Which place would you prefer to live in?city or town

English as a Second Language Preparation for and help with the TOEFL® Test and
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  1. Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

What is your dream living place? Considering its quiet cirumstance and beautiful surrounding secenary , some people are fond of small towns . Nevertheless, others prefer to big cities, which provide a more convenient life style for human beings. Actually, I think living in a big city is better, as it owns advanced transportation system, more resources in education and employment, as well as various entertainments.

First, cities contain advanced transportation system for people’s daily life. The subways, the bus line, the plane, the train, the taxi and so on, all of which provide convenient ways for citizens to get wherever they want in a short time. For example, the subways have become the most popluar transportation way in big cities. Compared with bus and taxi, people do not need to worry about busy travel and the pay is much cheaper by taking subway. However, in towns, the transportations are limited and people sometimes must drive by themselves , which wastes more money and is more dangerous. Therefore, because of the advanced transportation system, the life have beome more efficient and effective.

Second, cities provide more resources in education and employment. More advanced equippments, more professional teachers and more newest information can be acquired by us all. Many parents always choose to send their children to big cities to accept better education, in order to ensure they can enter a better university and get a better job in the future. Meanwhile, cities provide jobs with higher payment and more confortable working conditions for us. If you work hard, you can get more opportunities to promote or perform your ability. In towns, people can not get a wide horizon and seems to be superficial.

Finally, cities make people’s life colorful by providing various entertainments. The theaters provide latest movies to people to appreciate, the parks provide plentiful resources to do exercise, the restuarants provide delicious food for us and the KTV provides a perfect environment to gather with our old students. All the entertainments make people feel relax and happy after a whole day’s work. The pressure, the tiredness, the troublesome are deleted once they joined in such happy entertainments. Thus the entertainments promise a healthy situation both on mental and physical for us.

In sum, I prefer to live in cities considering all the aspects. Just as the famous saying, city makes life more beautiful.

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  1. Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

What is your dream living place? Considering their quiet circumstance and beautiful surrounding scenery, some people are fond of small towns . Nevertheless, others prefer to live in big cities, which provide a more convenient life style for human beings. Actually, I think living in a big city is better, as it has an advanced transportation system, more resources in education and employment, as well as various entertainments.

First, cities contain advanced transportation systems for people’s daily life. The subways, the bus lines, the planes, the trains, the taxis and so on, all of which provide convenient ways for citizens to get wherever they want in a short time. For example, the subways have become the most popular means of transport in big cities. Compared with buses and taxis, people do not need to worry about busy travel and the fare is much cheaper by taking a subway. However, in towns, the transportations are limited and people sometimes must drive by themselves , which wastes more money and is more dangerous. Therefore, because of the advanced transportation system, the life has become more efficient and effective.

Second, cities provide more resources in education and employment. More advanced equipments and more professional teachers. The newest information can be acquired by us all. Many parents always choose to send their children to big cities to become better educated, in order to ensure they can enter a better university and get a better job in the future. Meanwhile, cities provide jobs with higher payment and more comfortable working conditions for us. If you work hard, you can get more opportunities to promote or perform your ability. In towns, people cannot get a wide horizon and seem to be superficial.

Finally, cities make people’s life colorful by providing various entertainments. The theatres provide the latest movies to people to appreciate, the parks provide plentiful resources to do exercise, the restaurants provide delicious food for us and the KTV provides a perfect environment to gather with our old students. All these entertainments make people feel relaxed and happy after a whole day’s work. The pressure, the tiredness, the troublesome problems are deleted once they have joined in such happy entertainments. Thus the entertainment promises a healthy situation both mentally and physically for us.

In sum, I prefer to live in cities after considering all of the above aspects. Just as the famous saying, “a city makes life more beautiful.”
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Not bad, but you need to buy a dictionary. I will be noting your next essay with this in mind.

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A famous leader has ever said “education is the most important productivity of the social development”. Accordingly, how to improve the quality of education has become a hot topic among human. Compared with someone’s opinion that the best way to improve the quality of education in a country is to increase teachers’ salaries, I insist on the statement that an advanced education pattern is the core, which means we should teach every student based on his or her characteristic.

First, an effective pattern can exploit students’ potentials and merits. When the teacher knows what the students are good at or interested in, he can provide more opportunities to them to develop their advantages. This can not only make them learn more, but also enhance their confidence about study. Take me as an example, when I was in a primary school, I was interested in math and hated Chinese very much, because I did not like to recite texts. My math teacher gave me a reference book about math and encouraged me to attend to a math competition. His behavior made me believe I can learn math better than anyone, so I studied much harder than ever. As a result, I got the first prize in the school competition. When I realized that I can do well in math, I can also do well in Chinese, as most people thought math is much harder than Chinese. From then on, I began to learn Chinese industriously and had a great progress on it.

Furthermore, an advanced pattern promises the education resources can be used effectively. Once we know how to teach each student, we can arrange the equipments, the teachers, the books reasonably. Nowadays, much resources have been wasted, which is obvious in universities. We always see that many books in the libraries have not been used fully by students, even no one have ever read them. Each year, universities pay a lot of money to purchase latest data-bases, in order to provide plentiful information which are useful for study to the students. In fact, most of them are not been read by anyone. If the money can be devoted to some practical projects, such as funds for students’ researches, they can be used significantly and completely.

Finally, an advanced pattern provides teachers more confidences and expectations about their jobs. All the students they instruct are not forced to study the subject, but they really like it. Because of them potentials and passions, teachers can make a more effective plan about their work. They do not have to devote much efforts to instruct the students who do not like the subject, or to manage the class orders. For example, teachers who teach in classes with many excellent students always are full of passion to their work, because they want to train the students as more excellent students and make them enter better universities.

In sum, the best way to improve the quality of education is to search for a suitable education pattern for every student. Both the students and the teachers can benefit from it.