托福独立写作2大误区 审题切勿忽略关键词

托福独立写作2大误区审题切勿忽略关键词

在托福独立写作的过程中，有太多的学生会把注意力集中在句子和词汇的表现中，而忽视了托福写作的重点环节。其实，托福考试的本质只是考察学生的语言表达能力，是否能将一个话题准确连贯的进行表达。而这时，如果你忽视托福独立的写作环节，那么即使在好的词汇和句型，也许最后也是很难冲刺到高分了。那么，以下环节中我们就用一些实例为大家详解一些托福写作的审题误区吧。

审题误区NO.1 忽略关键词

同学们考写作考了这么多年，大多数出题的形式都已烂熟于心，看到题目之后觉得熟悉于是兴冲冲提笔就写，其实，这种看似”熟练”的表象下藏着巨大的隐患--同学们很有可能因为看得太快而忽略某个决定题目意思的关键词。例如：

例1：

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Advertising is the

only main cause for people’s unhealthy eating habits.

看到这个题目，同学们立刻会开始想，有没有other reasons for unhealthy habits，想出三条如：1. People’s

tight schedules do not allow them to eat at regular hours; 2. Sometimes people

are eager to lose weight or to keep fit so that they go on “endless diets”;

3.

Bearing heavy burden both physically and mentally, some consider eating

constantly as their most effective stress reliever. 综上所述，advertising is not the

only cause.

这个写法看起来非常完备，但其实犯了一个不起眼却严重的错误--题目不是要我们证明it is not the only cause，而是要我们去证明it is

not the only main cause。多一个”main”，意思是很不一样的。如果我们只需要证明it is not the only

cause，那么找出other causes即可即例1中的写法。但是，如果我们要证明it is not the only main

cause，就需要证明other causes that we mentioned are also main

causes，这就需要在每一段中加上一些专门的说明。或者，更简单的办法是去证明advertising is not even a cause,

直接在每段的末尾加上advertising与该段所论述的unhealthy eating habit无关的论述即可。If it is not a cause,

how can it be the onlymain cause? 这样一来，就不用通过证明还有其他main

cause来反驳了，事实上，证明某种cause是main

cause还是挺有难度的，因此笔者推荐同学们用后一种方式进行论述。因此，文章还是disagree，而三段的主题句分别应该是：1、1. People’s

tight schedules do not allow them to eat at regular hours, and it is obvious

that they are too busy to be influenced by advertising; 2. Sometimes people are

eager to lose weight or to keep fit so that they go on “endless diets”, and this

is more like a result of human nature, the pursuit of beauty, but not

advertising; 3. Bearing heavy burden both physically and mentally, some consider

eating constantly as their most effective stress reliever, and it is quite clear

that no advertising encourages them to do so.

例2：Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Colleges and

universities should offer more preparation for student before they start

working.

看到这个题目，很多同学会可能会这样写：Agree. 1. Students should take

morespecializedcourses(专业课)in order to be knowledgeable and skillful enough for

their future careers(接着开始论述being knowledgeable and skillful的重要性);

2.Participating in internships helps students to have a clearer picture of their

vocational development in the future(接着开始论述，如果没有实过习，在工作的时候是多么地feel so

unprepared); 3. Attending more club activities is an effective way to improve

social skills, which are crucial for success both in life and at work(接着开始论述good

social

skills对职业和生活的帮助).如果不看括号里的内容，仅看主题句，这篇文章是没有任何问题的。然而，括号中的论述从严格意义上来讲，是不能支持”more”这个关键词的。举个简单的例子：”我们需要钱”和”我们需要更多钱”在证明的时候重点是不一样的。如果证明”我们需要钱”，应该详细

阐述钱的”不可或缺性”，比如生活、学习、教育都需要钱;但是如果证明”我们需要更多钱”，重点则应该放在”钱不够”的论述上，证明在学习、生活、教育方面的预算都很紧张。同样地，上面的题目中仅仅证明Knowledge

for careers, field experience and social skills are

important是不够的，事实上，这些根本不需要证明，需要证明的事情是graduates today are not well prepared in the

three aspects. 因此这篇文章应该是一篇”抱怨型”的文章，详细地去论述学校工作的不足。参考思路如下：Agree. 1. Many students

today complain that they cannot learn practical skills and up-to-date

information, for some of their teachers are not qualified enough to teach

specialized courses; 2. Since many students are not allowed enough time to

participate in internship programs before graduation, they know very little

about what their future jobs like; 3. Joining clubs is possible for every

college student, yet not every club provide is capable of offering enough

opportunities for students to practice their social skills.