2016年4月9日
Sample answer:
The reading and listening discuss about strategies to stop the vanishing of gopher tortoises. The reading passage mentions three ways to stop the disappearing of gopher tortoises. Whereas, the professor totally refutes the three points presented in the passage.
Firstly, the professor rebuts the reading’s idea that by preserving habitats of palm forests, gopher tortoises can have more food supplies. The professor claims that fires frequently happen in their habitats, thus causing a lot of trees and grass cleaned out. As a result, the tortoises do not have enough grass to eat.
Secondly, the professor contradicts reading’s second method of raising the gopher tortoises in research center and then releasing them. The professor mentions that this way can bring terrible consequences. The gopher tortoises might suffer certain disease that can only be treated in the research center, and also cause negative effect to wild tortoises.
At last, the passage states that people can protect them by migrating gopher tortoises to areas suitable but without other tortoises. However, the professor explains that tortoises have homing instinct that leads them to return to original habitats. In other cases, gopher tortoises will return if they cannot get the places chosen for them. In their way back, they may come across dangers like busy roads and even be killed.
托福独立写作解析：
作文题目：
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Getting advice from friends who are older than you is more valuable than getting that from your peers.
题型类别:事实类&比较对比类
写作思路：这是一道老题，重复2014年11月的写作题。
题目不难，非常典型的事实类题目，无论是选择agree还是disagree都有理由可以讲。
解题方法两种。
方式一、找原因
若选择agree的同学，需要在文中列出年长的朋友相比同龄朋友的好处：有阅历，有经验，自己经历过所以可以给出更加合理的建议。
若选择disagree的同学，就要说明同龄朋友独到的好处了。(详见写作指导)
方法二、拆分
同学们可以将advice分成生活中的、学习中的、工作中的，从具体的例子中体现。
写作指导：
Main point: Disagree
Reason1. Improper comparison. 到底是否valuable是因人而异，因情况而定了。直接说getting advice from older is more valuable than getting from peers 是unrealistic.
Reason2. Based on the fact, 来自同龄人的advice 其实会让我们收获更多。Peers跟我们有similar age and similar experience,来自他们的建议会让我们觉得acceptable and feasible。
例子：学习为例。老师或者家长(注意也是friends)给的建议常常会被我们忽略，觉得他们跟我们的经历不同，他们的经验未必适用于我们。但是如果我们的同龄朋友最近学习突飞猛进，她给的学习上的advice会让我们觉得如获至宝。所以，来自older friends的advice因为不常会被我们接受，因此也就没有那么valuable了。
Reason3. 让步。很多人会觉得older friends 因为经验丰富，他们经历过，所以他们的advice比较precious,可以帮助我们避免一些不必要的麻烦。但是我们不要忘了，如今的时代真的变化太快了，择偶标准、求学、找工作、职场规则，每一个领域过一段时间就会有一些变化，所以older friends的建议如果放在他/她的时代是适用的，但是未必一直有用，所以还是同龄人的比较有用。