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托福TPO 7 独立写作试题：
It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
托福满分作文-范文赏析：
It is, as numerous students internalize, really difficult to perform a balancing act on two parts of a learning process according to importance. Leaving out their respective benefits, however, students should invariably come to the realization that it is learning the facts that facilitates the absorbance of concepts and enriches the ideas.
Firstly, learning the facts promotes the efficiency in studying the concepts. Recent criticisms have drastically reprimanded the school systems for being "Ivory towers", where concepts are divorced from the practical applications. In order to inverse such negative perceptions, now we are assigned to projects to embark on which involve a considerable amount of research so as to integrate ideas with facts when a new concept is being demonstrated. For example, during the research essay that was concentrated on government intervention with regard to the great depression in Canada, never ever had I authentically understood how this administration benefited people until I learned about the fact that relief policy had been enforced to remove the burden of their financial bankruptcies. Consequently I succeeded in boosting my efficiency of absorbing a certain idea by making reference to a historical event.
Moreover, studying the facts can be beneficial to deepening the concepts. How can we achieve excellence in internalizing a certain idea without applying it to the contemporary or primordial state that is the most imperative? In a word, fact is like a vehicle which we should employ to unravel all the relevantly corresponding scenarios. For example, if I were to present the class with a speech featuring the "chicken or the egg" dilemma by arguing the former comes the first, I would eventually need to put my theory in a framework that is constructed with reliable and impeccable evidences; I would go to the library and search for facts that bolsters my idea and can gradually "Hijack" the brains of the audience by leading them to ultimately develop this enriched mindset about the chicken's existence preceding the egg's.
In conclusion, there is no sweeping generalization as to which one is more important, the fact or the idea. No matter which of them outweighs the other, what we should bear in mind is that fact is an indispensable link between unprocessed knowledge and internalization as well as enrichment.
托福作文满分要素剖析:
一、 语言表达
本文的句式和用词都比较复杂，体现出了作者优秀的语言功力。在句式方面，作者多使用长句，句子含义饱满，信息丰富。而且作者使用了问句的形式，很好的避免了句式的单调重复。在用词方面，作者使用了大量的正式性词汇，丰富了文章内容，提高了文章的可读性。
1. Leaving out their respective benefits, however, students should invariably come to the realization that it is learning the facts that facilitates the absorbance of concepts and enriches the ideas. However 一词可以在句子当中出现，能够调整句子的节奏。Come to realization表示明白和理解。That之后的从句是一个强调句。Facilitate使……更容易。Absorb本意为吸收，此处指理解概念，是很生动的用法。
2. Recent criticisms have drastically reprimanded the school systems for being "Ivory towers", where concepts are divorced from the practical applications. Reprimand是criticize的同义词表示批评，可以进行替代。“Ivory tower“象牙塔西方对大学的称呼，体现了作者对西方文化的了解。Divorce from本义为离婚，此处表示分离，也是非常生动地道的用法。
3. No matter which of them outweighs the other, what we should bear in mind is that fact is an indispensable link between unprocessed knowledge and internalization as well as enrichment. No matter + wh表示让步，不论怎样。Outweigh表示哪种作用更大，经常在作文中使用。Bear in mind记住。Indispensable不可分离的，经常修饰关系和联系，是非常地道的说法。
二、 逻辑结构
本文是总分总的结构。首段提出观点，学习事实更重要。之后两段并列，提出两个分论点证明了总观点，并用具体事例进行分析。体现了作者的严谨性和说理的清晰和具体。结尾进行发散，从更普遍的角度探讨了问题的复杂性。我们也可以借鉴这种结尾的方式，增强文章的说理性和思辨性。
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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