1、托福（作文）模拟试卷 2及答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position. 2 If you
2、could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. 3 How do movies or television influence peoples behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. 4 Do you agree or disagree with the following sta
3、tement? Television has destroyed communication among friends and family. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 托福（作文）模拟试卷 2答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 【正确答案】 The advantages and disadvantages of a new factory near your community I live in a primarily agricul
4、tural community, and most of the population lives hand to mouth. Parents keep children home from school to work in the fields. If there is a flood or a drought, people starve. A new factory would mean regular monthly salaries as well as protection against natural disasters or a sudden drop in the pr
5、ice of our main agricultural product, say, corn. Regular salaries would allow families the confidence to make investments in their futures. The locals would be able to plan their finances accurately and free themselves from debt. This in turn would encourage entrepreneurship and further develop the
6、local economy. People could begin to open shops, restaurants, dormitories, and entertainment facilities to serve the factory workers with their savings. Profits from these small enterprises would further enrich the local community and turn our relatively poor farmland into a truly profitable develop
7、ment zone. Perhaps more parents could then afford to send all of their children to high school and maybe even college. There would certainly be negative effects as well. If the area becomes prosperous, immigrants from poorer regions will come here looking for work. Because of their relative poverty
8、they will work harder for less money than the locals and drive wages down. There might be more immigrants than factory jobs available, leading to an unemployment crisis with a rising crime rate as a potential negative side effect. On the other hand, the proposed factory would almost certainly have a
9、dverse effects on the local environment, particularly in regard to polluting the water. This is perhaps the most serious concern, because without clean water the area cannot sustain life of any kind, corn, livestock, or humans. However, because of the relatively desperate economic situation of my ho
10、metown, I believe the potential benefits of opening a new factory would outweigh the risks. If we take the proper precautions, such as imposing strict environmental standards and providing adequate social services for immigrants, the whole area stands to benefit. 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 The most importan
11、t thing you want to change about your hometown I was born in a small town named Hailin, located in northeast China. The most serious problems in my hometown are the backward ideas about a womans place in the family, school, workplace, and society. These negative stereotypes hurt not only women, but
12、all of society as well. If possible, I would change the attitudes of the people in my hometown so that they would view men and women equally. Discrimination against women in my hometown begins before they are even born. Because people here believe that only a man can carry on the family line, every
13、family wants to have at least one son. Each family is only supposed to have one child because of the overpopulation problem. This means that if a family can find out a fetus is female before it is born they might abort it. Or in other cases, people will have many female babies before they have a son
14、, which only makes the population problem worse. If female babies were considered as important as male babies, then these two problems probably would not exist. Discrimination against girls continues as they go to school and work. The prevalent stereotype is that women are not as smart as men and we
15、 should not waste time and money educating them. Families often insist that their daughters stay at home and help with housework while sending their sons to school. Girls are born every bit as smart as boys and equally deserve to reap the benefits of education. Many of the worlds famous scientists a
16、nd leaders are women, from Marie Curie to Margaret Thatcher. We need to eliminate the stereotype that women are less intelligent than men so that our community can benefit from the achievements that women are capable of making when armed with education. In fact, women need to be respected enough to
17、hold professional and leadership jobs in our community. This would mean that in the classified section of newspapers, there would no longer be jobs for “men only.“ We will never know how many women could have done those jobs better than a man could have until the parents of every baby girl decide th
18、at their daughter is worth as much as their son. This is probably the most important thing that I want to change about my hometown. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 The influence of movies and television on peoples behavior The impact that movies and television have had on our daily lives, and society in general,
19、 is undeniable. No doubt it will become even greater as their scope continues to grow, and as the relevant technologies become more and more sophisticated, and so fascinating that virtually nobody will be able to escape. Already, it can be seen how Western movies are wielding influence on our young
20、generation: they grow long-hair regardless of their gender, commonly part of which is dyed in gold; they wear jeans in each and every season, usually the knees of which are deliberately tattered; boys are fond of earrings or other odd pendants; and girls are keen on Marlboros and weird bad words. Th
21、e major means that movies and television influence the public is by creating topics of discussion in society. Movies offer people (the consumers) issues to talk and think about. Titanic had brought a worldwide uproar by its extolling of fascinating immortal love; Primary Colors and Wag the Dog met t
22、he national debate on rights and duties of the president of the United States. Antiwar movies such as Tears of the Sun and All Quiet on the Western Front among numerous others have been raising the question: is any war really to uphold justice or is it really worthy that an individual makes sacrific
23、es to his country and at the same time ignores his own family or his personal values? Television also shapes our understanding of what is important and what is not important (to know). The “important“ issues are being discussed over and over or in the beginning of a program. The “not important“ stor
24、ies are the ones that are not being told at all. The “not very important“ stories are probably very short and hidden in the last part. By prearranging public issues, movies and television make decisions for us. Even though there are critical thinking individuals in any society, they are definitely i
25、n the minority; the public in whole indeed lacks skills of critical thinking, and therefore they are often led by the movies and television. In brief, movies and television, by offering topics and affecting the ways in which we discuss “the important issues“, have a strong influence on our perceptio
26、n of truth, of the world or of the structure of our society. We have to admit that they play a role in our lives as a source of information, experiences, entertainment, amusement and relaxation. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 Has television destroyed communication among people? While television has been somewha
27、t harmful in its effects, it has hardly “destroyed“ communication among friends and family, although for some people, the assertion that television has destroyed communication among friends and family seems pretty plausible. Television, invented in last century, with its wide availability and increa
28、singly prosperous programs, becomes one of the most powerful means of communication in history, and is more and more difficult to ignore. Television is as much a part of our lives as are our meals, work, or school; studies consistently show that the average American child spends almost as much time
29、watching television as does he or she in school. We all have only 24 hours a day and it is clear that the more time one spends on watching television, the less time one does with his or her family and friends. Hence the passage printed in the newspaper or magazine was entitled “Television took my hu
30、sband away.“ Tempting as such claim might be, it is hardly true. Instead of television, it is the increasing pressure of modern life that took her husband away. We have no definite evidence to say people nowadays endure more pressures than did their counterparts in the past, but it is absolutely tru
31、e that people nowadays undergo great pressures that come from various directions, including work, school, economy, and so forth. Investigations show that people who earn more than RMB 50,000 annually spend at least 60 hours on work per week, much more than those who earn RMB 20,000 annually. Today a
32、 bachelors degree may no longer guarantee a decent pay; more and more companies post their want ads claiming that applicants must have at least masters degrees, which take two or three years longer. People nowadays have very little time for anything; television is merely among many other factors tha
33、t affect communication, and is definitely not the main cause of degradation. It seems that the more one is educated, the more one is aware of the deleterious effects that excessive television causes, and either deliberately avoid it or actually do not enjoy it. On the other hand, there really are ma
34、ny people addictive to television. But the fact is, were television not existent, surely these people would have found other escapes, such as alcohol or gambling. In other words, people always find a way to do what they want to do. Therefore, I can hardly agree that television has destroyed communication among friends and family. 【知识模块】 作文
