2015年10月11日托福寫作真題及解析

綜合寫作
Integrated Writing: 羅馬帝國第九軍團(tuán)的消失猜想

READNING
1 消失在了如今的Scotland. 當(dāng)時(shí)蘇格蘭有rebellion，the Ninth Legion被派去鎮(zhèn)壓，結(jié)果在戰(zhàn)役中被wiped out.
2 消失在了如今的Netherland. 因?yàn)榭脊艑W(xué)家在Netherlands發(fā)現(xiàn)了一種特殊的roof tile，能推測是soldiers給修理的。
3 消失在了Judea. 因?yàn)镽oman governor派the Ninth Legion去Judea征戰(zhàn)，他們在路上或者在battle中被wiped out了。

LISTENING
1 如果第九軍團(tuán)是在如今的Scotland平定叛亂的戰(zhàn)役中消失的，那得是一場huge battle. The battle wiped out other legions, but not the Ninth Legion. 如果真是在Scotland被滅了，那么戰(zhàn)場遺址一定能找到屬于the Ninth Legion的broken weapons and equipment remains, 但事實(shí)是no weapons or equipment remains are found.
2 Netherlands的roof tile推測也不靠譜。做這種roof tile需要kiln（小黑板詞匯），一種極熱的工具，但是荷蘭那邊找不到kiln的remains，所以在那邊建造或是修理roof tile就顯得證據(jù)不足了。接下來教授又說，其實(shí)這種roof tile在別的地方也能做，比如Britain就可以。那就有可能是在Britain做好了tile給transport到荷蘭的。既然是transport的話，那什么人都能transport，不一定得是soldiers.
3 消失在Judea也不合理，因?yàn)榘训诰跑妶F(tuán)派到Judea去not efficient. 地理上看，the Ninth Legion處于大陸的west edge, 而Judea在east edge, 兩者之間有其他的legion，要派也是派其他legion去。

Independent Writing:
獨(dú)立寫作題目
It is a waste of time to spend funds on space travel or space exploration.

獨(dú)立寫作范文　
    Nowadays, an increasing number of citizens are discussing the recent launch of ShenZhou carrier rocket. While there are some people who claim that this kind of launch is a waste of money or time because it could not bring any benefits for citizens, I hold a different opinion. From my perspective, space exploration is necessary.
　　Admittedly, space travel or space exploration would waste a large sum of money. By spending much money on doing research regarding outer space life, government loses their focus on civil life where many people are suffering from starvation, air pollution and epidemics. Under this circumstance, there is no doubt that people would complain about government’s aloft behaviors. However,if viewing from a different angle, space exploration is a long time investment. Never should we expect the journey would bring immediate economic returns to the country. In this case, space travel and space exploration is quite helpful for the country.
　　To begin with, space exploration might bring benefits for us to search for new energy resource. That is to say, other planets may be rich in certain kinds of resources that are in great shortage on the earth. According to the report released after the exploration to the Mars, the officials from NASA confirms that Mars contains a great volume of natural gas and iron. Moreover, engineers have also noticed that these resources on the planet are able to explore, and if they could solve the problem of long time transportation, these resources could be used on the earth. Consequently, the use of natural gas will not consume burning of petroleum and make our planet a better place to live in.
　　In addition, space exploration aims to improve level of technology. In other words, it is the development of advanced technology that makes it possible to explore the outer space. It is usually the case that without the technology of launching satellite into the space, it is impossible for people to conduct research. As a result, scientists have to improved their knowledge in related areas so that they could guarantee the launch of these rockets, as well as satellites. Meanwhile, to ensure astronauts’ safety in the outer space, scientists have to repeated work on their suits in order to keep astronauts away from radioactivity. Also, to fill with enough oxygen, scientists have to run encapsulation tests again and again. Only if these equipment are guaranteed can astronauts be safely working in the outer space.
　　To sum up, the seemly useless space exploration would cost a large sum of money; however, this space activity could still bring benefits in both new energy searching and technology improvement.