托福写作名人素材

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Bill Gates When Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard, he did not care too much of the result. Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft. Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to study in the world’s No.1 University. However, with size comes power, Microsoft dominates the PC market with its operating systems, such as MS-DOS and Windows. Now, Microsoft becomes the biggest software company in the world and Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world.

托福写作素材之爱迪生

Thomas Edison We can learn from the experience of the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison that sometimes a series of apparent failures is really a precursor to success. The voluminous personal papers of Edison reveal that his inventions typically did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works.

托福写作素材之曼德拉

Nelson Mandela Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

米开朗基罗(Michelangelo)

参考事迹：意大利文艺复兴时期伟大的绘画家、雕塑家和建筑师，文艺复兴时期雕塑艺术最高峰的代表。著名作品《酒神巴库斯》，《哀悼基督》，《大卫》，《摩西》、《被缚的奴隶》和《垂死的奴隶》1519-1534年，他在佛罗伦萨创作了他生平最伟大的作品--圣洛伦佐教堂里的美第奇家族陵墓群雕。1536年，米开朗基罗回到罗马西斯廷教堂，用了近六年的时间创作了伟大的教堂壁画《末日审判》。之后他一直生活在罗马，从事雕刻、建筑和少量的绘画工作，直到1564年2月18日逝世于自己的工作室中。

利用点：老米作品多以批判和深刻沉重的色调为主。他的大量作品显示了写实基础上非同寻常的理想加工，成为整个时代的典型象征。他的艺术创作受到很深的人文主义思想和宗教改革运动的影响，常常以现实主义的手法和浪漫主义的幻想，表现当时市民阶层的爱国主义和为自由而斗争的精神面貌。米开朗基罗的艺术不同于达•芬奇的充满科学的精神和哲理的思考，而是在艺术作品中倾注了自己满腔悲剧性的激情。这种悲剧性是以宏伟壮丽的形式表现出来的，他所塑造的英雄既是理想的象征又是现实的反应。这些都使他的艺术创作成为西方美术史上一座难以逾越的高峰。GRE好像有一个题目说什么科学让人安心，艺术让人upset之类的?老米基本上作品都是让人沉重和揪心的。而且老米和老达不同的是他很注重想象创造力。

托福写作素材之贝多芬

Beethoven Beethoven, the German Composer, began to lose his hearing in 1801 and was entirely deaf by 1819. However, this obstacle could not keep him from becoming one of the most famous and prolific composers in art history. His music, including 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, several senates and so on, formes a transition from classical to romantic composition.

George Bush

On January 16, 1991, President Bush ordered the commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a massive U.S.-led military offensive against Iraq in the Persian Gulf.

In late 1992, Bush ordered U.S. troops into Somalia, a nation devastated by drought and civil war. The peacekeeping mission would prove the most disastrous since Lebanon, and President Clinton abruptly called it off in 1993.

Jimmy Carter

President Carter's policy of placing human rights records at the forefront of America's relationships with other nations contributed to a cooling of Cold War relations in the late 1970s.

In 1980, for the first time in seven years, Fidel Castro authorized emigration out of Cuba by the country's citizens. The United States welcomed the Cubans, but later took steps to slow the tide when evidence suggested that Castro was using the refugee flight to empty his prisons. Neville Chamberlain