2018年01月13日 托福写作考题回忆

综合

话题：lionfish商业化的利弊

阅读：市场上多卖lionfish有好处

1）生活在珊瑚礁的lionfish数量过多，进行捕捞售卖可保护生态

2）市场上多卖lionfish可以降低人们对其它鱼类的需求。

3）lionfish可提供蛋白质。

听力：lionfish的商业化的坏处

1）捕捞lionfish时，也会捕到其它鱼类，包括稀有物种，会加剧生态问题。

2）当lionfish有市场时，会出现人工养殖，一旦人养的lionfish逃脱，会有更多数量的lionfish。

1.    3）lionfish确实可提供营养，但它们以微生物为食，体内会积累有害物质病引发疾病。

独立

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:

It's a waste of money for Government to fund space travel or space exploration.

Give specific examples and details to support your answer.

重要提示：

最近ETS启动了一种防作弊机制，考生如果在前后两次考试中使用了相同的句子的话，分数可能会直接被打到limited这一档次。虽然我们还不清楚连续多少个词重复或者重复率到多少会被判做作弊，但习惯套模板的宝宝们要注意起来了，从现在开始，注意训练自己的同义转述能力，尽量避免出现连续10个词以上的重复~

为什么暂时把标准定在了连续10个词呢，是因为如果把标准定在6、7个词左右，肯定会出现大量误伤（比如有一些词组和固定句式本身自己就四五个词，例如from my own perspective，两个词组连起来很容易就会到达六七个的水准）；如果定到15、16个词左右的话，可能无法有效检测出确实在使用模板的人（因为一句话所包含的单词数平均来说大约也就十几个词）。这两种做法都有较高概率导致判卷不公。再加上一般论文查重的标准是连续13个词重复即算作抄袭，基于以上这些，我们暂定了10个词的标准，宝宝们可以先按这个标准多加练习。

虽然这种反作弊机制官方暂时还未给出说明，但是我们可以提前采取措施，尽量避免中招~

Sample Answer:

News about exploring space has appeared much more frequently on the Internet recently, which prompted a discussion on whether or not should government invest money into space study. Some folks regard it as unnecessary because they insist that budget should be used in practical projects such as medical care. In contrast, in my opinion, it is reasonable for the government to spend money on the space project. Here are my reasons and details.

On the one hand, space travel can help us to find some material short on the Earth. The amount of certain kind of mineral can be poor on our planet while abundant on another one. Take the Moon, our most familiar planet as an example. NASA has started its moon exploration project for several decades, which indeed brought them back precious information about what can we find on the Moon. Various kinds of stuff have been found on it. Among them, the most noticeable one is hydrogen-3, a special form of a common hydrogen atom as well as the raw material for nuclear reactions. It is difficult for us to collect hydrogen-3 on the Earth due to its low proportion existing in water bodies. Fortunately, explorers sent to the Moon detected that on the Moon, there is an abundant storage of hydrogen-3. Space exploration would assist us to fetch back these kinds of substance and use them as clean energy.

On the other hand, space study will lead to a better-developed means of communication. Nowadays, satellites in space can serve as a mediation to transmit information swiftly and securely. Hundreds years ago, the way people use to send message was radio wave, which was unstable and easy to be monitored. While several months ago, China launched a couple of satellites into the space and declared that they would be responsible for future communication. Chinese government introduced the waves carrying messages received and sent by these satellites as “impossible to be captured or decoded”. This kind of communication technology advance is actually the result of China’s space exploration efforts.

To sum up, it is worthy for government to invest money on its space project. Researching space can not only help us obtain some industrial material which is scarce on the Earth, but also improve the communication quality in our lives. Thus proves that money spent on space exploration will have lots of benefits.

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