試閱下文 (《庖丁解牛》莊子),
並指出「為善無近名，為惡無近刑」顯示了莊子的甚麼思想及其與儒家思想的分歧。

1. We stand out, We commit in, We speak out.

2. We have privilege to be fond of Animes and Comics without being
discriminated against, as with other fans do.

3. We can be any race, any age, any sex, of any educational level,
of any vocation, of any marriage status and of any identity.

4. To err is human. We both have pros and cons as with others.
We disallow any biased overgeneralization on us.

5. We oppose mainstream mass media's infotainment-based
cultural violence that against us, spread rumours among general public,
create incomplete stereotype that far away from truth.

Netizen's Reaction: http://forum4.hkgolden.com/view.aspx?message=1645034

The following mistakes seems minor.
Some seemingly false complex grammar structure are actually correct,
but like me, some silly mistakes happen like how history repeats herself...

Miss Fan is exacting so I am not brave enough to point out her mistakes,
so long as she faces me during the English lessons.

Therefore, it is no point in considering this sleepy Miss as hypocrite.

Chapter 1: Educational Reform

In a day of 2112, a news report goes: "...As this is the first year where
totally new examination system is implemented, many HKCEE candidates
find it difficult to handle the totally new exam format in every subjects.
First, due to lenghtened examination period, HKCEE has become a great
challenge of candidates' physique. Many candidates has been reporting
that the examination paper is set to be too difficult and some even
go beyond the set syllabi..."

The camera then switches into a live seminar. From the TV, a made-up coarse
voice appears. Victor Wong, having a glimpse of the TV screen,
turn stunned, then report to her wife, Jessica Chan, in hysterical mood:
"Look! Your bosom friend has been on screen!"

Her attention then is put onto screen. In her eyes, she observes a cool
gal who looks like a male but with vocal pattern imposible to prove so .
The eyesight of that as tall as her husband is splendid, but she
can still feel the secular psyche at a distance.

Hint: Who is Victor pointing to in the TV screen?

http://www.ielts.org

http://www.britishcouncil.org.cn/

http://www.ielts-test.com

http://www.international.holmesglan.vic.edu.au/

http://www.elscafe.com/

http://www.usingenglish.com/

 http://www.51ielts.com/

http://www.englishclub.com

http://www.in2english.com.cn

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

http://news.bbc.co.uk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://www.thetimesonline.co.uk

http://www.uk.reuters.com

http://www.independent.co.uk

http://www.smh.com.au

http://www.abc.net.au/news

Integrated liberal arts topics:

http://usinfo.state.gov/

http://www.uneco.org

http://www.time.com

Commercial media:

http://www.economist.com/index.html

http://www.cfo.com

http://www.thebanker.com

http://www.ft.com

http://online.wsj.com

Technology:

http://www.techreview.com

http://www.sciam.com

Education:

http://www.tes.co.uk

http://www.thes.co.uk

http://www.thejournal.com

Environmental Studies:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com

Cultural Studies:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk

http://www.newyorker.com

Britan English Learning:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learninenglish/

Both content and grammar are equally important.
Make sure that your writing makes sense.

Theme:
Miscellaneous type of expository writings

Email address for marking your answer and giving further writing advices:
doraemonserv@yahoo.com.hk
Please entitle "English Essay Submission ASL#1"
Essays with distinction will be displayed in this blog for junior student's reference.

Your essay should contain at least 500 words.
Time allowed: 75 minutes

1. Some students from CUHK alleges that engineering courses in IVE
such as Digital Entertainment and Toy Production are but to be for
subset industries worldwide. As a general education professor in HKU,
you feel it insulting and thus deciding to stand for IVE. To make your
move more persuasive, you decided to draft a letter to editor showing
the empathy of the concerned CUHK student as well. Write the letter
in order to strike a balance between CUHK student's image and IVE
student's dignity.

2. Study the following arguments:

A: "Vitamin E helps prevent psychosis and it can reduce the chance of getting cancers."

B: "According to recent research findings from Reader Digest,
Vitamin E in the end increases the risk of getting cancers!"

Discuss the source of both arguments and
decide which of the view(s) would be justified.

3. Hong Kong High School Education lacks coherence with social sciences
such as humanist psychologist and administration in educating. As a
chairman of HKEAA, what would you do in order to improve high school
student's humanity care by introducing more subjects of social sciences?
Write a full report for your own findings.

4. Hong Kong government advocates that illegal photocopying kills books.
Also, she maintain that illegal song downloading kills showbiz industries.
With introduction of Creative Commons license since 2008, you think that
such slogans are out of date. With regard to Hong Kong's blook (i.e. a
collection of blog articles as a book) publishing trend, you, as
a representative of IFPI as well as a song artist having your own blog
containing a lot of musical scores, believe that the current copyright
ordinances need to be revised and amended. Write an in-depth proposal on this issue.
You should try to maintain the interest of your organization at work
while beckoning support form you fans, even those who use piracy to
play songs you made without pay.

=END OF PAPER=

Both content and grammar are equally important.
Make sure that your writing makes sense.

Theme:
Liberal Arts Education in high schools

Total time allowed: 90 minutes

Email address for marking your answer and giving further writing advices:
doraemonserv@yahoo.com.hk
Please entitle "English Essay Submission CE#1"
Essays with distinction will be displayed in this blog for junior student's reference.

Task A

You are a student helper for Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment
Authority, who received a order of producing examination advices on
2012 Hong Kong Diploma of Seccondary Education Examination
- Liberal Studies (module A: Personal Growth and Human Relationship).

Your working partners have complied the fragment of the production.
Complete the writing as shown below using about 100 words.

Tips For Achieving High Grades In Liberal Studies:
Personality Approach

There are 3 areas of concern, a.k.a. ABC:

A - Awareness: _________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________

B - Broadening of view horizon: ______________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________

C- Critical Thinking: ________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________

Task B

Choose either one of the following writing topic,
and complete the essay in no less than 250 words.

1. There exist many complaints from secondary school students' parents
regarding lack of supporting materials about examination techniques
for tackling HKDSE Liberal Studies papers 2112 onwards. As a consultant
of a textbook publisher (PPC, HKEP, .... you name it), draft a proposal in
order to improve the plight mentioned above.

2. "Personal Affairs in Showbiz markets are NOT worth studying" a critic
says. Discuss whether his saying stands water.

=END OF PAPER=

引用:

Au:        Nice to see you. Mr. Li and Mr. Fung. I am the after-sale
manager of SuperMe Company. As requested from the emails
sent by you, I am pleased to discuss the ways to further
improve the computerized script-marking system we are
currently using. [Show the gesture of “Hi!”]

Li + Fung:        Nice to see you too. [Show the gesture of “Hi!” as well]

Au:        First of all, could you further elaborate the critical and
urgent issues regarding the current computerized marking
system that need to be resolved as far as possible?

Li:        Yup. As you may know, under the current computerized
marking system junior examiners have to look at the horizontal
computer screen for the scanned candidates’ answer scripts
before they can submit the marks. Many junior examiners do
hate [stress these words in bold!] skimming and scanning script
on the computer screen as this alone not only is inconvenient
but also makes their eyes easily tired.

Fung:        You may look at the survey result from the junior
examiners about the satisfaction of using the current system.
[Open the document] You see, over 70% of the junior examiners
prefers the traditional marking method to the new system. This
means that although by the new system no candidate’s script
would be lost, it comes with a price that the administrative
inconvenience occurring to markers has been on the rise.

Au:        It seems to me that the problem is quite big. Then?

Li:        Also, they find it impossible to mark the scripts in detail
as they cannot hand-write marking scripts in the scanned
candidate’s answer script while the traditional, non-
computerized method can. To be simple, they have ill-adapted to
the electronic marking systems that we are currently using.

Fung:        Thus, the efficiency of marking using the current
computerized system is quite questionable. As to this, are there
any feasible methods in your company that can ease the junior
examiner’s grumbles (怨言)? Otherwise, to maintain the morale
among markers I am afraid we would have no choice but to end
the contract for using the current computerized system.


Au:        Well…Have you heard of NanoTechnology (奈米技術)? In
recent months our IT experts have managed to implement a
horizontal touchscreen marking system with software kits that
can make marking easier. I guess the junior examiners are
currently bothering inability to add marking script because the
current marking system we are using only allow entering and
submitting marks. This time, markers will be provided with pens
for the touchscreen.

Fung:        You mean junior examiners can mark or even write
comments on-screen as a simulation of traditional hand-writing
methods? That’s sound great! [Surprised] But could you
demonstrate how it can be used?

Au:        With the hardware of the improved marking system.
Just import the edited candidate’s script and the marking scripts
made on the touchscreen appears.

Li:        I see. That means under the improved system markers
will feel it more convenient just like writing on a piece of paper.
Then how can the marking scripts made be handled? Would the
script be lost when the system halts? And would it be possible
to save the marking scripts?

Au:        By virtue of this new system markers can share their
marking scripts to guarantee the fairness of marking. The
electronic marking scripts can be saved to any common file
format and they are freely-transferable, say, by simply via a
flash drive.

Li:        Then, under the new system how can junior examiners
submit marks? I fear that the marking could be more complicated
than the current marking system does. That is, if we have to
submit the mark by hand-writing on horizontal screen, the new
system backfires.

Au:        Well…As to this point, Mr. Fung, could you please tell me
if there exists any complaints about the mark-submission
components in the current system?

Fung:        No problem. [searching for date]. Having found the
relevant data, be assured that no record of any complaints
regarding mark-submission components of the current system is
found so far. So would such a component be retained in the
improved system?

Au:        To optimize the efficiency of the improved system this
component would be kept for sure.

Li:        Then we need to face another problem: What are the
procedures of upgrading the current computerized marking
system into improved ones?

Fung:        That is, we simply replace the hardware and installed
the up-to-date software kits and all things will run well?

Au:        Bingo! [Nodding/showing “good” gesture]

Li:        Next I would like to inquire the after-sale service, say the
user manual and on-line technical supports. There should be at
lease instructions to guide junior examiners how to use the
improved system right? Also, in case of language paper marking,
should there be any bilingual documentation for the improved
system?

Au:        To suit different teachers’ need, be assured that the
documentation will be written in bilingual form, and free
electronic versions are also available from our official sites.

Fung:        All seems work fine. But there is still a problem:
Would this replacement plan be ultra-expensive as when we
have purchased first-time? You know, our company may run
short of capital for the upgrade of computerized marking system.
To prove so, please take a look of our organization’s finance
report. This year the net profit we earned cannot meet the cost
of the system upgrade if the price remains unchanged.

Au:        Don’t worry. I shall file a proposal to make the
government provide subsidy on your organization. It is because
HKEAA belongs to social institution of educating. As the local
government advocates, the educational reform should have
governmental support in need.

Li:        What if the proposal failed? You know, HKEAA is but a
self-financed institution and the current government seems
reluctant to provide us with subsidy because it is also facing
fiscal deficit.  

Au:        Don’t worry either. Our company is please to provide a
50%-off discount on you. You know, assessment for learning is
your institution’s motto and as a social enterprise, we would
help for sure in case of financial difficulties. Would it be OK?

Li:        Then all would be satisfactory. Mr. Fung, shall we sign
the contract of the new system purchase in no time? It is
because the public examination period of this year will come
after a few weeks.

Fung:                        I cannot agree more. I hope the junior
examiners would really find the improved system easy to use
and our marking system would be robust.
                                                                                   (END)

Original sentence

The Tan brothers get along very well and have never had any sibling rivalry.

Further vocabulary practice

The otaku discourses are NOT consistent amongACGN fields,
so a great deal of discord has arisen in many blogger's sites and local forums,
say HKGolden and Uwants.

Doraemonserv is at enmity with Benjamin Ng in CUHKACS,
because the latter verbally discriminates against the former.

Lolita culture is facing confrontation with M.K. culture, incompatible.