2016年托福写作（toefl）典型话题及范文（三）

　　托福作文范文：耐心策略

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? “Patience is usually not a goodstrategy, so we (people) should take action now rather than later”. Use reasons and specificexamples to support your answer.

　　范文:

　　Patience is either a good strategy of waiting and hoping, or a bad one of losing time andopportunities. Under different circumstances, more often than not we should wait and hope inorder to achieve, but sometimes it is better for us to act immediately before "golden"opportunities are lost forever. At best, patience is wisdom; and at worst, it is laziness in theabscence of courage.

　　Being a great capacity associated with wisdom, patience usually a good strategy. Since mostgreat achievements require time, patience may be regarded as a form of wisdom which isessential to successfully managing many things, big and small. Generally speaking, that wisdomis summed up in two words: wait and hope. Like farmers, for instance, we need to learn that wecannot sow and reap the same day, and that we should keep things going with hope,particularly when the going is hard and slow. Also insocial life, without patience we at heartcannot work together efficiently with other people and society cannot function at all in civilorder. To paraphrase the wisdom of an old Chinese saying : "lack of patience in small matterscan create havoc in great ones".

　　Nevertheless, patience has its limits; being taken too far, it goes beyond laziness to becomecowardice. Hence, it is not always realistic to believe that all good things in the world come tous just because we wait long enough, refusing to know what on earth we are hoping for.Indeed, patience must be founded on realistic hope and it is not a virtue, provided that it isnot out of necessity. That is to say, patience may become a bad strategy if it is passive,which means not taking right action in the right place at the right moment. Ironically, patienceought to be understood as the quality of being active, or a form of action, which demandscourage and force so that time is not hopelessly lost. Far from being lazy and cowardly, weshould not hesitate imprudently and wait passively but should rather take quick action in theright direction now rather than later, considering that "time and tide" shall wait for no lazypeople.

　　Accordingly, the wise policy is to seek patience and action in equal amounts. Patience alonewithout wisdom does not lead to great achievements, whereas hasty actions are seldom wiseand often doomed. We may believe that laziness along with cowardice is a bad strategy, andwe should also know that the wisdom of patience is doing something else in the meantime andnot waiting foolishly like cowards.

　　托福作文范文：患难之交

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to choose a friend withwhom you can have fun than to choose a friend that will help you when you are in need. Usespecific reasons and examples to support your answer.

　　范文:

　　Each friendship can serve a purpose in your life--some just for fun and some offering muchmore. The sole test to tell a real friend from a fake one is adversity. In times of need, realfriends will walk in and care about you while fake friends will walk out and talk about you behindyour back.

　　Having friends with a sense of humor is fun. In social life, it is important to have fun withfriends and laughter is such a huge part of a relationship. Often people who have a keen senseof humor also have a better grasp of friendship, unless it is false friendship. In many cases,choosing a friend with whom you can have fun may help you to overlook the unbecoming,understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, andoutlast the unbearable. Sometimes it seems that if you do not have friends with a sense ofhumor, life is not funny anymore. In short, laughing heartily with friends may just turn out tobe a good medicine of life that is sometimes sick with all its stress and complexity.

　　Nevertheless, you want to have true friends who will show their love to you in times of trouble.In real life, friends are needed both for joy and sorrow. Therefore, to have true friends is tohave your needs answered. It is that kind of expectation which determines the quality offriendship. How lucky you are to be able to choose a friend who will help you when you are inneed? Such a friend will never try to hurt you, not even in a joke under the disguise of a bittersense of humor. In contrast, a fake friend laughs every time you fall, whereas a real friend runsover to help you on your feet.

　　On the whole, real friends, like precious and rare diamonds, are hard to find; and fake friendsfor having fun are everywhere like autumn leaves. Only in times of need can you realize who areyour true friends and who are your fake friends. After all, having fun is not the ultimatepurpose of friendship.

　　托福作文范文：旅游与存钱

　　Here is something I have just learnt from the past week. Anna helped me go through severalessays and pointed out: all right, there are minor errors in grammar and spelling, but the mostserious problem is the organization of ideas. "When you are taking TOEFL," she added, "youbasically need to shut half of your brain down."

　　True story.

　　It is very easy to get into a swamp of critical thinking and an entry level writer usually triesreally hard on fixing those loopholes in their logic, while ignoring the way he delivers ideas. Allthose independent writing questions are quite simple and mostly controversial. You mightnever find a perfect saying to fix it. But the raters don't care about if the question itself isprecisely asked or not. They care your language.

　　Building up an easy-access system of building up articles is more important than thosedelicately rephrasing process. What her final comment is attached here, just as a heads-up:

　　You have not clearly (or obviously) stated your thesis statement throughout the essay. In theopening and closing paragraphs the TS is also very we "You have not clearly (or obviously)stated your thesis statement throughout the essay. In the opening and closing paragraphs theTS is also very weak. Towards the end you become more organized, but the second paragraphis completely lost on me."

　　Then she gave me a specific instruction on effectively organizing an essay. I did what shetold me, which helps a lot.

　　Below is what have done within thirty minutes.

　　k. Towards the end you become more organized, but the second paragraph is completely loston me. You have not clearly (or obviously) stated your thesis statement throughout the essay.In the opening and closing paragraphs the TS is also very wek. Towards the end you becomemore organized, but the second paragraph is completely lost on me

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Spending money on travelling isbetter than saving money for future use. (20161105NA)

　　I am always seeing things from the perspectives of young people. I don’t think it is the bestidea to start saving money too early. Instead, go travelling as much as we can is a betterchoice.

　　Simply stated, travelling benefits the future. A widespread phrase “illness of modernity”largely refers to the uncertainty and anxiety towards the future among young people. Thisfeeling comes, in my opinion, mainly from a lack of experience exploring the world. It happenedto me several years ago when I suddenly realized a history major student like myself wastrapped between reality and ideality. So I chose to take one year off from college, which is moreoften called “gap year” to work and travel all over the world. I took interns in Bulgaria andPoland, bicycled through the entire Europe, stayed with American family, spent leisure summerin Spain, took care of autistic kids in Krakow and taught Chinese culture in Sofia. I spent all mymoney on this trip until I almost went broke. But I had such a clear picture for future and theexperience I gained from this trip basically made me very compatible in the job market.

　　People may question that it would be a little less than responsible for later years not to save upto a fund. Apparently, this concern ignores the fact that we will have plenty of opportunities tomake money in the future. Travelling during the early years, in turn, will definitely provide useven more chances. A lot of my friends are world travellers as well. They experienced so muchthat they are very aware of what the general trends of culture, fashion and even policies ofmultiple countries they have been to. They are always very insightful and could easily go onestep earlier and further than most of the peers. After the global trips, some of them havechosen to devote themselves in academic institutions, some in journalism and freelance writingto continue exploring and some, like me, chose to work in a company. All of these people noware making verygood money and the life they are living now is even better than the future theyexpected years earlier.

　　And then we need to consider a more practical aspect: are we really able to travel when we areolder? Certainly a huge pressure from expense of raising children, maintaining a family andduties in work will stop people from carrying out their travel plans. Young people have relativelyflexible schedule that reduces the risk of spending more energy in begging for a vacation orcaring for, say, how their kids behave in kindergartens. My professor always encouraged me. Hesaid, “go kid, if I were you, I would seriously consider postponing my research of Latin Americancountries because knowing that placefrom simply historical documents without actually beingthere and talked to people there apparently caused so much trouble in understanding theirpolitics and culture.” He was right. I am still young. I have nothing now. And of course I havenothing to lose. That is the spirit.

　　So let’s go back to the topic we’ve been discussing. When we are young, there are so manybenefits if we just pack a map and take with us the only dollars we keep in the pockets and setoff. Spend the money now for the future. It is never too late.

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