Test of english as foreign language TOEFL: Toefl essay_topic 34: Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives...
Test of english as foreign language TOEFL: Toefl essay_topic33: You have received a gift of money. The money is enough to buy either a piece of jewelry you like ...
Test of english as foreign language TOEFL: Toefl essay_topic 32: Is it better to enjoy your money when you earn it or is it better to save your money for some time in the future?...
Test of english as foreign language TOEFL: TOEFL quiz - Sentence Completion 16 - 06
...Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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I don’t believe the businesses should hire their employees for their entire lives. Some companies have had such policies just to prove that it is not realistic, harmful to the company and finally also harmful to the employees. Although this is surely a controversial question, especially when you take moral and social problems into account, it is not practical because some aspects of human nature are against it. Here are several reasons.
The first reason, which is the most obvious one, is that such policy will cause the company to lose the most effective leverage, to fire its employees, it has against its employee. In most companies, most employees don’t have much fun in working. The only reason people leave their comfortable home early in the morning and went to the company to do what the boss told them to do, which is not always very pleasant, is that they need to exchange their work for pay. If people are not afraid of losing their jobs, why do they have to care for what’s good for the company?
The second reason is that in companies with such policies the efficiency is usually very bad. For example, in the former socialist country workers cannot be fired, but the efficiency of the socialist factory is notoriously poor. Even in capitalist country, such as Japan, companies which have life long employment policies finally suffered from bad work efficiency. Those who advocate life long employment may have good intention, but they forget most people tend to not working hard if they don’t have to worry about being fired.
After all, hiring employees for their entire life sounds good in the moral and social sense, but it is not practical in the reality. Even those companies or countries that have tried such policies finally have to give up. Social benefits are the problems of the government and the society, companies cannot afford them.
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Whether businesses should hire employees for their entire lives is relatively a subject of discussion as hiring employees for the lifetime increases the level of commitment and an undying loyalty and gives the feeling of security to employees whereas hiring new employees brings fresh blood in an organisation.
I personally believe that businesses should hire new employees from time to tima as this process brings new ideas, new expertise, new motivation, new energy, new technology, new beliefs, new culture, motivated spirit and other similar features which is very necessary for an individual and organisatioan growth.
The inculcation and stirrrring of fresh blood in an organisation keeps the company/organisation/business going towards achieving more sales and more profits as new employees are better motivated to take new challenges with a positive attitude and proactive approach.they embrace new culture and offer their values, they bring potential ideas for the internal and as well as the external employees. Rejunivating new employess helps the company from many prespectives as after certain period of time old employees becomes less contributing because of the same monoteneous work, same environment, same relationships and no new challenges and risks to take on.
If you look at all the new multinationals i.e. Microsoft, HCL, HP, etc., they are achieving stunning annual growth and profits because their policy is to bring the best in an organisation and keep hiring new employees.Employess are the back bone of every organisation and pumping fresh blood to it after certain period becomes evitable for growth.
My advice to all will be to adopt a policy to inculcate fresh employess from time to time and investing time and money on them to help them deliver their best and also to retain some amount of old employess because it is said "OLD IS GOLD" to get the ship going through hard times and conquers at last.
...or tickets to a concert you want to attend. Which would you buy? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
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I have won a lucky draw and receive a gift of money. The money is enough to buy either a peice of jewelry I like or tickets to a concert I want to attend. If I need to make the decision, I would like to buy a piece of jewelry rather than concert tickets.
Firstly, I like jewelry accessories very much because I can wear them on my body or clothes in attending some special occasions, such as wedding ceremony and annual dinner. For me, I usually like to keep some jewelry for myself. Therefore, if I can buy one more piece of jewelry, I will have more variations of accessories and more choices to match with my clothes.
Secondly, jewelry is an object that we can maintain its value. For example, I bought a silver jewelry last year but I found many new styles of jewelry were produced this year. So I sold the one that I bought last year and got some money to buy another new one. By doing this, I can keep many updated styles of jewelry and no need spend much money.
On the other hand, If I use the money to buy some concert tickets, I can enjoy a concert with my friends. However, I have got nothing but some good memories. Owing to the reasons mentioned above, I prefer to use the gift of money to buy a piece of jewelry because keeping different kinds of jewelry is one of my interests. Moreover, the value of a piece of jewelry is comparatively higher than that of the concert tickets.
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If I have a gift of money that is enough to but either a piece of jewelry I like or tickets to a concert I want to attend, I probably choose to go to the concert instead of jewelry.
First, a concert can give you an entertainment and experience that a piece of jewelry such as diamond rings and necklaces can’t give. A few years ago, I attended a farewell concert of a famous singer. The moment when people submerged into the beautiful melody was unforgettable and that is one of my most precious memories I have ever had. If I had used the money to buy some jewelry, I would have been regretful in my lifetime.
Second, concert is an experience that can’t duplicate, while jewelry can. If you can’t buy a piece of jewelry at once, you will probably get it a few years later. But a concert is different. You can’t find the singers, the location, the atmosphere of joy exactly the same if you miss it. So that gives concert a priority to jewelry and many other things.
Finally, concert can give you an entertainment of art and a relaxation from the busy work, while jewelry can give you at most just a moment of vanity. Compared to concert’s long lasting joy, jewelry’s is just an evanescent one. You will remember a wonderful concert for a lifetime. But I think there are few pieces of jewelry you’ll wear for a lifetime.
If I have a choice between jewelry and concert, I will pick up the tickets of the concert without hesitate. Because I don’t want to miss a probably once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and spending the rest of my life regret for the wrong choice I make.
...Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
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Some people think that it is better to enjoy their money when they earn it. As far as I am concerned, I prefer to save my money for some time in the future because I can buy very expensive and durable things and my dream is able to come true with the money.
My first and primary reason for my belief is that I can obtain very expensive items with saved money. Whenever getting expensive and precious items, I am excited and use them with carefulness. The example I can cite to demonstrate this is when I bought a car. Until bought it, I had had used cars because of their low price. Because I had saved money for it for long time, I was very excied when I went to buy the car shop. And I have given the car much greater deal than ever. I don't want to buy shoddy items anymore because I am not excited when buying them and don't feel like using them with carefulness.
Another consideration is that my dream is to study abroad in America or Europe. As you know, studying abroad requires a lot of money for air chickets, tuition, room charge, and meals. Therefore, I have to save a lot of money in order to attain my dream. The experiences which I will get by staying and studying oversea is much more valuable than those which I can get by using my money just after I earn it.
Saving money for my future can give me much more things, such as excitement and a lot fo experiences. Of course, there might be advantages to enjoying my money when I earn it, but there is no way to compare with the things which I can get by saving money for my future.
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When faced with the decision of saving your money for some time in the future or enjoying your money when you earn it, quite a few would claim to enjoy their money, but others, in contrast, deem to save their money as the premier choice and that is also my point. This quite different view is based on the every possible reason.
Fore most reason for saving the money for future use is when you need a lot of money to deal with some emergent things that happen to you, you should not worry about the fund or lend some money everywhere at that time. For example, two years ago, I spend my summer holiday in a famous scenery pot, after a wonderful trip of the first day, I lost my wallet unconsciously, then I took out some money in the bank to finish the trip. If you did not have some deposit, you can imagine how embarrassed you are.
Second, I have finished my college study, and I am going to go abroad to get a master degree to enhance the ability to face the challenge in the society. Plenty of money is very important to me, so I have to save all the money that I economized for future use.
Third, the economy condition of my family is not so good that I decide to earn enough money to buy a big house for my deeply loving parents.
This is arbitrary to judge saving money for future use according only to the excuse I mentioned in the above paragraph. But I do not deny that enjoying the life is also important to everyone because of brief life. That is to say, I will enjoy my money if I deposit enough.
