1、2009年1月SAT考试写作真题 http:/ Prompt 1Planning lets people impose order on the chaotic processes of making or doing something new. Too much planning, however, can lead people to follow the same predetermined course of action, to do things the same way they were done before. Creative thinking is about brea
2、king free from the way that things have always been. That is why it is vital for people to know the difference between good planning and too much planning.Adapted from Twyla Tharp, The Creative HabitAssignment:Does planning interfere with creativity? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your
3、 point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.Prompt 2()Most people underestimate their own abilities. They tend to remember their failures more vividly than their successes, and for this reason they have
4、 unrealistically low expectations about what they are capable of. Those individuals who distinguish themselves through great accomplishments are usually no more talented than the average person: they simply set higher tandards for themselves, since they have higher expectations about what they can d
5、o.Assignment:Do highly accomplished people achieve more than others mainly because they expect more of themselves? 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 observa
6、tions.Prompt 3People are taught that they should not go back on their decisions.In fact,our society supports the notion that to change your mind is evidence of weakness and unreliability,leading many people to say,Once I decide,I decide!But why do people make such a statement?If factors,feelings,and
7、 ideas change,isnt the ability to make a new decision evidence of lexibility,adaptability,and strength?satAdapted from Theodore I.Rubin,Compassion and Self-HateAssignment:Should people change their decisions when cirsumstances change,or is it best for them to stick with their original ecisions?Plan
8、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.(http:/ )Prompt 4The history of human achievement is filled with stories of people who persevere, refusing to give up
9、in the struggle to meet their goals. Artists and scientists, for instance, may struggle for years without any apparent progress or reward before they finally succeed. .(http:/ ) However, it is important to recognize that perseverance does not always yield beneficial results.Adapted from Robert H. La
10、uer and Jeanette C. Lauer, WatershedsAssignment:Is striving to achieve a goal always the best course of action, or should people give up if they are not making progress? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples t
11、aken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations2009年1月SAT考试写作真题Prompt 1Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment belowMany people believe that being honest and honorable limits their options, their opportunities, their very ability to succeed.
12、 Unfortunately, in todays me-first culture, ethics may be the only thing people choose to live without! They believe they have only two choices: (1) to win by doing whatever it takes, even if it is wrong, or (2) to be ethical and therefore lose. Few people set out to be dishonest, but nobody wants t
13、o lose.satAdapted from John C. Maxwell, Theres No Such Thing as Business EthicsAssignment:Does being ethical make it hard to be successful? 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, studie
14、s, experience, or observations.Prompt 2Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Whatever happened to good manners? Many books and articles have been written about the lack of common courtesy and old-fashioned politeness in todays society. From spoil
15、ed children acting out in restaurants to so-called experts yelling at each other on cable news shows, people seem less concerned with good manners and civilized behavior than ever before. On the other hand, if people really want to change the world for the better, they have to risk being seen as imp
16、olite or uncivil.Assignment:Is it sometimes necessary to be impolite? 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.2009年5月SAT考试写作真题Prompt 1Think carefully
17、 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 le
18、arning 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.Assignment:Should we pay more attention to people who are older and more experienced than we are? Plan and write an essay
19、 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.satPrompt 2Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Good decision making generall
20、y 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
21、 comparing the advantages or disadvantages of one course of action to another, these people ask themselves, What do my feelings tell me? (http:/)Assignment:Should people let their feelings guide them when they make important decisions? (http:/)Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point
22、of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Prompt 3Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Thanks to great advancements in technology, we live today in a w
23、orld 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 mor
24、e, able to make sense of the world around them than our ancestors ever were.(http:/)Assignment:Has todays 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 positio
25、n with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.Prompt 4Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.People define themselves by work, by what they do. When one person asks another, What do you do? the answer
26、always refers to a job or profession: Im a doctor, an accountant, a farmer. Ive 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?Adapted from Stephan Rechtschaffen, Time ShiftingAssignment:Are people best de
27、fined 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.2009年6月SAT考试写作真题Prompt 1Think carefully about the issue presented in the following exc
28、erpt and the assignment below.The discovery that someone we admire has done something wrong is always disappointing and disillusioning. Yet even when people we consider heroes have been tarnished by their faults, they are no less valuable than people who appear perfect. When we learn that an admired
29、 person, even one who is seemingly perfect, has behaved in less than admirable ways, we discover a complex truth: great ideas and great deeds come from imperfect people like ourselves.Assignment:Do we benefit from learning about the flaws of people we admire and respect? Plan and write an essay in w
30、hich 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 2Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Some people say you should be content
31、 with what you have and accept who you are. But it is possible that too much self-acceptance can turn into self-satisfied lack of ambition. People should always strive to improve themselves and to have more in their livesfriends, things, opportunities. After all, where would we be if great people, b
32、oth in history and in our own time, did not try to have more and to improve themselves?Assignment:Is it best for people to accept who they are and what they have, or should people always strive to better themselves? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Suppo
33、rt your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.Prompt 3 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.So-called common sense determines what people should wear, whom they should respect, which r
34、ules they should follow, and what kind of life they should lead. Common sense is considered obvious and natural, too sensible to question. url=http:/ ButBut/url peoples common sense decisions may turn out to be wrong, even if they are thought to be correct according to the judgment of vast majoritie
35、s of people.Adapted from Alain de Botton, The Consolations of PhilosophyAssignment:Can common sense be trusted and accepted, or should it be questioned? 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 re
36、ading, studies, experience, or observations. http:/Prompt 4Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Winning does not require people to be against someone else; people can reach their goals through cooperation just as well as they can through competi
37、tion. Winning is not always the result of selfish individualism. People achieve happiness by cooperating with others to increase the happiness of all, rather than by winning at others expense. Ours is not a world in which the price of one persons happiness is someone elses unhappiness.Adapted from G
38、ilbert Brim, AmbitionAssignment:When some people win, must others lose, or are there situations in which everyone wins? 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 ob
39、servations.2009年10月sat考试落下帷幕 5184sat考试网将陆续发布最新的考题信息,2009年10月SAT写作真题SATEssay October 2009If you took the October 2009 SAT, you had one of the essay prompts below:Prompt 1Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Both in society and in our own lives, t
40、odays problems are serious and require serious solutions. Increasingly, however, people are taught to laugh at things that arent usually funny and to cope with difficult situations by using humor. They are even advised to surround themselves with funny people. There is strong evidence that laughter
41、can actually improve health and help fight disease.Adapted from Marshall Brain, How Laughter WorksAssignment:Is using humor the best way to approach difficult situations and problems? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning
42、and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.Prompt 2Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.(from )Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. You need one
43、 because you are human. You didnt come from nowhere. Before you, around you, and, presumably, after you, there are others. Even if you live alone and even if your solitude is by your own choice, you still cannot do without a network or a family.Adapted from Jane Howard, All Happy Clans Are Alike: In
44、 Search of the Good FamilyAssignment:Does everyone, even people who choose to live alone, need a network or family? 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 observ
45、ations.2009年10月sat考试落下帷幕 5184sat考试网将陆续发布最新的考题信息,欢迎广大考友留意!2009年11月SAT考试写作真题Prompt 1Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Popular culture refers to television shows, movies, books, musical selections, artworks, products, activities, and events that
46、 appeal to the interests and desires of large numbers of people. Popular culture tells us a lot about the people of a society. Some people may criticize popular culture or deny its influence on their lives, but one thing is clear: popular culture typically displays the ideas and principles that peop
47、le value most.Assignment:Are the values of a society most clearly revealed in its popular culture? 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 2Th
48、ink carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Some people ruin their chances of achieving success or refrain from attaining a goal because they have learned that success is selfish. But they should not feel guilty about trying to achieve their own goals. People who act on their inner desirestheir greatest wishes and ambitionsonly