2016年5月22日
托福写作真题回顾
As the leader of a city, what would you doto ensure the prosperity and success of the city?
A. creating job opportunities for theunemployed;
B. lowering food price;
C. providing affordable housing
5月22日托福写作范文及解析
题目大意：作为一个城市的领导想要保障城市的繁荣，要做以下三项：为失业人员提供就业机会，降低食物价格，提供经济适用房。波波建议选择为失业人员提供工作，证明其重要性，然后另外一段将两个选项的不必要性阐述明白。
In a society changing amazingly, that how to gurantee the prosperity and success of a city， the common target of all citizens，has always been brought under the spotlight of the massive media. When talking about which factor plays the most crucial role in ensuring city's smooth development, among creating job vacancy, lowering food price or adjusting housing price, people’s notion varies from one to another. From my perspective, providing job opportunities for the unemployed is the best choice.
In the first instance, offering job vacancies to the laid-offs will not only guarantee the social security and safety but also strengthen the purchasing power of the public. For one thing, given the indisputable fact that the unemployed without any income are likely to commit crimes such as theft of wallets or burglaries due to lack of daily necessities, it is self-evident that the greater the number of laid-offs is, the more unstable our society will become. Therefore, after satisfying their basic needs of life with the income from the job offered by the government, they will no longer be a threat to the stability of the whole society, which is the solid foundation for social progress and prosperity. For another, as long as citizens with jobs have more free disposable money and thus possess stronger purchasing monitory power, the various industries will be stimulated and propelled to a large extent. To be specific, with the accruing wealth, an increasing number of people will purchase a private car to commute to their office, with the result that the whole industry of automobiles will experience a booming period. The same logic can also be true of other industries and fields.
Furthermore, there are obvious disadvantages of the other two policies, lowering the food price and making the price of house affordable. Despite the fact that keeping the food price low and providing affordable housing will lessen the financial burden of the dwellers in the city in a short term, these two practices would hinder the future success of the whole society. To illustrate, the low price of food will definitely decrease the income of food producers, especially the farmers who support their family by selling what they plant and raise. As a result, they are likely to have great difficulty in making their ends meet, thus ending up becoming homeless or jobless. Also, in a long run, increasing housing affordability will put a damper on the citizens’ passion for creating wealth and thus decrease the dynamics of the whole society. Specifically speaking, when the price is so cheap that nearly everyone can afford it with ease, no one will work hard any more.
In a nutshell, I am convinced that the most effective and efficient way to boom a city is to create more job opportunities for the jobless.
阅读：欧洲人大概1520年左右就到了澳大利亚而不是1606年那么晚
1，欧洲发现的1550年左右的地图上面就有澳大利亚部分地区的名字，很可能葡萄牙商人早在这个时期就到了澳大利亚
2，欧洲一本1593年的书中提到了一种叫Marsupials的袋鼠，由于袋鼠是很典型的澳大利亚动物，所以很可能1606年以前就被欧洲人发现了
3，在澳大利亚发现了欧洲的钥匙，土壤分析显示年代可以追溯到1500s
听力：只能1606，不能更早
1，那些地区名字相同但是形状不同，很可能是绘制地图的人受水手的second hand story的影响
2，这种袋鼠不光澳大利亚有，南北美都有，所以书中描述的兴许是美洲的袋鼠
3，后来的升级的检测发现那些土壤不能用来推测钥匙掉落的时间。
5月22日托福写作范文
The reading passage claims that the European people might have reached Australia around 1520 and provides three evidences to support this claim, but the speaker casts doubt on those evidence and believes the Europeans arrived in 1606.
First of all, the reading passage argues that European maps around 1550 includes names of Australian areas, which can be an indicator the 16th century trip of the Europeans, but the speaker uses the different shapes of the areas on the maps and the actual areas in Australia to contradict the passage, then he speculates that, since second hand story referred to at that time, the information on the maps may come from Asian sailors who have reached Australia and spread second hand story but not Europeans themselves.
Second, the speaker claims that the mention of Marsupials in European book in 1593 cannot be used to prove an earlier arrive because Marsupials do not live exclusively in Australia, they also live in North and South Americas, and due to the fact that Europeans had already explored the Americas, that European book depicted Marsupials does not mean Europeans made it to Australia before 1593.
Finally, the dating of soil around the European keys found in Australia cannot convince the speaker because later, an improved dating method indicates that the soil around the keys could not be used to speculate when the keys were dropped, and previous calculation was not accurate enough.
托福独立写作
Which of the following is the most important thing for a country’s leader to do to ensure the prosperity and success of the country.
1, create more jobs for the unemployed;
2,improve agriculture and lower the food prices;
3,provide affordable housing.
近几次考试的三选一类题目比较多，建议大家多练习练习机经里面的三选一的题目，有的题目要求选好的、重要的，有的题目要求选次要的。像这道题就是一道择优的题目。可以参考以下观点：
选择improve agriculture and lower the food prices.
分论点一：解决基本的“温”和“饱”问题，这是每个国家发展的前提;
分论点二：比create more jobs for the unemployed更好操作和执行;
分论点三：比provide affordable housing惠及更多的人。