jennycat (jennycat)
第一次习作 请超人大哥猛批哈!!!还有一个半月,改怎么提高,感激~~~ Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
An ironical saying, which has became more and more accepted recent year, reflects some travel agency service directly and accurately. That is – if you join a group led by a tour guide that only means you will take on the bus for sleeping; get off bus for toileting; go to the park just for taking photograph(可以加一句and even then you will be experiencing everything in a rush.). This ridiculous (这个词有点口语化,甚用)conclusion may exaggerate some unfortunate tourists nightmare caused by some particularly bad experiences ascribe to irresponsible tour guide or profit-only travel agency(可以改写成:Undoubtedly, some travel agencies are based on the concept of maximum income in a shortest time, regardless of the tourists’ feelings.). In nowadays China, however, when we have to make a choice between traveling on our own or resorting to tour guide, we must take such horrible impression into account. If you’re (作文中的缩写全部要全写) a member of young generation as vigorous as me, I will strongly recommend you to choose the former one without any reservation. Because making the journey schedule by yourself can let you enjoy your vacation more completely by assuring your good mood, making your decision arbitrarily and intimate contact with people and culture of your destination. (你的开头写得很好!下面是我对托福开头的一些经验,不过我觉得如果你发展出你自己的开头风格,你就应该坚持下去。)
(在托福作文中,一般有4种形式的开头方式:1.简洁式的开头,例如:when I asked about the use of the cell phone in the public, I should say that the use of cell phone in public places should be limited, and the reasons go as follows.。这种开头的好处在于你只需要将原题目改写一遍即可,不需要花太多时间,坏处在于如此以来你就必须保证你的主体段落的字数和精彩程度。2. 模版式的开头,虽然各大论坛上的模版个不相同,但其骨架都大同小异, 例如: Colleges are places for knowledge, providing wisdom as well as opportunities, currently, a widespread controversy concerning the function of colleges has aroused the public attention, although a fair portion of people argues that people go to college solely for the sake of study. Yet, from my personal perspective, I strongly agree that people go to college for various other than a single reason. 这是我根据185的第一题写的一个模版开头,自认为还是比较标准,由此你应该可以看到模版开头是一个什么样子。3. 排比式的开头:很难写的一种开头方式,虽然我们中国学生在高考的时候曾将其驾轻就熟,但是中国的排比和外国的排比是不一样。写得很好的排比到目前为止我还没有见到,你可以参照新概念英语4的Galileo Reborn中的第二段,了解什么是英文式的排比。 4. shocking statement: 这是我用的开头方式,也是我个人比较推崇的开头方式。这种开头有个总体策略:General---Specific---- General, 即开头就说一个很简短,很不可思议的remark. 例如这个题目: travel alone or travel in a group, which one do you prefer? 用shocking statement就这样开头: Travelling alone is the only way to travel (shocking remark! And general). When I went to London last year for my unforgettable vacation, I used to immerse myself in the peaceful music alone; watching kids wondering around in the streets; drinking coffee at a small café shop, enjoying my time alone (specific). Transparently, the basic concept of travelling, at least it seems to me, is to do what one likes, and in this sense, travelling alone serves as the optimal choice (general again). 因此你的开头就给考官留下了很深的印象。以前我给别人改的开头通常偏向1,2两种,现在我希望大家也能尝试写第4种开头。)
First and foremost , (first of all, 就可以了) maintaining a positive mood which is your essential goal of your leisure activities can be attained when you travel alone surely (travelling alone enables you to maintain a positive mood when you are on vacations. 建议作者不用或少用定语从句,多用非谓语和插入语). You can totally immense yourself in fascinating scenery (scenario view 更地道) without worrying about that a guide will interrupt you due to the limited time in park. Plenty of other events happened in traveling group can seriously devastate your mood: nauseating food you have to endure in the designated restaurant; a dirty room which is previously dominated by mice and cockroach in designated hotel; worse, when you confront such unfair treat, the only thing you can do just to stand by it until the end of the voyage for fear that you will be leaved alone in this alien city. Maybe a protesting letter can relieve your temper later, but your whole holiday was ruined.
(这是我重写的主体段,逻辑还是比较清晰。虽然语言功底不怎么样,但相信这同样可以拿高分了。
The first point I would like to emphasize is that by travelling alone, one is able to free from restriction and limitation. Suppose an individual determines to travel all by him/herself, a holiday can be a personal comfort: one might be able to immerse him/herself in the harmony of a center park, free from interruptions from a guide who is always claiming the limitation of time. On the contrary, if some one makes an unwise decision to take a package tour, the condition may be altered: s/he could scarcely do anything except running and taking photos, deprived of the best thing that a person should have during a vacation.)
Not only can you retain happy mood, but also you can grip your own schedule. Just think about how disappointing you will be when informed that you’re not allowed to pay a visit to your ideal historic relic since it’s not arranged by the agency. According to your own vacation plan, you can drop by any places of interest you desire, you could purchase some souvenirs you prefer at a reasonable price while the equivalent can be attach with prohibitively high price in the stores which are introduced by travel guide.
(In addition, if someone happened to be organized, travelling alone also serves as the optimal choice--- above all, one could make his/her own schedule. Without disturbing from other persons, private schedule seems convenient in most cases. Perhaps it would suffice to mention my elder brother, who likes travelling alone and invariably makes his schedule whenever he decides to set out for a travel. “I find such a schedule effective,” one day he said to me,” you know, I can do what I like during a vacation, besides, everything is just fine, planning works. It enables me to arrive without exhaustion.” From his words I recognize this positive aspect of travelling alone.)
Furthermore, to have an intense communication with the local people that convey the local culture may be your desirable thing. Then, some sunlit afternoon, you bump into a little inn’s keeper fortuitously, you two have a long conversation that you find you both share the same interest; you decide to stay in this little inn for a period and try to explore more surprise nearby ultimately. Such romantic dream will never come true under the agency service.
I have to admit that much money can be saved when joining a group, but the thing I engage in traveling only can be attained when I travel on my own.
(你的托福作文的提高空间还是很大,整体来说,你应该提高你的主体段的水平。你可以在你的主体段里面加入实际的例子。并且这些例子可以很私人化,就是发生在你身边的例子,不过我写的修改中的例子有缺陷,那就是太多的语言,所以,事例要以描写为主。)
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