托福写作思路练习

1. Students should spend a year to travel or to work before they go to college.Agree.①It gives a chance to think it clearly about what they want to do in the rest of their life thus theycan make a more prudent choice about their major.②Students have been worn out in high school, so they can take a break and refresh their mindthrough traveling.③Although some people think it is a waste of time, I believe what they gain outweigh what theyspend. 2. Some parents offer their school-age children money for each high grade they get in school. Do you think this is a good idea?Agree.①It can encourage students to pay more efforts to study while students have a relatively weakself-discipline.②Give them a chance to put his income in proper use, cultivating their financial awarenesssince childhood.③Although some people argue that it will distort the pure meaning of study and make studentsutilitarian, I think it can be reduced by educate them the purpose of reward and useinteresting teaching methods to awake their affection for exploring unknown fields. 3. University students should be required to take basic science classes even if they are not part of the field of the study.Disagree.①It takes up a large amount of time for students who are not interested in science at all.②It requires more financial expenditure to hire more teachers professionalizing in science,while it is kind of waste since basic science is too simple to most teachers.③Although some argue students have the necessity to know the basic mechanism about howthe world functions so that they will not be too ignorant and unrealistic, I think students have the rights to choose what they want to learn. [example] 4. In order to attract good students, universities should spend money on social activities.It is an effective way to attract excellent students by spending money on social activities.①Students who have strong social ability will be attracted.Define: The concept of good students is not only limited to straight-A students who have top academic performance, but also including students who are versatile or skilled in some particular fields.②Students can directly benefit from attending social activities and develop their social skills likeorganizing ability, leadership and negotiation skills.③让步：Although universities can spend money on academic scholarship or sports reward toattract good students, social activity funding is more appealing because youngstersnowadays attach more importance to social skills. Society requires students with good social ability. Students are not willing to study in universities that are filled with nerds.反⾯面反驳：It is a overstatement to say that universities shouldsupport social activities to attract good students.①If we say good students are straight-A studentswho have top academic performance, I believethey attach more importance to academicachievement of a university. They may even havebias for those school, thinking they are toounprofessional and cannot learn much.②It will have more effective result if universitiesspend more in academic scholarship or sportsreward. 5. Some people think that giving students time during a class to discuss ideas with each other is a good way to help students learn; others think giving students time for discussion is ineffective or a waste of time. Which idea do you agree?It is a good way to help students learn.①It is more interesting to have discussions than sitting there, listening to the dull lecture forhours. Students can concentrate better.②It provides students a chance to exchange notes and the advent of brain storming can createunimaginable effects.③Although it will take up some time professors imparted knowledge to students, it can be madeup by reading textbooks and references after class. 6. Teachers' performance should be evaluated by students rather than by other teachers. Agree.①It is students who are the fruition of teachers’ education. It has no meaning if students cannotcomprehend what a teacher said but other teachers thought highly of him.②Teachers can modify their teaching methods directly according to students feed back so thatthey can achieve a better result.③Although other teachers are more professional, having bigger possibility to give maturesuggestions, it has no practical use if students do not accept it. 7. Children rely too much on the technology, like computers, smart phones, video games for fun and entertainment. Playing simpler toys or playing outside with friends would be better for children’s development.Agree.①Beneficial to physical health, to build a wholesome body.②Develop social skills, learning how to get along well with different kinds of people.③Although some parents think children should keep pace with the most advanced technology, Ithink it is not late to be familiar with them after they have better self-discipline. 8. The best leader should spend more time listening to other people’s ideas than talk his own ideas.Disagree.①Although it is significant for leaders to listen to his employees’ suggestions or opinions, leadersshould function as the captain to lead the whole group, so he need to establish his authority.He should convince his employees.②The best leader not only should care about his workers, but also need to make accuratedecisions, have a sense of perspective and avoid mistakes. 9. It is better for a company to have employees who do as they are told than employees who think of their own ideas?Agree.①Too many thoughts would result in their implementation at a discount, because they are likelyto be distracted by other thoughts. Leaders need employees to follow their instructions, all the company cannot function well.②It is more effective to bring the plan into practice because workers do not need to spend timecoming up with new ideas.③Big corporations have a large number of employees so it is virtually impossible to considereveryone’s idea. 10. Getting advice from friends of an older age would be more valuable than from friends who are of the same age.Agree.With age comes a greater variety of life experiences, which give one the wisdom and ability to see things in perspective.①Older friends have experienced more. e.g. fellow students have passed the exam and took thecourses you have to take.②Older friends have made mistakes you may meet so they can suggest you how to avoidunnecessary faults.③Although peer friends may know better about you since you spend more time with them, youcan explain your situation more explicitly to your older friends which can make up for this weakness. 11. Some people always follow their dreams even if the dreams are ambitious. Some think we should focus on achieving realistic goals. Which do you agree with?Achieve realistic goals.①We can make more practical plan towards the small goals so that we can have higherpossibility to achieve it.②We can gain the sense of achievement by realizing small goals one by one so that we havemore confidents to challenge more goals.③Although “that how great the purpose is decide how far you can go.” you have the risk to failand lose everything if you try to reach the ambitious goal beyond your capacity. 12. In the past it was easier to identify what type of career or job would lead to a secure, successful future.Agree.①There are fewer jobs in the past thus it is easier to observe and evaluate each job. e.g.Riverside Scene During The Qingming Festival, the famous Chinese painting, it captures the daily life of people from the Song period at the capital, Bianjing, today's Kaifeng. The entire piece was painted in hand scroll format and the content reveals the lifestyle of all levels of the society from rich to poor as well as different economic activities in rural areas and the city. But it is hard to include all the occupations in one painting nowadays.②Government guarantee job assignments in the past.③The world changes much faster so it is difficult to predict the tendency of an occupation’sdevelopment. 13. Spending time alone is the best way to relax.Agree.①Flexible so I can do whatever I want to do without worrying about others’ opinions.②Although there are more activities to do with friends, like playing badminton and go to karaoketogether, it is usually troublesome to negotiate the time when we are all free.绝对词题型：否定①It is not the best way and you may even feel more tired since you are likely to let yourimagination run wild when alone.②There are more better ways to relax such as hanging out with friends, going hiking andshopping, which are improper to do alone.③Although flexible, sometimes it is lonely to stay alone and you do not have many things to do.e.g. playing tennis, go to karaoke. 14. Only movies that can teach us something about real life is worth watching.Disagree.①Different types of movies have different values.②Only watching educational movies will restrict the development of movie industry.③Although someone argue people laugh out when watching humor movies but gain nothingafter that, I insist that the pleasing time is also precious treasure. 15. What is the most important factor for students to succeed at university or college? 1) university tutors' individual instructions to help solve students' problems; 2) encouragement from family and friends; 3) high-quality education and excellent teachers in the high school1)①Individual instructions is to the point so students can solve their problems in time and makeprogress more quickly. e.g.exercise class for calculus, probability and statistics.②Not only can students solve problems, but also they can get instructions about comprehensionof concepts and ideas that they cannot know from textbooks.③The knowledge background is important but it can be made up by later diligence. Whileencouragement can inspire students to pay efforts, it has no practical help. 16. In order to succeed in doing a new job, the ability to adapt oneself to the new environment is more important than the excellent knowledge of this job.Disagree.No matter what job you take, the prerequisite to be up to this job is strong knowledge.It is the knowledge that support you have a long term development.Although it is significant to adapt quickly to a new job, everyone will just become the same after a period. 17. Which one would you prefer to regulate in order to improve your health out of the following three things? 1) The kind of food you eat; 2) The amount of exercise; 3) The amount of stress in your life1) The amount of exercise.① A wholesome body is built on regular exercise to strengthen the muscle and refresh therespiration system.②Even though you eat some junk food you can burn your excessive calorie up by exercising.③Exercise can also help release stress.④It is convenient to find some instructions on how to keep fit on the Internet along with someuseful apps. 18. What is the most important action for the government to solve environmental problems? 1) funding research on new energy sources such as solar and wind power; 2) protecting the forest and wildlife; 3) passing and enforcing laws to reduce the pollution;3) passing and enforcing laws to reduce the pollution be the top priority①Pollution is already too severe so it is urgent. Prerequisite.②It is not useful for sustainable development if we only replace the energy we use by newresources, because the water and air would continually be contaminated.③Research usually takes years or even decades. Protecting the forest and wildlife cannot curethe pollution problem once and for all/bring under permanent control.。