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怪物史莱克的共享空间July 07 SAT6月考试essay 题目June SAT® Essay PromptsIf you took the June 2009 SAT, you had one of the essay prompts below: Prompt 1Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. The discovery that someone we admire has done something wrong is always disappointing and disillusioning. Yet even when people we consider heroes have been tarnished by their faults, they are no less valuable than people who appear perfect. When we learn that an admired person, even one who is seemingly perfect, has behaved in less than admirable ways, we discover a complex truth: great ideas and great deeds come from imperfect people like ourselves. Assignment: Do we benefit from learning about the flaws of people we admire and respect? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Prompt 2Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Some people say you should be content with what you have and accept who you are. But it is possible that too much self-acceptance can turn into self-satisfied lack of ambition. People should always strive to improve themselves and to have more in their lives—friends, things, opportunities. After all, where would we be if great people, both in history and in our own time, did not try to have more and to improve themselves? Assignment: Is it best for people to accept who they are and what they have, or should people always strive to better themselves? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Prompt 3Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. So-called common sense determines what people should wear, whom they should respect, which rules they should follow, and what kind of life they should lead. Common sense is considered obvious and natural, too sensible to question. But people's common sense decisions may turn out to be wrong, even if they are thought to be correct according to the judgment of vast majorities of people. Adapted from Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy Assignment: Can common sense be trusted and accepted, or should it be questioned? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Prompt 4Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Winning does not require people to be against someone else; people can reach their goals through cooperation just as well as they can through competition. Winning is not always the result of selfish individualism. People achieve happiness by cooperating with others to increase the happiness of all, rather than by winning at others' expense. Ours is not a world in which the price of one person's happiness is someone else's unhappiness. Adapted from Gilbert Brim, Ambition Assignment: When some people win, must others lose, or are there situations in which everyone wins? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. GRE电话查分常见问题全解析-转自新东方网站随着七月份的到来，6月GRE的考试分数即将揭晓，按照ETS的说明，考生大约在考试4-6周之后会收到纸版的考试成绩，而对于大部分中国同学来说，因为投递时间的缘故，往往需要6-8周才能收到自己的成绩单。对于那些急于知道自己成绩的同学而言，这样的等待无疑是漫长的，因此，在这里给大家详细介绍一下用电话查询GRE成绩的方法。 一、 前期准备 1、 电话： 方法一：IP电话。 优点在于比较清晰（当然具体视各电话情况而定），缺点在于昂贵。现在校内、校外都有很多话吧，里面都有IP国际长途电话服务，但是收费高，约每分钟2-3元人民币。 方法二：Skype免费网络电话 优点在于拨打ETS查分电话免费。只需在网络上下载Skype软件，安装在电脑上使用。 2、 信用卡： ETS电话查询分数需要付12美元的费用。根据ETS的官方说法，这笔费用可以通过邮寄或者信用卡的方式交付。但是对于国内同学来说，信用卡无疑是最佳选择，方便、快捷且无须冗余手续费。 信用卡可以为国内各银行的“国际卡”，比如中国银行、中国工商银行的国际信用卡，当然外国银行的国际卡也可以用。在此比较推荐大家使用VISA或者MasterCard，因为国内信用卡有时会出现拒绝付款的问题。 附：ETS各项收费官方链接：http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.1488512ecfd5b8849a77b13bc3921509/?vgnextoid=e3f42d3631df4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&vgnextchannel=f46480dd72cbe110VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD 3、 电话号码及时间 号码：座机拨打：001-609-771-7290 Skype拨打：001-888-473-7267 时间：早上6点到晚上10点（美国东部时间），即约为北京时间晚18:00到次日早10:00。一周七天均可拨打。 二、 查询流程 1、拨通电话后，先是一段introduction（介绍），此处无关紧要，可以直接按“1”进入，可以省一些时间。如果介绍完毕，你没有反应，稍后会再重复之前那段introduction。之后同样按“1”进入。 2、提示有两种服务，查分和送分，查分按“1”。 3、提示输入registration number（注册号——见准考证，7位数字），确认按“1”。 4、输入registration number，电脑回报进行确认，正确按“1”，错误按“2”。 5、输入考试日期，连续输入考试日期的月份、年份的后两位，例如0609便是查询09年6月的成绩。电脑回报，正确按“1”，错误按“2”。 6、输入出生月份和日期(四位数字)，例如11月28出生的，输入1128，电脑回报，正确按“1”，错误按“2”。 7、电脑报告成绩已经查到，但是如果是N/A状态的，系统提示一周之后再进行查询。 8、如果成绩已出，电脑提示选择付款方法，信用卡付款，按“1”，其它汇款按“2”。在这里我们选用信用卡付款。 9、输入信用卡16位号码，电脑回报，如正确按“1”，错误按“2”。 10、输入信用卡到期时间（expiration date），连续输入月份和年份的后两位。例如2010年6月到期则输入0610，电脑回报，正确按“1”，错误按“2”。 11、电脑确认，之后开始报成绩，此时务必注意听写。成绩顺序为： 词汇——百分比、排名 数学——百分比、排名 逻辑写作——百分比、排名 可以参见下表：
成绩都以数字的方式报告。 例如，成绩为690报告为six nine zero，95％报告为nine five，5.5报告为five point five。 12、成绩报告重复三次，然后自动退出。  三、常见问题 1、找谁查 建议自己动手查分，中介费用一般为80元。自己动手安全、可靠、便宜。 2、听不懂 碰到此种情况，如果是自己听力的问题，或者按照上文的说明操作，或在拨打时进行录音。 3、电话听不清 如果在最后确认信用卡信息（卡号和过期时间）前听不清，可以迅速挂掉电话，不扣费。 如果已经确认信息，在听分数时听不清，已经扣费。 因此，建议不要在吵闹的地方打电话，挑选看起来可靠的电话。如果使用Skype，可以之前先打其他电话作一些尝试。 4、电话断线 具体情况、结果同前面的“电话听不清” 5、信用卡拒绝付费 当ETS到你的信用卡上划钱的时候，信用卡系统可能以各种理由认为这笔钱是不安全或不正当款项，拒绝支付。遇到此种情况，ETS会采用冻结分数的方式，迫使考生补交这笔钱。此时只能办理汇票或者支票，这些需要在大一点的中国银行办理，或者再次电话联系ETS，使用另外的信用卡付费。建议如果碰到此种情况，先电话或者E-mail查询具体欠费金额，因为可能需要交罚款。 如果查询分数时，信用卡支付顺利，则ETS会给你寄账单。如果有收到催款的E-mail，则说明可能碰到信用卡拒付的问题了。 因此建议使用VISA或者Master Card，国内信用卡容易出现拒付现象。 6、如果是第一次使用IP电话查分，建议多备点钱，50元人民币基本够。 最后，预祝各位GRE考生都能得到一个理想的成绩。 May 27 2009年5月SAT 作文题目
If you took the May 2009 SAT, you had one of the essay prompts below: Prompt 1 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. There are good reasons to pay attention to people who are older or more experienced than we are, even if their opinions on important issues are very different from ours. Of course, not every person older than us is worth learning from, while many young people are. But if the only people we listen to are our age and are likely to see things the same way we do, we will miss out on something important. Assignment: Should we pay more attention to people who are older and more experienced than we are? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Prompt 2 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Good decision making generally requires people to think carefully and logically and to pay attention to practical details. However, people who depend on their feelings and emotions to make important decisions are not likely to spend hours gathering information, making lists, considering all possible outcomes, and so forth. When comparing the advantages or disadvantages of one course of action to another, these people ask themselves, "What do my feelings tell me?" Assignment: Should people let their feelings guide them when they make important decisions? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Prompt 3 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Thanks to great advancements in technology, we live today in a world in which knowledge is more readily available to greater numbers of people than ever before in history. Having more and better technology, however, has not made people wiser or more understanding. Indeed, people are so overloaded with information today that they have become less, rather than more, able to make sense of the world around them than our ancestors ever were. Assignment: Has today's abundance of information only made it more difficult for us to understand the world around us? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Prompt 4 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. People define themselves by work, by what they "do." When one person asks another, "What do you do?" the answer always refers to a job or profession: "I'm a doctor, an accountant, a farmer." I've often wondered what would happen if we changed the question to, "Who are you?" or, "What kind of person are you?" or even, "What do you do for fun?" Adapted from Stephan Rechtschaffen, Time Shifting Assignment: Are people best defined by what they do? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. May 22 托福独立写作讲义更新
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May 11 两篇SAT写作，均在25分钟内完成，未经修改SAT 作文2008-3-1
Are organizations or groups most successful when their members pursue individual wishes and goals?
Modern world has reached a complex level that individual person gathers into groups or organizations to achieve social advancement at large. A successful organization is most likely the kind which suppresses individual wishes and goals so as to achieve overall aim.
Individual wishes are divergent and may conflict with each other, when these wishes mingle in one team, it is the task for the team leader to recognize, analyze, and balance them. I my father’s company, in which he acts as the GM, managers at different levels disagree with each other in most cases. Interestingly, my father’s main job is not to present his own ideas but to co-ordinate the ideas of the managers and, in some cases, of some staff. This includes comparing the ideas and deciding which one or ones to be selected, and also persuading those who disagree with them.
Once the final goal is decided, no matter agree, or disagree, each member should respect it at work as hard as possible toward that goal with no condition and reservation. This is a, possibly the most, important feature of a successful team, otherwise, this team would be going with many uncertain and maybe conflict goals, just like a blind-fold cat running to a mouse with no sight. His failure is doomed, his success is depending on his luck.
All in all, individual wishes and goals deserve to be respected, but under some limitation.
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SAT 作文2008-5-2
Do people place too much emphasis on winning?
It seems nature that we born to win and live to win. However, we simply value winning too high, sometimes high enough to hurt our life quality.
Being a winner means a lot, fame, fortune and sense of achievement, you name it. These temptations, or somebody calls it motivations, “seduce” us to labor our lives to acquire them. Do we really be in need of winning?
Winning is so good that in order to win, any means is justifiable. This is the motto of most “winning-hunger” people, who may spare no effort, good or bad, moral or immoral, to achieve their goals. No wonder why TV show candidates bribe the judges with money or even sex; why milk companies add toxic additive to maximize profits.
As a final result, winning is too good to shade the beauty of the process we experienced on the way pursuing this goal. Despite the goal is not reached, if we merely focus on the destination, we could not see the good views alone the way, which, sometimes is actually the most appreciatable scenery. This explains why we may feel disappointed when we reach a tour destination, because we expect too high, but sleep during the trip.
American idol forged dozens of “super stars”, but in my mind, hundreds of “citizen heroes”, who failed on that small stage, but succeed on the big stage of their own lives, because they have tried. Though failed, they enjoyed the process of pursuing winning.
Winning is surely not everything!
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