1、托福（作文）模拟试卷 16及答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older (15 to 18 year-old) teenage children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 2 W
2、hat do you want most in a friend someone who is intelligent, or some-one who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable? Which one of these characteristics is most important to you? Use reasons and specific examples to explain your choice. 3 Do you agree or disagree with the following statemen
3、t? Most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time become valuable lessons for the future. Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. 4 Some people prefer to work for themselves or own a business. Others prefer to work for an employer. Would you rather be self-employed
4、, work for someone else, or own a business? Use specific reasons to explain your choice. 托福（作文）模 拟试卷 16答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 【正确答案】 Should adults make important decisions for their older teenage children? Parents or other adult relatives should not make decisions on behal
5、f of their older teenage children. Nevertheless, they must take an active part in the decision-making process of their offspring. They can use their knowledge and experience to prevent their teenagers from making costly mistakes while allowing them to gain confidence and learn from their smaller err
6、ors so that they will be able to make mature decisions of their own in the future. Teenage children often lack the experience and knowledge to make sound decisions, and here their parents input is valuable and necessary. Finding the right university or the right job after graduating from senior high
7、 school is an example for this. A teenager has not worked before and never attended a university, and thus his knowledge in both areas is extremely limited. Here the parents should advise their children and ensure that they make the right decision. In order to be able to make a sound decision in the
8、 future a young adult must gain confidence, and parents can help by engaging him/her in dialogue and providing him/her with all the necessary information. A child between the ages of 15 and 18 will be able to recognize the best arguments and reasons. Through the parents guidance he/she will arrive a
9、t the correct decision and feel as though it was completely his/her own. Not only will he/she continue to seek the reliable advice of his/her parents, but the self-confidence gained from this experience will make it easier for him/her to make decisions in the future. While parents should guide or di
10、rect their child, sometimes it is helpful to allow him/her to make a mistake. This will teach the child to live with the consequences of a wrong decision and also to ponder future choices more carefully. For example, a child might ignore his/her parents advice and pick a summer job that sounds very
11、interesting initially, but he/she comes to loathe it almost immediately. This experience will be invaluable when the child grows up and has to find a real job. 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 What do you appreciate most in a friend? I appreciate all three qualities in my friends. It is important to me that my fr
12、iends are intelligent, because I value intellectually stimulating conversation on meaningful topics. On the other hand, a friend with a good sense of humor can entertain and understand how to ease my sorrows by making me laugh in difficult times. However, only the reliable friend, by virtue of his d
13、ependability and loyalty, is guaranteed to stand by me in difficult times, and thus reliability is the most important characteristic I look for in a friend. In my last year of high school my three friends and I decided that we would study together for the college entrance exam, but my smartest frien
14、d hardly ever showed. She was extremely intelligent and everybody, including our teachers, was certain that she would be admitted to one of the best universities in the country. As a result, she did not bother to study much. At our study sessions she would appear occasionally, but more often than no
15、t her visits would distract us rather than help us. We would end up talking about metaphysical concepts like the existence of god instead of studying our lessons. My humorous friend attended most of our meetings, but usually he was unprepared and we had to spend a lot of time getting him to speed up
16、. He made us laugh, and he joked about how much better we were learning now that we had to teach him. Maybe he was right, but his constant lack of preparation became a steady source of frustration to the other two of us. However, my third friend and I were able to rely on each other. We overcame our
17、 common frustrations and fears by completing the tasks we set out to do. During those long evenings when the work seemed unbearable we cheered each other up and kept working hard. Meanwhile our intelligent friend was minding her own business and our humorous friend was making somebody else laugh. 【知
18、识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 Can difficult experiences become valuable lessons? Sometimes experiences that are supposed to be easy and enjoyable turn difficult because unforeseen troubles arise. At other times problems simply turn out to be more difficult than expected, and this, in turn, causes great frustrati
19、on. However, most difficult experiences will become valuable lessons for the future. They help us anticipate and prevent future mistakes, they allow us to recognize and solve problems more quickly, and they also make it easier for us to endure hard times. After our family car broke down in the middl
20、e of nowhere, my father realized that he had taken his toolbox out of the trunk earlier that day. He, my mother, and I spent nearly the whole afternoon in the sweltering summer heat of late July waiting for the car mechanic to arrive. It turned out that there was only a minor problem with the engine
21、 that my father could have easily fixed himself if he had had the right tools. That evening he put the toolbox back into the car and vowed never to make the same mistake again. Math used to be a very difficult subject for me, but once I learned how to identify and distinguish the individual equation
22、s it became a whole lot easier. While I used to sweat blood and tears of frustration over my textbook, because I could not figure out where to begin, I am now familiar with the problems. As a result, I solve them in less time and I am much less frustrated. My mother once told me that I was a much mo
23、re difficult and painful birth than my younger sister. She joked with me that, as a result, I should treat her better and I was supposed to do more chores around the house. However, when she saw how upset her off-hand comment made me, she hurriedly explained that, while the time of delivery and othe
24、r circumstances were nearly identical, being pregnant with me had prepared her for my sisters birth. The birth of her second child was easier to endure. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 Be self-employed, work for someone else, or own a business? There are advantages to all three kinds of employment. Owning ones o
25、wn business might very well be the fastest way to fortune. Working for an employer, on the other hand, is often less risky and usually there are fewer responsibilities. However, I would like to be self-employed. Being self-employed would cater to my strength of working independently, it would give m
26、e a maximum of professional and personal freedom, and I would not have to take responsibility for the continued financial security of any employees and their families. I am a perfectionist and enjoy working by myself. When I work in a team or together with a group of people, usually the others quali
27、ty standards are much lower than my own. Furthermore, I like to be involved in every step of the development process. For example, if I could become a journalist I would like to be self-employed because I would be responsible for researching, writing, and editing. At most major newspapers and magazi
28、nes these are three different areas. Another great benefit of being self-employed is the ability to balance personal life and career. When working for a major company I would have to work on assignments that do not interest me very much. Also, it would be difficult for me to take vacation time whene
29、ver I needed. However, as a self-employed person I can decide which jobs I want to take and which jobs to reject. Nobody would order me around. Also, I could design my own work schedule and adjust or change it if it interfered with my personal life. Lastly, as a self-employed professional I would neither have to give orders nor take orders. After all, I do not work for anybody and nobody works for me. As I am not very fond of managing people and even less interested in being bossed around, the independent or self-employed work would suit me just fine. 【知识模块】 作文
