Friday, October 30, 2009

iBT writing practice 2

If you travel in a new country, it will be a lot of novel experiences whether it is exciting or frustrating. If someone wants to have a travel in Taiwan, I will give he/she some suggestion in order to let he/she has fun time.
In the U.S., many stores close before 8:00 pm. But most stores in Taiwan close in 10:00 pm. Especially for “night market”, they always close in 1:00 am. You can only find some delicious foods like “octopus ball”, “peanut sugar” in the night market. You can also find some cheap clothes there. There is a very interesting place, never stay in your hotel and visit nightmarket before 1:00 AM.
If you ask me where is the most beautiful place in Taiwan. I will say “Taroko”. In there you can see many straight mountain and beautiful gorge, you can also swimming in the river or have mountain climbing. Because of the beautiful scene there, my families go to there every years. It is located in the east of Taiwan, You can take train to visit there. It just cost you 3 hours.
Another thing I must remind the people who want to go to Taiwan is that you can take Taiwan High Speed Rail to the where you want to go. There are totally 7 stations through the Taiwan. It will help you save a lot of time if you take this transportation.

However, there are also many drawbacks in Taiwan. The first suggestion I will give travelers is that you must take the umbrella with you when you go out. It rains very often in Taiwan.
The second thing I will suggest is the air pollution is aeries in Taiwan big city like Taipei, Taichung, Kaushung. You can go to outskirts as much as possible. The air qualitr is better there.
You also need careful the bad traffic situation and bad traffic habit in Taiwan. If you want to cross the road. You need careful the car whether the trafic light is red or green. In many countries, walker is first. But in Taiwan, driver is first. So be careful when you walk in taiwan. You shouldn’t drive in taiwan and instead by public transportation system like MRT or bus.

Taiwan is a beautiful and interesting place, I think it is worth if you take a vocation in Taiwan. If you follow my suggestion I believe that you will have a nice trip.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Composition- My favorite movie

My favorite movie is “The Da Vinci Code”. That’s because of the same-named novel. I remember when the first time I saw the novel, I can’t help to stop myself keeping studying and finish all the book in 3 hours. I think the story is tight and creatively. Because I have never been to Roma so many things in this story I can just image before the appearance of the movie. So I went to the theater in the first day of playdate in order to fulfill my imagination. The protagonist of the movie is also my favorite actor- Tom Hanks. In the beginning of this movie the director of du Louvre was killed, the police doubt that protagonist is murder. In order prove the protagonist is not the murder, he and heroine not only escape the police, but also need to riddle the puzzle. Finally he finds the secrecy in du Louvre and proves that he doesn’t the murder.
Because of this movie, I can see a lot of famous painting, and du Louvre; even know the history and religion of west culture. Through this movie the idea that Dan Brown want to express is more real to me. Because I very like the novel “The Da Vinci Code”, the movie is also become my favorite one!

Friday, October 23, 2009

iBT composition practice

In 2006, because our formal president Chen Shen Bain had do something like corruption and he also argue that he want Taiwan to independent. A lot of people group in front of president place to protest. They wanted Bain to fall out of his president power.
The group of people, about one million of them, Sit in front of the president place and brought up why they wanted Bain to fall out of his president power. The first reason they argued that Bain need to leave office is because of Bain corrupted. He receive a lot of money from big company and bank in Taiwan, and remitted the money to bank account in Swiss. The amount of this money is about 20 million dollars USD and many other unknown account. People wanted he must returned the money.

The second reason that people wanted he to release his president power is because he suggest Taiwan must independent from China. From 60 years, independent always a sensitive problem between China, Taiwan, and U.S. government. He was the president in that time. If he really made Taiwan independent. China will attack Taiwan, so people wanted he stop this kinds of crazy behavior.

The protest was lasted for many days, but Bain insisted he have never corrupted. Because of the protest, many people went strike and they also made big traffic jam in the capital. Now, Bain was in the jail because of his corruption. But he also insist that he have never corrupted. Both his family member like wife, son, daughter, and son-in-low are also involved. All of them will be jailed in future.