Some people think that we can learn our most important lessons in school. Others think that the knowledge we acquire outside of school is the most important.

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Some people think that we can learn our most important lessons in school. Others think that the knowledge we acquire outside of school is the most important.

Personally, I strongly believe that people acquire life’s most important lessons while attending schools. There are many sources to gain knowledge but there is none like school where the fundamental basic lessons are taught, negative experiences are shared and people are connected.

To begin with, we spend almost half of our lifetime in school, which means that we also get to experience negative aspects of life in there. After all these years of switching many schools, I came to conclude that school is a place full of hatred, jealousy and fierce competition among students who strive to be the ‘best’. What’s more, there is always a problem of being bullied and falsely accused. Once, my precious sister was feeling stressed over the fact that other girls were telling untrue lies behind her back. In the end, she understood how to deal with this situation and became stronger as result. Therefore, such situations influence students to gain confidence, feel independent and stronger in more real and practical life.

In addition to that, lessons taught in school are both necessary and essential for our future career and life in general. We learn various topics in classes such as biology, chemistry and history. More specifically, we acquire the knowledge of our past history, the basic understanding of human body and the ability to solve simple mathematical problems. Surprisingly, as a naïve girl who once thought that these classes were unnecessary and simply boring, I was surprised to realize that these so called ‘unnecessary’ lessons were, in fact, extremely useful and practical. After all these years of sweating and swearing over my physical education classes, I was able to escape from vicarious thieves who were on the verge of stealing my precious belongings.

Lastly, people find their best friends in school who teaches them lessons and aids them in a positive way. It is without a doubt that friends are the most important source of knowledge and lessons. Take my friend whom I met during my high school years for an example. As a cynical teenager who was once addicted to smoking, I persuaded my friend to give up on it and live healthy in order to live life to the fullest. Seeking temporary happiness for the exchange of permanent healthy life was not the best option she deserved and I told her blatantly. Now, she is a healthy person who cringes at the thought of smoking. There were countess moments where we helped and taught lessons to each other in life’s harshest moments.

By taking account of all these factors, I think that we are most inclined to understand and learn the most vital lessons by attending schools. People can experience both practical and theoretical knowledge as well as find once in a lifetime friend who would further guide them to become a successful person.

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Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.

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Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.

Today we live in a highly developed society with readily available products and new technology that make our day-to-day lives much easier and convenient than it was 100 years ago. Therefore, I strongly believe that I live in a more comfortable atmosphere than my grandparents did when they were children. It is mainly due to the advent of smartphones, development in medical equipment and the end of Soviet Union regime in Mongolia.

It is a widely known fact that our ancestors, including my grandparents, lived under the highly strict regime of Soviet Union and didn’t have the liberty and freedom as we have today. During this harsh time, people were restricted from speaking out against the rules of government as many people, mostly monks and intellectuals, were persevered and poorly treated when they protested against the government. Regardless of age, race, sex and wealth, every single individual of our grandparent’s generation was required to obey the rules given by Soviet Union. However, in 1990s, my country Mongolia was freed and people were emancipated when socialist regime of Soviet Union broke down. As a result, we, the children of our grandparents, are able to live in placid, calm and prosperous society with no strict regime.

As a result of the advent of democracy in Mongolia, several beneficial changes have been made, as the most fundamental one was the development in better health system. Number of great doctors from all over the world came to Mongolia in order to provide our citizens with better health care. Before this change, our grandparents had no proper access to hospitals and even if they had, those hospitals didn’t have the useful equipment and medical facilities that was required. Due to this fact, many innocent people, especially children, died at early age and even more people continued to live in pain and suffering that was considered untreatable at that time.

In addition to better hospitals and health care system, the advent of technology, especially smartphones were introduced with even greater impact. When Mongolia was under the control of Soviet Union, they virtually had no access to outer world as any tool of communication was prohibited in most cases. My grandparents didn’t have the smartphones or the concept of Internet during their childhood. On the other hand, almost all the children today greatly make use of smartphones by playing games, interacting among each other and listening to variety types of music.

For all of these reasons above, I can proudly say that the society I live in now is easier and more comfortable than the society my grandparents lived in. During their childhood, they didn’t even have the right to speak, and as a result they lived in poor living conditions and were separated from the rest of the world by having no communication tools. However, nowadays everything is readily available at the touch of our fingers making it possible for us to live more comfortably.

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Should a city try to preserve its old, historic buildings or destroy them and replace them with modern buildings? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

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#65 Should a city try to preserve its old, historic buildings or destroy them and replace them with modern buildings? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

The issue here is whether old, historic buildings in a city should be preserved or replaced by modern buildings. In my opinion, buildings of historical value should definitely be protected rather than destroyed. I base my point of view on following reasons.

Firstly, each historical building is precious property of human being. Like an antic, the value of an old building can not be measured by money. We will lose those valuable historical buildings permanently if we don't preserve them. Once a historical building is destroyed, we can never restore it; even if it is restored to its original look, the new building is only a fake replica; the historical value will never come back to us.

Secondly, a historic building always represents history and has educational functions. Each one of them can tell us a story. For example, some buildings are evidences of foreign invasion, others are signs of various religions existed in past decades. People nowadays can always obtain historic or cultural information through visiting these old buildings and sites. Although we can learn the past from books, pictures and by visiting museums, nothing can compare with the actual historical buildings themselves, which can bring vivid educational material to us.

Thirdly, historical buildings are a symbol of a city and a valuable tourist resource; therefore a city cannot go without historical buildings. Beijing is represented by the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, which are all historical relics. It is hard to imagine that someday the City of Beijing decides that all these buildings should be destroyed and modern buildings be built on their sites. Because those historical relics and buildings are too important to the city and can generate profound tourist income. A city will benefit more by protecting its historic buildings than by replacing them with modern buildings.

For all reasons given above, I will strongly suggest a city municipal should preserve the old, historic buildings.

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A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position.

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#5 A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position.

I have been living in a peaceful and quiet town for about 10 years. All people who live there are so kind, and the landscape is so beautiful that I love the town very much. Recently I heard news that a company will set up a new factory near my community. I was shocked and I hold a negative opinion about this decision.

The main reason why I oppose this plan is that establishing a new factory will cause environmental pollution. Take air pollution for example, as we know, a factory will give off a lot of waste gases which are harmful to people's health. Even though the factory will take measurements to purify the air, it can not make the air as clean as before. It is no doubt that people's health will be affected by the gases emitted from the factory. A factory also pollute rivers and streams. Our water will be too dirty to drink. Then environment will be damaged and people's health will be affected by the factory.

Another reason is that a factory makes too much noise. My community is always a quiet place and that is just what I like the most. A factory will cause the town to become too noisy. For example, every morning, we will be awoken from our dreams by the noise of buses which take workers to the factory. The noise of engines will also give bad influence to our temper, and may make us susceptible to anger, and easily lose our temper.

Furthermore, a strong reason to oppose this idea is that building a factory will destroy the landscape of this town. Most people living in this town make their living by cultivating and harvesting crops. The factory is inappropriate with the landscape of the town and it will occupy the land that is used for farming. It is a pleasant place now. It is safe and quiet. If a large factory is built there, our town will change a lot due to it.

Of course, building a factory also has advantages to some extent. For example, a factory will bring growth to the town. It will bring more working opportunities for local people, and also it will help to develop the local economy. But comparing with the disadvantages, I strongly oppose the idea to build a factory near my community.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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#2 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Who are the best teachers in our lives? In my opinion, 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 go out into the real world. More than the professional teachers that we have in school, parents are generally the most involved in the development and education of children.

The main reason for my point of view is that our parents are the best teachers at the beginning of everybody's lives, which actually corresponds to parents' role in nature. Parents are the 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 their children 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.

Furthermore, during the second stage of a child's 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 marriage, for instance, was solely a matter of doing the opposite of what my parents wanted when they tried to intrude in offering their advice. So in such matters, parents should be much more flexible and understand their children. We can see that being a teacher of growing child becomes more and more complicated as 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 for them may prevent children from maturation. In any case, usually parents 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 possibly teach 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 time period. 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.

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