Writing Based on Reading and Listening(The reading passage and listening script are in the picture) The lecture refutes the reading passage's opinion of altruism among human beings and animals, which means that animals and people often sacrifice their own interest to others by gaining nothing for themselves. First, after close observing the meerkats' activities, it finds that compare to the belief in the passage that the meerkat is guard without food, the lecture shows that the guard often eats food before it acts as a sentinel. Contrast with the reading passage, the lecture asserts that the sentinel meerkat is more safe than the rest of the meerkats, because the sentinel meerkat can easily escape after plotting a predator since it often stay near burrow. Furthermore, the alarm which gives by the guard often makes the other meerkats move together or form a group, which will draw the attention of the predator.Therefore the sentinel has more changes to escape. Second, the lecture also illustrates that the unselfish acts among humans also don’t mean devoting themselves without gaining anything. The person who shares food with strangers or donates of body organs often receives high appreciation from others. The respect and admire from others are often valued more than the other benefit to some people.

Which do you prefer? Topic: Some young adults want independence from their parents as soon as possible. Other young adults prefer to live with their families for a longer time. Which of these situations do you think is better? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. Every child will grow up and leave their parents one day. When is the best time to seek for an independent life? Everyone will has his own attitude toward this question because of his special life experience or educational environment. From my point of view, living with parents or families for a longer time definitely the better choice. For most people, being an adult means to begin seeking for a partner, and then to buy a house and marry with someone, after that to have a baby and bring him/her up, which means, you have to spend more time to be with your couple, your children and less time to be with your parents when you grow up. Therefore, it is a really good choice to live with your families before you have your own family. You'll never have the opportunity to talk to your parents everyday or play with them after work once you leave them. Every mother loves her children so much that he would be so happy to leave with her children as long as possible. In another word, parents surely live a happier life if their children choose to live with them for a longer time. In fact, not only parents but also children can benefit from living with their families for a longer time. Suppose a young adult who has just graduated from university lives alone, he is likely to pay for rent and to prepare three meals a day by himself. Compare to that, he would save money to have a trip to expand his view, if he lived with his parents; he would have more time to adopt his new workplace or to build his social relationships, if his parents cooked for him. Essentially, the ability to manage his work or the realization of the real world is much more valuable to a young adult than the independence. In conclusion, staying with the families for a longer time either benefit the parents or do good to the young adult.

The second version of the same topic as my last essay:Telling the truth Do you agree or disagree with the follow statement? Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship. It is true that we have many ways to maintain different kinds of relationships: we can show respect to leaders to keep a well relationship in workplace, or we can supply our commercial partners with benefits to enhance the interaction between us. However, in my opinion, telling the truth and keeping honest is the most important consideration in any relationship. Keeping honest can build trust, which is the basis of any kinds of relationship, between people. In my family, we never lie to each other; therefore, we can always trust each other. My parents never locked the money in drawers as the other parents often did, instead, they would tell me where could I find money if I needed to buy something. Compare to my classmates and friends, I have never been afraid to tell my parents the amount and usage of the money that I took away, because I believed that they would not blame me. And if I did something wrong, they would let me know how to do it in a correct way. The trust between us makes the relationship of my family unbreakable. Suppose that I had lied to my parents once. Would not they be a little hesitant in whether locking the drawers with money? Would not they feel doubtful while I told them the stories that truly happened? Trust, which is the foundation of a relationship, is so easy to break while so hard to rebuild, that why telling truth is the most valuable virtue and the person who is honest is always appreciated by others. In our life, we often have more than one relationship with others-friendship, marriage, family, etc. We should not only work hard to maintain all these relationships but also be wise, intelligent and passionate and so on. However, trust is always the basement of any relationship, which means, keeping honest and always telling truth is key affect in any relationship.

Agree or disagree?Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship. While it is true that we have many ways to maintain different kind of relationship: we can show respect to leaders to keep a well relationship in workplace, or we can supply our commercial partners with benefit to enhance the interaction between us. However, telling the truth and keeping honest is the most important consideration in any relationship. Keeping honesty can build trust, which is the basement/function of any kinds of relationship, between people. In my family, we never lie to each other; therefore, we can always trust each other. My parents never locked the money in draws as the other parents often did, instead, they would tell me where could I find money if I needed to buy something. Compare to my classmates and friends, I have never been afraid to tell my parents the amount and usage of the money that I took away. Because I believed that they would not blame me, and if I did something wrong, they would let me know how to do it in a correct way. The trust between us makes the relationship of my family unbreakable. Next, telling truth can let others be aware of the real situation, which means, you probably avoid serious/severe result in your work as your leader keep an eye on the progress of your work. I was used to procrastinate until it was too late to accomplish my work in time. What was even worse, I was afraid to let my leader and co-operators to know the real process of my work. As a result, the work which would be fulfilled in time if I looked help from my leader or colleagues was delayed. Fortunately, I was taught to learn that it was a good way to let others know your difficulties or even shortages like procrastination etc. By being honesty to yourself and others, you can get useful advice in hard time and even overcome shortcomings. Furthermore, if you lied once, you would lie more when faced query, constantly you will be under high pressure, which will do harm to all your relationships with others. One a while, my best friend avoided to face me and talk to me, and she kept quiet at work too. Finally, it turned out that she lied to her mother about her new boyfriend, and she felt guilty and depressed, so that she didn’t want to face anyone around her. Isn’t that incredible? Lies will badly influence any of your relationship. Evidently, telling truth in any relationship enhance the trust between you and others, and prove you handling your work better, meanwhile, you don’t need to invent stories to keep your lies seem true.

TOEFL practice:Successful people try new things than doing what they already know how to do well. Some people claim that successful people have more interest in trying new things and taking risks than doing what they have already mastered. However, from my point of view, successful people spend more time on the thing that they know well than trying different things; nevertheless, successful people change or expand the field they focus on to meet the environment changes. Actually, focusing on one thing and improving it every day are the reasons why these people become successful. First, people who concentrate on one special thing for years and persist longer than others become the winners. For instant, Ma Huateng who is the president of the largest internet company Tencent in China, asking his team to develop and update the communication software QQ for more than ten years. By such a long time accumulation, they gained several hundred millions customers. This large amount of customers guaranteed that he and his company can beat any competitor in this market. Next, wise people don’t move on to other projects and interests, but rather they improve the products and interests that they’re already doing well. The Olympic champions often achieved the top level of one or two sports, but most of them keep training and drills to overcome themselves after they gained gold medals in Olympics. These kinds of spirit lead to their incredible success. Last but not least, due to the changeable social and economic environment, successful people also attempt new things at the right time. There is also an example come from Ma Huateng and Tencent. As smart phone became more and more popular, Ma started a new program to develop a new software which can satisfy the need (meet the need) of communicating more easily and fluently through phone. The new software is We Chat, which is most popular application in phone in China now. On the one hand, if Ma didn’t dare to take risk to develop new product, We Chat would not be exist and continue the successful progress of Ma and his company. On the other hand, the main function/purpose of We Chat is almost the same as QQ, therefore, We Chat is the expanding of QQ under different situation. In conclusion, successful people prefer to focus on one thing than experiencing new things. If they want to take risks, the only reason is that they want to keep their advantages in this field by changing correctly.

At colleges,sports/activities are as important as classes and should receive equal financial support I definitely agree with the first part of the statement that sports and social activities are as important as classes and libraries. As to the second part, I don't think universities should give equal financial support of both of them. I prefer the classes and libraries get prior financial support, and if there are extra money, sports and social activities can be supported. First, sports and social activities significantly effect a person's life, so college students should participate in all kinds of sports and attend vary social activities. Students mainly learn former people's experience from classes and books,actually the ability to use them in real life is more important. How can one use or create without healthy body? How can one solve problems in their job without the ability to deal with complex situation? Sports can make you healthier, furthermore they can give you the chance to communicate with people who have similar interest as you. Activities can either pratise the ability of ognization or to deal with all kinds of problems. We can benefit from sports and activities as much as from classes. One example can prove that classes and activities are both important. Majiajue who was a high-score student in Yunan university of China, he couldn't get alone well with his roommates, and he didn't know how to solve this problem. His fury increased everyday, but he neither had a friend nor belonging to any community to let his emotion released. Finally, he killed three roommates just before the graduation. Second, universities are places to delivery knowledge and experience of human beings. So keep the classes in fine condition and books in libraries update quickly are the main responsibility of universities. Financial support should be prior to these aspects. If there were extra money, they would also use in building sports courts or holding activities. Third, students can paticipate in vary activities not only relying on the support of colleges,but also the effort of themselves. They can search for local resoures around campus to do sports. Additionally, they can apply finacial aid from comecial companies to orgnize sport games or social activities. The processes to search for resource or money are also good practice of their abilities. In conclusion, activities are as important as classes, colleges should support classes and libraries at first, and partly support other activities if they can. Students need to try their best to attend activities.

Recommendable places in my hometown My hometown is in Chengdu- the capital of Sichuan province, China. If a friend visited my hometown, I would recommend him/her visiting two places. First, the Chunxi Road may be the place showing the modern and fashion of Chengdu. It is in the center of the city, there are many shops and mall in this road. If my friend went to this road, him/her would come to understand the nowadays of Chengdu. Second, compare to the Xunxi Road, the Kuanzhai lane represent the old times of Chengdu. Kuanzhai lane was composed by three lanes- the broad lane, the narrow lane and the well lane. These lanes were built 300 years ago during Qing dynasty, which would illustrate the history of this city. Today, a lot folk artisans and handicraftsmen are located here to demonstrate and sell their artworks. And folk performers show the local folk art. So it's worth to visit. If my friend disliked spicy food, I would not recommend him/her going to the hotpot restaurant, because most of them are only good at spicy hotpot which is full of chili. Chengdu is a wonderful place, the beauty of which will be found by taste softly.

In which situation should you use look,watch,see and view? What's the differences between these words,look,watch,see and view?

What the different between 'leave a message','drop a message' and 'send a message'?