1、托福（作文）模拟试卷 26及答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 Some people like doing work by hand. Others prefer using machines. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 2 Schools should ask students to evaluate their teachers. Do you agree or disagree? Use sp
2、ecific reasons and examples to support your answer. 3 In your opinion, what is the most important characteristic (for example, honesty, intelligence, a sense of humor) that a person can have to be successful in life? When you write your answer, you are not limited to the examples listed in the quest
3、ion. 4 It is generally agreed that society benefits from the work of its members. Compare the contributions of artists to society with the contributions of scientists to society. Which type of contribution do you think is valued more by your society? Give specific reasons to support your answer. 托福（
4、作文）模拟试卷 26答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 【正确答案】 Doing work by hand or using machines? Some people like doing work by hand. Others prefer to use machines. I definitely fall into the latter category. I use a machine for almost all of the work I do. The reasons why I prefer to use ma
5、chines are that most manual work is tedious, machines are faster and more efficient, and I am more proficient with most machines. Two things that I spend a copious amount of time doing are writing and sewing. Both of these endeavors border on pain if I do not have a computer or a sewing machine, res
6、pectively. What was once a fun task becomes very monotonous, and no longer enjoyable. Using a machine can turn ordinary tasks into exciting ones. Using machines to do work is also much faster and more efficient than using your hands to do it. For example, if I wrote this essay by hand, rather than u
7、sing the computer, it would probably take me at least five times as long. Hand sewing a shirt would take ten times longer than using a machine to do the same work. Not only are machines faster and more efficient, I am more proficient using machines than I am doing the same work by hand. I find that
8、when I am sewing by hand, all of my seams are very uneven and crooked. However, when I sew on a machine, my seams are perfect. The machine helps to keep my hand in line, therefore I can turn out a much better product. It is the same for writing essays. My handwriting is messy at times. If I had to w
9、rite on paper, I could not correct it as easily as if I had written it on the computer. My writing blurs together, and sometimes I cannot even read what I have written down. Machines are definitely a better way for me to work efficiently, proficiently, and enjoyably. 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 Should school
10、s ask students to evaluate their teachers? Teachers have a very difficult job in society. They not only have to learn how to teach material effectively, but also must learn how to deal with a wide variety of personalities. While teaching is a difficult job, I think it is important for schools to ask
11、 students to evaluate their teachers. I think this is the right thing to do because it encourages teachers to try their best, it gives students the opportunity to choose effective teachers, and it likely allows the schools to have the best teachers. If a teacher knows that at the end of the term, th
12、e students will be evaluating his/her work, then the teacher will be driven to do a very good job. If there is no pressure from evaluation, a teacher might be prone to doing a less than perfect job. I believe that everyone needs an occasional evaluation to ensure they are doing their job correctly.
13、In the case of a teacher, the students will give the most important evaluations. If there is a public summary of which teacher scored the highest on the evaluations, then students would be able to take courses based on which teacher was the best at the job. This could allow students to excel in thei
14、r studies, and achieve better grades. Finally, if schools ask students to evaluate their teachers, the schools themselves would be able to have the best teachers working on campus. If a teacher scores too low on an evaluation, a replacement should be found. This is a much better method than waiting
15、for students to complain about a teacher. Teachers do have a difficult job, but regardless of this, they must excel at it. If a person is a particularly poor teacher, the students will not learn the required material, and suffer for it. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 The most important characteristic that a per
16、son can have to he successful in life To be successful in life, one should have the characteristic of independence, that is, he/she has the ability to think critically. Through critical thinking, one is capable of analyzing insightfully, concentrating on the right target, thereby making a wise decis
17、ion. Thinking critically can enable one to analyze problems insightfully. We live in a world where controversial issues are often simply taken for granted. For example, most people are reluctant to think carefully about issues like whether boys and girls should take separate classes. Recently a high
18、 school in Beijing announced that their students from then on take separate classes. Many parents support such ridiculous decisions without careful consideration. They are poor thinkers. Critical thinking is but to ask some simple yet essential questions, which always brings amazing sometimes appall
19、ing outcomes. Is such a scheme capable of eliminating underage sexual behaviors among adolescents? Does such a scheme guarantee boys and girls free of negative effects? Sadly, the decision had been made but the question left unanswered. Thinking critically can help one concentrate on right targets.
20、We all have only and exactly 24 hours a day, but we often have mountainous work to do in hands, along with which many personal affairs seem equally urgent. Concentrating on right targets is probably the only way to overcome such dilemmas. For example, ETS has recently announced that GRE examination
21、will be transformed back to paper based test. Grumbles are all around, and complaints are posted almost on every BBS on the Internet. But if students think critically, however, they will find out the simple fact that even if ETS had made an awkward decision, test preparers should concentrate on the
22、right targetpreparing for tests as prudently as possible, and at the same time, grumbling never helps. Only by thinking critically can one make decisions wise and prudent. Sound decision making is essential to success. Decisions such as which movie theater we should go tonight are simple enough to m
23、ake by tossing a coin, but decisions such as which university or which major we should choose are complicated enough so that we need careful comparisons. A comparison sheet will help a lot, simply by listing several relevant questions such as “Am I really interested in this major?“ or “Are there mor
24、e opportunities in the city where the university is located?“ By analyzing insightfully and concentrating on the right targets, wise decisions are not hard to reach at all. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 Artists contribution or scientists contribution, which is more valuable? Art and science are essentially a s
25、trange coupling. Yet more often than not, they are considered divergent rather than consistent with each other. The artist employs images and metaphors; the scientist uses numbers and equations. Through casual juxtaposition, these two fields seem to have little in common: there are few, if any, refe
26、rences to art in any standard textbook of science; art historians rarely interpret an artists work in light of the conceptual framework of science. Despite what appears to be irreconcilable differences, however, they do have at least one thing in common both of them have significant contributions to
27、 society, but in probably distinctive ways. The development of science and technology has always accompanied the progress of society. The invention of the steam engine brought a new era of thrift of world economy; the employment of electricity has multiplied the productivity and virtually reproduced
28、 limited resources on the Earth; the innovation of computer technologies has made the Earth a little village and connected distant countries as a single market. While sometimes the progress of science and technology, such as that of human cloning, causes troubles or disasters, it seems always undeni
29、able that in a broad sense, the development of science has provided people a much higher standard of living than that of their counterparts in any phase of history. Visualization and fascination have been the major power of any form of art. For example, any religion in this world cannot exist withou
30、t music, which helps realize the faith of the church to an astonishing extent. Each and every revolution on this earth was accompanied by numerous corresponding art productions, because the artists sense the circumstances, and then reflect their sensations with sophisticated techniques in their prod
31、uction, which can be easily perceived by the public through powerful empathy. Nobody could evaluate art as correct or not standard, needless to say the public, they simply feel it is good or not, therefore art has always had a magic influence on the public and society in general. However, it has bee
32、n said that there is no science without fancy and no art without facts. Science fictions have long been functioning as a major vehicle for the public dissemination of science; scientists share a parallel view of space, time and light, etc. with artists. Not only are art and science interrelated with each other but they also contribute to each other in various ways. Therefore, it is hard to compare the contributions of art and science, it is simply partial to say that either one contributes more to society than another does. 【知识模块】 作文
