2012年10月 SAT欧洲考区作文题目重新选题
写作题目
收起Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:
People tend to consider the past unimportant. After all, why waste time dwelling on what has already happened? There is no way to go back and change events or their outcomes. But his way of thinking is wrong. People are too focused on the present; they should pay more and closer attention to past events. The lessons learned from examining the past are much more valuable than any lessons that people can learn from the present.
Do people learn more from examining events in the past than from focusing only on the present?
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.
答题辅导
收起1. 题目翻译:
人们倾向于认为过去时不重要的。毕竟,为什么要把时间浪费在已经发生的事情上呢?我们无法回到过去或者改变过去的结果。但是这样的想法是错误的。人们太过于着眼现在。应当把更多的经历放在过去的事情是。从反省过去中所学到的教训比人们从现在所学到的教训要有价值得多。
题目:人们从反省过去中所得的比仅仅着眼于现在所得的更多吗?
2. 审题关键词:past, present
3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲:
正:History tends to repeat itself. If we can learn from the past, we can prevent the mistakes people made in the past from happening.
反:Situation changes continuously. We can only change our action according to the change of situation.
补:What people learn from history is that they learn nothing at all. – Hegel