To know what you are, first let’s define “ideas,” “events,” and “people.”
Discussing people here means to talk about a person, usually in a negative, sarcastic way. Discussing events means to talk about what happen in our life and how those things cause problems to us. Discussing ideas means to find out what is behind an event, for example, the cause or solutions to the problems. Don’t be the small minds!
Unfortunately we are surrounded by them in our life. They follow celebrity gossip, start office politics, and backstab and criticize others. Online, they shame or attack each other. In real life, they make comparisons and complaints about this and that. They are happy with others’ failures. Small minds are judgmental, get offended easily and tend to reiterate what has already happened. They are good at identifying others’ mistake, blaming others, yet they have no solution. Small minds discuss something that seems interesting, but detrimental to their relationship with others and family. Average minds look beyond people and focus on events. They identity facts, start conversation, and provide opinion based on the facts.
Yet it is a fallacy that just discussing events makes people smart. It probably does, but we can be smarter if we offer solutions to the problems. Great minds find solutions to problems, even if the problems don’t seem to relate to them. Stay average, but try to move closer to the great. Stay average, but prevent yourself from being the small.
We can change the words we use to change our mindset. No matter whether we talk to others or to ourselves. Mindset is how you see the world and how you see yourself in the world. With a negative mindset, our life seems difficult, small setbacks feel like failures, new situations feel daunting, and trying feels hopeless. With a positive mindset, mistakes are what we learn from, something new is an exciting challenge, hard work brings results, and our world is a great place.
Changing your mindset can be simple. You just need to change the words you use. Your choice of words is an important way to create a happy world around you. You can help your children, students, and friends to develop a positive mindset. You just need to change the words you say to them and help them to change the words that they say. Here are some examples of how to turn around words: ‘It is too hard’ becomes ‘It may take some time and effort.’ ‘You made a mistake’ becomes ‘Hey, mistakes help you improve.’ This creates a 180 degree turn around from a negative, hopeless feeling to a positive, forward-looking view.
Words are powerful and our brains believe what we hear. The right words spoken in the right way can bring us love, money and respect, while the wrong words—or even the right words spoken in the wrong way — can lead people to argument, distrust, or hatred. We must carefully orchestrate our speech if we want to achieve our goals and bring our dreams to fruition.” Help your children, family, people around you and yourself to hear the right words that are going to create your happy world.
An Eskimo boy becomes a man when he kills his first polar bear. The polar bear, which may be nine feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds, is a very dangerous animal. To kill one takes a great deal of courage and skill. The boy who can kill a polar bear has developed the skills and courage needed to be a hunter—and a man. Polar bears give the Eskimos meat to eat, skins for clothing, and oil for heating and lighting. A boy who can provide all these things has certainly become a man.
The population of chimpanzee in the wild is shrinking because it is hunted to be sold. For every chimp that is taken alive, five to ten chimps die. In the past fifty years, Africans have sold three to four thousand chimps for use in business and experiments. If this practice continues, the chimp may become extinct. The United States has put the chimpanzee on the endangered animals list, which will make it against the law to sell them to the United States. Once on the list, they will have a better chance to survive.
Ice cream is a favorite all over the world. In Japan, it is made with a hard cookie on the outside like a cone. In Italy and France, ice cream usually contains nuts and fruit. Eskimos like it very much, so they use airplanes to fly it to them. Maybe Americans eat the most ice-cream all over the world. Every year Americans eat over seven hundred million gallons of ice cream. There are more than two hundred flavors for them to choose from. Two very popular flavors are strawberry and chocolate.
Does using pictures for writing sound interesting to you? The people in Egypt did it a long time ago. This ancient writing system is called hieroglyphics, or picture writing. In this old Egyptian system, each picture stood for an idea. People carved these picture words on temple walls and in other places where people often got together. The pictures told stories about the Egyptian gods and kings. They also told stories about animals. People used the picture words to keep records of other business information.
This year’s Dragon Boat Festival is more than just a boat race. The Kaohsiung City Government is organizing activities for the whole family. This year they will have a boat race on wheels for the whole family. Local restaurants will have booths set up all day. And if you still have an appetite left, try your luck at the rice dumpling-eating contest. Local bands will be playing tunes all day. Don’t miss it. It’s guaranteed fun for the whole family.
Smoking electronic cigarettes is fortunately is not a growing problem among teenagers in Taiwan. Although e-cigarettes are significantly less harmful than smoking regular cigarettes, they still contain nicotine, which is addictive and detrimental to your health. Do you know other toxic chemicals have also been found in cigarettes? While it is lesser of two evils, with the long-term effects of vaping still unknown, let’s try to avoid this bad habit.
Directions: In this part of the test, you will read aloud the text on the screen you will have 45 seconds to prepare. Then you will have 45 seconds to read the text aloud.
Question 1
In the morning, we will visit the famous Monument Tower and the Modern Art Museum. This part of the tour will end in Restaurant Row, where you will find a wide variety of French, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese restaurants. After lunch, we will visit the antique markets in the historic city of Ironhill.
Question 2
Directions: In this part of the test, you will read aloud the text on the screen you will have 45 seconds to prepare. Then you will have 45 seconds to read the text aloud.
Question 2
Why throw away old computers you don’t need anymore when you can recycle them? Here at Halstead Electronics, we’ll repair your old computers, keyboards, printers, and other used equipment. Then, we’ll offer them to schools and community organizations that can put them to good use. Just bring them to our service desk, and we’ll take it from there.
Question 3: Describe a Picture
Question 3
Directions: In this part of the test, you will describe the picture on your screen in as much detail as you can. You will have 45 seconds to prepare your response. Then you will have 45 seconds to speak about the picture.
Question 3
Question 4-6: Respond to Questions
Question 4-6
Directions: In this part of the test, you will answer three questions. For each question, begin responding immediately after you hear a beep. No preparation time is provided. You will have 15 seconds to respond to Questions 4 and 5 and 30 seconds to respond to Questions 6.
Question 4: What do you usually wear at school or work?
Question 5: In what situations do you dress casually?
Question 6: Do you think companies should allow employees to dress casually at work? Why or why not?
Question 7-9: Respond to Questions Using Information Provided
Question 7-9
Directions: In this part of the test, you will answer three questions based on the information provided. You will have 45 seconds to read the information before the questions begin for each question, begin responding immediately after you hear a beep. No additional preparation time is provided. You will have 15 seconds to respond to Questions 7 and 8 and 30 seconds to respond to Questions 9.
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Question 10: Propose a Solution
Question 10
Directions: In this part of the test, you will be presented with a problem and asked to propose a solution. You will have 45 seconds to prepare. Then you will have 60 seconds to speak.
In your response, be sure to…
Show that you recognize the problem, and
Propose a way of dealing with the problem.
Question 11: Express an opinion
Question 11
Directions: In this part of the test, you will give your opinion about a specific topic. Be sure to say as much as you can in the time allowed. You will have 30 seconds to prepare. Then you will have 60 seconds to speak.
Some people prefer to learn through books. Others prefer to learn through experience. Which way do you prefer to learn and why? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.