SAT写作实用名人素材推荐（二）

接下来是诺贝尔、梵高和伽利略的SAT写作例子素材介绍。

开头还是背景介绍

Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, inventor, and philanthropist, was born in Stockholm and received an education in Saint Petersburg, Russia and in United States, where he studied mechanical engineering. He returned to Saint Petersburg to work under his father, developing mines, torpedoes, and other explosives.

In a family-owned factory in Sweden, he sought to develop a safe way to handle nitroglycerin, after a factory explosion in 1864 killed his younger brother and four other people. (可以用在motive之类的话题上) In 1866 Nobel achieved his goal; by using an organic packing material to reduce the volatility of the nitroglycerin, he produced what he called dynamite. He later produced ballistae, one of the first smokeless powders. At the time of his death he controlled factories for the manufacture of explosives in many parts of the world. (多才多艺啊versatile啊success可以各个领域都同时做到啊之类 肯定可以套啦)

Yet, Nobel was very humble and had no desire to hunt fame and wealth. He lived very simply, donating most money to the scientific development. After his own experiments led him to the lucrative invention of dynamite, Alfred Nobel established a fund to reward other innovators "contributing most materially to the benefit of mankind." The Nobel Prize are among the most highly regarded awards an individual can receive and are given in the areas of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, and economics was introduced in honor in 1968. The awards reflect the interdisciplinary interests of the man himself; in addition to performing valuable chemical research, Nobel spoke several languages, traveled widely, and wrote poetry. (慈善啊 成功的目的不是为了个人 这些都可以套)

第一段还是介绍成就

Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch postimpressionist painter, a leader in the development of expressionism in painting, was famous for his creating expressive paintings characterized by intense color and turbulent brush strokes.

Actually, Vincent Van Gogh hadn't got systematic and thorough study in painting or arts. He left grammar school to become an apprentice at an art dealership in the Hague, then a French tutor, a theological student, and an evangelist among the miners at Wasmes in Belgium. During the nearly two years he spent living among the miners and sharing their poverty, he lost his faith, but he found in art the possibility of a new career. Van Gogh was mostly self-taught as an artist, learning painting techniques by copying from prints. (自学成才 和莎士比亚一个类型的 还有 信仰的改变之类的话题)

In 1886 Van Gogh went to live with his brother, Théo, in Paris, where he became familiar with the new art movements developing at the time. He came to know many of the younger artists, through whom he learned to admire the work of Japanese printmakers and effected the linear patterns and flat areas of color in Japanese prints on his style. Under the influence of the French painters, Van Gogh began to experiment with current techniques. After he first saw the brighter color and less sentimental subject matter of impressionist painting, he began to abandon the dark colors of his early works for a much brighter and lighter palette.

Van Gogh's works failed to find an appreciative audience during his lifetime, remaining unknown and silent until the 20th century when people got a steadily rising interests in them.

Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo maintained that the earth revolved around the sun, disputing the belief held by the Roman Catholic church that the earth was the center of the universe. He refused to obey orders from Rome to cease discussions of his theories and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In the history of culture, Galileo stands as a symbol of the battle against authority for freedom of inquiry.

背景资料

Making a number of important astronomical discoveries, including the four moons of Jupiter, sunspots, and the myriad of stars that compose the Milky Way; In physics, he discovered the laws of falling bodies and the motions of projectiles.

总结用的句子

Galileo's lifelong struggle to free scientific inquiry from restriction by philosophical and theological interference is also remembered as a major contribution to the development of science.

大家可以将这些例子在平时的写作练习中用起来，多运用，可以多挖掘一些话题点，避免在考试的时候脑子里没有素材。