Low-cost Air Low-cost air companies create opportunities for people to travel across the borders of countries.Although we need to reduce unnecessary travels, I would still argue that the services provide by low-cost air are beneficial to the public. By taking cheap flights people may go to different countries for tourism, and enrich their experiences of varieties of cultures, thereby expanding their outlooks.Some people are possible to visit some countries to seek a better employment, and earn a higher income.Business owners can probably discovery potential business opportunities to earn more profits by exporting or importing products between different regions.But if price of air tickets rises a lot they will probably lose those opportunities. Meanwhile, some people hold the idea that raising airfaces can reduce the environmental impact which was brought by this industry.A higher price can discourage people to go for travel by air.If the frequency of flights decreases, then the greenhouse gas emissions by air will be reduced accordingly.Other problems associated with air industry, such as noise pollution and environmental destruction by building airport and related facilities, will be mitigated as well. I do not think it is necessary to increase the ticket price, because people ought to have chances to go to other places for tourism and recreation. may people, especially the workers who live in mega cities, are likely live under a huge pressure and always be busy on many kinds of affairs.If they can easily get a cheap flight, they may go farther for taking holidays.For examples, tourists from China can visit some tropical countries to taste local foods, but not spend their holidays on home. In conclusion, my view is that it is not reasonable to restrict low-cost air, because cheap flights bring significant values to people, even though air companies can reduce their environmental impact by technology innovation.

A letter - 20160501 You have some problems in your work and write a letter to a friend for advice. In your letter,  Outline what you do in your job  Explain the problems facing you  Suggest what advice you want to take from your friend Dear Alex, I know you are overloaded with your work, but I do need your help and advice about some software programming problems I’m handling now. As you know, I just got promoted to a new position in my company as a software architect. One of my major responsibilities is to design and write the core software codes for an enterprise fund management system, especially for its database subsystem which requires efficient and robust software algorithms running there. But the latest performance of my program is not excellent enough, and occasionally there’s system crash either. I tried to improve as much as I can while I still haven’t managed to tackle all critical software bugs so far. Unfortunately I’m exhausted and cannot concentrate on them too much because my bosses just assigned me with some new challenging works. You have built a remarkable reputation in the software programming sector for your outstanding abilities on coding excellence, and your convincible experience on being consultant for enormous software giants e.g. Microsoft, google, Alibaba etc, so could you plz help to review the enclosed materials for my design and code and give me some ideas how should I improve their quality and efficiency. Thank you so much for helping me with this, and you know how important consultancy to not let my boss down! Kind regards

just several sentences, 20160429 The main reason for unemployment in rural areas are lack of infrastructure construction and government investment, which can be solved partially by the rural-to-urban shift. High-rise buildings are sometimes recognized as a city’s eyesores. Although the arts do not belong to core subject areas, they play important roles in the curriculum, for these subjects add spice to life. Building apartment blocks helps solve overcrowding in cities because these buildings can maximize their utilizations in terms of lands and spaces.

A letter(2) For the speaking section, I admit I have made some low level mistakes during the testing, such as I didn’t pronounce ‘subordinate’ fluently, and I wrongly said ‘household wife’ which should be actually ‘housewife’, in the part two I intended to say ‘my wife say apology to me’, while I didn’t control the time well so I believe I might not fully answered all the questions. Due to lack of IELTS experience I didn’t have such kind of awareness. One more bad thing is that I said ‘yes’ when the woman assessor confirmed with me ‘it is you apologized to your wife, right?’ Honestly speaking, I was not suited to the style of the woman assessor, because she interrupted me frequently, which I suppose an interference to me during whole of the test. But I know this is mostly to my personal ability, just want to try to explain something here for asking your understanding. For the listening part, I understand all the questions are objective but it’s a pity that in several places I caught the ideas correctly while wrote a wrong words due to missing capital letter, and using singular instead of plural. Thanks for my excellent technical background, since year 2006 I have been fortunately employed by Nokia, a telecommunication industry giant in the world. I worked at R&D department, and it requires me using spoken English and writing English every day for communicating with other colleagues across the rest of the world. By those facts I would say I have gained relative excellent English skills. And as I share in the third paragraph that taking another exam is extremely inconvenient for me, so I request to remark my writing, speaking and listening section. Any help from you would be truly appreciated. Thank for your efforts in advance. Best regards

A letter(1) Dear Sir or Madam, My name is ××× (Candidate No.: ×××). I took part in the IELTS test (General Training) on 19th Mar, 2016 for the purpose of migrating to New Zealand. Bearing the puzzlement of the result, I wish to reassess my test score on writing, speaking and listening. It requires band 6.5 to submit a migration request to New Zealand immigration bureau. The scores I got this time are reading (7.5), writing (6), listen (5) and speaking (6), so final score is 6. Which surprise me most is the writing section, which I think I have also done a good job and would be a higher score. Frankly speaking, if I would be rated with 6.5 for writing section then I will obtain a desirable score. Although this was the first time I participated IELTS test, I have prepared it for six months. Actually I spent 4 hours a day to practice all 4 sections. I’m full-time employed and I need to take care of a 2 years old daughter with my wife together. To me it is really a challenge to ensure learning activities, after fulfill the work assignments, household chores and interaction with my baby. In the past days, for writing section every day I at least practiced one essay that relevant to task 1 or task 2. Particularly, I was greatly benefited from many native-English speakers who are active on some language learning website, such as lang-8.com and italki.com. They gave me numerous guidance on essay structures and grammars. I would believe that I have improved a lot. However, I still got 6 in the writing part and this really made me puzzled and frustrated. One thing I also want to explain is that I might wrote a wrong word ‘stuff’, which should be actually ‘staff’ in the writing task one, I believe it was caused by a time pressure. I can’t forgive myself for this, just asking for your understanding here. -to be continue

Writing practice. Look forward to your correction To solve the ever-increasing environmental hazards throughout the world, the best way is to increase the price of fuel. What is your opinion on the above assumption? You should write at least 250 words. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nowadays the pollution issues are more and more considered by all governments across the world, because if we neglect the ever-increasing trend of environmental hazards then human beings will be dramatically impacted in terms of living conditions and healthy. There are a variety of means need to be utilized to resolve the problem, but not only depends on price policy e.g. increasing the price of fuel. First of all, price measurements are meaningful and usually effectively. They don't cost too much time on making decisions and easily to be implemented by government. Take fuel price as example, a higher fuel price immediately limits the frequency of vehicle usage, which will bring positive effect on reducing polluted gas. In addition to that, if authorities decide to increase the price of other energies then people would consume less of them, therefore less raw materials will be mined and it will directly help to reduce environmental hazards. Secondly, more educational work should be done by governments and related organizations. Most people do not understand fully what could be real impact of their improper daily habit because they were not educated before what are the right behavior and what else are not. For example people tend to ask for plastic bags when they purchasing foods or vegetables at market. Although it brings convenience, plastic bags are critical to environment preservation because of its non-degradable attribute. Moreover, it is vital for authorities to use legal regulations and measures to limit pollution generation by factories, and meanwhile urge them continuously improve their recycling process. Apparently, these kind of efforts will ensure a long term improvement on reducing pollution in the source. In conclusion, price measures like increasing the fuel price are workable, while government should take more aggressive actions to improve people’s awareness on environment preservation, and reduce the pollution from the source, too. Only by those aspects of efforts we will have a more green and sustainable Earth.

Writing Practice 0302 To solve the ever-increasing environmental hazards throughout the world, the best way is to increase the price of fuel. What is your opinion on the above assumption? You should write at least 250 words. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nowadays the pollution issues are more and more considered by all governments across the world, because if we neglect the ever-increasing trend of environmental hazards then human beings will be dramatically impacted in terms of living conditions and healthy. There are a variety of means need to be utilized to resolve the problem, but not only depends on price policy e.g. increasing the price of fuel. First of all, price measurements are meaningful and usually effectively. They don't cost too much time on making decisions and easily to be implemented by government. Take fuel price as example, a higher fuel price immediately limits the frequency of vehicle usage, which will bring positive effect on reducing polluted gas. In addition to that, if authorities decide to increase the price of other energies then people would consume less of them, therefore less raw materials will be mined and it will directly help to reduce environmental hazards. Secondly, more educational work should be done by governments and related organizations. Most people do not understand fully what could be real impact of their improper daily habit because they were not educated before what are the right behavior and what else are not. For example people tend to ask for plastic bags when they purchasing foods or vegetables at market. Although it brings convenience, plastic bags are critical to environment preservation because of its non-degradable attribute. Moreover, it is vital for authorities to use legal regulations and measures to limit pollution generation by factories, and meanwhile urge them continuously improve their recycling process. Apparently, these kind of efforts will ensure a long term improvement on reducing pollution in the source. In conclusion, price measures like increasing the fuel price are workable, while government should take more aggressive actions to improve people’s awareness on environment preservation, and reduce the pollution from the source, too. Only by those aspects of efforts we will have a more green and sustainable Earth.

Writing Practice 0301. Look forward your corrections. Some people prefer to live in a house, while others feel that there are more advantages to living in an apartment. Are there more advantages than disadvantages of living in a house compared with living in an apartment? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ With continuous population expanding in large cities, people have different options on choosing their desirable living places. Some people may prefer house, while others regard apartment as a better alternative. I would say apartment has more advantages than the disadvantages. Generally most of apartments locate at downtown or suburb, which brings quite much convenience for people’s daily life. You may spend less time on transportation, and living facilities are more accessible. That means you can save more time on leisure and relaxation. In additional to that, household chores are more affordable because people receives a varieties of apartment services e.g. cleaning, repairing; etc. instead of doing everything by themselves. Nevertheless, negatives of living in an apartment are quite obviously especially it lack of garden and garage, and people would have to accept a smaller living space. Many people have a dream that their house has a private garden as part of their hobby. It is difficult to find a vacant parking slot in apartment if you go home late. Due to the higher price of real estate in downtown people is hard to buy an apartment as big as a house which is in rural area. Alternatively, living in a house is more competitive at those disadvantage areas. People lives more comfortably and do not have as much pressure as living at city area. Although people may spent more time on transportation, they will get a more peaceful and quite live. This definitely benefit themselves not only physically and mentally. All in all, even though the pros of living in a house is attractive, considering the reality of our society it would be a better option for most of people to live in an apartment.

Writing Practice 0229 Being a celebrity – such as a famous film star or sports personality – brings problems as well as benefits. Do you think that being a celebrity brings more benefits or more problems? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many people have a dream to be a celebrity. They imagine in some day they become a famous film star or sports personality, which seems to be a fascinating thing. In my opinion, despite of nice things, the weakness of being a celebrity outweigh its strength. One of the most significant disadvantages is you definitely lose personal privacy if you are a public people. It is obvious that your supports and fans would like to get your news as much as possible, e.g. where are you, how about your today’s mood, what have you had in last dinner, whom did you meet yesterday; etc. You will find it difficult to be go out for shopping alone because many people are following with you closely and taking photos with you. As a result, you have to choose expose yourself to the public, or else you have to stay away from the society to get a quiet place for your living. Furthermore, being a celebrity brings excessive pressure not only physically but mentally. Firstly you must be always healthy to afford the heavy work. Take famous star as example that means you need to always keep a good shape to satisfy your fans. Secondly, people usually have more expectation on celebrity. Just imagine if you are a fan of tennis star, do you hope she/he win a champion every year? That will indeed make you feel outstanding pressure almost between every breath. Nevertheless, the benefits of being a celebrity are attractable especially on gaining wealth and creating a successful social impact. Being rich provides a better living conditions to themselves and to their families. A famous people is more easily to call for people to do right things such as devoting to charity because of his/her personal impact to the society. As a consequence, the celebrity receives a good reputation. In Short: although significant advantages can be seen, being a celebrity is not an easy work which means you need to accept a variety of disadvantages.