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托福TPO 13 独立写作试题：
The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past.
托福满分作文-范文赏析：
With the process of urbanization, the concept of family has been blurred than ever before. Different from that in the past when the whole family lived in a big house, more and more people move to cities for better opportunities and that in turn separates family members geographically. Then there are someone arguing that extended family members who do not live with us are less important now. I cannot quite agree with that kind of point.
Family members, whether they are one's parents or grandparents or uncles, are all important parts of your life. The centralization of cities seems to have located people nearer than before, however, the high pace of modern life and great stress of work life have virtually made people further away from each other. People are more indifferent and care little about those surrounding them. It is not surprising that having lived so many years in an apartment you do not even know who your neighbor is. The indifference between one another leads to distrust among people, not to mention getting familiar with each other. Luckily, a family is a place where you can gain real love no matter who you are or what you have achieved. It is like a harbor where you can throw all your anxieties of modern life out and really focus on fostering true love between each other. In this sense, a family is becoming more important as a place to hold our stress as well as our emotional feelings.
Also, extended family members may have a greater influence on our life than our parents. To be able to lead a comfortable life in a city, the topmost concern of a family is to earn enough money to maintain a living. Thus it is very likely that both of our parents have to work day and night, not having time to look after us or care about our studies at all. At this time, it is the extended family members that can help us out. Our grandparents who are usually already retired from their work have little time to care about our upbringing, so most kids in the cities spent most their childhood life with their grandparents. As childhood life is a time when a person begins to learn about the outside world and to form one’s own personality, our grandparents play a critical role in what we will become in the future. Thus the influence of grandparents is undoubtedly greater than parents.
To conclude, an extended family is actually playing a greater role in everyone’s life than even before, because modern living has rendered people indifferent to each other and we need someone who we trust to share our feelings. Also an extended family is an essential part of everyone’s growing up. So extended family relationship should be well cherished rather than abandoned.
托福作文满分要素剖析:
一、 语言表达
与其他的托福满分作文相比，本文的用词和句式都是比较简单的。文章的句式均为常见的结构，而且少有长难句出现。而用词方面，作者使用的也是较为普通的词语。这也说明只要我们能够说理清楚，表达正确，就能够取得满意的分数。
1. With the process of urbanization, the concept of family has been blurred than ever before. 本句使用了经典的with结构表示伴随，这也是作文开头句经常使用的方式，可以学习借鉴。Blur这个词表示使什么模糊，是地道的用法，用的很好。
2. The centralization of cities seems to have located people nearer than before, however, the high pace of modern life and great stress of work life have virtually made people further away from each other.本文首先使用了动词名词化抽象名词作为主语，这是学术文章中经常使用的方法。其次，作者准确使用的形容词high和great让句子更加生动了。
3. To conclude, an extended family is actually playing a greater role in everyone’s life than even before, because modern living has rendered people indifferent to each other and we need someone who we trust to share our feelings. 本句是文章总结段的首句，其可贵之处在于用一句话总结了全文的论点，包括总体观点和两条分论点。我们在进行总结的时候也可以借鉴这种方法，让总结段显得更加简洁。
二、 逻辑结构
本文的逻辑结构十分清晰，易于学习。文章总体使用了总分总的结构。首段交代背景，提出观点，即不认为拓展家庭不重要。中间提出了两个分论点，即现代生活让人们更加冷漠，因此家庭的作用更加重要;现代生活让父母变得更忙，因此需要祖父母帮助照顾孩子，因此家庭作用更重要。最后进行总结重申。
需要特别注意的是，题目中要求讨论拓展家庭是否不如以前重要，而不是拓展家庭不重要，因此在具体分析中应当包含拓展家庭的作用同从前相比的内容，避免跑题。
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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