1、托福考试独立写作范文汇总2011托福考试独立写作范文汇总Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the bestteachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.Obviously, the earliest teachers we have in our lives in most cases are ourparents, and they are generally the most involved in th
2、e development andeducation of their children. Yet neither are all parents good teachers nor arethose good parents the best teachers.First of all, not all parents are good teachers. As normal individuals, someparents more or less have bad habits. Even though parents almostinstinctively devote themsel
3、ves to cultivating their offspring, the outcomemight turn out to be disappointment, for all children tend to unconsciously orsubconsciously copy every thing from their parents. Another deficiency ofparents as teachers is the fact that most parents are lack of common senses ofeducation. All too often
4、 we observe some parents tend to pursue theircherished but failed dream by forcing their children to develop in aprearranged direction. Ironically, if their children did not follow theinstructions, the children would be regarded as disobedient or allegedlyrebellious. In fact, it is parents rather th
5、an their children that virtually disobeycommon senses.Moreover, some parents are qualified as good teachers, but not all of them arethe best ones. When children are in the preliminary school, it is not surprisingthat parents are capable of teaching their children almost every subject evenbetter than
6、 professional teachers in the school. But the situation will not lastlong. We live in a world where knowledge is accumulated by multiplying andat the same time becomes more and more specialized. Therefore, to be aprofessional in a certain field today takes much longer time than ever before.No parent
7、 is able to be professional in all fields, though they might be expertsin one or more fields. Wise parents often release rather than charge theirchildren as early as possible.They are aware of the possibility outside thefamily. Parents may, nevertheless, help their children much more than do goodtea
8、chers. Most parts of children education are virtually beyond teachersreaches. It is parents that supplement. Psychology studies have shown us thatparents love sometimes has astonishingly magic power to their children.Albert Einsteins mother and Forest Gumps mother are both good examples.On the other
9、 hand, parents might do their children harm more than do badteachers as well. The natures of those children whose parents have divorcedare often severely distorted. In a word, it is rather superficial to simply saythat parents are the best teachers.404words4. It has been said, Not everything that is
10、 learned is contained in books.Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledgegained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?Both experiences and books are very essential resources, and both of themhave relevant merits.提供：Experiences are the most direct
11、resources we ever have. Almost our everybasic skill came from experiences, such as walking, articulating, reading eventhinking. Without experiences, some natural born abilities even might lose.Studies have shown that a baby who was robbed by animals into forest for 12years lost his ability to talk i
12、n human language. Furthermore, it is generallyaccepted that each and every skill develops by experiences, and thats whypeople always say practice makes perfect. Books are valuable when knowledge is beyond the scope of our experiences.Perhaps the most obvious examples are those fluent writers. They w
13、ritevarious stories, the scopes of which are far beyond any individualsexperiences. Take Joyce Carol Oates for example, her productivity has beenprodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles,including novels, collections of short stories and verse, plays and literarycriti
14、cism. Although some of them appear to come from her own directobservations, her dreams, and her fears, much more is clearly from theexperiences of others. Her fictive world remains strikingly akin to that realone reflected in the daily newspapers, the television news and talk shows, andthe popular m
15、agazines of our day.Yet either experiences or books may give us wrong information. Our directobservations always are subject to our beliefs, hopes, fears, expectations, andour bias, which might make observations unreliable. People vary in theirpowers of observation, and the reliability of our observ
16、ations is no better thanthe reliability of our memories, which as we know can be deceptive.Information printed in papers sometimes is unreliable either, it may bemisprinted, or even deliberately distorted. For example, Definitions such asMarxism, Capitalism, Zionism are totally different in the Oxfo
17、rd LearnersDictionary of Current English between the original edition and the sanctionedRussian edition.In conclusion, both sources are important. Sometimes one is more importantthan the other in accordance with specific circumstances. For example, whenwe make a general survey about a certain subjec
18、t, we may prefer richreferences in library. On the other hand, if we want to know more specificdetails, we had better refer to experiences such as results of carefully designedexperiments.377Words7. How do movies or television influence peoples behavior? Use reasons andspecific examples to support y
19、our answer.The impact that modern mass media such as movies or televisions has had onour daily life, and society in general, is undeniable. No doubt it will becomeeven greater as the scope of mass media continues to grow, and as the relevanttechnologies become more and more sophisticated, and so fas
20、cinating thatvirtually nobody will be able to escape. Already, it can be seen how westernmovies are exercising influence on our youth generation:they grow long-hairregardless of their sex, commonly part of which are dyed in gold; they wear jeans in each and every season, usually knees of which are d
21、eliberatelytattered; boys are fond of earrings or other odd pendants; and girls are keenon Marlboros and weird coarse languages.The major means that mass media influence the public is by creating topics of discussion in the society. Mass media offers people (theconsumers issues to talk and think abo
22、ut. Titanic had brought a worldwide uproar by its extolling and of fascinating immortal love; Prime Color and Wag the dog met the national debate on right and duty of the president of the United States.Antiwar movies such as Tears of the Sun and All Quiet On The Western Front among numerous others h
23、ave been raising the question that is any war really to uphold justice or is it really worthy that an individual makes sacrifices to his country and at the same time ignores his own family or his personal values? Mass media also shapes our understanding of what is important and what is not important
24、 (toknow. The important issues are to be found on the first pages of the newspaper (/inthe beginning of a television program. The not important stories are the ones that are not being told at all. The not very important stories are probably very short and hidden in the last pages. In fact censorship
25、s present all mass media including its distributing means such as the Internet. By prearranging public issue, the mass media makes decisions for us. Even though there are critical thinking individuals in any society, they are definite minority; the public in whole in deed lack skills of critical thi
26、nking, and therefore they are often led by the media.In brief, mass media, by offering topics and affecting the ways in which we discuss “theimportant issues”,has a strong influence on our perception of the truth, of the world or of the structure of our society, we have to admit that it has a role i
27、n our lives as a source of information, experiences, entertainment, amusement and relaxation.431Words8. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television hasdestroyed communication among friends and family. Use specific reasons andexamples to support your opinion.While television has
28、 been somewhat harmful in its effects, it has hardlydestroyed communication among friends and family, although for somepeople, the assertion that television has destroyed communication amongfriends and family seems true.Television, invented in last century, with its wide availability, increasinglypr
29、osperous programs, becomes one of the most powerful means ofcommunication in the history, and is more and more difficult to ignore.Television is as much a part of our lives as are our meals, work, or school;studies consistently show that the average American child spends almost asmuch time watching
30、television as does she in school. We all have only 24hours a day and it is clear that the more time one spends on watchingtelevision, the less time one does with his or her family and friends. Hence we see the passage in the newspaper or magazine titled Television took myhusband away from me.Temptin
31、g as such claim might be, it is hardly true. It is not television took herhusband away from her, but the increasing pressures of modern life did it. Wehave no definite evidence to say people nowadays endure more pressures thandid their counterparts in the past, but it is absolutely true that peoplen
32、owadays undergo great pressures that come from various directions,including work, school, economy, and so forth. Investigations show thatpeople who earn more than 50, 000yuan annually spend at least 60hours onwork per week, much more than those who earn 20,000yuan annually. Todaya bachelor degree may no longer guarantee a well paid job, more and morecompanies post their want ads claiming that applicants must have at leastmaster
