托福真题举例：开头与结尾
TOEFL--5 Writing Topics

》托福：个人与团队的冲突
Example 1>Is it important to be able to work with a group of people on a team or to work independently? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

开头三句--Introduction: from general to specific

A job worth doing is usually worth doing together. Although some people do succeed in life, working independently, more indications tend to show that teamwork makes people achieve more. In modern time, working is more similar to playing games like football in that wearing the same shirts does not make players a team but the ability to work together toward a common goal can make a difference.

结尾三句--Conclusion: from specific to general

Again, the meaning of teamwork is like a football club because it is one thing getting good players, but it is quite another getting them together with a common vision. The logic is that none of them is better than all of them, as if everyone is needed but no one is indispensable. Doing a job together may as well be like an orchestra since no one can whistle a symphony and it takes a whole team to play it.

》托福：人心满足与不满足的冲突
Example 2>Do you agree or disagree with he following statement? People are never satisfied with what they have. They always want something more or something different. Use specific reasons to support your answer.

开头三句--Introduction: from general to specific 

If you think that people can be satisfied with what they have, think again. It is universally acknowledged that what mainly moves human activities are need and pride. However, in the pursuit of something more or something different there are dangers of such need becoming greed and pride becoming vanity.

结尾三句--Conclusion: from specific to general

In many cases, the words pride or vanity, and need or greed, are used synonymously to an extent that there are risks about defining the word satisfaction. Although it is good to believe that pride and need are behind human motivations to make success happen, there are chances that vanity and greed under disguise can backfire at he end of the day. Therefore, no one has to doubt that people always want something more or something different because they are never satisfied with what they have.

》托福：工作与不工作的冲突
Example 3>People work because they need money to live. In your opinion, what are other reasons that people work?

开头三句--Introduction: from general to specific

Working people are supposed to be largely happy because having a job means more than being able to just make ends meet. Money is by far the most important motivational factor that people work, but being engaged in a career clearly has two other advantages. Apart from the fear of poverty, people work in order to get rid of boredom and vice at the same time.

结尾三句--Conclusion: from specific to general

Boredom and vice along with poverty are the three evils that may be spared by having a job worth doing in life. For that matter, the benefits of being busy with a job should not be limited to only economic gains. After all, what a better reason for people to work than simply the pursuit of happiness?

》托福：好邻居与坏邻居的冲突
Example 4>Neighbors are the people who live near us. In your opinion, what are he qualities of a good neighbor? Use specific details and examples in your answer.

开头三句--Introduction: from general to specific

It is lucky to have a good neighbor as much as unfortunate to have a bad one. We are blessed by having righteous neighbors who do not act like strangers or become enemies. It may be said that a righteous neighbor is usually associated with such virtues as tolerance and respect, and help and love.

结尾三句--Conclusion: from specific to general

Righteousness is the sum of what a good neighbor is made of. The mutual feeling toward tolerance and respect, and help and love may contribute to a more enjoyable life in the neighborhood without running the risk of inevitably facing strangers or enemies. Righteously, people should be concerned about their next-door neighbors, but the irony is: do they know their next-door neighbors?

》托福：成年与未成年的冲突
Example 5>People recognize a difference between children and adults. What events--experiences and ceremonies--make a child an adult? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.

开头三句--Introduction: from general to specific 

It is more than meets the eye to immediately tell a mature mind from a relatively immature mind because age is a period of time as well as a state of mind. While there are events and ceremonies that mark ages from stage to stage such as birthdays and baptism, it takes only experience in experiments characterized by confusion in no-longer childhood and not-yet adulthood. This puzzling period of prolonged adolescence often witness a child becoming a man or a woman.

结尾三句--Conclusion: from specific to general

Regardless of becoming a man or a woman, part of childhood never really dies in adulthood as years go by. Also, there is a period of time of the transitional age of adolescence, now crying like kids, now dreaming to conquer the complexity of life like grown-ups. When a child is becoming an adult, it is that kind of maturity which reveals the difference during the dramatic stage of adolescence.