SECTION 4: OTHER ECONOMIC ISSUES

23. A university plans to develop a new research center in your country. Some people want a center for business research. Other people want a center for research in agriculture (farming). Which of these two kinds of research centers do you recommend for your country? Use specific reasons in your recommendation. TOEFL102
What can research center for business bring?
- Improve a country’s economy in relation to other countries
Why not approve business center?
- Business practices in the US already serve as a model for many other countries.
- Business are already well – connected internationally. They have the advantages of the Internet and other means of electronic information transmission.
- Businessmen would get richer. For the rest of the country’s people, there might be little obvious benefit.
What can research center for agriculture bring?
- Help all people: food prices can be reduced as farmers discover more effective means of food production.
- Natural resources are eroding.
- Farmers need to build stronger network across the country and internationally much as businessmen already have done.

Other possible questions for interview section regards this topic:
1. What are some of the main industries in your country?''
- Agriculture: Vietnam is still basically an agriculture society, although it continues to take steps toward an industry-oriented development.
- One of the world's largest exporters of rice.
- The Vietnamese economy is dominated by agriculture, which employs over 60% of the labour force, and comprises 40% of Idontknowl exports.
- Though rice is the main agricultural product, the country also produces maize, sweet potato, vegetables, yam and beans.
- Vietnam is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of coffee.
- Mineral Industry:
- Rich in natural resources, with most of its reserves relatively untapped, coal is Vietnam’s second most important mineral in terms of export earnings, after petroleum. Vietnam became an oil-producing nation in 1986.
- The industrial sector is also an important contributor to the country's economy.
- Employing about 12% of the labour force.
- Manufacturing industries include food processing, textiles and leather, building materials, packaging, wood processing and paper, engineering and chemicals.
2. Describe a job that you think would be ideal for you.
You should say:
- what this job is.

- What qualities or pre – conditions people usually have to have to get this kind of job.
- Why you think this job would be ideal for you.
- And explain why it is likely or unlikely that you will have a job like this in the future.
3. How important do you think it is to have a job that you enjoy?
4. Compare the importance of salary and job satisfaction in choosing a job or career.
5. Evaluate the importance of good relationships in a work environment.
6. Are there any jobs or fields of work, which you consider to be more appropriate for males or females? Why?
7 Consider employment in Vietnam. Do you think it is more or less segregated in terms of gender than in previous generations? What TV commercials do you like? Why?
8 What's your favorite commercial?
9 What is the purpose of advertising a product?
10 Do you think there are subliminal messages?
11 When you drive or walk, do you get distracted by advertisements on buses or billboards?
12 When you go food shopping, do you buy foods you've seen in TV commercials?
13 Do you like the Bennetton's advertisements? If not, why? (You can substitute any company's name.)
14 Do you think it's right to see naked women in TV commercials selling beauty products?
15 Which job are you best at?
16 Which job would you never do?
17 Which jobs do you think are the most prestigious?
18 Who among the people you know has the most interesting job? What is it?
19 Why did you leave your last job - did you resign or were you sacked?
20 Would you be upset if your boss was a woman?
21 Would you consider the military as a career choice? Why or why not?
22 Would you like a job in which you traveled a lot?
23 Would you like a job that required you to sit at a computer all day?
24 Would you rather be a doctor or a banker?
25 Would you rather work inside or outside?

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