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Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. (300 words 30 min)

Yes. I believe that processed food help people improve their life. Life time is limited for everyone. If we want to live life with family, partner, hobby, whatever, we actually need time to spend. But thanks to easiness of prepare food, you can find the time to spend the other activities.

Thanks to resent studies of nutrition for food, there are a lot of processed foods and supplements, which help people live better. Supplements also help you being able to spare time for what we want. If you want to cook, to get the same level of nutrition from by food is so hard. We need time and work on cooking. By using processed foods and supplements, we can get good nutrition instantly. This helps people spend more time what we are really into. I can say this is improvement the way we live.

If we think cooking is fun, preparing food is fan, which are also good. For example, we can spend time with family when we are cooking. Especially for mother and daughter may enjoy shopping and making food.  In this advanced economic system, we can easily get various kinds of food. The preparing food became the option. People can chose whether or not they spend a lot of time to prepare. If you like to cook, go ahead, spend time on cooking. If we do not want to the cooking so much. we can buy food and spend the other activity .

I believe that food becoming easier to prepare changed the way people live better. We got the option to spend life time on the cooking or the activities you like. If we like cooking, we can do. If we do not like, we can find another activities what you are really into. Focus on what you would like to do.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. (30 min 300 words)

I disagree this opinion, because I believe parents can not be ultimately strict their children. The good teacher should know what he should teach and what he should not teach.

In professional sports, the player who has the parent who was a good player in sports sometimes is not good one. Genetically, if the parents is good player, their children should be good player. But actually, this does not always happen. For example, the famous director in professional baseball player Katsuya Nomura. When he was a player, he was one of best catcher in Japan. After retirement, he became the director of the professional team. As director of the team, he could teach a lot of players. Thanks to him, team players became decent players. But he could not raise his son to be good player. Why did this happen? His wife said that he could not be strict to his son.

Japanese artist Taro Okamoto had created the monument which express ‘No’. This monument stand for the importance of being denied. He believed that human being would start thinking seriously only when he was denied strictly. When we are denied strictly, we will start thinking by ourselves what was wrong, why this was wrong, what should we do. The parent can not deny strictly for their children. Parents can not keep saying no to their children. Being kind to children is relatively easy, but being strict is not easy.

Good teacher is not someone who can teach well, but someone who make student learn by themselves. That’s why, I believe parents are not best teacher.

However, parents play important role as family, when we challenge something, we will sometimes succeed, sometimes failed. When we succeed, parents would be happy with us, when we failed, parents will encourage.  The parents is not teacher, but family, the closest friends.

1. People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge.) Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and example to support your answer. (30 min, 300 words.)

 People attend college or university to build friendships with classmate without any benefits, which helps people’s dream coming true. When we are college or university, of course we have to study hard though, we have plenty of time to share our thoughts. We can discuss our dream, future, what we learn freely. College or University has a lot of course, which means there are various kinds of idea, study, professor and student.

 For example, I am working for Univ. of Virginia as a physicist. I was invited student to attend some events which was titled as “Ignite Univ. of Virginia”. One student made presentation about how we can succeed. And student talked each other about their dream. I found the girl who wants to be cultural anthropologist and work in Japan because the relation between Japan and China is getting worse recently. I am an only Japanese there. But I was very happy to hear that. I had decided to teach Japanese to her.

My definition of young people is “Someone who believes he can do everything, but who don’t know what he can do.” In this definition everyone can be young. But talking their dream is important. If we express our dream, someone might show you the way. You have use all 20’s for pursuing your goal.

After graduation, sometimes it is difficult to talk our opinion freely. Because we have to make money for living, and work for company or institution, so that we tend to gather who has same culture. We sometimes are skeptical for colleague. 

 We might realize what we were heading was wrong or right later, but, whichever, still what we have done is invaluable. I believe we need 10 years devotion to get to dream. It is long way, but friends who we met in college or university always get our back, kept encouraging us to finish the goal. (42 min,318 words)