托福频道为大家带来托福写作审题不要忽略关键词,希望对大家托福备考有所帮助。
例如:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Advertising is the only main cause for people's unhealthy eating habits.
看到这个题目,同学们立刻会开始想,有没有other reasons for unhealthy habits,想出三条如:
1.People's tight schedules do not allow them to eat at regular hours;
2. Sometimes people are eager to lose weight or to keep fit so that they go on "endless diets";
3. Bearing heavy burden both physically and mentally, some consider eating constantly as their most effective stress reliever. 综上所述,advertising is not the only cause.
这个写法看起来非常完备,但其实犯了一个不起眼却严重的错误——题目不是要我们*it is not the only cause,而是要我们去*it is not the only main cause。多一个"main",意思是很不一样的。
如果我们只需要*it is not the only cause,那么找出other causes即可即例中的写法。但是,如果我们要*it is not the only main cause,就需要*other causes that we mentioned are also main causes,这就需要在每一段中加上一些专门的说明。或者,更简单的办法是去*advertising is not even a cause, 直接在每段的末尾加上advertising与该段所论述的unhealthy eating habit无关的论述即可。
If it is not a cause, how can it be the onlymain cause? 这样一来,就不用通过*还有其他main cause来反驳了,事实上,*某种cause是main cause还是挺有难度的,因此笔者推荐同学们用后一种方式进行论述。
因此,文章还是disagree,而三段的主题句分别应该是:
1.People's tight schedules do not allow them to eat at regular hours, and it is obvious that they are too busy to be influenced by advertising;
2. Sometimes people are eager to lose weight or to keep fit excessive dieting, and this is more like a result of human nature, the pursuit of beauty, but not advertising;
3. Bearing heavy burden both physically and mentally, some consider eating constantly as their most effective stress reliever, and it is quite clear that no advertising encourages them to do so.