TOEFL 1 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: People should have hobbies and do physical activities that are very different from their own work. Nowadays, people begin to take more consideration of balancing their work and life, which is very different from they did previously. Although the living pace becomes faster and faster, more and more people join in running, excursion etc., because they know that work is only a part of life. I believe that, developing hobbies and doing exercises different from their work, people will finally benefit a lot from those. To begin with, interests different from work help us to fulfill one's sense of accomplishment. One day filled up with things related to job makes us feel blank and meaningless. When I was studying in the University, I studied French in the meanwhile. Although the study process is tough for me, since I needed to arrange the time spent on my major and on French, I was very excited to see that the childhood dream came true. Because of learning French, I obtained the opportunity to study in France, experiencing exotic culture. Now I can learn more about those romantic french movies. And my friends wanting to learning French also asked me for advice. Actually, I was not good at English in high school, but now the challenge of learning language makes me realize that everything is possible. In addition, interests also help us to work better. In one case, having hobbies makes us win admire from partners. For instance, sales often try to find common topics with their customers. If they know interesting knowledge of any fields, they are more easily to sell products or else they will be looked as a boring people. In another case, doing physical activities makes us relax and devote into work again. In China, there are several cases that a young employee of the Big Four accounting firm died for high workload and over-tired. According to a research, running is a good way to fight against tired. That is, running regularly is able to lift one's spirit when he or she works. To summarize, no one is a dead machine, so we cannot work without taking accounting of our physical and mental condition. If we develop hobbies and do physical activities, they will make our life meaningful and our work easy.