1、托福（作文）模拟试卷 18及答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 If you could study a subject that you have never had the opportunity to study, what would you choose? Explain your choice, using specific reasons and details. 2 Some people think that the automobile has improved modern life. Others thin
2、k that the automobile has caused serious problems. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 3 Which would you choose: a high-paying job with long hours that would give you little time with family and friends or a lower-paying job with shorter hours that would g
3、ive you more time with family and friends? Explain your choice, using specific reasons and details. 4 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 托福（作文）模拟试卷 18答案与解析 Writing Based on Know
4、ledge and Experience 1 【正确答案】 Choose a subject that you have never had the opportunity to study Students graduating from colleges today are not fully prepared to deal with the “real world.“ It is my belief that college students need to be taught more skills and information about personal finance man
5、agement to enable them to meet the challenges that face everyone in daily life, which includes playing the credit game, planning their personal financial strategy, and consumer awareness. Learning how to obtain and use credit is probably the most valuable knowledge a young person can have. Credit is
6、 a dangerous tool that can be of tremendous help if it is handled with caution. Having credit can enable people to obtain material necessities before they have the money to purchase them outright. But unfortunately, many young people get carried away with their handy plastic credit cards and awake o
7、ne day to find they are in serious financial debt. Learning how to use credit properly can be a very difficult and painful lesson indeed. Of equal importance is learning how to plan a personal budget. People have to know how to control money; otherwise, it can control them. Students should leave col
8、lege knowing how to allocate their money for living expenses, insurance, savings, and so forth in order to avoid the anxiety syndrome “Oh, no! Im flat broke and I dont get paid again for two weeks!“. Along with learning about credit and personal financial planning, graduating college students should
9、 be trained as consumers. The consumer market today is flooded with a variety of products and services of varying quality and prices. A young person entering the “real world“ is suddenly faced with difficult decisions about which product to buy or whose services to engage. He/She is usually unaware
10、of such things as return policies, guarantees, or repair procedures, information of this sort is vital knowledge to everyday living. For a newly graduated college student, the “real world“ can be a scary place to be when he or she is faced with such issues as handling credit, planning a budget, or k
11、nowing what to look for, when to make a purchase and whom to purchase it from. Entering this “real world“ could be made less painful if people were educated in dealing with these areas of daily life. What better place to accomplish this than college? 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 Has the automobile improved mo
12、dern life or caused serious problems? Over the course of the past one hundred years the automobile has become a staple of modern society, and its impact has been considerable. Yet the question of whether it has improved our lives or caused serious problems is irrelevant, because the automobile has d
13、one both. Consequently, we should develop its strengths and seek to correct the problems it continues to cause in order to reap greater benefits from this tool. With the invention of the automobile the age of transportation shifted into another gear. Quickly it became possible for people to travel m
14、ore comfortably and conveniently to destinations near and far, and the figurative world moved closer together. Trucks carried cargo across countries and soon became serious competition for trains and ships. As a result, food and other consumer goods have become available even in remote areas, overal
15、l living standards have improved, and the automobile industry, which has grown fantastically over the course of the past century, employs millions of workers worldwide. However, as societal reliance and global economic dependence have grown together with the automobile industry, many significant pro
16、blems have surfaced. Car and truck exhausts pollute the air in metropolitan areas around the world and thus create serious health problems. The continued use of fossil fuel engines and the scarcity of oil have led to much political strife and even war, particularly in the oil rich region of the Midd
17、le East. As the powerful automobile industry remains reluctant and has yet to successfully promote an engine type that does not rely on gasoline power, the problem of fossil fuel shortage will become an even more serious problem. Since the automobile is here to stay we must not only enjoy its conven
18、iences, but we must also aim to reduce the problems it has caused, for example, air pollution and over reliance on fossil fuel engines. In the same vein, we must encourage the usage of alternative fuel sources, which have been researched and developed successfully. Then the benefits of the automobil
19、e will outweigh the serious problems. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 Choosing a job: high-paying with long working hours, or low-paying with short working hours? I am optimistic that through my studies and continued hard work I will be able to find a job that will provide my future family and me with financial
20、security. We should be able to afford the necessities of life, such as a modest home, enough food to nourish us and keep us in good health, as well as education for our children. Hopefully, I will find myself in the fortunate situation where I can decide between a high-paying job with long hours and
21、 a lower-paying job with shorter hours. I would choose the job with the lower salary and greater personal time without hesitation, because my family and friends are the most important things in my life. Time is the greatest investment I can make into the relationships with my wife and my children. A
22、 marriage is not just a decision one makes but a promise that one keeps. In order to do so one has to be there for the other person and share moments of joy as well as times of difficulty. Nowadays, too many relationships wither away as the partners are unable to work out their problems or bond thro
23、ugh meaningful experiences. Personal careers become too important and family time becomes a rare occurrence. The absence of one parent, due to professional career or divorce, can have a very negative effect on a childs development. The child might question his/her value to father or mother (dependin
24、g on which one is continually absent) and develop low self-esteem. Without the presence of either parent, or worse, both parents, the child will be more likely to make bad decisions as he/she lacks proper guidance. And there is one point that should also be mentioned, i.e. neither expensive toys nor
25、 fancy clothes can compensate for this. Lastly, I can derive more pleasure from spending time with my friends than I ever could from driving a sports car or taking luxury vacations. The inner peace and balance that I enjoy from their company are invaluable to me. Also, a million dollars in the bank
26、would be worth nothing if I did not have the time to enjoy these riches with my friends. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 Do grades encourage students to learn? Do grades really encourage students to learn, and guarantee a qualified education? Hardly. Given the opportunity, students spend time using their intelli
27、gence to figure out how to get a higher or top grade without doing the real work of the course and without thinking, rather than spending the same time thinking and exploring, regardless of what grade this may bring them. It is not that these students are not motivated. It is just that they are not
28、motivated to learn as much as they are motivated to get good grades. Once one becomes grade-oriented in ones thinking, it is difficult for him/her to stop thinking that way. Anybody who gets top grades is, in some sense, a winner of the system. But these seeming winners are, far too often, losers of
29、 a more important game. To win the grade competition in high school, most of these “winners“ learned to ask what was expected of them and then do just that. They had to make sure they got high SAT scores by memorizing endless vocabulary words and by practicing 1,001 uses of the Pythagorean Theorem.
30、They wanted to know from their high school teachers if the material being covered on a given day was going to be on the test, because they realized early on that the test is all that matters. When these “achievers“ of the system arrive in college, they, of course, have not changed their attitudes. T
31、hey fear open-ended assignments. They are impatient with discussions that are not going in any particular direction except where the interests of the discussants dictate, since they know that such discussions waste time that could have been better spent studying for a test. What these students have
32、learned from school is the underlying message that the world is run by authorities who have definite points of view. The system has taught them that the way to get along in the world is to understand and to cater to those points of view espoused by the educational “authorities“. Cleverness pays, but
33、 disagreement does not. Such students are in the process of becoming “yes men.“ On the other hand, students who do less well in high school are often rebelling against curricula they see as irrelevant to their lives. This type of students judges what goes on in school according to how well it relate
34、s to their own day-to-day concerns. If algebra does not seem relevant to the problems such students face, then they see little need to pay attention to it. Under such circumstance, the school might have been able to embed algebra instruction inside a task they cared about, causing them to want to kn
35、ow algebra because it would help them do something they wanted to do. But schools generally do not like this, so the conclusion drawn by many students is that since so much is irrelevant, they might as well tune it out. These students learn to get by as well as they can, separating themselves from other kids who are willing to play the game. 【知识模块】 作文
