1、托福（作文）模拟试卷 3及答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. 2 “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck h
2、as nothing to do with success.“ Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position. 3 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students sports activities as they give t
3、o their university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 4 Many people visit museums when they travel to new places. Why do you think people visit museums? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 托福（作文）模拟试卷 3答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Exper
4、ience 1 【正确答案】 Live in a small town or in a big city? People seldom agree with each other even in such trivial issues as preference between a big city and a small town. It is a little bit haste to say that it is better to live in a big city than in a small town, or vice versa. Living in a big city h
5、as several benefits. First, there are more job opportunities readily available in a big city than in a small town. Moreover, not only are there more job positions in big cities, but the quality of the position is much higher as well. In addition, the pay is more decent. Second, children are supposed
6、 to be able to receive an education with a higher quality compared with their counterparts who live in a small town. For families, childrens education is always put in the first place. Finally, living in a big city usually has a superior living standard to that in a small town. There are more commod
7、ities and services in city markets; there are more public utilities available in big cities; there are even much more television channels in big cities. However, living in a small town also has some advantages. People who live in a small town often have a much comfortable life style. Most of them do
8、 not have to suffer high working stress. Although the average pay is much less than that of big cities, the price of daily necessities, such as vegetables or meat, is usually less expensive. Instead of suffering loneliness which is prevalent in big cities, children might grow up more healthily becau
9、se of harmonious relationship among residents in small towns. People in a small town do not have to get up so early in the morning because there has been no traffic jam, and nobody drives so fast in a small town as to cause car accidents. They might have fewer channels in television, but they have m
10、ore friends readily available to chat or entertain with. According to my current situation, although I am longing for the cozy atmosphere and relationship among neighbors and friends which almost only exist in small cities, I have chosen to live in one of the biggest cities in my country Beijing, si
11、nce I have found a pretty good job here, and a decent pay. I think I would prefer living in a small town when I get retired one day. 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 Does luck nave anything to do with success? Here is a true story, a story about an African man called Cinque who slew a most terrifying beast that a
12、ny one has ever seen, a lion. His siblings in the village who know about this anecdote gave him great respect and call him the big man. However, he told the truth later. “It had killed several people, even hunters among us. Everyone including me was afraid. “ “I was lying down with my family, when o
13、ut of nowhere it appeared.“ “As it came for me, I picked up a big rock and I threw it. And that wasnt bravery, because any man would do the same to protect his family. “ “But by some miracle, you see, I hit it. I dont know how that killed it, but it did. A rock, you see, a rock.“ “I received the gra
14、titude of everyone in the village. I was given respect. They treated me as if I were a prince. They gave me the finest country cloth. All these things they gave me, I took them all. But I knew I didnt deserve it, for when I threw that rock at that beast, if I missed it, I wouldnt be sitting here tod
15、ay trying to explain these things to you or somebody else, Id just be dead. Im not a big man, just a lucky one.“ You see, luck does exist. When it appears, mathematicians describe in such a way that something has an extremely small probability but it does happen. People often say, one has to have an
16、 opportunity to succeed. In this case, luck is the opportunity, and to some extent is an indispensable factor to achieve success. When people say luck has nothing to do with success, I wonder it is not their intention to deny existence of luck, but to encourage. Because luck in fact is a factor that
17、 one can not and should not count on, even though we know people who have succeeded have their own luck. It is somewhere, but nobody knows where. It happens sometime, but we do not know when. By contrast, hard work is something that everyone can count on, and as is often the case, hard work might br
18、ing luck. Therefore, luck itself is of no hope, and lack of luck should not be an excuse for failure. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 Should universities finance students sports activities as equally as libraries? The main responsibility of a university is to develop a students academic ability. While physical h
19、ealth is an important prerequisite for mental health and academic achievements, sports should play a comparatively small role in college students lives. Since a students main activity outside of the classroom is studying, occupying four to eight hours a day, a peaceful studying environment plays an
20、important role in a students academic development. College dorm rooms can have up to eight students sleeping in one small space and are not good environments for students to study in. To provide excellent studying environments for their students, universities must build large libraries designed to a
21、ccommodate students as well as books. Since sports should occupy a much smaller part of the students time, perhaps only an hour a day, sports facilities need not be as extensive or well-equipped as libraries. In addition to the costs of building adequate library faculties, a university must also pay
22、 every year to keep its collection well organized and up-to-date. The goal of every university library should be to have the most current books and materials its students need in order to study and do cutting-edge research. The larger the student body is, the more comprehensive a librarys collection
23、 must be. A well-trained staff must also care for the materials and help the students. Continuing costs for sports, on the other hand, are relatively low, requiring only a few part-time staff and maintenance routines. For the most part, students are happy to organize their own sporting events and ex
24、ercise routines quite independently of the school. Although students health is critical to their academic success, the investment that a school needs to make to ensure a physically fit student body is relatively small. Considering that the main mission of the school is to develop students minds and
25、not their bodies, the school should put more of its resources into its libraries and not its sports activities. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 Why do people visit museums? People travel to new places for many different reasons. One of the most common reasons is to see a new place, culture, or way of life. For a
26、 total outsider with only a short amount of time, museums offer a glimpse into these ways of life through specially designed education, cultural insights, and entertainment. People come to museums to learn about the world. The educational experience in a museum is quite different than that of readin
27、g or studying. In a museum, learning experiences are direct and thrilling. Reading books about primitive history might seem boring, but seeing the huge skeleton of a terrifying dinosaur in person is a thrilling experience. Reading history books about the Nanjing Massacre are horrifying, sad, and yet
28、 abstract, but a trip to the Memorial Museum in Nanjing is an experience that has moved many students to tears. Museums can make otherwise distant and mundane educational experiences come to life. The museums of a place tell an outsider much about what the people of that place value culturally. A tr
29、ip to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art would tell visitors that Americans are interested in art from all over the world, but by comparing the size of the European art collection with that of the Asian art collection, one might conclude that Americans feel a strong cultural affinity with Europ
30、ean art. Similarly, a tourist going to a place like San Francisco, where there is a large museum devoted solely to Asian art, might conclude that people from San Francisco have a stronger affinity to Asian culture. Meanwhile, many people who travel simply want to relax and be entertained, and museum
31、s also provide an excellent venue for leisure. Even most nominally educational museums provide exciting attractions like movie theaters and special cultural performances such as dances, gourmet dinners, lectures, and musical performances from jazz to rock and roll. Many museums in the United States hold special nights once a week where young people can drink and socialize. Museums are not only spaces for education and culture, but have also become important entertainment and social venues. 【知识模块】 作文
