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Describe a pleasant visit by someone to your home. You should say： who the person was why they visited your home what you and this visitor did together and explain how you felt about the visit. Last weekend I invited Jeffrey to my apartment. After we finished the university study， it seemed that we hadn‘t seen each other for ages because I was busy working for the internship program in Sheraton on the park， while he found a job in a finance company and still adjusted himself to that company. We don‘t catch up
We just enjoyed chatting over cooking. It was the first time for me to cook with my friends. It was funny because we both were not expert in cooking but we did have some ideas about the combination of different kinds of foods.I felt really delighted for the reason that we can share our recent experience. for example， we are going to find a new here. But we both have no experience in writing the resume and preparing the formal interview. It was a really time for us to share the ideas for those things. Describe a foreign food Where you find it What is it？ Why you like it Speaking of a foreign food， the first thing that comes into my mind is the hamburger. It is really common for western people to have a hamburger for a meal， but eating a hamburger was absolutely a luxury for me before the first McDonald‘s opened in my hometown.I still remember the first McDonald restaurant was found in my hometown in 2005 and I couldn‘t wait to have a meal in McDonald. The hamburger in McDonald impressed me most at that time because the hamburgers are really different from traditional Chinese staples， such as dumplings and buns. A hamburger is a kind of sandwich that consists of a cooked patty肉饼 of ground meat， such as beef， pork， turkey and chicken. Hamburgers are often served with lettuce， bacon， tomato， onion， pickles， cheese and condiments[‘k？ndim？nt] such mustard， mayonnaise,and relish.I like eating hamburgers very much. To my mind， the hamburger is wholesome and nutritious because it combines meat and vegetable in a proper proportion. It helps me keep my diet balanced. Also， it is not that difficult and not that expensive to make a hamburger. Basically I can easily make it by myself so that I can save time and money for my lunch. Describe a photo Speaking of a photo， I would like to talk about a photograph of my whole family. It was taken in a summer in 2003. The background of the photo is a radiological[reidi？u‘l？d？ik？l] ward[w？：d]. My parents and I was sitting on the bed and wearing a happy smile. The photo was taken by a ward nurse. You may be curious about why we choose to take a photo in a hospital. I know， hospital is not supposed to be an ideal location for people to take photos. But this photo means a lot to our family. At that time， my father was diagnosed [‘dai？ɡn？uz] with a severe disease nasopharyngeal [neiz？uf？’rind？i？l] darcinoma. It was a kind of cancer. What made me even fear was that the doctor said that was a terminal cancer. You can imagine how helpless and despairing I felt at that time. My mum and I was so desperate[‘desp？rit] that we can not help weeping. But my father always had a positive attitudes and fight off the disease with strong determination. He believed that as long as a person has a positive faith， he or she will survive. 3 months later，my father restored to health and created a miracle. On the date he left the hospital， he thought out of an idea that we should take a photo of the whole family in the ward. It is definitely a special photo for me. Every time I picked up this photo， I will remember what my father said to me. He told that we should never give up no matter what difficulties or challenges we encounter. As long as we become strong， persistent and perseverant， we can conquer any problems and end up succeeding. Describe a website Facebook is a website for personal soical network launched in February 2004. Until January 2011， Facebook has more than 600 million active users. I signed up my own account in 2008. Users may create a personal profile， and then add other users as friends and exchange messages. It is quite convenient for users to know what their friends are doing because of the function of automatic notifications when they update their profile. Users may join common interest user groups， organized by workplace， school， or college， or other characteristics. as an international student in Sydney， I should take every possible chance to integrate myself into local community. Facebook is a good platform which can serve this purpose. Through I have made friends with many local students as well as other international students. That is really amazing. It is the first time for me to have such many foreign friends and expose myself to western culture. Take learning English as example， it is said that the best way to learn English is to understand the culture and the logic thinking behind the local people. As long as I keep logging on facebook， I can keep chatting with the people who come from english-speaking countries so that I can understand how they express own opinion and reply in different situation. It is really helpful for me to improve my spoken English. ☆Describe an ad that helped you buy something. Describe an advertisement that made you buy something What kind of advertisement was When and where you saw or heard this advertisement What product or service it advertised And explain why you decided to buy that product Speaking of the advertisement， the first thing runs through my mind is a shampoo advertisement [？？m‘pu：]. I still remember the first time I watched this advertisement was in 2008 through television. Frankly speaking， I have a hair loss problem. Excessive hair shedding is always a pain in the neck for me. The reason why that advertisement drew [dru：] my attention was because that shampoo help people resolve the hair drop problem. What really impressed me was that Jackie Chan， a famous movie star， acted as a spokesman in that shampoo advertisement. In the advertisement， he explained that shampoo was made up of natural Chinese herbal [‘h？：b？l] medicine. The manufacturing company combines a Chinese herbs secret formula with advanced biotechnology. It helped prevent hair fall and promote the growth of hair. Jackie Chan also shared his own experience from using such a shampoo. He said he had persisted in using that shampoo for 3 months. He found that his hair become blacker and stronger. That was the reason why he was willing to become a spokesman of that brand name.After watching this advertising， I went to supermarket to buy that product without any hesitation. Because the famous star appeared in the advertising， which made me feel that product was creditable and worth-trusting. Also， the description in that advertising further strengthened my confidence in buying that product. Finally， I did have such a need to purchase this product. ☆ Describe a quiz show. I would like to talk about the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire [milj？‘n？？]？” This program originated in the United Kingdom and it was introduced to China in 2001. Since then that program had become really popular. I still remember the first time I watched this program was in early 2002. At that time I was completely obsessed [？b‘ses] by that show. It was a television game show which offered large cash prizes for contestants who can correctly answer a series [‘si？ri：z] of randomized multiple-choices questions. The maximum cash prize was one million Chinese dollars， and the maximum number of questions the contestants probably may be asked was 15. In the game， the contestants first had to undergo a preliminary [pri‘limin？ri] round called “fastest finger first“。 The contestants were required to put four items into a particular order. Whoever finished the question fastest as well as correctly， he or she had a chance to play for the maximum possible prize. Once in the hot seat， the contestant was asked increasingly difficult questions by the host. Basically those questions related to general knowledge and cover the areas like history， geography， biology， physics and so on. It is interesting to know that there were three lifelines， including fifty-fifty， ask the audience and phone to friends to help contestant to answer the questions. In terms of the reason why I like this quiz show， it reminded me again that knowledge means money， knowledge means power. The more I learn，the more I accumulate， the more benefit I can get. It also aroused my interest in some typical issue， such as the history in China. For example， I was eager to know how many emperors there were in Qing Dynasty. ☆ Describe a TV program you don‘t like. （第三部分可能问到：Do you think TV programs play educational roles？） Describe a TV program that you watched but didn't like. what program it was when you saw it what it was about and explain why you didn't like it. The TV program I do not like is called “To Tell the Truth”。 The first time I watched this program was in 2009 in China. That program was really controversial and popular. The main point of the program was to tempt the interviewees to tell the truth openly. There were several debatable elements in the program. Firstly， the host asked the interviewees some embarrassing questions， such as do you have a premarital intercourse， do you fall in love with two persons at the same time. The more questions they answer， the more money they get. Secondly， it used a lie detector to detect whether the interviewee was telling a lie or not. Once the lie detector found out some interviewees were telling a lie， they were required to quit the game. Thirdly， the interviewees‘ family members were also invited to participate in the game. They sat in front of the interviewees and listened to what they answered. Don‘t like： All these elements were creating a dilemma [di’lem？] for the interviewees. They may get more money at the expense of their privacy. It created an actual or potential disharmony within the interviewees‘ family and then generated more social problems. I heard a real story that after a husband confessed extramarital affairs in the program， her wife at once decided to devoice and leave him. Like： In terms of the reason I like this program， it helps people understand that the best way to get along with the people you love is to be honest and loyal to them all the time. It can give people a vivid example that once a person tells a lie， alienation between people will undoubtedly induce so that they gradually keep a distance with and never trust each other.
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