Educating children is a more difficult task today than it was in the past because they spend so much time on cell phone, online games, and social networking Web site.

疑问句，反问句。Teaching children is really a difficult task because it not only refers to teaching conditions but also is influenced by the environment in which children study. When it comes to compare the difficulty of educating children today with in the past, most people would choose the former due to children are easily addicted to all kinds of Internet, game, Smartphone and so on. However, educating children in the old times also were confronted with many problems so that the statement is incomplete and incorrect.

It is undeniable that nowadays teaching children is hard because there many other things except study that attract children's eyes. It is the advanced conventions that makes taking control of children hard. According to researches, many elementary teachers complain that their students play Smartphone in class not to listen to teachers and play online games after school instead of finishing homework. What's worse, since children have an access to make friends on social web site such as facebook and twitter, they learn some bad habits such as violence from bad guys on the Internet. So all these things add more weight for teaching students because teachers will spend more time on protecting young students from outside disturbances and helping them cultivate positive study attitude and habits. 过于多，可以提几点但是不要太详细。

However, the difficulty in teaching children in the past cannot be ignored because education conditions for children at that time were too poor and limited to be stood with. Told by my grandparents and parents, children did not have available ways to acquire knowledge. They even had not enough textbooks and they had to share books with their classmates; they had no ways to resolve their questions, not like nowadays searching on the Internet; they cannot learn some lessons well such as English and biology and all they can do is to learn by rote. So these limitations gave teachers a lot of pressure because they cannot give students enough materials to read and exercise and they also were lack of professional skills and techniques to teach children. 可以反驳上面几点，虽然。。 或者可以对比现在的优点。没有现在的高科技怎么样。论点一定要清楚。

In conclusion, it is unconvincing to say that teaching children is much harder nowadays than in the past because each era has its own problems. Only when people analysis the different problems in different times can better educate children.

 

第二篇：TPO34 写作文本

Integrated Writing Reading

A huge marine mammal known as Steller’s sea cow once lived in the waters around Bering Island off the coast of Siberia. It was described in 1741 by Georg W. Steller, a naturalist who was among the first Europeans to see one. In 1768 the animal became extinct. The reasons for the

extinction are not clear. Here are three theories about the main cause of the extinction.

would have originally been quite large, but hundreds of years off too much hunting by the native people diminished the number of sea cows. Sea cows were a good source of food in a harsh environment, so overhunting by native people could have been the main cause of extinction.

Kelp populations respond negatively to a number of ecological changes. It is possible that ecological changes near Bering Island some time before 1768 caused a decrease of the kelp that the sea cows depend on.

the fur traders caught the last sea cow in 1768. It thus seems reasonable to believe that hunting by European fur traders, who possessed weapons that allowed them to quickly kill a large number of the animals, was the main cause of the sea cow’s extinction.

Integrated Writing Listening

Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.

The truth is we don’t know what the main cause of extinction of

Steller’s sea cow was. There are problems with each of the theories that you read about. population of the native Siberian people wasn’t very large. So while the Siberians certainly did hunt the sea cows, they didn’t need to hunt a lot of them. So it’s unlikely they were the ones who brought the sea cows to the point of extinction.

Second, about a hypothetical decrease in kelp caused by ecological disturbances, well, if something severe really happened in the ecosystem near Bering Island sometime before 1768, it would have affected not just the kelp but also other parts of the ecosystem. For example, it would have caused the decline in other marine animals like whales. Since there is no indication of broader ecosystem problems, the kelp was probably growing just fine and the sea cows did not experience food shortage.

Third, it might seem like the European traders were responsible

because the sea cows became extinct soon after the Europeans arrived. We have evidence that the sea cow population was at its largest hundreds of years before the 1700s. So something was causing a serious and on-going decrease in the sea cow population long before the Europeans arrived in the Bering Island area. Whatever this something was, it should be considered the main cause of the extinction, not the European traders who were just the last to arrive.

Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific theories presented in the reading passage.

Independent Writing Topic

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Educating children is a more difficult task today than it was in the past because they spend so much time on cell phone, online games, and social networking Web site.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

 

第三篇：新托福独立写作的名言警句该如何用

新托福独立写作的名言警句该如何用

新托福独立作文的话题基本围绕在教育，领导，儿童，环境，生活，成功，政府，道德等方面，话题还是比较贴近我们的日常生活和学习的，也有很多是讲人生哲理和道理的。而我们的前人已经给我们总结出了许多富有哲理，语言优美，同时又通俗易懂的名言警句，我们在写作文时，可以适当引用，放在句首作为背景或话题引入，亦或是放在段落中间作为论证方法，都是不错的选择。下面给大家介绍一些常见话题可用的名人妙语。

? 关于教育

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: It is better to choose a university whose graduates have good job opportunities than a university who has famous professors.

题目翻译：选择有好的工作机会的学校还是选择有知名教授的学校? 思考：那么知名教授对比工作机会，能给学生带来更多的什么呢?

从古至今人们一直在讨论老师这个角色给我们带来的春风雨露，因此有大量的名言值得大家借鉴，比如以下这句就可以放在作文的开头作为引起考官兴趣的段子：

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage and he will eat steak. -------jay leno

翻译：授人以鱼只救一时之急。授人以渔则解一生之需。授人竭泽而渔，则其将另觅他食。

这里，授人以鱼可表示一个好的工作机会的offer, 而授人以渔可以表示普通老师的教授方法，而授人竭泽而渔，则可表示知名教授不一样的教学方法，同学们引入了之后便可对这句话进行适当解释，进而引入话题，表明观点等，就能把文章的亮点凸显出来。

? 关于环境与发展

focus more on preservation of environment rather than economic development. 翻译：你是否同意：政府应该关注环境保护而不是经济发展。

思考：大家都知道环保的重要性，如果你能用上几句这样诗般的话作为开头引入与表明观点，考官一定大加赞赏：

There is a proverb going like this:

Only when the last tree has been cut down.

Only when the last river has been poisoned.

Only when the last fish has been caught.

Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

-----北美印第安克里族预言

只有当最后一棵树被砍了

只有当最后一支河流被污染了

只有当最后的鱼被抓了

只有这个时候你才会发现钱不能吃。

这几句话非常切题，恰到好处的证明了环境保护和经济发展的关系：环境破坏给人们带来的灾难是经济无法弥补的。

或者这样一句意味深长的名言也可以放在文章的中间作为例证： When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.

------Benjamin Franklin

当井水枯竭时，我们方可知道水的价值：即水的价值不是钱能衡量的。 ? 关于领导

character for a politician or leader is good communication skills.

题目翻译：你是否同意：一个政治家或领导最重要的特点是良好的沟通技能。 对于这个领导话题，有众多名言可以参考，考生可以在确定观点后再选择名言。一个政治家或首领需要具备的素质有很多，如：决策力，沟通能力，亲和力，组织能力等。

如果你觉得最重要的是决策力，则可用以下名言作为背景话题介绍后的观点表达：

If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

-------lee Iacocca(实业家)

翻译：如果一定要我用一个词概括出什么让一个人成为优秀的管理者，我会说是决断力。你能用最高级的电脑收集数据，但最终你还得设立一个时间表并采取行动。

这句话恰到好处的表达出为什么决策力是最重要的，没有决策力其他再怎么准备也没有用。

还有一些关于领导需要具备的素质的名言可供大家参考，如充分信任部下，激励他人等等，都可以作为考生所认为的最重要的素质：

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with

outstanding people and self- restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

翻译：最出色的领导能有意识的让杰出的人围绕在他身边为他做事，并能控制住自己不去干预他们的工作。

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

翻译：管理无非是激励他人。

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Talented people’s leadership is inborn and can’t be learned by people.

题目翻译：你是否同意：领导才能是天生的，不可后天学习。

思考：到底领导才能是天生的还是学出来的?我们来看看肯尼迪大总统这个伟大的领导者怎么说：

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

-------John F. Kennedy

领导能力和学习这两者是不可或缺的。

因此下面只要论证学习是很重要的，好的领导也是靠一部分学习练成的即可。