专家支招如何写好托福综合写作?
相比于我们以前接触到的英语写作,综合写作是一种新的形式,这也让很多第一次接触托福综合写作的同学不知道该如何下手。之所以称之为综合写作,它考察的必然是我们的综合能力——阅读
托福考试作为一项英语语言能力的测试,其设置的目的,是为了考察一个希望到美国生活、学习的考生在语言上是否已经做好了充分的准备。相比于我们以前接触到的英语写作,综合写作是一种新的形式,这也让很多第一次接触托福综合写作的同学不知道该如何下手。之所以称之为综合写作,它考察的必然是我们的综合能力——阅读能力,听力能力,写作能力。但是由于阅读文章篇幅比较短而且做题的时候不会被隐藏起来,所以影响不是太大,相比较而言听力的难度就比较大了,文章只能听一遍,信息量比较大,并且在写作的过程中对听力材料的还原远远比阅读来得重要。因此一个人如果听力和写作能力不强的话就很难在这部分拿高分,这也就是为什么有些同学独立写作的分数还不错,综合写作的分数却往往不好,其实问题不一定出在你的写作能力上,只要对症下药才能药到病除。
在综合写作部分一定要做笔记,无论是阅读还是听力部分,阅读部分的笔记不是为了让你之后写在文章里而是提醒自己在听力中应该格外注意哪些内容。另外在综合写作中并不需要加入我们自己的观点,我们只需要表达清听力材料中是如何支持或者反驳阅读材料中的观点的。
下面贴出了两篇TPO练习里面的满分范文,希望可以帮助刚刚接触托福的同学了解综合写作的方式和套路。
TPO1
范文:
The lecturer claims that the new policy, which allows people to work four days a week instead of five, will have negative effects for companies as well as society. This claim is not in agreement with that of the reading passage, which suggests that such a policy will be beneficial.
首段讲清楚阅读和听力材料是就哪个话题在展开讨论,TPO1的综合写作讨论的是一周工作4天而不是5天这个新的政策到底好不好。除了表达清楚讨论的话题之外,首段非常重要的就是讲清楚阅读和听力的关系,听力中的观点是在反驳阅读中的观点还是进一步解释,在这篇文章中听力观点显然是在反驳阅读中的观点。
According to the lecture, a company that allows employees to have fewer working hours is likely to hire more people to ensure that it meets normal levels of productivity. If this occurs, expenses for training and medical insurance will inevitably rise. The reading passage, by contrast, suggests that employees who enjoy more leisure time make fewer mistakes and work more efficiently, leading to increased profits for the enterprise.
The second point of difference between the lecture and the reading passage concerns the impact of the policy on the unemployment rate. The lecturer asserts that for the sake of saving money, employers might raise their expectations of 4-day employees rather than recruit more people. Consequently, employees who work 4 days will be forced to finish what they did in 5 days previously, and no additional jobs will be created.
第二到第四段依序阐述两则材料在三个分论点上的观点和关系,重点是表达听力材料中的内容,同学们也可以读一下范文来感受听力材料中的内容所占的比重,由此可以看出听力笔记的重要性,对同学们的听力能力也是一大挑战。
Finally, the lecturer argues that under the new policy, employees will experience not only decreased quality of life (as shorter working hours will translate into less pay), but also fewer chances to be promoted to supervisory positions. However, the reading passage contends that more leisure hours can create opportunities to strengthen family ties and allow employees to develop private interests, making them feel more satisfied with their lives.
尾段可以看情况决定是否需要写,建议同学们不写尾段,节约下时间检查前文,不写尾段并不会影响得分。
第二篇TPO2的范文结构和逻辑与TPO1的范文几乎一致,同学们可以尝试一下结构和内容的分析。
TPO2
The lecturer talks about research conducted by a firm that used the group system to handle their work. He says that the theory stated in the passage was very different and somewhat inaccurate when compared to what happened in reality.
First, some members got free rides. That is, some didn’t work hard but got recognition for the success nontheless. This also indicates that people who worked hard were not given recognition they should have gotten. In other words, they weren’t given the opportunity to “shine”. This directly contradicts what the passage indicates.
Second, groups were slow in progress. The passage says that groups are more responsive than individuals because of the number of people involved and their aggregated resources. However, the speaker talks about how the firm found out that groups were slower than individuals in decision making. Groups needed more time for meetings, which are necessary procedures in decision making. This was another place where experience contradicted theory.
Third, influential people might emerge and lead the group towards glory or failure. If the influent people are going in the right direction there would be no problem. But in cases where they go in the wrong direction, there is nobody that has enough influence to counter the decision made. In other words, the group might turn into a dictatorship, with the influential party as the leader, and might become less flexible in its thinking. They might become one-sided, and thus fail to succeed.