历年
历年SAT写作欧洲地区考试真题答题辅导(2009)内容如下：
2009.1 欧洲
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. (2009.1)
People are taught that they should not go back on their decisions. In fact, our society supports the notion that to change your mind is evidence of weakness and unreliability, leading many people to say, “Once I decide, I decide!” But why do people make such a statement? If factors, feelings, and ideas change, isn’t the ability to make a new decision evidence of flexibility, adaptability, and strength?
Adapted from Theodore I.Rubin, Compassion and Self-Hate
Assignment: Should people change their decisions when circumstances change, or is it best for them to stick with their original decisions? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
1. 题目翻译：
人们被告知，他们不应当撤回自己的决定。实际上，社会支持这样的观点，就是改变心意是软弱和不可靠的表现。这让很多人都说：“君子一言，驷马难追。”但是人们为什么要做出这样的声明呢?如果事实、感受和想法改变了，那做出新决定的能力不应该是灵活性、适应性和力量的体现吗?
题目：人们应该根据情势变化和改变决定还是坚持自己原来的决定呢?
2. 审题关键词：change decisions, circumstances change, stick with, original
3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲：
改变决定：Sometimes, the key factors that determined us to make the decisions have changed, making it unrealistic or impossible to stick with our original decisions.
坚持决定：As reliable and responsible individuals, we need to stick to our original decisions to make ourselves trustworthy. It is the spirit of contract.
2009.5 欧洲
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. (2009.5)
Thanks to great advancements in technology, we live today in a world in which knowledge is more readily available to greater numbers of people than ever before in history. Having more and better technology, however, has not made people wiser or more understanding. Indeed, people are so overloaded with information today that they have become less, rather than more, able to make sense of the world around them than our ancestors ever were.
Assignment: Has today’s abundance of information only made it more difficult for us to understand the world around us? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
1. 题目翻译：
多亏了科技的极大发展，今天，我们生活在一个知识比历史上的任何时候都更让更多人易于获得的时代。然而，拥有更多和更好的技术却没有让人变得更明智或者更博学。实际上，今天的人们拥有太多的信息，以至于人们比我们的祖先更无法了解我们周围的世界。
题目：今天的信息爆炸仅仅让了解我们身边的世界更困难了吗?
2. 审题关键词：abundance of information, more difficult
3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲：
正：Too much information makes us unable to know the truth and what to believe.
反：The abundance of information helps us understand the same issue from different perspectives.
补：We should have the ability to judge the credibility of the information.
2009.10 欧洲
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. (2009.10)
Good news is, for the most part, no news. It is not sufficiently compelling or important to make leading stories and front pages in the media, certainly not as often as bad news. Bad news sells, or so it seems from the books, newspapers, and television reports that fill our lives. But in this endless focus on the bad, the media present a distorted view of the world.
Adapted from Richard B.McKenzie, The Paradox of Progress: Can American Regain Their Confidence in a Prosperous Future?
Assignment: Do books, newspapers, and other media focus too much on bad news? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
1. 题目翻译：
在大多数情况下，最好的新闻就是没有新闻。在媒体上成为头条或者头版新闻不总是那样有吸引力或者重要，特别是坏消息经常是这样的。坏消息才有卖点，或者从我们生活中的书籍、报纸、电视上看来是这样。但是在不停关注在坏事上时，媒体给我们展现了一个扭曲的时间观。
题目：书籍、报纸和其他媒体太过注重坏消息了吗?
2. 审题关键词：media, bad news
3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲：
正：Bad news always makes the front page.
反：Actually, it depends on which media it is. For example, tabloids focus more on entertainment news.
补：The obligation of media is informing people of what is happening around the world.