就综合写作任务而言,
托福考试没有什么新招,仍然是以生物话题为主导,其次是地理地质话题和生活或社会话题。综合写作任务的关键写作技能(summarize and paraphrase)已经被广大考生和教师琢磨到通透。
虽然可能是赘述,我们这里还是要说一下针对综合写作的备考建议。就阅读材料文而言, summarize 时不可以仅仅依托每个 reason 段落的一、句话(主旨句 / 中心句),而是要充分提炼具体的内容。
在提炼的过程中,转述(paraphrase)很重要,万万不可仅仅是减后摘 录原文,而应该去转述(paraphrase)。
就听力材料文而言,我们能做到的基础是大量听记信息碎片,然后将碎片拼合成文。而如果能力允许的话,或者说我们需要练就的高级技能是 summarize and paraphrase。至于大家练习综合写作的材料,TPO自然会是大家的优选。
独立写作
在过去的1月至7月,独立写作的题目类型还是集中在“同意不同意”类型和“二选一” 类型。“三选一”类型少量出现,且连续出现的时间较晚。
就话题领域而言,大量的教育类话题以及生活方式或选择类占据考题,这是广大考生的幸事,因为这些话题早已是学生平时练笔和教师教学的重点。
上半年的考题中也出现了难题(3月9日的考题),比如就“The most important problems of our society can be solved during our lifetime. ”这个论断进行同意与否的讨论。好在这个题目不过是“老把式”。
在这里,就需要给大家推荐一个解题思路的办法,也是我们提供给大家的备考建议中的重要一条:先就着题目的内容想现实例子,再根据例子总结提炼道理。而不是我们通常的正向思维:先绞尽脑汁想道理,再搜肠刮肚找例子去映证。
比如,我们看一下教师示范作文中的例子:
For example, people can still die young of illness. At this point, the opponents may find counterexamples that experts have been finding cures for more and more diseases that used to be lethal and are able to effectively intervene before the conditions take lives.However, while increasing numbers of patients are cured, even more unprecedented fatal viruses and pathological changes are also discovered.The irrefutable fact is that there will always be conditions that can take one's life in the one's prime. Another example is crime. Has it ever stopped? As a matter of fact, not only does it remain stubborn, it also varies through time. To name a few specific cases, fraud has always been a problem, and corruption has never been eliminated.

作者就是通过首先想到具体的事例从而得到了道理(也就是段落的主旨句):
The first reason is based on the history. Many of the problems we are dealing with have long been difficulties since they first bothered us in the past.