Toefl_essay 42:What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today?...

...Choose one skill and use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

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We're facing a challenging world with new products or inventions born in every second.How to keep pace with the changing society has become a basic skill to everyone on earth.

Learning is a key point to make one strong.But knowing what to learn is not enough,one should get the ability of how to learn.As we've got thousands of new-born things every day,-to many things for us to get to know each of them.We may keep in mind a poem by Shakespear,but we cannnot recite all the genetic codes of a little mouse in the garage and it's not necessary to remember them .Consequently, learning skills include two main aspects followed.

One is to get the general idea of what you learn.A professor needs to update for the newly-published articles every morning to learn the lateset development of science.As I mentioned aboved ,we are facing such a large amount of informationthat it's impossible for one to act like a hardware recording.All we have to do is just get the brief konowlege of it just like we look at the menu instead of cooking books to order food.

The other one,which is more important ,lies in the ability to gain main knowlege in one's special frontiers.Everyone shows his gifts in particular fields,and, as a result, he may show more interest in that field and spend more time on it.To which extent he achieves determines the pay he gets.

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With the development of science and technology, the world is no longer what it used to be. Everyone should master one or more skills in order to survive and succeed in the world. As far as I am concerned, the most important skill one should learn is to teach himself or herself.

To begin with, no one can depend on a teacher in the whole life. In high school and university, several teachers can tcach you physics, chemistry, biology and so on. But when you find a job and leave school, few people will tell you how to solve the problem you encounter in the job. What you can do is to read books and find the answers yourself. If you do not have the ability to teach yourself, it is difficult to survive in the world.

In addition, what we have learned in the school is probably not enough. Nowadays new science and technology develop very rapidly. Suppose you are majored in computer. As we all know, the computer science is changing fast. New idea and concept may appear everyday. Once you stop studying, you may probably leave behind and even lose your job.

Last but not least, keeping studying can lead you to a high salary job. If you understand the most advanced knowledge, lots of companies may hire you, because the more science one can master, the higher productivity he will have. Do you have a dream to have a good job? If you do, learn how to tcach yourself right now.

So from what has been discussed, one can reach only this conclusion that teaching himself or herself is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today.

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Toefl essay_topic 41: Some people think that human needs for farmland, housing, and industry are more important than...

...saving land for endangered animals. Do you agree or disagree with this point of view? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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The world isn't only belong to human being ,it, at the same time, serve as a place where the other livings keep living. so, i'm against to the idea that the all of the fields can be benefited by people for various purposes. at least we cannot take their fields of living.

The world is big enough for all livings, but we people think that we can use it whatsoever and where ever. surely, we must use the lands for production the needs. especially farmlands have a vital impotance to keep people's live going. but in parallel with the population needs for more land increase. so, people use the fields in a selfish way regardless to others.

On the other hand people forget that not only endangered species but all of the animals are the part of the world. further more they contribute the balance of the environment more than we think. because, they have a very significant place in the life cycle. the birds, the mammals, the reptiles etc. who are almost exposed to extinction have a big role in maintaning the balance of the nature. for example plants grow in the lands and they require the fertilizers come from the waste of animals.

In conclusion, although people believe that the fields are required only for their needs but they should consider the fact that animals share the world with us and they have more effects to nature than we think.

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In the past, there have been many endangered animals. Now they are extinct. Does it matter? Has our environment been affected by their absence? Has the quality of our own life been changed? The answer to these questions is "Yes."

It does matter if we destroy an endangered species habitat to develop more farmland, housing or industrial parks. There is a delicate balance of nature. If one small part is removed, it will affect all the other parts. For example, if certain trees are cut down, bats will have no place to roost. If they cannot roost, they cannot breed. If there are no bats, there will be no animal, or bird to eat certain insects that plague our crops. Our environment has been affected by the absence of certain animals. Certain flowers are pollinated by butterflies which migrate from Canada to Mexico. Some of the breeding grounds of these butterflies were destroyed. Now these flowers are disappearing from certain areas. We will no longer be able to enjoy their beauty.

The quality of our life has been changed. America used to be covered with giant trees. Now we have to visit them in one small park. Rainforests around the world are being cut down to make room for humans. We will never be able to see or study this fragile ecosystem.

I would encourage us humans to look for other alternatives for our farmlands, housing, and industries. We have alternatives; the animals do not.

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