2014年5月25日托福写作真题.docx

2014年5月25日托福写作真题智课网整理综合写作：Topic议题住在American southwest的一群人的消失ReadingListeningThesis总论点Caused by drought.由干旱引起Against.反对Sub-point 1分论点1Documented global warming.有全球变暖的记录Global warming 可能确实减少了降水量，但是在他们聚居地周围发现的树显示当时的降雨量并没有那么少实际上，从对树的分析来看当时的降雨量足够他们种庄稼了。Sub-point2分论点2Irrigation system有很多大坝类的储水工程这些大坝在他们消失一百年前就有了，而且根据记载，这些大坝时为了抵抗一个长达50年的干旱而建立的，同时也证明了他们的capacity of surviving through droughtSub-point3分论点3文化发展了人口增长了，干旱使得事物短缺所以他们选择了移居别处人们的消失还有别的因素可以导致比如war。而且确实有迹象表明这些人因为某些问题产生了conflicts，有可能时别的文明drive them away独立写作：Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:parents must have strict rules to help their children to be successful.Young people today are bound by a myriad of social and legal conventions, and it seems to me that these rules are excessive and often ineffective. Young people are governed by too many rules.First are social conventions. In my country, young people are expected to follow a fairly standardized and linear path on the road to adulthood. Responsibility is the operative word. Schooling follows a certain road: K-12 education to prepare you for college, college to prepare you for work, work to prepare you for a respectable career and a brief period of independence before settling down as an adult. Deviating from this is generally frowned upon. It sounds terribly irresponsible to drop out of college and go backpacking through India, for example, and for many young people, it probably is. Then again, this is exactly what Steve Jobs did, and nobody can argue with those results. The problem here is that, while we mean well in enforcing these rules, theyre highly inflexible and box the creativity of youth at a critical stage in their development. Social conventions, which were originally intended to anchor young people, instead end up restricting their paths of development.Second are legal conventions. The laws governing the behavior of young people arent really commensurate with the physical and emotional realities of youth. For example, in my country, you