24分，在考前对我来说也是遥不可及的，像大多考生一样，根本不会把满分当作目标!但由于我是法学专业的，当时压力很大，因为美国法学院语言入学要求是13——15起步的，所以考前狠练狠练。但到目前为止我还是很怕动笔!练作文是一个痛苦的过程，不过当不经意间写出活泼生动的妙句时会给你带来很大的动力!下面我简单总结一下我的学习心得，与大家共飨。
平时练笔：
1、精雕细琢。用词准确地道。把简单的词用活用生动，能带来一种浪漫、幽默的气氛。我觉得这是所谓精妙句子的关键所在。用词不追求生僻，只要足够表达你所要表达的就可以了。我不赞成什么“大胆”的写，然后再修改，写作一开始就应该培养一种准确的写作语感!杨老师的“写三遍”很好用，就是同一题目连续写三遍，这是一个发现错误、浓缩精华、提高速度、锻炼耐心的过程!多记忆一些好的词、句型和举例子的形式，平时有意识的多用，这样才会变成自己的!多变换句型，多引用例子非常重要!一个电影片名的引用也是一个例子，例子并非都要讲述故事。全文要保持流畅性和紧凑感，即使有多处嫁接、引用，也要做到和整体融合。
2、不要过于自信，只有这样你才不会低估它;也不要毫无自信，只有这样你才不会轻易放弃它。
3、写出个性的文章。模板没必要刻意的准备，当写过10篇以上各种类型的的
4、临考前把题库里所有的题目看一遍，每个题目至少能讲出3个观点!为什么说“讲”?因为你不可能记住120×3=360个观点。只要你到达一种看某一个题目就能迅速说出2、3个观点的境界就可以了!而且你会发现很多题目都是同一个系列的，因此观点是通用的!做到这点，考试时看到作文题目你不会有一种恐惧的陌生感!
5、最后一点，我不赞成背范文。除非你运气特别好并且记忆力超强，绝大多数背范文准备TWE的行为都是徒劳的!大部分同学都不可能一字不差或者85%以上背出范文，而且丢的15%往往是自己能力无法涉足的精华部分。背范文会给你带来很大的压力，并且所写的文章没有灵魂!
考试时：
1、篇幅一定要长，用语简洁。我当时写到第二面只剩6、7行。一看到题目，赶紧确立”Agree” or “Disagree”，并定2个观点(并不是要全部想好了才能动笔，写到后面灵感来了说不定会有很好的idea)，这个过程不会超过1分钟。接下来，就是写写写!我当时几乎没停过笔，写这句的时候，已经在想下一句写什么。其实注意一个逻辑性，你就很容易接得下去，实在写不出，就来个强调，同一个意思，变换一个句型!一个观点，3、4句很快就过去了。尤其写到后面，已经麻木了或者文思泉涌，所以不会挤不出来。
2、错误要少。在力求篇幅长时，文章可以没什么大的新意或者精妙的句子，因为考试的时候不太可能有时间去构思这些，词用得漂亮、句型变换得多完全是平时练就的，但是错误必须少!要高分，必须让评分的人觉得你是行家，所以拼写错误，语法错误是要不得的!时间差不多了，必须结束观点的论述，做一个漂亮的结尾。篇幅长，错误少，开头结尾很重要!
3、简洁、煽情些，能够总结全文，呼应开头，可以是一个小例子也可以是名人名言!有多的时间就大致的检查一遍文章，找找有没有明显的错误。
文章写得匆忙，请大家多包涵!并附习文3篇。
谨以此纪念一位已离开我，特殊的朋友!
Passage 1
When we get along with someone, especially for the first time, it’s quite natural for us to put judgment on him/her, drawing a brief conclusion about the person’s personalities、abilities as well as other features. However, I personally agree that we should avoid judging a person by his/her external appearance, with the reasoning below.
First of all, external appearance can not represent a person with complete accuracy. As social creatures, human beings are complex and multidimensional. External appearance are only part of a human being, giving others impression of what he/she looks like. When we judge a person, it’s more important for us to know his/her personalities、abilities and other internal features. All these can hardly be reflected by a person’s appearances, which he/she can never choose, but by what he/she thinks and how he/she behaves. Then, with a view to knowing a person’s thought and behavior, we need to get along with him/her longer and further.
In the second place, judging a person by his/ her external appearances implies disrespect and offense. As stated above, external appearances are god-given, and a person can never choose what he/she looks like. All people are just equal, regardless of how their resemblance differs. It’s not fair to set external appearances as a criteria of judging a person. Doing so can’t do anything good to interpersonal relations, but generate misunderstandings and conflicts.
Apart from the unwarranties of judging a person by external appearances we can also cite many great figures, who are not good in appearances, but desire others’ admiration and honor: Deng xiaopin, Winston Churchill, Professor Hawkings, etc. From these examples, we find that bad external appearances can never hamper a person to distinguish himself.
All in all, never be reckless to judge a person by external appearances, or you’ll be judged no good by others in return.
Passage 2
As social creatures, human beings have the innate desire to communicate with others. There are various ways people carry out intercourses: face to face communication, writing letters or emails, making telephone calls, etc. Of all the types of communication, I suppose that face to face communication is the best, with the reasoning as follows.
In the first place, people can improve their skills and ability of getting along with others, through face to face communication. Unlike writting letters or making phone calls, communicating face to face requires not only language, but also expressions, gestures, etc. This determines that communicators should behave well, for that they can see each other while communicating. Futhermore, if one wants to response properly, he/she must take efforts to understand his/her peers" habits, personalities, temper and behavior during the processing of their face to face communication. Having experienced the complexity of interpersonal contact by communicating face to face, people thus can become sophisticated and tactful.
In the second place, face to face communication generates greater efficiency and accuracy. Face to face means no distance or positional distinction between the communicators. In such an intimate atmosphere, one can hardly shirk or disguise. What he/she says and does may best represent what he/she means. Moreover, without any restraint of time and space, one can adjust his/her response instantly and correspondingly, which greatly reduces the possibility of misunderstanding and confusion.
To be dialectical, I"d like to say that every type of communication has its merit, and on a certain occassion, a suitable type should be adopted. However, the great diversity and flexibility of communication just distinguish the value of the original way of face to face.
Passage 3
Suppose that I’m the boss of a company, I would definitely not hire my employees for their entire lives, with three main reasons concerned.
In the first place, employees become less productive inevitablely, as they get older and older. With the degrading of physical and mental abilities caused by increasing age, people act slowly learn passively and can not response so instantly or properly as they do when young. Thus, they may become less competent at work, decreasing their contributions to the employers. In contrast, workers usually get higher pay as their length of service rises. As a result, the pay can not balance with the reward, which makes their companies less profitable.
In the second place, the conditions employers face are changing all the time, requiring that they possess flexible personnel. The climate in the business circle is greatly complex and changeable., which always poses new problems employers should settle. If they hire employees for their entire lives, the necessary metabolizing the personnel will be destroyed. Consequently the employers may find that they have no suitable employees to carry out the new tasks appointed. So, employees should be fired timely when they are unable to solve the new problems at work, without the adequate sills and abilities their jobs require.
Last but not least, hired in all life, employees may lack the willingness to strive for their future. As we all know, in order to spur and animate the entire personnel, the employers should create a competitive atmosphere for their employees. Only when they face the risk of losing jobs, may the employees be enthusiastic and diligent enough at work, exerting all efforts to perform well. With an assurance of life time employment, they will hardly have the impetus to improve themselves and finally lose the personality of enterprise.
In conclusion, employing workers for all their lives has many disadvantages, which will do bad to employers as well as employees. So, life time employment can not be justified.
(编辑：Sally)