【写作小分队】6.9考前要写30篇，老年人也要写作文呐

张小心

【20120601】
好吧，老年人木有坚持写作文，这是可耻的。
儿童节来卖萌，更是可耻。
但是，JJ的作文是一定要准备的啦！
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【雄心壮志的时候】
老年人也要写作文啊……
一战检验了下，Toefl 作文25的水平。期望下次能进步到28，哦耶。

老年人发现G&T的准备过程中，最懒得准备的就是作文，每次都是临考前写两篇就硬头皮上场了，什么词汇啊，拼写啊，闪光句型啊，完全木有。现在就来颠覆坏习惯吧。每天写一篇，写到6月9号，开贴逼自己一把。

恳求紧密围绕在鸟儿斑斑周围的小分队的小队友们毫不留情不顾大龄狠狠批。

Crystaljoy

双爪支持！最近开始写PS和推荐信（老师竟然让我自己写），又枯竭了啊~

张小心

6月9日考试前写了13篇JJ，写完还是很有感觉的。独立作文中了JJ第一篇，国人的JJ预测真的超牛掰的。但还不知道成绩啊，好忐忑。
听大神建议，买了《The Random House Handbook&ractice Book》，听说是美国人锻炼写作的工具书。一是为了准备即将到来的第二次GMAT，和潜在的第三次TOEFL，以方便为申请写Essay打基础。
目前坛子里还没有这本书的推荐和资源。所以准备边看边把笔记和习作发上来。希望自己不是说说而已。去作业去鸟……

张小心

It is more important to choose friends more that have fun with than to choose friend that will help you when you need them.
Everyone has some close friends of quite different features such as humor, optimism, helpfulness, intelligence, trustiness. We would like to spend time with interesting friends for fun, share ideas with like-minded ones and help each other when in trouble as family. When it comes to the question of which kind of the friends, funny ones or helpful ones, is more important, people have personal choice based on one’s own situation and respective experience. As for me, helpful friends are of more importance in my life.

Admittedly, a joyous relationship is the basic of every friendship. When we chat with friends of same ideas or common hobby, the fun from the friendship can release (the) pressure we got from work and life and make us happy and enjoyable. It is natural that no one likes to stay with a guy who always feels boring. In the situation that you just need some fun or kill time, a friend you can have fun with is a pretty good choice. However, such kind of friendship only based on simple fun is not genuine.

As our life will not always be smooth, when we are in trouble, a helpful friend can give us a hand. A friend just for fun will disappear from your world immediately. The relationship merely bases on fun is feeble. I have heard of a joke that borrowing money from friends is the moment one gets to know how few his real friends are. Therefore, one who would try his best to help when I am in trouble is my real friend. Only this kind

Additionally, even though we are not in trouble, we are facing many choices in our life. A considerate and experienced friend could be quite helpful to give us some advices. For example, when I was seeking a job after graduation, a friend of mine gave me a lot of precious advices on the preparation of the interviews and decision making between two offers. Besides, he encouraged me often when I was not self-confident and worrying about not getting a good job. Without his help, I could not even find a job! Therefore, friends’ help is of significant importance in our life.

In the end, we share opinions and learn from each other because of the human natures: people need company; people have a strong will to feel supported. A friend with just fun can meet the first demand but fail to meet the later one while a helpful friend is a perfect choice for the both.

To sum up, as have been discussed above, though funny friend is necessary in our life, the friends who can help you when you need is more important. Therefore, I disagree with the topic statement.

张小心

1.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement？Although science and technology will continue to improve, the most significant improvement for the quality of people’s lives have already taken place.
The development of science and technology in the past century has dramatically changed the way people live. Many inventions have been considered of significant importance for all the human beings. Some contend that the most important improvement in humans’ quality of lives have taken place. Personally, I cannot agree with this statement as it is little haste.

First, it is difficult to predict exactly how science and technology progress will impact our life in the future. We can cite the steam engine as an example. Artisans before 17 century had no idea that the invention and application of steam engines were going to replace their hand work because James Watt successfully further developed steam engines, providing a rotary motion which could drive factory machineries effectively. With this promotion, the location of factories had no need to be limited nearby rivers any more, accelerating the pace of the industrial revolution which brought the world into a new era. When people at that time considered the steam engines as the most striking invention ever without any doubt, the invention of computer which would bring the whole world to an information era was right on its way.

Similarly, People one hundred years ago never imagined that computer, telephone and airplane which are all considered as three most important inventions in 20th century will historically change the society and the culture in the last one hundred years.

Therefore, though it is hard to exactly foresee the future in this ever-changing world, one thing I am quite sure of(about) is that science and technology will constantly improve the quality of life in a way that has no precedent. To conclude, there must be more significant improvements in the future.

Secondly, in the existing fields such as medical science and telecommunication, more significant improvement are about to come true. New breakthroughs in medical science will allow humans to finally eradicate (get rid of) diseases that have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives every year in the past decades. Although health and sanitary conditions of humans have improved considerably thanks to modern medical technologies such as immunization vaccine and organ transplant, a few diseases are still considered fatal at the present, including AIDS and cancer. However, researches of genetics and stem cells have already made striking progress and will enable us to prevent the contraction of such diseases and successfully cure them if occur in the foreseeable future.

Telecommunication is the second area where further improvement of people’s life is most likely to be seen. Today, when we are already enjoying fast and instant communication with people across the globe, new advances in the telecommunication and information processing are still offering new possibilities of improving the speed and quality, as well as reducing the cost. One newspaper report I just read said that mobile phone networks in China will be able to provide internet speeds up to 16 times faster than current technologies after the introduction of 4G network, and that’s only about one or two years from now.

To sum up, as the above two reasons, I disagree with the topic statement, holding the good intentions that more significant improvement of science and technology in the future could bring us or our offspring a much more amazing world.

张小心

1.Rather than help their children do school work, parents should encourage their children do work independently. Do you agree or disagree?
With the improvement of education in the past several decades, parents’ educational level has been significantly promoted. Meanwhile, parents are now paying increasing attention on the education of their children. As a result, a large amount of parents are helping children do their home work at present. It indeed helps children to some extent without teachers or tutors to answer questions at home. However, as for me, I believe that parents should encourage their children to do school work by themselves.

For one thing, doing home work independently can build up independence. If each time children turn to their patents for help when they encounter with troubles, they would become lazy, not willing to work hard to figure out tough problems by themselves. For instance, my sister Amy has a son called Jack who just entered high school last year. His score of the last midterm examination turned out to be second if counted backwards. His parents are quite confused because they have spent a large amount of time to help Jack do home work after school and nearly explained every single problem for him. How could he be still not good at study? The answer is obvious that Jack has never fully understood the knowledge on text books by himself. As we all know, one would by no means gain valuable capability of solving problem independently without an initiative thinking process. In this sense, the help from parents will do no good to their children.

Furthermore, kids may misunderstand the purpose of school assignments if they always comply with their parents’ instructions. They will do home work merely for the purpose of finishing assignments but not reviewing what they have learned in class and examining learning outcomes. If a kid does not realize the final purposes of school assignments, he/she may have an inappropriate attitude towards school education without any interest or self-motivation in learning more knowledge.

However, we cannot deny that parents’ help could play an important role in arousing kids’ learning interest. For example, parents could provide various chances in daily life in which children can apply the knowledge learned from school to practice, making children interested in a further research on a certain subject. Besides, parents could help kids study more effectively. Help from parents about properly distributing time between study and play and methods of acquiring knowledge can significantly improve children’s efficiency to some extent. Nevertheless, the advantages of parents’ help cannot outweigh the advantages of leaving the children to solve problems by themselves.

To sum up, despite the fact that parents’ help bears some meaning to their kids to some extent, children can get more benefit from independently solving problems with the encouragement of their parents. Therefore, I strongly agree with the topic statement.

张小心

10. Compared with people who live in urban areas, the people who live in rural areas can take better care of their families.
Whether living in cities or in countryside is kind of a personal choice based on one’s own preference. It is hard to say which one is better for their respective advantages. But talking about which choice could give better care to one’s family, I do suggest to live in a city.



For one thing, communal facilities in cities are well constructed, such as wonderful schools, reputed universities, well equipped hospitals, all kinds of restaurants, convenient public transits, world-class museums, theatres and various entertainment places. These all help people take better care of their families. Take the education for example. When I asked some of my friends why they chose to live in Beijing rather than back to their hometowns, the commonest one of their reasons would be the education of their children. With the maldistribution of the limited educational resources in China, most of the best teachers, professors, rich libraries, scientific and natural museums are within touch in big cities, not in rural areas. Therefore, in front of the keen competition for limited seats in famous universities, parents would like to live in cities to provide their children with the best education.



Furthermore, with better work chance and higher salary, urban citizens can support family better. In most cases, the bigger a city is, the more work chances with decent salaries there will be. As the old Chinese saying goes, “Money cannot do anything, but without money, nothing could be done.” Admittedly, in daily life, people need money for food, rent, children’s tuition, families’ medical cost and wives’ dresses and diamonds. As money plays such an indispensable role in the quality of life, one cannot provide for his family without a considerable income.



People holding the opposite opinion may argue that the natural environment of rural areas such as clear water, fresh air and comfortable natural views would be beneficial to family’s health, and the pollution in cities is getting worse and worse. As I have mentioned above, each choice has its own merits. But when it comes to how to take care of families better, the advantages of urban areas far outweigh those of rural areas.



To sum up, as the reasons I listed above, I disagree with the topic statement that rural people could take better care of their families. Public facilities and high revenues in cities could lead families to better lives.

张小心

咋写儿童节这篇啊~

-- by 会员 Crystaljoy (2012/6/3 22:42:30)

俺是根据的考试那天的JJ写的哦，鸟版。

Crystaljoy

咋写儿童节这篇啊~

张小心

1.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is often not a good thing to move to a new city or a new country because of the lost of old friends.Some people are afraid of losing old friends due to the inevitable departure and long geographical distance. As far as I am concerned, there is no direct connection between the separation from old friends and the lost of them. Besides, the adventure to a new city or a new country could bring in new good friends making life more interesting.



The main season is that moving to a new place to live is not equal to losing contact with old friends. Admittedly, we may have less contact with some of our friends gradually after moving away. Indeed, as friendship is often based on understanding and spirit support, it is hard to sustain without hanging outing and shared experience. Nonetheless, friends will not forget each other even though they are not as close as before. Perpetuation is the nature of a real friendship. Our old friendships could be maintained by various methods, such as letters, telecom, internet and other modern advanced communication technologies. The most convincing example that can be cited is myself. I have been lived in several different cities through the past ten years, seeking better education, work opportunity, and living environment. Fortunately, I still be able to keep close contract with my old friends. Yes, to share a meal with friends in a same city is delighted and joyous, while it’s also enjoyable to chat with my dear old friends through telephone and internet. Therefore, moving far away does not mean the lost of old friends as we though especially when we are lucky enough to live in this modern time full of high technology.



Furthermore, it is fantastic to make new friends in the new place. After moving to a new city or country, we meet with numerous new people with remarkably interesting thoughts and life styles. On one hand, this experience of diversity can broaden our horizons and make us more open to new things. On the other hand, we might well find some like-minded people. This may be a well explanation why some high school seniors prefer to enter an university extremely reputed in one certain field that they are interested in regardless of its far way location from their hometowns.



To sum up, I disagree with the statement that moving to a new city or a new country is not good as they may lost old friends, because we can not only keep in touch with old friends to share minds and ideas, but also make new excellent friends with whom we’d like to rub shoulders to share a new life course.