toefl test of written english topics and model essays

... are and believe (Essay ID: 332 Sample essay provided by Erin Billy of www.TestMagic.com) Topic: 8 Television is undoubtedly one of the most powerful means of communication in the history of humankind, ... knowing the origin and characteristics of the quart-yard, the most classical building in Beijing With the help of museums, tourists can have a deeper understanding of the life of local people Every ... there are a lot of people will visit museums like us We can chat with them about what we see and what we hear At the end of visiting, we sit together to have a cup of coffee and we become good

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:21

... of winning and losing, and of adventure Also, an unexpected opportunity or lucky find is one of the joys of life But sooner or later we have to settle down and face the grind of ... is always depend on the nature of the business and the position, the amount of training required, and of course,... nature, I prefer movies that amuse and entertain When I see an amusing ... it makes me relax, laugh, and keeps me in good spirits After a long day at school and work, I need a break and something to take my mind off of the troubles of the day I learn do that

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... (Educational Testing Service) in its TOEFL Information Bulletin for ComputerBased Testing By practicing essay writing prior to the day of the TOEFL, especially within the 281 TWE Essays 282/292 ... your chances of doing well on this section of the test While becoming a proficient English writer may seem like a daunting task at first, there is no way to get around one very simple and basic ... time and effort to write yourself, you will never become a competent writer of English Great writers of English certainly did not become that way overnight; it obviously took a great deal of commitment,

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... Topic: 183 As the advance of technology, the understanding and communication among countries are becoming deeper and wider One of the most important ways for people to understand each other’s culture ... appearance of a third person, the last happy time of an experienced love Love is among many different custom of a country, and by the explanation of films you can surely Trang 2Apart from the history and ... could grow a lot of different kinds of plants and flowers, and I could have a vegetable garden in the summer Besides having a garden, I'd like to have a backyard with lots of trees and a small fountain

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... (e.g.Dr/Professor/General) Yours sincerely Trang 11 CẤU TRÚC CƠ BẢN CỦA EMAIL Introduction :Email (electronic mail) - means of sending messages between computers. Advantages : personal and easy ... Trang 1How to use English letter and email? Trang 2- CÁC QUY TẮC CHÍNH KHI ViẾT THƯ/EMAILS TRONG CÔNG ViỆC - CẤU TRÚC CƠ ... for short messages and daily correspondece (ex: set up a meeting, mark a request. Disadvantages : include technical problems which may result in the unexpected non-delivery of messages,or attachments

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 11:25

... judgment of native speakers ofEnglish to measure the degree of iconicity Specifically, I asked five native speakers ofEnglish to rate each of the top 30 most-frequent words on a scale of 0 to 2 (andx): ... useTitle Onomatopoeia in Spoken and Written English : Corpus- and Usage-based Analysis Author(s) Sugahara, Takashi Trang 2Onomatopoeia in Spoken and Written English:Corpus- and Usage-based Analysis ... 51)) 2 3 Tamori and Schourup (1999) Tamori and Schourup (1999) is the most extensive study about grammaticalfeatures of English/Japanese onomatopoeia and the gradient of iconicity ofEnglish/Japanese

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... History of the Grammar 239 Specimens of English of Different Periods 250 ModernEnglish 258 Landmarks in the History of the English Language 266 1 +Tongue, Speech, Language.+ We speak of the "English ... +gammon+ and +game+; +grandfather+ and +gaffer+; +grandmother+ and +gammer+; +iota+ (the Greek letter +i+) and +jot+; +maximum+ and +maxim+; +mobile+ and +mob+; +mosquito+ and +musket+; +papa+ and ... +reave+ and +rob+; +ridge+ and +rig+; +scabby+ and +shabby+; +scar+ and +share+; +screech+ and +shriek+; +shirt+ and +skirt+; +shuffle+ and +scuffle+; +spray+ and +sprig+; +wain+ and +waggon+ and

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... consisted of / “The court is composed of or “made up of and “Our research team was composed of or “made up of. ” (We assume that the composition of each group was given... riches, rank and ... Romance languages of Europe do and people from one part of China often cannot comprehend speech from another part Mandarin is the of cial and most prevalent language of China An uncommon ... 10-inch knife in her right hand. Officers said he appeared drunk and brandished a shotgun at two patrolmen and his daughter. On weighing the likelihood of such an abundance of weapon-wavers as the

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try-ing to achieve some kind of effect, be-sides the effect of making the newspaper seem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers ... isolated, a part of a word like hasten and often tends to form a word in itself with a different pronunciation (has-ten and of-ten). A hyphenated compound, such as hang-up or send-off, should be ... contraction of does not is doesn’t. It agrees with all singular nouns and with the pronouns he, she, and it and other singular pronouns except I and you So “that [feeling] doesn’t mean.” And there

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... singularity of kind of goes for class of, sort of, and type of See TYPE. See also THEM and THOSE. 2 Improperly used with A or AN Another source of criticism is the in-trusion of a or an in “That kind of ... U.S president spoke publicly of “those kind of tests,” instead of tests of that kind. To use a word like all, many, some, these, or those with kind and a plural noun and verb used to be generally ... surprise, and televise Advertise and merchandise are infrequently spelled advertize and mer- chandize. en-198 -ize ending Trang 9JELL-O. As a brand of gelatin dessert,Jell-O is a trademark and should

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... ignores the bird and calls “nickle” a “var of NICKEL,” instead of the misspelling it is NIL and NILL. See WILLY-NILLY. NISEI. A biography harks back to World War II and the case of the 112,000 ... blow them out of the sky” (a non sequitur) “Little choice”? The Americans had the choice of not blowing them out of the sky; the choice of talking instead of shooting; the choice of going home ... the principle of the atomic bomb and civil atomic energy, and nuclear fusion, the principle of the hydrogen bomb In fission, the nuclei of atoms are split; in the process, part of their mass

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... AM Page 302 [...]... (See THAT and WHICH; WHO, THAT, and WHICH.) PROOF and EVIDENCE See EVIDENCE and PROOF PROOF OF THE PUDDING The proverb about proof and pudding perplexes people ... to offer “proof positive” of the salutary benefit of its product, thus turning truth as well as syntax topsy-turvy See also Adjectives and adverbs, 2 PROOFREAD, PROOFREADING... $40 and ... “The curbing of public meetings and the publication of newspapers eliminated most opposition to the regime.” As it stands, “the curbing of public meetings” and “the publication of newspapers”

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... FORWARD and BACK (time); GO OFF and GO ON; GREAT; SCAN. • Pairs with opposite meanings See Confusing pairs (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and sanctions); DISINGENUOUS and ... limits may be, for example, prices of $1,000 and $4,000; about 30,000 and 7 million speakers; 147 and 160 pounds; first and sixth grades; Maine and Florida; adagio and vivace—or more subjective ones: ... “obvious presence of suchpeople of color ” Users of that termshould explain why they do not regardany tint of pinkish tan as a color.Here is a paradox, brought up by aphysics professor and later by

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... mem-ber(s) of the staff.” See also Collective nouns, 1; WHO and WHOM, 1. STAND and RUN. See RUN and STAND; Pronouns, 3. STANDARD. See CLASSIC. STANDARD-BEARER. See Joining of words. STAR and SUN. ... playland and a busy com-mercial route There it sits, a glaring testament that a river offers the best of both worlds and shows no mercy when those worlds collide Her use of “testament,” in lieu of ... employs six harps; and Berlioz, of course, made liberal use of the instrument [See also OF COURSE, 2.] Change either “employs” to employed or “made” to makes. TESTAMENT and TESTIMONY. A testament is

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... supportive of him” instead of I support him; “at this point in time” instead of now; “in terms of and “all that” used unnecessarily; “for” free and listen “up”; and “person” and “people” ... it. Clean up and tie up are somewhat intensified ver- sions of clean and tie in literal senses, and they have respectively the additional meanings of make a lot of money (collo- quial) and delay ... WENT See GONE and WENT WERE See WAS and WERE; Subjunctive WHAT EVER and WHATEVER See (-)EVER WHEN AND IF See UNLESS AND UNTIL 468 whence and “from whence” WHENCE and “FROM WHENCE.”

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try-ing to achieve some kind of effect, be-sides the effect of making the newspaper seem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers ... isolated, a part of a word like hasten and often tends to form a word in itself with a different pronunciation (has-ten and of-ten). A hyphenated compound, such as hang-up or send-off, should be ... contraction of does not is doesn’t. It agrees with all singular nouns and with the pronouns he, she, and it and other singular pronouns except I and you So “that [feeling] doesn’t mean.” And there

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... punishment of thieves and then of soldiers. It consisted of two rows of men facing one another and holding such objects as sticks and knotted cords. The offender was stripped to the waist and forced ... on the Island of Hawaii.” Isn’t it odd that a land where lava consumes houses should remind her of heaven and not of the other place? HEAD ON and HEAD-ON See Joining of words; ... and CAPITOL COMPLEMENT and COMPLIMENT EXERCISE and. .. unproven explanations for the origin of the solar system On the other hand, Einstein’s special and general theo- ries of

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... singularity of kind of goes for class of, sort of, and type of See TYPE. See also THEM and THOSE. 2 Improperly used with A or AN Another source of criticism is the in-trusion of a or an in “That kind of ... U.S president spoke publicly of “those kind of tests,” instead of tests of that kind. To use a word like all, many, some, these, or those with kind and a plural noun and verb used to be generally ... surprise, and televise Advertise and merchandise are infrequently spelled advertize and mer- chandize. en-198 -ize ending Trang 9JELL-O. As a brand of gelatin dessert,Jell-O is a trademark and should

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22