TOFEL Writing Practice 1 Q: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The opinions of celebrities, such as famous entertainers and athletes, are more important to younger people than they are to older people. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. A: Since the entertainment industry has made more influence to our daily life, the opinions of these celebrities are considered more important to people. People always think they could affect all the members of the society, but I believe they are more influential to the younger people than older people. Firstly, since younger people do not have good judgment and value, they will follow the celebrities easier than older people. Experience and values are forming as people grown up and become mature, makes people trust new things harder. There is an old saying that "The first impression is strongest". The mental experience of younger people are just like a white paper, and they are thirsty to fill up their mind with cool things, when the people they admired tell them some experiences, they will absorb them and keep them permanently. Whereas older people had established their first impression before, they will be less affected with what they heard now. Secondly, younger people have time and interests to pay attention to celebrities, but older people do not. Younger people do not have many things to worry about, they could spend more time to care about what celebrities are doing and imitate them. In contrary, older people need to earn money and take care of families, and they do not have the time and energy to chasing celebrities, which result in that the opinion of celebrities could not effect them. Furthermore, though some older people have the ability to pay attention to celebrities, they still would not be influenced much, because most of the celebrities they interested are also old--they are inactive or retired. When we turn on TV or browse some entertainment website, we would find the stars under the spotlight are also younger people, Which give their young fans more opportunities to get in touch with their opinion. As the famous people grown old, they will lose the focus of mediums, which makes them have fewer opportunities to influence their older fans. All in all, younger people have the premise, time and chance to absorb the opinion of celebrities, which makes them get affected easier than older people.

What do you prefer? Working with people or machines? Working is a important part of our life, some jobs need us to working with people and somes are just working with machines. If I`m going to get a job, I would choose the previous one for sure. At first, working with people is more flexible than that with machines. If I miss a time for something, I could easily fix it and there wouldn’t cause big loss. But if I make some mistake with machines, I couldn’t imagine what would happen. Second, people are easier to communicate than machines. With people, when I need to give an order to the executor, I can just send an email or phone him, I can use common words to communicate with him. But if I was working with machine, I must use the most accurate instruction, that is the most annoying thing in this world. Third, working with people give me a great chance to make more friends. when I solving problems with my colleagues, we becoming more closer than before. But machines, eh, I don’t think I could make friends with them cause they are just machines and they apparently don’t have any feeling. Now I am typing this article with my dumb computer, I wish this would end soon so I can do something with real people, because I believe that I will feel much better when I dealing things with people.

I disagree that only people who earn a lot of money are successful People love talking about succeeding, and some people think the only sign of successful is earn big money. But I believe, that is not ture, I think there is more better way to get success. To begin with, we have learned many stories about those great scientist, most of them are not wealthy, but their study and inventions changed our life tremendously, their name and splendid stories have been written in our book and chanted generation, every of us respect to them, there is no doubt they are the most successful people. Besides, doctors are another sample, instead of looking for ways to make money, they are busy to helping their patient and saving peoples life, they don’t have the highest salary, but their works makes them more successful than the richer. Then who will be the next sample? Maybe you and me, because a very important way to get success is making your family happiness, a man just need to take care of their consort, look after their children and make sure they are fulfilled, then they are definitely successful. All in all, money are good, but if you think that is the only way to get success , your are making a big mistake.