SAT写作真题汇总（20）

SAT考试的一个主要组成部分就是SAT写作，而写作也常常是一件令人头疼的事情，小站SAT频道这里整理了众多的写作题目，供大家练手使用，希望对大家有帮助。

79. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: (2007.12)

引文: All around us appearances are mistaken for reality. Clever advertisements create favorable impressions but say little or nothing about the products they promote. In stores, colorful packages are often better than their contents. In the media, how certain entertainers, politicians, and other public figures appear is more important than their abilities. All too often, what we think we see becomes far more important than what really is.

引文: Our determination to pursue truth by setting up a fight between two sides leads us to believe that every issue has two sides—no more, no less. If we know both sides of an issue, all of the relevant information will emerge, and the best case will be made for each side. But this process does not always lead to the truth. Often the truth is somewhere in the complex middle, not the oversimplified extremes.

Adapted from Deborah Tannen, The Argument Culture

引文: The first problem for all of us is not to learn but to unlearn. We hold on to ideas that were accepted in the past, and we are afraid to give them up. Preconceptions about what is right or wrong, true or false, good or bad are embedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there. Whether it’s women’s role in society or the role of our country in the world, the old assumptions just don’t work anymore.

Adapted from Gloria Steinem, “A New Egalitarian Lifestyle”

引文: All people judge or criticize the ideas and actions of others. At times, these criticisms hurt or embarrass the people receiving them. Other criticisms seem to be intended to make the critics appear superior. And yet criticism is essential to our success as individuals and as a society.

Adapted from Ken Petress, “Constructive Criticism: A Tool for Improvement”

Assignment: Is the most important purpose of technology today different from what it was in the past? 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.

80. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: (2008.1)

Assignment: Is it always better to be original than to imitate or use the ideas of others? 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.

81. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below: (2008.1)

Assignment: Is the effort involved in pursuing any goal valuable, even if the goal is not reached? 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.