1、托福（作文）模拟试卷 10及答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 Do you agree or disagree that progress is always good? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 2 Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reason
2、s and examples to support your answer. 3 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? With the help of technology, students can learn more information and learn it more quickly. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 4 The expression “Never, never give up“ means to keep
3、trying and never stop working for your goals. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 托福（作文）模拟试卷 10答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 【正确答案】 Is progress always good? Progress can be measured in many ways, but one very tan
4、gible way to measure progress is by looking at economic development. In these terms, progress can be seen as a very positive force, helping many people rise up from poverty. But history shows that progress, even as measured by economic progress, always has its cost. Take Germany in the 1930s for exa
5、mple. Humiliated by unequal treaties after World War t, the German people were suffering from a terrible economy and massive inflation. Then Hitler took power and mobilized the German economy. In several years the German economy recovered and was actually becoming one of the most powerful in Europe.
6、 But Hitlers economic miracle came at a terrible price. His plan was to use Germanys economic power to finance its military power. Germanys aggression sparked World War II, a catastrophe that killed tens of millions of people all over the whole world, including countless millions of civilians. When
7、progress serves evil, the result hurts. Likewise, the progress of America, arguably the most advanced of all nations, has come at a heavy price. America used to be the land of Native Americans. Americas current “progress“ would probably not have been achieved if most of the land in America still bel
8、onged to the Native Americans. From their perspective, Americas current progress is their profound loss. Finally, Chinas economic growth over the past 25 years has been truly remarkable. Standards of living have gone up dramatically, but the progress has negative aspects as well as the obvious posit
9、ive ones. As income gaps between the rich and the poor widen, social problems like crime and poverty become more pronounced. The damage done to the environment by factories and “progressive“ human activity might not be undone for hundreds of years, affecting the lives of Chinese people for generatio
10、ns to come. If these problems are not addressed, our grandchildren might truly come to regret current alleged “progress.“ 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 Does history have any value for people living in tne present? People live in the present. They plan for and worry about the future. History, however, is the st
11、udy of the past. Some people might ask, “Given all the demands that press in from living in the present and anticipating what is yet to come, why bother with what has been? Given all the desirable and available branches of knowledge, why insist as most American educational programs do on a good bit
12、of history? And why urge many students to study even more about history than they are required to?“ However, it is undeniable that learning about the past has its value, it will help us understand people and societies, and it will help us understand change and how the society we live in came to be.
13、History helps us understand people and societies. In the first place, history offers a storehouse of information about how people and societies behave. Understanding the operations of people and societies is difficult, though a number of disciplines make the attempt. An exclusive reliance on current
14、 data would needlessly handicap our efforts. For example, how can we evaluate war if the nation is at peace unless we use historical materials? How can we understand genius, the influence of technological innovation, or the role that beliefs play in shaping family life, if we do not use what we know
15、 about experiences in the past? Consequently, history must serve, however imperfectly, as our laboratory, and data from the past must serve as our most vital evidence in the unavoidable quest to figure out why our complex species behaves as it does in societal settings. This, fundamentally, is why w
16、e cannot stay away from history: it offers the only extensive evidential base for the contemplation and analysis of how societies function, and people need to have some sense of how societies function simply to run their own lives. History also helps us understand change and how the society we live
17、in came to be. The second reason history is inescapable as a subject of serious study follows closely on the first. The past causes the present and the future. Any time we try to know why something happened whether a shift in political party dominance in the American Congress, a major change in the
18、teenage suicide rate, or a war in the Balkans or the Middle East we have to look for factors that took shape earlier. Sometimes, fairly recent history will suffice to explain a major development, but we often need to look further back to identify the causes of change. Only through studying history c
19、an we grasp how things change; only through history can we begin to comprehend the factors that cause change; and only through history can we understand what elements of an institution or a society persist despite change. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 Technology, students helper or not? It is undeniable that c
20、ontinuously developing technologies have brought tremendous benefits, especially in learning areas. Learning has in many ways become easier than has ever been before. Take learning English for example. In the past, few students owned tape recorders, and learning materials were scarce as well. But to
21、day, tape recorders get more and more inexpensive, and diversified learning materials are readily available. On the other hand, new devices, such as MP3 or MD players, are offered in the market, and relevant learning materials (MP3 files) are easily and freely downloadable from the Internet. However
22、, it is a little bit haste to assert students can learn more information and learn it more quickly simply because technology helps, since technologies, as always, contribute both benefits and detriments. For example, computers, as have been mentioned, help students a lot in various ways, but at the
23、same time have many negative even harmful impacts on the users. Most students nowadays play computer games, sitting before the desk, staring at the screen, clicking the mouse button, and the outcomes are cerebrum fatigue, visual deterioration and another day of waste. Chatting on the Internet is ano
24、ther great way to kill precious time, and one of negative side-effects of key-board dependence is that students nowadays can seldom spell correctly. Worst of all, investigations have shown that more than half of the time that students have spent online was exhausted on browsing porn movies, pulp fic
25、tion or erotic photos and so on. Students certainly want to learn more and to learn more quickly. But merely technology itself is not the solution. Learning itself is a skill and it only develops by practice. Computers and other devices can certainly help, but they will not make study any less painf
26、ul, and technologies in fact provide no solution to overcoming indolence that everyone has. Learning has never been easy, and will not be easier merely because of technologies. It always requires tremendous efforts and determination to learn something well. Too much advocacy on the fancy benefits of
27、 technologies will mislead much more than virtually help. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 Do we need “Never, never give up“? Near the end of the Second World War, Churchill delivered his most famous and the shortest speech: Never, Never Give Up. The British and people in many other countries were tremendously en
28、couraged, and finally went through the hardest period in human history. “Never give up“ represents a strong and positive life attitude. Some people are ready to quit when they feel they cannot endure the difficulties of some work or they think they cannot find a way to finish the required task. Such
29、 people usually become upset and disappointed and lose their self-confidence, although they virtually can do every thing well simply by trying once more. In cases such as acquiring a second language, most people failed simply because they had given up. Acquiring a second language might be the easies
30、t task among diverse academic curriculums, because one can be successful only by plain repetition, though it is painstaking and time-consuming. Never give up. Such strong belief often gives us the second chance. The fact that we failed somewhere does not mean we are going to fail everywhere, and esp
31、ecially it does not necessarily mean that we are deprived of opportunities to win there. There probably is a second chance. Many successful people did fail before. Yu Minhong, the founder of New Oriental School, was able to study in Peking University only after three attempts. He was not reckoned as
32、 successful after graduation. Among many signs is the fact that almost all his classmates went abroad while he was each and every time refused by officials in a visa-granting office for unexplained reasons. Yet he never gave up, which makes his later success inevitable. Psychology teaches us that we
33、 do get what we want, if we know exactly what we want and want the right thing. First of all, we must make sure that our clearly defined goals are achievable, and that our carefully designed means are practicable. A superficial claim like “I wanna be a millionaire“ brings nothing. And an unrealistic
34、 goal like inventing a perpetual motion machine is absolutely meaningless. But if we want to acquire a second language, it is both realistic and meaningful. By careful planning and relevant persistence, we have no reason to fail. And numerous examples tell us that even if the methods are problematic, many still finally attain great achievements. Therefore, in most cases, the belief “Never, never give up“ is really something that we should always bear in mind. 【知识模块】 作文
