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title: TOEFL Speaking

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## JJ
### 1. Some people prefer to read paper books; Others prefer to read electronic books on their computers or other electronic readers. Which do you prefer?
* care about convenience
* When I was in my college, I could use e-books to download the textbook. 
* To be more specific, it could save a lot of time for me to prepare the materials I will use in the next class. 
* On the other hand, if I had used physical books, I would have had to carry a lot of heavy books.
* Secondly, the electronic book can make me read anytime and anywhere. For example, when I was in the shuttle bus, I could pick the book easily and read it immediately.
* Therefore, I prefer to read on electronic book.

```markmap
- care about
    - convenience
        - prepare the materials 
        - read anytime and anywhere
    - academic performance
        - consolidate the content
        - record the professor's voice, repeat them after class

```

### 2. Some people prefer to watch news every day, while others prefer to watch news once in a while. Which do you prefer and why?

* care about efficiency
* daily news loading are big and change rapidly. To read news once in awhile can save my time. I dont need to filter and organize all the messeges. watching news once in a while can help me to get summerized and short versions easily.
* To be more specific, I always read news in weekend.I can follow up all the big issues nowadays.

```markmap

- care about
    - efficiency
        - watching news every day is too time-consuming --> X filter it. 
        - focus on what I like. 
        - summarize information

```

* I am curious
* Watching news every day allows me to have opportunity to gain knowledge
* To be more specific, I usually get up in the morning and the first thing is to turn on the TV and watch BBC/CNN news (Wall Steet Journal). This helps me to get first-hand information in stock market. Therefore, this can help me do the right decision.

```markmap

- am curious
    - knowledge
        - watching news every day allows me to gain knowledge 
        - first-hand information
        - updated messages and make right decision

```

### 3. Your university is going to forbid students from using school internet on things that are not related to academic purposes. Do you think it is a good idea.
* students care about academic peformance.
* forbidding students from using school internet on things that are not related to academic purposes will help them have good academic performance
* To be more specific, this will let students focus on the academic courses and related information.
* For example, when I was in college, I was requested to use Internet only for academic purposes. This helped me to get straight A in my subjects.
* Therefore, this policy helps student only focus on academic subjects, and will allow them to have higher acdemic performance. 

```markmap

- care about
    - academic performance
        - focus on the academic courses
        - get straight A

```

* Students care about efficiency.
* School internet can help students have good time management.
* To be more specific, when I was in college, I had my intership in a big company after school. I always grab the rest time to prepare the work and I really relied on school internet to search sth that were not directly related to academy. However, to have good working performance was also important to students.

```markmap

- care about
    - efficiency
        - watching news every day allows me to gain knowledge 
        - first-hand information

```

### 4. Do you prefer a serious movie that makes you think or a movie that is entertaining?
* I am very lazy.
* If I watched a serious movie, I would have to think a lot, and this makes a lot of burden on my brain. To be more specfic, When I was in University, I used to watch such kind of movie in my first year. But It is very boring and make me tired, so I never watched it anymore since then. 
* Because life is hard, I always want to gain relax and entertainment from movies. 

I watch National geograph everday, because this program help me get more background knowledge, and this allows me to have better understanding of this kind of subjects.  To be more specific, when I took TOEFL exam, I got a relative high score since I had more backgrond knowledge. 

```markmap
- am
    - lazy
        - think a lot-->burden (used to watch-->X)
        - gain relax
        - 
- care about academic performance
    - gain background knowledge-->get high score

```      

### 5. If you are going to somewhere, do you decide where to go by yourself or with your friends?

* I care about efficiency.
* Going out with myself will allow me to save more time to wait for other people.
* Take myself for example, when I want to go to shopping mall, I don't need to spend time to wait for my friedns shopping. I can just pass by the store I don't like and go to my desired store immediately. By doing this, I can save a lot of time.
* Secondly, when I want to change my schedule, I won't need to discuss with other people. Therefore, this can help me complete 

```markmap

- care about
    - efficiency
        - save more time
        - change the schedule immediately 

```


### 6. Which one do you prefer? A career that can make more money or one that can give you more satisfaction.




### 7. Your university is going to let people of the local community attend classes for free, but they won't get credits or any feedback. Do you think it is a good idea?

