2010年01月 SAT亚太考区作文题目重新选题

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Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

Great discoveries often occur when a person explores the unknown, venturing far from what is familiar. But important breakthroughs—innovative solutions to difficult problems, for example—can also result when people take the time to look closely at their daily surroundings. In fact, the greatest discoveries often occur when people recognize in their familiar surroundings certain opportunities that others have overlooked or when people recognize that the way things have always been done is unjust or ineffective or unnecessary.

Do people make the greatest discoveries by exploring what is unfamiliar to them or by paying close attention to what seems familiar?
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.

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1. 题目翻译：

伟大的发现往往发生于某个人探索未知，大胆的远离熟悉事物。但是重要的突破——比如解决困难问题的创新方法——也能够在人们仔细观察他们日常生活的时候产生。事实上，最重要的发现经常发生于，当人们意识到一些机会存在于他们原本忽视的熟悉的环境的时候，或者当人们意识到以往处理事情的方式并不是合理的，或有效的，或必要的时候。

题目：人们取得的最重大的发现，是通过探索他们所不熟悉的事物，还是仔细专注于他们熟悉的事物？

2. 审题关键词：Discovery, Familiar or not

3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲：

正：Some discoveries were attained from unfamiliar things

反：However, some were started from examining familiar objectives

补：Great discoveries require people to explore both