■ Direction· Task 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. Write at least 150 words.

· Task 2
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.

In some countries, more and more people are becoming interested in finding out about the history of the house or building they live in.

What are the reasons for this?

How can people research this?

People increasingly look for history of the structures where they live in some nations. Although specific reasons are different from each other, common factor is desire to understand themselves from their heritages, so that they try to find out historical information from documents.

To understand human, the most basic resources which are food, clothing and shelter is considered. Especially, buildings are the strongest evidence to tell us about lifestyle of people because these are not lost easily and reflect human cognition about their environment. So, numerous countries have tried to protect old buildings or historically valuable houses by conducting governmental projects. This stream encourages people to be interested in searching about history of architectures. For example, Jeon-ju citizens in Republic of Korea easily contact houses of traditional style which call ‘Han-oak’ in the middle of the city and try to experience to live in Han-oak for understanding ancestorial life. Though they studied about the historical facts at school, pragmatic experiences help them to understand deeply.

As I mentioned above, people learn the history about their house or building at primary and secondary education obligatorily, but how they can research further level when they become adult? Scholars of history or architecture try to discover blanks between well-known information and link each other. Ordinary people are able to access the organized documents on the internet to learn more in tertiary level. My friend enjoyed going to historical tour site with his son, he always studied from website to preliminary review and tell his son in easy ways. According to the example, internet allows us to research history conveniently and quickly.

Currently, people feel an interest in historical facts about their neighbouring building more than before. The trend reflects eager of people to increase their insight of humanities, governmental and personal affords boost the interests. Additionally, accessibility of internet widens the scope.