各位托友,相信大家现在手里都拿到了2016年2月份的托福预测机经,但是问题是有些题目同学们完全没有思路,波波老师针对大家的这一困惑,从机经中精心筛选出以下几道较为有思考难度的托福写作题目,写出较为详尽的写作思路和细节,希望能帮助大家做好托福写作考前的临门一脚。更多关于2016年3月19日托福预测机经详见2016年3月19日托福考试预测,俗话说的好,临阵磨枪,不快也光。在上考场前,好好看看这四道题目吧。
NO.1
Some people prefer to buy technological devices as soon as they are available on the market, while other people prefer to wait. Which do you prefer?
【波波点睛】:
【题目大意】:在购买科技产品时,应该一上市就买还是等等再买。波波老师建议大家选择等等再买,原因是首先可以省钱,其次使用起来更安全方便。
具体思路如下:
1. 购买刚上市的产品需要一大笔钱,必然会导致个人经济压力陡增。
Making an impulsive purchase of newly-marketed electronic products requires a large sum of money, thus making the financial burden of individuals much heavier.
论据:
When the products are just available on the market, their prices are extremely high in initial stage and are bound to decline with the time passing. In other words, the impulse buyers whose rational sequence of buying is replaced by irrational emtions of self-gratification will suffer a lot in their wallet. Take the latest generation of the iPhone in the form of the iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S plus as an example. When first unveiled in September 9 of 2015, t iPhone6s and iPhone6s Plus are respectively sold at the prices of 5288 yuan and 6088 yuan, which amount to the monthly salary of a white collar in the large cities. However, six months later, their prices has decreased by approximately 700 yuan, which makes them more affordable for everyone.
2. 购买新上市的产品可能会让消费者承担一定的安全风险。
Customers buying the latest electronic devices are more likely to take the risk of safety.
论据:
Regardless of the kinds of products, it is quite common that the first version of products is more susceptible to malfunction or some more serious problems. As a result, the users of such products may may fall victims to the potential safety hazzard of those devices. Whenever logging onto the website, watching TV and reading newspaper, we could find there is extensive coverage about the malfunction of the latest version of electronic gadgets.
NO.2 In the modern world, we should never be impolite to another person.
【波波点睛】:
【题目大意】:在当今社会,我们绝对不能对别人不礼貌。此题目是一道绝对性的命题,波波老师建议承认合理性,反驳绝对性的写法,具体思路为,先去承认在多数情况下,对别人礼貌是有必要的,但是也有一些特殊情况,尤其是在紧急事件和对待犯人时。
让步:
Admittedly, in most cases courtesy is appreciated. After all, it is a marker of a civilized society. It is usually required by social protocol. The way people stand in line when waiting outside the dentist’ office, or the way they talk quietly in public places like libraries, demonstrates their manners. Besides, courtesy may also give an edge over our competitors. It is not hard to imagine a well-mannered young man being more likely to win the employer’s favor in a job interview than a rude young man. However, to say we should never be impolite to others is an overstatement.
情况一:Consider emergency.
论据:
In such cases it would be senseless to overemphasize politeness. Imagine a man driving his wife to the hospital. She is about to give birth, but he still tries to maintain good manners, waving goodbye to the security guard in the front gate or apologizing profusely to the vehicles he has overtaken. The pregnant woman might end up suffering more because her husband failed to get her to the emergency room in time. Unnecessary politeness during emergencies might cause harm and thus should be put aside. Similarly, in the event of fire, if the firefighters are afraid to make noises and reluctant to slam open the windows, there could be serious consequences. Thus in emergency situations, it would be ridiculous to overemphasize courtesy.
情况二:
The same is true of the cases in which our legal rights are infringed on by others.
论据:
For instance, When criminals resort to violence, there is no reason for the police to mind their manners. It is hard to imagine that when arresting a suspect, a police officer would nicely say to a criminal, “Would you please lower your weapons? I would like to talk with you. ” On the contrary, the right thing to do would be to shout, “Freeze” and handcuff the criminal. Shouting and handcuffing are anything but polite, yet it is rough actions like these that work in such circumstances. Therefore, when fighting crime, the never be impolite rule should be broken.
NO.3 Do you agree or disagree: the universities should spend more money in improving facilities (libraries, computer labs) than hiring famous teachers.
【波波点睛】:
【题目大意】:学校应该更加重视购买新的设备还是雇佣新的老师。此题是一个比较类题目,而且发现比较的两项:设备和老师, 是可以共存的,对于这样的题目,最简单的写法是选择两者同等重要,即认为equal amount of financial resources should be distributed to buying teaching equipment and employing famous scholars because both of them are vital to safeguarding the education quality. 然后中间段分别取论述买设备和雇教师的作用。
具体思路:
1. 教学设备很重要,因为可以为学生提供良好的学习环境。
First of all, purchasing facilities is not only important but necessary for universities to invest money, in order to create a better learning enviroment for students.
论据:
As for its importance, under the background of constant technological innovation, high-tech facilities have become an integral part of teaching process. The occasions where teachers used the blackboard and chalk to present a class are becoming rare. By contrast, the projector and multimodal equipments, which can play videos and pictures, are more frequently used by our professors. What’s worse, the shortage of facilities will make universities withdraw some courses such as the chemical experiments. When it comes to the high cost of these facilities, universities are the only agency who can afford it.
2. 雇佣好的老师很重要,因为教师可以提升教学质量和丰富科研成果。
Secondly, famous teachers play an important role in improving the level of education and strengthening the academic research ability of the whole universities.
论据:
Famous professors are usually better at teaching students, thus making students more concentrated during class. Take my own experience as an example. When I was a sophomore majoring in lingusitics, I was honored to attend the lecture by Halliday, the founder of functional linguistics. In the whole process of listening to the lecture, I was totally engrossed in taking notes and interpreting his enlightening words. I learned quite a lot from the lecture. If universities can hire professor like Halliday, students will benefit a lot. In addition, the research fruits have become one of the most important standard to measure the overall power of a university. Hiring more famous professor means more research achievement, thus benefiting the university too.
NO.4
The opinions of celebrities, such as entertainers and athletes, are more important to the younger people than they are to the older people
【波波点睛】:
【题目大意】:名人的观点对于年轻人要比对于老年人来说更重要。此题是一个老少比较类题目,波波建议大家选择同意,理由分别是年轻人更加关注名人和年轻人不够成熟。
1. First and foremost, due to the psychological immaturity and lack of life experience, young people are more likely to make decision based on the suggestions from famous people.
论证:
By contrast, rich life experience owned by older people enables them to make their own decision independently. Take advertisements for sports shoes made by NBA stars for example. My little brother and my father are basketball fans who are crazy about the NBA. However, their reactions to the recommendation from famous basketball players are totally different. My brother are motivated to buy everything in the advertisement because he wants to imitate his superstar. On the contrary, my father is unlikely to purchase anything advertised as long as the sports wearing is not needed for him. Thus young people are more likely to be affected by opinions from famous figures.
2. Furthermore, young people instead of older people pay more attention to celebrities in the circle of entertainment and sports, with the result that they are more extensively exposed to information from these famous people.
论证:
The newspaper named American Today surveyed about 10,000 people with the age from 10 to 70 by asking them about their idols. It is found that 89% of young people under 30 choose celebrities as their idols while the older people are more likely to admire their parents. It is easily understood that people will be greatly influenced by what they heard and saw. Thus the difference is caused by the fact that young people are more extensive exposed to various programs about these celebrities.
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