Speaking section Many iBT speaking questions ask you to talk about things that you enjoy‚ things that you value‚ or things that you are good at. Practice with the following topics. Be sure to support your response with specific reasons and details. You have 15 seconds to prepare and 45 seconds to speak. 1. What is your favorite hobby? 2. Describe a talent you have 3. What is a good book that you would recommend? 4. What is your favorite season of the year? 5. Explain about an object that
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Matters of life and death In a new book‚ A Miracle and a Privilege‚ Dr Francis Moore‚ 81‚ of Harvard Medical School‚ discusses a lifetime of grappling with the issue of when to help a patient die. An excerpt: Doctors of our generation are not newcomer to this question. Going back to my internship days‚ I can remember many patients in pain‚ sometimes in coma or delirious‚ with late‚ hopeless cancer. For many of them‚ we wrote an order for heavy medication – morphine by the clock. This was not talked
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Essay on “A Temporary Matter” In the story‚ “A Temporary Matter”‚ Shoba‚ the wife‚ tells her husband‚ Shukumar‚ that she is going to move out. The loss of their baby is a key factor in this decision but it is not the only factor. One cause of the relationship ending the way it did was the fact that Shukumar was never around. Shoba and Shukumar could never really spend time together because he was always working. While this did not in any way cause the death of the baby‚ his not being there during
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A Most Mysterious Material: The Aerogel In his book‚ “Stuff Matters”‚ Miodownik discusses‚ through personal narratives‚ the many facets of material science and their applications in real world instances. Out of all of the different types of materials he encounters‚ perhaps the most exotic were aerogels. In this chapter‚ “Marvelous‚” Miodownik begins in a top secret U.S. government laboratory where he first sets his eyes on this mysterious material. At first‚ Miodownik is denied a chance to observe
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of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disciplines: Linguistics Literary Criticism Stylistics Subjects: Language Literature ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some useful concepts in Stylistics: Foregrounding – emphasis on a textual feature; may be achieved
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Ricky.Yan Ms.Green 10A World history period 6 25 september 2014 Why Democracy Matter Democracy matter in many different ways influence human to chase their freedom and liberty‚some countries didn’t have democracy is mean they can’t aspire democracy?No.citizen who want democracy still contend with military forces get their wants. On June 5.1989 TiananMan Square in Beijing‚The tank were poised to attack student who sparked a powerful
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If you do a lot of reporting at society’s margins—namely prisons‚ halfway houses and psychiatric institutions—the importance of fantasy to your subjects becomes painfully evident. Talking to prisoners and mental patients I have learned to appreciate their fantasies. Sometimes I envy them. For example‚ one of my subjects always talks about food he would like to eat. He has never been out of the country and he frequently asks me about German and Austrian cuisines. We talk about different dishes until
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Conservation of matter and energy Introduction to conservation of matter and energy The conservation of matter and energy means that the total amount of energy and the total amount of matter is always constant in a given closed‚ isolated system. In other words‚ neither energy nor mass can be created or destroyed in any physical or chemical process. Formation of the law of conservation of matter and energy Until the discovery of mass - energy equivalence by Albert Einstein in 1905‚ conservation
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down by the bullets of intolerance that had infested the minds of a few. An irony of fate‚ or a cruel twist of destiny? Godse was sentenced to death‚ an eye for an eye. But‚ the question staring India in the face today is‚ "Does the message of Gandhi matter today?” In my opinion‚ Gandhiji’s message of love‚ peace and non-violence have never been as essential for Indian society as today. Intolerance has not died with Godse. It has survived in the hearts of those who look at the Indian flag and only see
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History still Matter 2. Give two contemporary or personal examples of Christopher Lasch’s quote on pg 1. To me the past does matter because that makes you who you are now even though sometimes you try to ignore it your past will always stick by you. For example I didn’t have a happy childhood‚ it was full of arguments and abuses. I learned from my mom’s mistakes to not stick around and let a man abuses you in anyway. Another example losing my brother was probably the worst way to learn to cherish
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