SAT® Essay Prompts集合帖(持续更新)

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May SAT® Essay Prompts
If you took the May 2009 SAT, you had one of the essay prompts below:

Prompt 1
% X0 P# m1 E# J. {6 JThink carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

There are good reasons to pay attention to people who are older or more experienced than we are, even if their opinions on important issues are very different from ours. Of course, not every person older than us is worth learning from, while many young people are. But if the only people we listen to are our age and are likely to see things the same way we do, we will miss out on something important.
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$ {- [& r/ m* |Should we pay more attention to people who are older and more experienced than we are? 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.
* T2 o, e8 x7 q& z+ sPrompt 2
7 `9 [/ P# J5 [3 N1 W& Z# d% pThink carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
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) z9 I( N( \) R; i% N2 a& ^" C2 dGood decision making generally requires people to think carefully and logically and to pay attention to practical details. However, people who depend on their feelings and emotions to make important decisions are not likely to spend hours gathering information, making lists, considering all possible outcomes, and so forth. When comparing the advantages or disadvantages of one course of action to another, these people ask themselves, "What do my feelings tell me?"
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Assignment:
& x5 `5 B0 m1 [$ J1 q- O" X3 S" V! F' AShould people let their feelings guide them when they make important decisions? 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.
Prompt 3
" H- O7 @, X( y1 I. b: W6 RThink carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
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% h- |, \: Z0 H) MThanks to great advancements in technology, we live today in a world in which knowledge is more readily available to greater numbers of people than ever before in history. Having more and better technology, however, has not made people wiser or more understanding. Indeed, people are so overloaded with information today that they have become less, rather than more, able to make sense of the world around them than our ancestors ever were.

2 p& R. _' T; q' SAssignment:
1 }' R$ {/ B7 d  n! gHas today's abundance of information only made it more difficult for us to understand the world around us? 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.
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Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

) u) n( ]3 L: R4 Y" _, A/ EPeople define themselves by work, by what they "do." When one person asks another, "What do you do?" the answer always refers to a job or profession: "I'm a doctor, an accountant, a farmer." I've often wondered what would happen if we changed the question to, "Who are you?" or, "What kind of person are you?" or even, "What do you do for fun?"

7 I$ C  O& E( ]: AAdapted from Stephan Rechtschaffen, Time Shifting

Assignment:
Are people best defined by what they do? 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.

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