family, no food to eat, and no place to live in or help children's education. no matter what it is, if they have problem, we will try our best to give them the what they want. By the way, this charity is for the world, for we are living in the same planet, so we are a big family.

**The second week**
1. Imagine you opened your own restaurant. Tell the name of your restaurant. Explain what the restaurant looks like, who works there, and what you serve.

Suppose I can open my own restaurant and be in charge of it, I absolutely will give my restaurant a meaningful name that can attracts people's attention when they walk by. So, i decide to use "Home Kitchen" and then, the style of my restaurant will combine the western and eastern culture giving people a feeling of staying at home when they have dinner. since i run my own restaurant, i will recruit the excellent chef and superior employees to help me manage the restaurant. everyone should get along with each other, which is a vital element in restaurant deciding the live or die of the restaurant. finally, when people pick up our restaurant, we are supposed to make our endeavor to meet their needs and different tastes, so we will do more research about food and keep moving.

2. If you could have lunch with any famous person who would it be? What would you talk about with this person?

I will be appreciate being given this chance to have lunch with a famous people with specific insight and creativity as well as imagination in America, this person is Tim Cook, the new CEO in Apple. He has been working with Steve Jobs for a long time before jobs died. I will ask him all types of questions and discuss some problems that people are concerned about. some important questions will be put on the table, for example, how does he take all the staff to make another breakthrough like steve did before in this sophisticated market? and how to create brand-new thing that can attract the world's attention and even with regard to argument that whether apple company doesn't take the environment issues into consideration? after that, i would like to know more ideas of new technologies and products, for i am super fans and crazy about apple's products.

3.If you could be on any game show, what would it be? Describe what happens when you're on the show.

Talking about the game show, i have to say that I'm curious about the sports game, for it's so prevalent in China. There's no doubt that I will be on the basketball court in the game of 2K12, and this can be an unbelievable moment for me in my life. I will follow the rules and procedures to be a superstar in that field. first, I will be elected to be a candidate in NBA waiting for a chance of being chosen by a team. And then, I have to do more practice in team and do more training programs until i can meet the team requirement to play match. After reaching all the goals, playing matches cannot satisfy me, i am supposed to make more progress and help my team to win the championship, which is our ultimate goal. Eventually, my teammates and I win the championship with our continuous efforts and our confidence. So, this is the whole events i can figure out in this game.

4. Talk about one of my journey?

In 2008, I went to Shanghai to visit the EXPO and did a city sightseeing. More specially, I was curious about this sophisticated city and its city culture. To be honest, there were too many people, particularly in EXPO. I got up early and bright before 6 am, prepared all the things and headed to the entrance of EXPO. Hardly had I been shocked when I got there at half past seven, hundreds of people were waiting for the opening time. when it was open, I went through the security-inspect channel and the ticket inspection. My first pavilion was the USA and I spent two days in EXPO and anther two days in the center of Shanghai. Almost half of pavilions that I have seen, like Libya, French, Italian, Algeria, Angola, Canada(amazing), Lithuania, Croatia, Holland, Slovakia, Albania, Sweden, Australia Norway and so forth. And also one third of places of interest I have visited, to be specific, the Bund, The Oriental Pearl Tower, Jinmao Skyscraper (one of the world largest buildings) and Shanghai World Financial Center. Overall, this journey is so good, and it was as perfect as what I expected.

** The third week **

1.Some peope think that schools shound concerntrate on academic classes. They think music and sports classes are not useful. how do you think?

From my own perspective, people can be divided into different groups, each of which hold different opinions. Consequently, I strongly recommend that school is supposed to balance this controversy, which is to focus on both sides. Academic classes are taken by students in order to let them obtain the knowledge and enlarge their horizons and then they can get a better performance in school. The music and sports classed opened for students are giving them a stage to cultivate their hobbies and help them ease their burden in class. So, these classes are as important as the academic classes, those who are not in favor of it should not just pay attention to their academic but consider taking some other classes, music, art, football, whatever, to develop their interests. In conclusion, students should take both classes into account, and as doing so, they are able to enjoy the process of learning.

2. In many parts of the world children and teenagers are committing more crimes, why is this happening? how can we solve it?

In the contemporary society, the percentage of the crimes committed by children and teenagers are increasing gradually. Their crimes actions will put them into jail and destroy their whole life and have negative influence on their mental and phycological health. we may question that why they commit crimes and they should have stayed in school receiving the education. Throughout some research by organizations, they find that some factors push them to do it or they have to do it, like stealing, robbery or taking drugs. The factors are mostly associated with their growing environment and family, which are like that when they was born in poor family, their parents can hardly provide the fundamental necessities, so they have to find a way to live, and crimes are the shortcuts to get money even it's at risk. however, facing this issue, we have to appeal to the government to help them and give them chance to study at school.

3. In some countries, it is illegal for companies to reject job application for their age, how do you think?

This policy the we face is supposed to go back to the drawing board to consider whether it is beneficial to companies. My stand point is that this policy has both positive side and negative sides. The positive side is that companies rejecting recruiting employees who are too old is because they do not want to pay more money on their health care than young staff and also they do not have enough energy to deal with the pressure they will take in office, so the company can cut off the expenditure on the health insurance. The negative side is that those companies will run into a snag and get into troubles, for they do not have experienced staff to figure problems out and make solution works. In other words, the policy may break the laws, because all people have their own rights to do what they want.

4. some people think university education should prepare students for employment. Other people think university has other functions. what's your views?

University is a academic place or platform in which all the students can receive the higher education. A vast majority of people discuss the function of the University education, what is that? what can we learn from it? My answers are that university education is not just teaching you how to take class, obtain knowledge and then you can prepare your resume after graduation, but letting you know that you have to find what you love and the things you are interested in at school and then you develop it and balance your study and hobby. This is the real function of university education, which teaches you how to explore yourself, your value, your mind,and your potential. you will not worry about your job when you finish the entire procedure.


 * The fourth week **

1. Nowadays, distance-learning programs are such common thing for us, but some people argue that courses can never be taken as good as those by attending in college or university in person. what do you think of it?

Technology develops in an astounding speed, and everything can be connected to the technology, our life, study, work or daily affairs. There is such a popular way that is the distance-learning, which becomes an essential part in University or College. They provide online courses for students to take and then they will get diploma after finishing it. However, I think this method is not as effective as we expect, for they do not have any interaction with teachers and it may cause the visual fatigue, which will let them feel tired and distracted. My view of point is that most of the course should be taken in class, which is the best way the receive the education, few of the courses posted on the website by school can be done in apartment or home, for the distance-learning program remains the benefits of time and money.

2.Many people who leave school hold a negative attitude towards learning? why does this happen? how to solve it?

People holding the negative attitude towards learning is mainly because they don't know how to do and what kind of things to study. In any sense, we can say that they are afraid of starting it again. And this problem also can belong to the effect of the education in their younger age. A lot of people think that when they study hard and try their best to learn much knowledge at school, they find that these things cannot be used in their real life. So they would rather do the regular things than study the new things, which will spend much time doing it. Given this idea, the best method is to help them build the confidence and let them know the advantage of learning. leaning can help them work the problems out and get to know themselves, most importantly, learning can give them the right road to walk on avoiding to go astray. No matter what, they should be aware of the importance of the life-long learning.

3. It is believed that people reading for pleasure have better developed imagination and language skills than people who prefer to watch TV, do you agree or disagree?

No, I don't totally agree with this opinion. Reading may be giving you enough space to think about what happened and how it looks like in your mind, however, I think watching TV should be a better way to develop the imagination, because the motion picture can give you more new and emerging ideas and you won't feel weary to develop more imaginations in your mind. what's more, reading won't teach you how to truly learn the language skills, it just teaches you how to pay attention to the method or some theories. Verbal and linguistic learning are the best method to learn a language, watching TV can meet the needs when you study a language. So from my stand of point, people watching TV have a better developed imagination and language skill than those reading.

4. To what extent do you agree or disagree that societies benefit from the international tourism and business?

International tourism will bring societies many benefits, the most vital factor is the development of economy, and then it will promote the construction of cities. The international tourism also will make contributions to the advancement of society. Along with the spread of globalization, societies become more globalized, which speeds up this process. No doubt that societies will gain more interests from the tourism industry and business related to it. To be specific, tourism will bring the different culture and value and in order to meet tastes for both parties, the domestic and foreign tourists, all types of business will exist in society giving the benefits to the both people and society. that's the reason why societies benefit from the international tourism and business.

1. some people think pollution and damage of environment are resulted from a country developing and becoming richer, and this is hard to be avoided. To what extend do you agree or disagree? The development of a country exactly increases the pollution and damage of environment, but it's not as severe as we think. Some of the problems are that the pollutions can be divided into air pollution, water pollution and noise pollution, the damages can be like the deforestation, the decrease of rare animals and so on, because a country's speed of development depends on the expansion of population and the Hi-tech. So, many problem like them will be exposed to public, but it can be partly avoided, and the government will make the plan to make the environment and development compatible. Nonetheless, I hope that government should pay much more attention to these problems than before and avoid them to be serious. **2.**Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Dancing plays an important role in a culture. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Dancing is a specific form in art, which reflects and represents culture in a visual way giving people a special perspective to understand the culture. namely, when you travelled to a new country with different culture, and you will pay more attention to everything there, and also you are hungry to know their culture, at the situation, if you happen to watch some people dancing on the street, you can easily know the differences between your culture and their culture, after that you can melt in their culture and start to explore everything you want. So, dancing is a non-verbal language that can shorten the distance between people. that is the reason why we say that dancing plays an important role in a culture. 3.People have different ways of escaping the stress and difficulties of modern life. Some read; some exercise; others work in their gardens. What do you think are the best ways of reducing stress? Use specific details and examples in your answer. Stress can be met in every situation, and the moderate stress will motivate us to study and focus on our stuff, however, the heavy stress will make us feel tired and block us to move forward. people have their own method to ease the pressure and get out of this trouble. I have my own way to reduce stress and keep me refreshed, as far as I am concerned, the best ways to reduce stress are doing workout and listening to music. Both methods can help you relieve the pressure as soon as possible, which can be viewed as the most effective for people to follow. Doing workout is a better stage for people to relieve the pressure they meet in their work or study, which can transfer your focus to another thing. listening to music can comfort you and provide you a specific atmosphere to think about your work or study. So I always use these two methods to ease my stress.
 * The fifth week (01/05/2011) **

4. You have been told that dormitory rooms at your university must be shared by two students. Would you rather have the university assign a student to share a room with you, or would you rather choose your own roommate? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer. If I am informed of this news that requires me to make a decision, I have to say that I prefer to choose my own roommate sharing the room with me. The reasons can be classified into three elements, one of which is that I am afraid that my roommate has some bad behavior making me feel uncomfortable, for example, if my roommate always has a party with his friends in our room, that could be a nightmare. next is the personality, I am an outgoing and easy-going people, and I can get along with everyone, but if I meet a roommate with a strange personality, I definitely cannot have had enough with it. The last thing is the value. I don't want a big gap between me and my roommate. If I simplify my reason, I can say I just want a normal people sharing the room with me and we can have nice conversation whenever we want.

1. Imagine that you are preparing for a trip. You plan to be away from your home for a year. In addition to clothing and personal care items, you can take one additional thing. What would you take and why? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice. Apart from choosing clothing and personal care items, i will take my smartphone with me. People will think that it's just phone and the basic function is just to take pictures and call for someone. However, I am professional at using smartphone, which means that I can make full use of all the functions of phones to finish my targets and give me benefits while traveling. To be specific, I have my personal blog, Facebook and twitter, when i take pictures of those scenic spot, i can post them on my Facebook, twitter, or even i send them to my parent via email, this is a real long-distance contact, and I enjoy it. What's more, i will use the Internet to search for the information about the place where i am and use is as a map. In sum, this is my reason why I choose it.
 * The Sixth Week**

2. When students move to a new school, they sometimes face problems. How can schools help these students with their problems? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer. When students move to a new school, they may feel shy to talk with peers, which is like a psychological block in their mind that limits their life. School can hold some activities to help them develop their personal relationship with other students, especially their classmates. The main purpose of these activities are to eliminate their psychological block and make them feel free to do everything. For example, school can hold the freshman party for those new students in order to make them know each other. And then school is able to give them lectures to them telling them what they should do at school, they will find confidence and feel like doing everything they want.

3. It is sometimes said that borrowing money from a friend can harm or damage the friendship. Do you agree? Why or why not? Use reasons and specific examples to explain your answer. As far as I am concerned, borrowing money from friends or classmates will damage the friendship in any sense. it can be like that your friend borrow money from you, and they promise to pay back after one week, however, you don't get your money after two weeks, which makes you feel uncomfortable. In this situation, you will doubt your friends purpose of why he borrows money from you. this idea will damage the friendship between you and your friend, you feel it embarrassing to ask him to return your money which makes this situation worse. From this example, we can know that we should pay more attention to this problem.

4. Every generation of people is different in important ways. How is your generation different from your parents’ generation? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer. My generation, we call 90's in China, is the most independent and creative generation. We have our own ideas and thinking to do something and we won't be limited by adults' opinions. There's a big gap between our parents' generation and us. for example, firstly, we are fond of looking for a different life trying to experience a special life, but our parents' just want a simple life. secondly, we love technology and junk food, this is a common phenomenon within most of people, however, in our parents' ear, they don't have much advanced technology, and they just eat healthy food. lastly, we are curious about creative things, and the more creative those things are, the much fun we can feel. so, these are some kinds of different things between parents' generation and our generation.

1.What are some important qualities of a good supervisor (boss)? Use specific details and examples to explain why these qualities are important. Each company or team needs a good boss to lead them, so boss's action and behavior can affect their performance. But three different qualities can take effect on the whole team or company, which are the value, ambition and diploma. thinking about these three aspects, boss with a high value can create more things than others, like boss will break the rules in the market and bring more creative thinking for employees due to the different value. Boss cannot go further without ambition, for example, if a team want to jump into a new market, they have the courage to take risks and have ambition to compete with other companies. Last one is the boss's diploma, boss can teach staff how to do something because he has a higher diploma and much experience, such as the PhD or graduate diploma. if boss doesn't have the three things, it will be so hard to be in charge of a team.
 * Seventh Week**

2.It has recently been announced that a new movie theater may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. Suppose that there will a move theater being built in my neighborhood, i will hold my hands to agree with that. The world is becoming more entertaining with the emerge of more new technology and people's creative mind. And even movie is a branch of it and a big market in the world. In a movie theater, a lot of other industries will appear like game, bookstore, food and advertisement. So, it's an exciting news for me or for many people, and we will feel the convenience of watching movies in theater. For example, my friends and I like to hang out but find it hard to entertain ourselves, now, if the theater is built, we will have more choices to entertain ourselves. In other words, the local economy will be increased by it.

3. Imagine that you have received some land to use as you wish. How would you use this land? Land has a large potential prospect in any other countries. If i receive some land, I will use land as a tool of investment. I will make a new plan to make full use of all the resources, which is like that I attract the investors to make investment, and then I run my own business of real estate industry to make money. When everything is settled down, everyone will find that a lot of other industries are motivated, especially by the real estate. For example, I build house in my land and sell them few years later, which is how I make profits, and it's three or more times than before. And then I attract investor to make investment like supermarket and theater, I will make more money from the renting and investment. From a series of things, I estimate that I will be millionaire in no more than 3year. What a nice plan!

4. When people move to another country, some of them decide to follow the customs of the new country. Others prefer to keep their own customs. Compare these two choices. Which one do you prefer? People moving to a new country will feel uncomfortable with native culture and customs, so there are two different groups that hold their opinions. Some says that why will keep it on, which is a way to reserve tradition and history. other express that they will change to follow the customs of the new country which will make them adapt in a new environment. As far as I am concerned, we should take advantage of both merits to adjust ourselves, and reserve some own customs and receive new costumes of new country. it's like that local people will learn your customs and learn your culture, and in exchange, we also will learn their culture. So, we can reach a win-win situation at this point.

1.Many people visit museums when they travel to new places. Why do you think people visit museums? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Many people will put the tour of museum on their agenda when traveling to a new city, there are several reason that can explain that, one of which is that museum has many histories about the city that can give people a picture of knowing this city. for example, if i go to museum, i will get more information about this city I visit and then I will know its value and its history, which makes feel that this traveling is worth. Another reason is that I can appreciate some of the arts and get to know famous artists in this city. namely, it’s good chance for people to understand the city’s talent people and style. arts can reflect the environment where artists live, so if you know their piece of art, you may know the real life of the city you visit.
 * The Eighth Week**

2. 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. Everyone has neighbor even they sometimes meet. we should have good neighbor that can get alone with everyone including me and my family, in other words, we are also neighbors to them. Being a good neighbor, they are supposed to take care of other neighbors, and create a harmonious environment, and then they can sometimes hang out with others or have dinner together to develop the relationship with others. This is not just for other neighbors, even we have to do it as so. To illustrate, we have some festivals in my country, and in one festival like new year day, my family and I can invite our neighbor to have dinner with us, in return, they also will invite us, which is a culture in China. By doing so, we can know each other more and develop our relationships, or if one people has some problems, others can give favors to them.

3. 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 prefer the latter one that it is always better to have a teacher, even I think sometimes people can learn better by themselves. Actually, teacher plays an important role in students' process of studying, for students will face different kinds of problems which make them feel frustrated and depressed, at that situation, only teacher can help them get rid of it by their personal experience. teacher can spread knowledge to students and lead them to do right things. for example, I sometimes will learn things by myself, however, part of them are proved to be in vain because of the wrong method, so my teach gives me instructions and help me work it out.

4. In some countries, teenagers have jobs while they are still students. Do you think this is a good idea? Support your opinion by using specific reasons and details. I think it’s not a good idea for teenagers to work while studying at school. They are too young to work outside, maybe they just want to make money to relieve the financial burden in their family. However, their parents send them to school hoping that they can learn more knowledge at school. When they work outside, they cannot balance work and studying, and then works will affect and distract their attention. One of my friends have this experience, he worked in a market and thought that he could balance it, but the result was that he spent much time on his part-time job, and then he did a bad performance in his study. So, if you are a student, you should focus on your study.