2016年2月27日
Topic 议题whether people should protect prairie dogs
Thesis
总论点
Reading：There are three reasons to illustrate the bad effects brought by those prairie dogs.
Listening：The messages mentioned in the reading are misleading.
Sub-point1
分论点1
Reading：They are agricultural pests because they will compete with cattle for grass.
Listening：The agricultural pests view is outdated. On the one hand, prairie dogs have changed their diets. On the other hand, cattle now feed on some specific areas. So there is no competitive relation between them. What’s more, the burrowing of prairie dogs does not harm the growth of grass, but in fact makes the land fertile, which facilitates the grass growth.
Sub-point2
分论点2
Reading：The fleas they carry can cause bacterial disease.
Listening：The incidence of a disease is very low. In the past 15 years, only 10 people got infected.
Sub-point 3
分论点3
Reading：Protecting them hardly brings benefits to the ecosystem, so it is more worth protecting large mammals.
Listening：They do goods to the ecosystem. First, The burrows underground prairie dogs big are habitats of other animals such as snakes. Second, they are also food resources of large animals such as foxes. The disappearing of prairies dogs will endanger those species.
2016年2月27日托福综合写作范文：
Sample answer:
The reading puts forward three reasons to illustrate the bad effects brought by those prairie dogs. However, the professor refutes these three strongly.
Firstly, the reading claims prairie dogs are agricultural pests because they will compete with cattle for grass. In contrast, the professor argues that the agricultural pests view is outdated. On the one hand, prairie dogs have changed their diets. On the other hand, cattle now feed on some specific areas. So there is no competitive relation between them. What’s more, the burrowing of prairie dogs does not harm the growth of grass, but in fact makes the land fertile, which facilitates the grass growth.
Secondly, in the reading, it suggests the fleas they carry can cause bacterial disease. However, the professor disagrees, for the incidence of a disease is very low. In the past 15 years, only 10 people got infected.
Finally, the reading suggests that protecting them hardly brings benefits to the ecosystem, so it is more worth protecting large mammals. But the professor argues that they do goods to the ecosystem. First, the burrows underground prairie dogs big are habitats of other animals such as snakes. Second, they are also food resources of large animals such as foxes. The disappearing of prairies dogs will endanger those species.
托福独立写作题目：
High school students should be required to study many different subjects at same time or they should study only three or four subjects at a time.
题型类别:利弊类
题材类别：二选一
相关旧题：无
写作思路：
高中生应该同时学多门课还是每次只学几门课，如果选前者可以从不同科目间都是相互相成的等角度学;如果选后者，可以从个人注意力有限、学习的效率、学习讲究循序渐进及课外活动的重要性等角度出发。
写作指导：
选择同时学多门课：
尽管有人会说同时学多门课会让学生分散精力(distract from)，不能学好每科(low efficiency)。但我认为事实与此相反(contradict)，因为各个学科之间都是有联系和交叉的(interweave)，同时学多门课其实能更好地促进知识的吸收(facilitate the assimilation of knowledge)，例如物理化学科目都涉及数学，这三者的学习能相互促进(reciprocate);中文和英文有类似的句子结构，所以两者也能互利( mutually beneficial)。即使是文科和理科之间也有交叉，如语言学和数学，语言学中其实有数学规律。
同时学习广泛的科目有助于引起学生的学习兴趣，而局限于(be confined ot)少数领域会导致厌倦心理从而厌学。兴趣是最好的老师，涉及多种不同学科可以开拓他们的思维。同时，当他们一旦发现了科目之间自然而然的联系，他们的热情会随即被激发(motivate/stimulate)。
培养学生合理安排规划时间的能力。如果学习科目少，学生的课业压力就少，很多学生会慵懒度日。而同时学习多个科目就意味着学生要花更多的时间在学习上，同时也要协调(coordinate)好各科之间的学习时间以及娱乐休闲时间。这对于学生以后的进入社会很有帮助。
词汇拓展：
distract from 分散
low efficiency 低效
contradict 矛盾
interweave 交织
facilitate the assimilation of knowledge 促进知识吸收
reciprocate 互惠
mutually beneficial 互利的
be confined to 局限于
motivate/stimulate 激发
coordinate 使协调