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托福TPO 18 独立写作试题：
Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends.
托福满分作文-范文赏析：
All of us are surrounded by different kinds of people every day. For students, when they are at school, they are mainly surrounded by teachers and their friends. Both of these two kinds of people have great influence on students. However, I still believe that friends have greater influence on students than teachers do.
Usually, a student and his friends are almost of the same age or at least the same age. Therefore, they will have a lot in common, such as hobbies. As a consequence, they can talk to each other and imitate each other’s behavior easily. My little brother and his friends are both interested in soccer games and they spend almost all their spare time talking about soccer games worldwide and great football players. What is more, my brother’s friend is a good soccer player and my brother tends to imitate his behavior. As a result, my chubby brother became better at sports, especially playing soccer. Meanwhile, a teacher will not have such great influence on a student since teachers have less in common with students.
Moreover, in most schools in my country, teachers just appear in front of students when there is a class and they will leave the classroom as soon as the class is over. Thus, students actually have limited time to communicate with their teachers. Even if they do have some time to discuss with their teachers, the topic of discussion is usually the subject in class. However, a student can have hundreds of different topics, ranging from daily life or school subjects, to talking with their friends. They have more time communicating and therefore, they know and understand each other better than their teachers. As for me, I can spend a whole day talking to my best friends but only an hour talking with my teachers.
In addition, an everlasting friend may have greater influence in the long run than a teacher. Some of our friends at school may become friends forever. This kind of friend will influence us even when we graduate. However, teachers, on the contrary seldom become everlasting during our lives. They will not have as great an influence in the long run as our friends do.
All in all, though I have to admit that teachers and friends both have great influence on students, I still believe that students are more affected by their friends. The more people have in common with you, the greater influence they will have on you. Therefore, a friend, who is the most similar to students, is the greatest influence during a student’s life.
托福作文满分要素剖析:
一、 语言表达
本文长短句结合，读来自然流畅，很有节奏感。而且作者多次使用了因果推理的推进方式，让分析过程完整流畅，非常符合正常的思维过程。特别是当中的因果连接词的使用，更体现出了作者分析的逻辑性。在用词方面本文中规中矩，并没有华丽的技巧，却完整清晰地表达出了作者的思路。
1. As a consequence, they can talk to each other and imitate each other’s behavior easily. 本句的重点在于As a consequence表示结果。这个因果逻辑连接词清晰地表明了本句和前一句的关系，是逻辑关系的显性体现。相似的词语还有therefore, thus, as a result, consequently等。
2. However, a student can have hundreds of different topics, ranging from daily life or school subjects, to talking with their friends. Ranging from…to…表示范围，可以作为including, such as的替代，进行列举。
3. All in all, though I have to admit that teachers and friends both have great influence on students, I still believe that students are more affected by their friends. 本句是经典的总结句说法。Though I have to admit that表示我尽管必须承认，首先进行让步，对自己不支持的观点做出肯定。I still believe that我还是认为后面接作者自己的观点。这个句式可以作为固定用法在总结句中使用。
二、 逻辑结构
本文的不论是整体逻辑结构还是每段段中结构都十分清晰。作者首先提出了自己的观点，即认为朋友对学生的影响力更大。之后用三个段落从三个方面进行证明。最后进行了观点的总结重申。而在每段当中，作者都使用了对比和举例的方式进行证明，顾及两方，而不仅仅对朋友影响大这一论点进行分析，非常符合题目的要求。
网温馨提醒：考生们拿到托福作文试题，审题后，先决定总体思路，然后列出两三个具体的分论点，每个论点找出一些例子来说明。这里要注意例子的选择，尽可能生活化、生动化、形象化，不要太死板，
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