2016年7月16日托福独立写作预测及参考答案

　　1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The ability to maintain a small circle of close friends over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make new friends easily.

　　选维持老朋友关系：

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　　论点：现在人们太忙，没有时间结交新朋友city employees are too devoted to their career to make new friends.

　　解释：忙于工作，承受巨大的工作压力(suffer tremendous workloads). 甚至周末都在工作(The weekends are occupied by endless job assignments).

　　例子: 拿朋友举例(The personal experience of Daniel, one of my close friends, can prove why it is impossible for current citizens to make new friends) 从事计算机领域( works in the area of computer programming) 几乎每天熬夜(burn the midnight oil night after night). 去年为了完成一个公司要求完成的App,连续工作了两个月。因此可以看出他根本没有时间去认识新的朋友(In order to accomplish the task assigned by the company, he worked with his teammates for two months in a row. Therefore, there was no time for him to be acquainted with strangers)。

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　　论点：老朋友更值得信任(old friends are more trustworthy)

　　解释：人们更愿意和老朋友分享他们的秘密(People are more willing to share their secrets with their old friends because trust is built on a long term relationship)

　　例子 ：拿自己举例，我只会和我的好朋友分享我的一些秘密以及一些快乐的时光，在我中学毕业后，和家里发生了一些矛盾(had a quarrel with my parents)。然后和几个好朋友一起约着出去旅行，在旅途中和朋友们一起欣赏沿途风景(enjoy the beautiful sceneries along the journey)，爬山过程中融入自然(be involved in the nature while climbing the mountain)，最终由中学阶段的长期学习所积累的压力全部释放了(on the journey, the huge pressure caused by the long-term study in high school was released and I recognized the mistake I made after talking with my friends. Ultimately, I took an apology to my parents )。