TOEFL Essay 27 with model answer:
Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.
What are the qualities you value most in a friend? Has your opinion about what makes a good friend changed as you have grown older?
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Model Answer:
Friendship might be the oldest relationship in the world and has been being practiced from time immemorial. Friendship is the closest bonding after the family relations. But a friend should have some qualities.
Sincerity is the most important thing for a sustainable friendship and even it is important for all other relationships too. But to be a good friend, one should have the quality of being a sincere person. It may happen that you are responsible for keeping a promise and due to your indifference, you failed to keep the promise. In a word, you are insincere. None will be with you for your insincerity. Honesty is another must to be a friend. Everybody loves honest people and they are respected too for exercising their honesty. If a man is dishonest, it is impossible for him to be a friend. Initially, he might gain trust from the other people who consider him as a friend, but when the dishonesty will be revealed, people will ignore him. I prefer honesty than rich in my friends.
Kindness is the other virtue that a man should possess to be a friend. If you are unkind, you will not provide any sort of help to your friends in time of their danger. If you lack kindness, you will also never get help from your friends at your needs as you refused them earlier. Selflessness is another quality that a friend should exercise. Most of the people, including me as well, prefer friends who are selfless. The people who rush for any support without thinking about the consequence or their own benefits are the real friends. So, selflessness is one of the desired virtues that people seek in their friends.
Easy going is the other quality of a friend because if the friend creates a sense of invisible boundary around him or her, it becomes difficult to share emotions and feelings with him or her. So, easy going nature is also sought by the people to make friendship.
In my personal experiences, I have seen many changes in friendships. In my early days, I had a friend who has changed a lot in this adulthood and stopped socializing with me from the early days of our childhood because of his arrogance. Moreover, friends get changed for some other reasons and the causes are different during different age range. In teenage, usually friendship changes for some specific issues like not helping in an exam or preparing lessons, issues related to having affair with girlfriends (it happens that two of the boys fall for a single girl and accordingly their friendships changes), misunderstanding over different issues etc.
But if someone gets a good friend with all the necessary qualities, the friendship remains the same round their life. In my college days, I have seen the friendships are broken for petty issues and the friends did not even talk or socialize today. Further, I have seen people who are friends from their childhood and never had a single disagreement or quarrel over any issues. So, this is about picking the right friends.
(Word count = 512)
Sincerity is the most important thing for a sustainable friendship and even it is important for all other relationships too. But to be a good friend, one should have the quality of being a sincere person. It may happen that you are responsible for keeping a promise and due to your indifference, you failed to keep the promise. In a word, you are insincere. None will be with you for your insincerity. Honesty is another must to be a friend. Everybody loves honest people and they are respected too for exercising their honesty. If a man is dishonest, it is impossible for him to be a friend. Initially, he might gain trust from the other people who consider him as a friend, but when the dishonesty will be revealed, people will ignore him. I prefer honesty than rich in my friends.
Kindness is the other virtue that a man should possess to be a friend. If you are unkind, you will not provide any sort of help to your friends in time of their danger. If you lack kindness, you will also never get help from your friends at your needs as you refused them earlier. Selflessness is another quality that a friend should exercise. Most of the people, including me as well, prefer friends who are selfless. The people who rush for any support without thinking about the consequence or their own benefits are the real friends. So, selflessness is one of the desired virtues that people seek in their friends.
Easy going is the other quality of a friend because if the friend creates a sense of invisible boundary around him or her, it becomes difficult to share emotions and feelings with him or her. So, easy going nature is also sought by the people to make friendship.
In my personal experiences, I have seen many changes in friendships. In my early days, I had a friend who has changed a lot in this adulthood and stopped socializing with me from the early days of our childhood because of his arrogance. Moreover, friends get changed for some other reasons and the causes are different during different age range. In teenage, usually friendship changes for some specific issues like not helping in an exam or preparing lessons, issues related to having affair with girlfriends (it happens that two of the boys fall for a single girl and accordingly their friendships changes), misunderstanding over different issues etc.
But if someone gets a good friend with all the necessary qualities, the friendship remains the same round their life. In my college days, I have seen the friendships are broken for petty issues and the friends did not even talk or socialize today. Further, I have seen people who are friends from their childhood and never had a single disagreement or quarrel over any issues. So, this is about picking the right friends.
(Word count = 512)
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