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1、青年人美国高考网http:/ 整理2009年1月SAT考试写作真题 http:/ Prompt 1Planning lets people impose order on the chaotic processes of making or doing something new. Too much planning, however, can lead people to follow the same predetermined course of action, to do things the same way they were done before. Creative think
2、ing is about breaking free from the way that things have always been. That is why it is vital for people to know the difference between good planning and too much planning.Adapted from Twyla Tharp, The Creative HabitAssignment:Does planning interfere with creativity? Plan and write an essay in which
3、 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()Most people underestimate their own abilities. They tend to remember their failures more vividly than their successes, and for this
4、 reason they have unrealistically low expectations about what they are capable of. Those individuals who distinguish themselves through great accomplishments are usually no more talented than the average person: they simply set higher tandards for themselves, since they have higher expectations abou
5、t what they can do.Assignment:Do highly accomplished people achieve more than others mainly because they expect more of 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, exper
6、ience, or observations.Prompt 3People are taught that they should not go back on their decisions.In fact,our society supports the notion that to change your mind is evidence of weakness and unreliability,leading many people to say,Once I decide,I decide!But why do people make such a statement?If fac
7、tors,feelings,and ideas change,isnt the ability to make a new decision evidence of lexibility,adaptability,and strength?satAdapted from Theodore I.Rubin,Compassion and Self-HateAssignment:Should people change their decisions when cirsumstances change,or is it best for them to stick with their origin
8、al ecisions?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.(http:/ )Prompt 4The history of human achievement is filled with stories of people who persevere, ref
9、using to give up in the struggle to meet their goals. Artists and scientists, for instance, may struggle for years without any apparent progress or reward before they finally succeed. .(http:/ ) However, it is important to recognize that perseverance does not always yield beneficial results.Adapted
10、from Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer, WatershedsAssignment:Is striving to achieve a goal always the best course of action, or should people give up if they are not making progress? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoni
11、ng and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations2009年1月SAT考试写作真题Prompt 1Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment belowMany people believe that being honest and honorable limits their options, their opportunities, their very ab
12、ility to succeed. Unfortunately, in todays me-first culture, ethics may be the only thing people choose to live without! They believe they have only two choices: (1) to win by doing whatever it takes, even if it is wrong, or (2) to be ethical and therefore lose. Few people set out to be dishonest, b
13、ut nobody wants to lose.satAdapted from John C. Maxwell, Theres No Such Thing as Business EthicsAssignment:Does being ethical make it hard to be successful? 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 you
14、r reading, studies, experience, or observations.Prompt 2Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Whatever happened to good manners? Many books and articles have been written about the lack of common courtesy and old-fashioned politeness in todays so
15、ciety. From spoiled children acting out in restaurants to so-called experts yelling at each other on cable news shows, people seem less concerned with good manners and civilized behavior than ever before. On the other hand, if people really want to change the world for the better, they have to risk being seen as impolite or uncivil.Assignment:Is it sometimes necessary to be impolite? 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.2009年5月
