《SAT作文题库》word版.doc

例题：Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment belowTraditionally the term “heroism” has been applied to those who have braved physical danger to defend a cause or to protect others. But one of the most feared dangers people face is that of disapproval by their family, peers, or community. Sometimes acting courageously requires someone to speak out at the risk of such rejection. We should consider those who do so true heroes.Assignment: Should heroes be defined as people who say what they think when we ourselves lack the courage to say it? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment belowNowadays nothing is private: our culture has become too confessional and self-expressive.People think that to hide ones thoughts or feelings is to pretend not to have those thoughts or feelings. They assume that honesty requires one to express every inclination and impulse.Adapted from J. David Velleman, “The Genesis of Shame”Assignment: Should people make more of an effort to keep some things private? 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.l 扣题扣题的任务指的就是按照题目的限定条件进行合适的，与之相切合、相对应的写作。在SAT作文考试当中，考生需要参照引文的写作内容，遵循任务的具体要求进行有针对性的写作。同时，以评分标准中的最高标准为自己写作的目标。具体地说，考生需要满足任务中的三大条件：1、write an essay in which you develop your point of view 文章必须有明确的观点，文章其余的所有内容均是为观点服务的，是对其的支持、发展和论证；2 & 3、Support your position with reasoning and examples 文章的论述过程必须同时具备推理(reasoning)部分和列举(examples)部分，缺一不可，比重可视情况自行调试。这部分内容在之后的章节中有详细说明和指导。l 审题、扣题基本步骤通过Assignment 判断题型找出Key Words 回引言定位、精读引言Brainstorming选择立场列出提纲l 审题、扣题特殊手法 逻辑关系决定立场 A尽量反对（Assignment） 原因：绝对立场很难捍卫 ，只需一个反例逻辑即被攻破 特点：题目中有绝对词（never, always, all, best, only）。 例题：Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.The people we call heroes do not usually start out as unusual. Often they are ordinary peoplesubject to ordinary human weaknessesfear, doubt, and self-interest. In fact, they live ordinary lives until they distinguish themselves by having to deal with an injustice or a difficult situation. Only then, when they must respond in thought and in action to an extraordinary challenge, do people begin to know their strengths and weaknesses.Assignment: Do people learn who they are only when they are forced into action? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowEvery important discovery results from patience, perseverance, and concentration-sometimes continuing for months or years-on one specific subject. A person who wants to discover a new truth must remain absorbed by that one subject, must pay no attention to any thought that is unrelated to the problem. Adapted from Santiago Ramon Cajal, Advice for a Young InvestigatorAssignment: Are all important discoveries the result of focusing on one subject? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowCertainly anyone who insists on condemning all lies should think about what would happen if we could reliably tell when our family, friends, colleagues, and government leaders were deceiving us. It is tempting to think that the world would become a better place without the hand, perhaps there is such a thing as too much honesty. Adapted from Allison Kornet, “The Truth About Lying”Assignment: Would the world be a better place if everyone always told the complete truth? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowNo one is perfect. There are few among us who would disagree with this familiar statement. Certain that perfection is an impossible goal, many people willingly accept flaws and shortcomings in themselves and others. Yet such behavior leads to failure. People can only succeed if they try to achieve perfection in everything they do.Assignment：Can people achieve success only if they aim to be perfect? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowWe are often urged to solve problems by ignoring traditional approaches and by finding solutions that are innovative or unconventional. We are encouraged to be creative and to trust that a new way of thinking will yield new insights. But innovation may be impractical and unnecessary. The best ways of fixing problems are often the triedandtrue ways.Assignment: Is it always necessary to find new solutions to problems? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowIt is better to try to be original than to merely imitate others. People should always try to say,write, think, or create something new. There is little value in merely repeating what has beendone before. People who merely copy or use the ideas and inventions of others, no matter how successful they may be, have never achieved anything significant.Assignment: Is it always better to be original than to imitate or use the ideas of others? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below We have strived at every turn to progress, to always push forward. Regression will not be tolerated, nor will stagnationperseverance our only guiding principle. We will not be satisfied with nothing less than progress, for progress is always positive.Assignment: Do you agree that progress is always positive? 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.B尽量同意（Assignment）1. 原因：考虑到了不同情况，逻辑相对缜密 特点：题目中没有绝对词，而有条件限定词（sometimes, most, more likely, not necessarily ） 例题：Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.I do not feel terrible about my mistakes, though I grieve the pain they have sometimes caused others. Our lives are “experiments with truth,” and in an experiment negative results are latleast as important as successes. I have no idea how I would have learned the truth aboutmyself and my calling without the mistakes I have made.Assignment: Is it more or less necessary to make mistakes, even when doing so has negative consequences for other people? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment belowTechnology promises to make our lives easier, freeing up time for leisure pursuits. But the rapid pace of technological innovation and the split second processing capabilities of computers that can work virtually nonstop have made all of us feel rushed. We have adopted the relentless pace of the very machines that were supposed to simplify our lives, with the result that, whether at work or play, people do not feel like their lives have changed for the better.Assignment: Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowI suspect that like many people who watch their diet, exercise regularly, and check the weatherreport before leaving the house, I am a little too concerned with controlling what cant be fully controlled. I know I am doing the sensible thing. But I sometimes think that the more reckless among us may have something to teach the rest of us about freedom. Perhaps there is something good about taking chances against our better judgments.Assignment：Is it sometimes better to take risks than to follow a more reasonable course of action? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowThere are two kinds of pretending. There is the bad kind, as when a person falsely promises to be your friend. But there is also a good kind, where the pretense eventually turns into the real thing. For example, when you are not feeling particularly friendly, the best thing you can do, very often, is to act in a friendly manner. In a few minutes, you may really be feeling friendlier. Assignment：Can deceptionpretending that something is true when it is notsometimes have good results? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowThe education people receive does not occur primarily in school. Young people are formed bytheir experiences with parents, teachers, peers, and even strangers on the street, and by the sports teams they play for, the shopping malls they frequent, the songs they hear, and the shows they watch. Schools, while certainly important, constitute only a relatively small part of education. Adapted from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Education for the Twenty-First CenturyAssignment: Is education primarily the result of influences other than school? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.We often hear that we can learn much about someone or something just by casual observation. We are not required to look beneath the surface or to question how something seems. In fact, we are urged to trust our impressions, often our first impressions, of how a person or a situation seems to be. Yet appearances can be misleading. What “seems” isnt always what is. Assignment: Is the way something seems to be not always the same as it actually is? 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. 2. 原因：任何事物都具有优、劣两面，选择相反一面容易下手 特点：题目中Key Words为正面事物，而修饰部分为负评价词；反之亦然。或，任务中同时包含两种态度。 例题：Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment belowThe old saying, “be careful what you wish for”, may be an appropriate warning. The drive to achieve a particular goal can dangerously narrow ones perspective and encourage the fantasy that success in one endeavor will solve all of lifes difficulties. In fact, success can sometimes have unexpected consequences. Those who propel themselves toward the achievement of one goal often find that their lives are worse once “success” is achieved than they were before.Assignment: Can success be disastrous? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment belowTechnology promises to make our lives easier, freeing up time for leisure pursuits. But the rapid pace of technological innovation and the split second processing capabilities of computers that can work virtually nonstop have made all of us feel rushed. We have adopted the relentless pace of the very machines that were supposed to simplify our lives, with the result that, whether at work or play, people do not feel like their lives have changed for the better.Assignment: Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowKnowledge is power. In agriculture, medicine, and industry, for example, knowledge has liberated us from hunger, disease, and tedious labor. Today, however, our knowledge has become so powerful that it is beyond our control. We know how to do many things, but we do not know where, when, or even whether this know-how should be used.Assignment: Can knowledge be a burden rather than a benefit? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.For a variety of reasons, people often make choices that have negative results. Later, they regret these choices, finding out too late that bad choices can be costly. On the other hand, decisions that seem completely reasonable when they are made may also be the cause of later disappointment and suffering. What looks like a wonderful idea at one time can later seem like the worst decision that could have been made. Good choices, too, can be costly.Assignment: Are bad choices and good choices equally likely to have negative consequences? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowAnger is an emotion common to all human beings. Laurence J. Peter said, Speak when you are angry and youll make the best speech youll ever regret. On the other hand, Malcolm X had adifferent point of view about anger claiming, Usually when people are sad, they dont doanything. They just cry over their condition. But when people get angry, they bring about a change.Maybe anger has two sides, like a coin?Assignment: How do you feel about the idea that anger can be both a positive or negative force depending upon how it is used? 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.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment belowIn 1964, U.S. Senator James William Fulbright spoke on the need to view issues from many perspectives:” We must dare to think unthink