During Company.com planning session, the discussion focuses on how the IP connections are Managed after a cluster node failure. This is critical for the business since their production application is a Lotus Domino solution requiring multiple IP addresses and recovery time is critical. What type of IPAT implementation would best address these requirements?()
Both passages include which of the following elements?
I. a discussion of the importance of human feelings in a debate
II. a citation of an authoritative scientific study
III. a reference to global warming
We'll()our discussion tomorrow.
No agreement was () in the discussion as neither side would give way to the other.
Practice 1 Discussion—about 5 minutes
In this part of the test you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which is below, and then about 3 minutes to discuss the topic with your partner. After that the examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic.
For two candidates
Program for New Staff
Your company has found that ineffective time management is one of the major problem areas throughout the workforce. You have been asked to put forward some suggestions for improving the situation.
Discuss and decide together:
● why poor time management can become a major problem in companies.
● what procedures could be adopted to ensure that time is managed effectively.
You are late! The discussion started minutes ago.()
The Environment in Perspective:Is Everything Getting Steadily Worse?
Much of the discussion of environmental problems in the popular press leaves the reader with the impression that matters have been growing steadily worse, and that pollution is largely a product of the profit system and modern industrialization. There are environmental problems today that are both enormous and pressing, but in fact pollution is nothing new. Medieval cities were pestholes—the streets and rivers were littered with garbage and the air stank of rotting wastes. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, a German traveler reported that to get a view of London from the tower of St. Paul’s, one had to get there very early in the morning “before the air was full of coal smoke.”
Since 1960 there has been progress in solving some pollution problems, much of it the result of concerted efforts to protect the environment. The quality of the air in most Canadian cities has improved. In Toronto, for example, the concentration of suspended particulates, or soot, in the air has fallen dramatically since 1962. To put this figure in perspective, it should be noted that the current health advisory level for the index is 32. At a level of 58, people with chronic respiratory diseases may be affected. At 100, even healthy people may be affected by prolonged conditions, and those with cardiac and respiratory diseases could suffer severe effects
Recently in Toronto, the index has exceeded 32 on fewer than half a dozen days annually. Similar improvements have occurred elsewhere in Canada and in other industrialized countries. Even the famous, or rather infamous, “fogs” of London are almost a thing of the past. There have been two high readings of particular note in the British capital in 1959 (when the index rose to 275 and there was a 10 percent increase over the normal number of deaths) and in 1962 (when the index rose to 575 and there was a 20 percent increase in mortality). But more recently, London’s, cleaner air has resulted in an astounding 50 percent increase in the number of hours of winter sunshine. In short, pollution problems are not a uniquely modem phenomenon, nor is every part of the environment deteriorating relentlessly.
Environmental problems do not occur exclusively in capitalist economies. For example, in the People’s Republic of China, coal soot from factory smokestacks in Beijing envelops the city in a thick black haze. Similarly, smoke from brown-coal furnaces pollutes the air almost everywhere in Eastern Europe. It has been estimated that a third of Poland’s citizens live in areas of “ecological disaster”. The citizens of Leipzig, a major industrial city in what was formerly East Germany, have a life expectancy a full six years shorter than the national average.
However, we do not mean to suggest that all is well with the environment in market-oriented economies or that there is nothing more to do. While there have been some improvements, serious problems remain. Our world is now subject to a number of new pollutants, most of which are far more dangerous than those we have reduced, even though they may be less visible and less malodorous
While environmental problems are neither new nor confined only to capitalist, industrialized economies, these facts are not legitimate grounds for complacency. The potential damage that we are inflicting on ourselves and on our surroundings is very real and very substantial.
Which of the following inferences may be drawn from the discussion of Lu Yu’s work?
Practice 5 Discussion—about 5 minutes.
In this part of the test you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, and example of which is below, and then about 3 minutes to discuss the topic with your partner. After that the examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic.
For two candidates
Flexible Working Time
Your company wants a flexible working time. You are asked to discuss about it.
Discuss the situation and decide:
● Is it practical or not
● name the advantages and disadvantages
For three candidates
Flexible Work Time
Your company wants a flexible working time. You are asked to discuss about it.
Discuss the situation and decide:
● Is it practical or not
● name the advantages and disadvantages
● If needed, cite the accurate example to fight for/against it.
The discussion has been()until Monday.