1、托福（作文）模拟试卷 9及答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 You have received a gift of money. The money is enough to buy either a piece of jewelry you like or tickets to a concert you want to attend. Which would you buy? 2 Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives. Do you agree or
2、disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 3 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Attending a live performance (for example, a play, concert, or sporting event) is more enjoyable than watching the same event on television. Use specific reasons and examples
3、to support your opinion. 4 Choose one of the following transportation vehicles and explain why you think it has changed peoples lives. -automobiles -bicycles -airplanes Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 托福（作文）模拟试卷 9答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 【正确答案】 How
4、to deal with a gift or money? It seems not a difficult decision for me. But if I were given the gift of money in different times, I would have different answers. If I were given the money when I was in my high school, I would buy a ticket to a conceit. I had been longing for attending concerts of fa
5、mous artists to enjoy those transcendent pieces such as saxophone of Kenny G., rock and roll of Cui Jian, and romantic songs of Luo Dayou. Unfortunately I just was not able to afford those exorbitant prices. The given amount should be better if it is enough for several tickets so that I could take a
6、long my best friends, whose situations were much similar to mine. If I were given the money when I was in the university, I would buy a fine piece of jewelry, and give it to my girl friend as a casual present, for we might enjoy a certain concert, but hardly could it be permanently impressive. Memor
7、ies are always not reliable. We tend to simply forget anything at best, memories are somewhat distorted if time passes long enough. But if I bought my girl friend a piece of jewelry, not costly though it might be, it would be a perfect reminder, being never changed. If I were given the money recentl
8、y, it would only make me feel funny. I do not want to go to concerts anymore, because I became more and more reluctant to be in crowded public places, and besides, I have bought a super hi-fi which always brings me identical pleasure. And I do not want to buy any jewelry either, for it is meaningles
9、s for a man who is now solitary. Nevertheless, if I were forced to accept some money as a gift it hardly happens I might buy some books, after all, reading always makes me relaxed and amazed. 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 Should businesses hire employees for their entire lives? The decision to hire an employee
10、 for life is a serious commitment on the part of both parties. For the employee, such an arrangement means lifetime job security. From the perspective of an employer, however, the deal is not so sweet. Guaranteed lifetime employment, or tenure, at a company, can promote bad work habits, prevent inno
11、vation, and lead to potentially disastrous personnel problems. When workers employment is contingent upon their job performance, they will tend to work diligently. On the other hand, if workers know that no matter how hard they work, they will receive the same amount of money and have no chance of b
12、eing fired, there are no incentives for them to work. For people to be model workers they need compelling reasons to work hard and produce work of the highest quality. A tenure system promotes laziness, inefficiency and low-quality work because it fails to offer incentives for good work, and fails t
13、o offer compelling deterrents against bad work. Secondly, companies that offer lifetime positions to employees cannot adapt to a rapidly changing world. For instance, if an employee who was hired by a company twenty years ago might be too old to effectively learn new computer-related skills. In toda
14、ys modern office environment, companies that cannot make effective use of new technology are at a severe disadvantage to those that can. In this case, a company that does not have the freedom to restructure, hiring and firing employees in accordance with shifting demands, is likely to fail. A compan
15、y that provides its employees with tenure effectively locks out new blood and runs the risk of being paralyzed by a staff unable to change with the times. Finally, offering tenure to employees is a major risk because of unforeseeable personnel problems. Every office, no matter how well managed, is b
16、ound to have personality conflicts. In many cases, personality conflicts can lead to one of the feuding parties leaving the company. But if the conflict involves two tenured employees, the business might be seriously affected, even destroyed. Despite the uncertainty it brings to workers lives, the c
17、ompany must look out for its own best interests first and not allow this disastrous situation to occur by not instituting a tenure policy. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 Live performance or television broadcast, which is more enjoyable? While watching live performances on television is convenient, it cannot be
18、compared to attending a live performance in person. Live performances, whether artistic, sporting, or entertainment, offer unique sensations apart from the performances themselves, and encourage a greater level of participation as well as a better understanding of the events than a television broadc
19、ast could. The wonderful sensory experience of a soccer match begins before the game starts. The smell of popcorn and street food wafting through the air, the crowd roaring and waving like an ocean, and the songs of the excited fans are all part of the experience that adds to the enjoyment of watchi
20、ng the game in person. A rock concert is not just hearing the music; it is the feeling of standing in a crowd that is moving together like one living body to the beat of the drums. These experiences are all-important parts of the experience of an event, and cannot be felt when watching the same even
21、t on television. When watching a performance in person, a viewer feels a closer sense of connection to the event. Every fan in the stadium will always leap to their feet when they see their favorite team score a goal in a soccer match, while only a few people might jump up watching the same goal at
22、home. Watching a music performance on television would not necessarily make people want to start dancing, but hearing a jazz band play live would start every foot in the room tapping, just itching to dance. Live events seem to invite the active participation of the viewing audience, while television
23、 is a medium that encourages passivity on the part of the viewer. The understanding of a performance viewed on television is usually limited. A rock performance viewed live has ear-shatteringly loud music. While some people might not enjoy this, it is part of the experience that television filters o
24、ut. At any given time during a sporting event there are many different things going on at once. Because television cameras can only focus on one event at a time, a live viewer can take in a larger field of vision, and potentially understand more about the event. Finally, live viewers understanding o
25、f live performances is increased because live performances are not interrupted with commercial breaks every 12 minutes. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 A transportation vehicle that has changed peoples lives Automobiles, as the exponent of modern transportation vehicles, virtually have contributed to modern life
26、 more than most people have imagined, even though automobiles, as is true of all other technologies, have also created many problems. The advancement of modern transportation, certainly including that of automobiles, has made more goods available in local markets. For example, in China, some fruits
27、are only cultivated in the southern part of the country and not in the northern, such as litchee, sugarcane, pineapple partly due to sheer gradients of temperature. Thanks to the advancement of modern transportation system, people in the northern part of the country can now get those southern cultiv
28、ated fruits readily available in almost every local market. In the far past when such system did not exist, when goods could be transported only by primitive tools such as carts, some fruits such as litchee were the privilege of imperial households. At the same time, the development of modern transp
29、ortation has also made goods in local markets much less expensive. Take litchee for example again. Two decades ago, litchee was pretty expensive, and was a luxury. But the development has made the transportation easier and the cost lower and lower. On the other hand, due to previous factors, more me
30、rchants are engaged in the business that simultaneously intensified the competition, which certainly affected the prices. Thus, the price of litchee subsequently dropped. The same goes for other goods as well. Today, people are able to buy almost any goods they want no matter where the origin of the
31、 goods is, and to make a choice among more counterparts, and the best of all, to take the goods home with less expenditure. Moreover, advanced transportation vehicles such as automobiles have, to some extent, made people more independent than before. It is not hard to imagine that 50 years ago a you
32、ng widow who lived in a small village and whose husband had died when she was 23 had little chance to get married again, for the sake of the tradition or culture, or whatever. But if that happened in the present day, things would be entirely different. Advanced transportation vehicles being readily
33、available, she could easily get to another city within at most 2 days and by lower expenses, say from the small village located in the northeast of China to the far southern city, Guangzhou several thousands of miles away. That is a big and new city, and nobody knows her there; she has a brand new start, and she is entirely independent. 【知识模块】 作文
