2007年1月SAT写作真题及要点解答25644.pdf
小马过河国际教育 2007 年 1 月 SAT 写作真题及要点解答53.Think carefullyabout the issue presentedin the followingexcerptand assignment below:(2007.1)Many people believe that our government should do more to solve ourproblems.After all,how can oneindividual create more jobs or make roads safer or improve the schoolsor help to provide any of theother benefits that we have come to enjoy?And yet expecting that thegovernmentrather thanindividualsshould always come up with the solutions to societysills may have made us lessself-reliant,undermining our independence and self-sufficiency.Assignment:Should people take more responsibility for solvingproblems that affect their communitiesor the nation in general?Plan and write an essay in which you developyour point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from yourreading,studies,experience,orobservation.54.Think carefullyabout the issue presentedin the followingexcerptand assignment below:(2007.1)Most human beings spend their lives doing work they hate and work thatthe world does not need.It is ofprime importance that you learn early what you want to do and whetheror not the world needs thisservice.The return from your work must be the satisfaction that workbrings you and the worlds need of小马过河国际教育 that work.Income is not money,it is satisfaction;it is creation;it is beauty.Adapted from W.E.B.Du Bois,The Autobiography of W.E.B.Du Bois:ASoliloquy on Viewing My Lifefrom the Last Decade of Its First CenturyAssignment:Is it more important to do work that one finds fulfillingor work that pays well?Plan andwrite an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position withreasoning and examples taken from your reading,studies,experience,or observation.55.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerptand assignment below:(2007.1)The education people receive does not occur primarily in school.Youngpeople are formed by theirexperiences with parents,teachers,peers,and even strangers on thestreet,and by the sports teamsthey 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 partof education.AdaptedfromMihalyCsikszentmihalyi,EducationfortheTwenty-First CenturyAssignment:Is education primarily the result of influences otherthan school?Plan and write an essayin which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support yourposition with reasoning andexamplestakenfromyourreading,studies,experience,orobservation.小马过河国际教育 56.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerptand assignment below:(2007.1)If we are dissatisfied with our circumstances,we think about changingthem.But the most important andeffective changesin our attitudehardly occur to us.In otherwords,we should worry not about how toalter the world around us for the better but about how to changeourselves in order to fit into that world.Adapted from Michael Hymers,Wittgenstein,Pessimism and PoliticsAssignment:Is it better to change ones attitude than to change onescircumstances?Plan and write anessay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Supportyour position with reasoning andexamplestakenfromyourreading,studies,experience,orobservation.
