9月7日考后心情和机经

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头次发帖，总结机经的斑竹莫怪。长期以来都在寄托上寻找动力和灵感，一直潜水，现在总算有了实战经验，一定要回报下寄托。今天下午13点在北京鼎钧考的aw，两篇issue分别是56和120，argument是192。
这次考试最大的感受是真考和模考区别太大了，哪怕你是严格按照考试时间模拟的。如果那个考前的调查不重要的话就别填了，跳过。我今天本来是准备用它消除紧张的，不料缺越来越紧张，听着别人都开始敲了，自己还傻傻的再作调查，结果写起来手抖得要命，如果不是我考前写过超过60篇全文和高频前120的提纲有了一定熟练度，估计就毁了。两篇Issues全是我写过的，我选了120，因为对历史比较偏爱且这篇当时单练时写的自认为还不错，所以就写它了，结果写的时候头脑都木了，只有手指在敲，全靠熟练啊。好在写到后面就没那么紧张了，我一共写了近700词，留了5分钟检查，这时一看第一段写的狗屁不通，一通猛改，好歹改出点样子来，但第二段缺写偏了，都是紧张惹得祸啊，第一次托福也毁在紧张上了。所以对于心理素质和我一样不好的同学们一定要多练，到时会救你的，一切都是机械的输出，脑子全麻木了。我一共复习了一个半月，从一开始的茫然无措到后来的45分钟内轻松写到六七百，全靠每天写，再恶心在想偷懒的时候也顶住，其实结构思路（就是猛扯些相关的论述）和中文作文一样，就是多了例子，而例子你你在写了10篇文章后基本上各种题材的例子就都总结出自己的套路了，比如一说理想主义或者梦想，举例我就说莱特兄弟没梦想发明不了飞机，贝尔没梦想发明不了电话云云。还是一句话，如果你不是牛人，就多写。另外，中文写作水平好对aw绝对有利，我自己由于大学四年来天天写日记所以中文写作水平比较好，在复习的中后期当中文思路和英文语言结合起来后写起来就很轻松了，顶多就是加例子。我不敢说我写的有多好，但至少不痛苦，即使在今天紧张得要死时仍然发挥了正常水平，我也满足了。最后再提一点，即使你复习后期写的比较好了，别贪心，否则你的心理压力会很大，我就是教训。最后祝大家成功，别像我一样紧张过头。
下面是我issues20的模考作文，给大家参考
TOPIC: ISSUE120 - "So much is new and complex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present."
WORDS: 684
TIME: 0:42:41
DATE: 2009/8/18

Nowadays we live in a complex and changeable society, the world is different almost every day and it sounds right that we live in today and should care about present and future rather than look back and considering those past events. The assertion that to learn and to understand the past can just provides little help and guidance for our present life, in my point of view, is unfair and too extreme. No matter how fast the society develop and the world change, learn from past can always bring us many useful things.

To begin with, I must concede that we are indeed live in a very fast developed world. With the fast development and advancement of technology, everything is continue changing and many theories and applied things, no matter those natural science theories or those social science ones or those machines in factories and so forth. And many new technologies are making this change faster and faster. For example, just few years ago, telecommunication appeared in front of people, but today almost everyone has cell phone and can enjoy the convenient life it brings. Moreover, Internet connects people all over the world together and the earth becomes a global village. Now, different people from different nations, culture backgrounds, religious beliefs and different ethnics can communicate each other fast and conveniently and written letters have been thrown into museum for a long time. All these changes happened too fast we have even no time to notice them and express our surprise.

However, even though the world is changing fast, that doesn't mean the past experience are useless. In fact, no matter how startle speed the world is develop and change at, many things and rules can never be changed. Whatever else may be said, most people would agree that the past is the base of present, if we want to know and understand the nature of today, we must seek help and instruction from the past. One person who does not know how and where problems he/she encountered derived from cannot find right way to solve them. From the perspective of social economy as an instance to explain this, even we today have a highly developed industrial economic system, we cannot deny it is derived from the old and agriculture economic system. Moreover those theories which are used to guide today's economy are developed on the base those classical economic theories. Providing that Keynes didn't read and understand Adam Smith's theories from his The Wealth of Nation, how can he write his famous book The General Theory of Employment, Interests and Money?

Furthermore, we can usually get many useful things and inspirations according to review the past experience. These experience are all treasures our ancestors left for us and with the help of them, we can always avert to make those mistakes our ancestors ever made and drawn lessons from them. What is more, when we have problems, we can always get answers by linking our situations to the similar ones in the past and make the right choose according to learning ancestors. For example, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping finally decided to execute the Reform and Open up Policy in the end of 1970s by review the history of Japan's open up after the revolution happened in 1868. Another example, European nations finally solve the constant conflicts and wars after Rome Empire collapsed according to unification because of they found in history that all chaos come from separation. These two example can both suggest how useful past experience is.

In sum, we can see that even in a very fast changed time, the experience of the past is still valuable and worthy us to cast a look back usually. We can not only understand the sources of problems we encountered today but also avoid to make mistakes that have been made by our ancestors numerous times and we can drawn lessons which are useful to our develop today by learning from the past. In addition, past experience can also guide us to create a better future. So I reckon the experience of the past is one of the most valuable treasures our ancestors left and we should regard them seriously.

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