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今天的独立写作，重复的是2014-12-13大陆真题，这篇是我们刚刚结课的十天集训课堂精讲的一篇作文。具体的解析如下。
独立写作
重复2014-12-13真题
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Students nowadays are more interested in politics than in the past.
【解题步骤】
1.精准理解题目
你是否同意以下观点？
现在的学生比以前的学生对政治更加感兴趣。
2.找出关键词，进行头脑风暴
a)Nowadays / in the past
思考：现在和过去有哪些方面发生了变化？
参考答案：
1.现在的教育水平更高，设计的学科，各科的内容都比以前更加丰富；
2.现在通讯手段更加发达，人们有更多的渠道了解外部的信息；
3.经济更加发达，人们的生活质量普遍优于以前；
b)Interested in politics
思考：上述时代因素对于学生了解政治的影响是什么？
1.更先进的教育水平有利于学生理解政治；
2.更发达的通讯手段有利于学生获取政治相关的信息或新闻；
3.更发达的经济使学生有时间精力去关心政治；
3.形成分论点
Agree：
1.现在的学生对政治更感兴趣因为有更多相关背景知识；
2.现在的学生对政治更感兴趣因为有更多途径了解相关的新闻；
【经典满分范文】
A shoal of fish, feeling the water ripple, wriggle their body and swim away, perhaps without the awareness that a piece of stone plops several meters away. So do most of the citizens around the world. Probably having dissimilar responses to a certain societal case, but people might be senseless to the “invisible hands” behind, the origin of the executive measures, which is the policy. Some people argue that students nowadays are more interested in politics than in the past, which exactly expresses where I firmly stand because politics, as a combination of both science and humanity, usually requires certain foundation to be better understood.
First, the more diverse and deep education lays sounder base for the present-day students to learn about politics. In presence, it could be fairly common that a high school student loses its mind holding a list which elaborates on what are the options for its major in the university. The reason in part lies on the development and diversification of disciplines in modern education, which might be unthinkable even back to thirty years ago. Various science and humanity subjects, like economy, sociology or psychology, these “terms” might be strange to the past majority, but have become daily subjects in real, and even entered some of the primary or middle schools in their basic forms. Therefore, students nowadays are far more fitted in terms of knowledge from various fields to prepare themselves to the politics, which are more than complicated since not only certain basic scientific knowledge is required to comprehend the policy or decision in that specific area, also the humanities are helpful to know about the reaction of the public since interaction between such policy and the public, no matter positive or negative, will issue varying influences. Therefore, students nowadays are more likely to have interests on the complex politics in terms of their educational background.
Second, the more developed means of communication brings closer contact between students and political news. The devising or discussing of the policies and the national affairs are usually confined in circles of the politicians and the channels by which students gain information about politics are through media and news, the progress and functions of which at present are also life-changing. People from the past watching reports on TV which has only a handful of programs could hardly envision that news of different fields all over the world is easily accessible through a screen in palm size by just a few clicks and scrolls. As a result, students in modern time could readily learn about the political affairs, and even filter out their preferred reports by search engine. Hence, more available coverage on politics is more likely to trigger the interest of the students today.
To conclude, I agree that students nowadays are more interested in politics than in the past since they are in broader horizons, regarding both knowledge background and source of information. (486words)
1.What is the main purpose of the lecture?
To propose arguments for and against a theory of social change
2.Why does the professor mention the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
To give an example of the delayed impact that a new technology can have
3.Why does the professor point out that painters in ancient Greece did not use the technique of perspective in their paintings?
To remind students of when the technique of perspective was first used by artists
4.Why does the professor show the class the painting Ball at the Moulin de la Galette?
To support the argument that society was prepared for the introduction of photography
5.What characteristic of the painting Ball at the Moulin de la Galette does the professor emphasize?
How natural and unplanned it seems
6.What is the professor’s opinion of the theory of technological determinism?
It does not acknowledge society’s role in the development and acceptance of new technologies.
四篇阅读
Japan, earthquake, wool, Earth's age
虽然这两天阅读部分都不简单，但是昨天和今天的阅读部分都重复多篇华华托福真题题库老题。平均每场考试，都会有8-10篇重复的是历年真题(=华华托福真题题库)。
有同学问，重复的老题是不是肯定不是加试？答案是：老题肯定不是加试。
今天的阅读老题目前统计如下：
1. Architectural Change in Eighth-Century Japan重复2015.04.12
2. Measuring Earthquake Size重复2017.12.10
3. Wool Industry in Fifteenth-Century Europe重复2018.03.10
4. Attempts at Determining Earth’s Age重复2014.09.21
5. Early Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa重复2015.03.28
6. The Spread of Farming and Pastoralism in Africa重复2018.04.21
7. Crown of Thorns Starfish and Coral Reefs重复2011.01.08
8. Life on Mars重复2016.05.07
9. Consolidated Industry in the United States重复2015.10.31
一篇听力
technological determinism
今天A卷里考到一篇听力，社会学sociology，讲的是technological determinism，也就是技术到底能不能带来社会改变。讲座分成了正方(proponents)和反方(opponents)。
技术决定论并没有解决特定技术或由该技术引起的变化是积极的还是消极的。它只是简单地认为，一旦技术可用，改变是不可避免的，而不考虑其他社会影响。事实上，技术决定论宣称，变化不仅是不可避免的，而且社会无法抗拒这些变化。他们无法做任何事情来阻止他们。但技术决定论的反对者则着眼于变革的根源。他们认为技术创新不会凭空产生，改变社会。你首先要拥有的是一个在某种程度上为技术创新做好准备的社会，不仅仅是在技术上做好了准备，在心理上或文化上也做好了准备。
反对者认为，这些技术本身是他们所在社会的产物，而不是独立于这些技术之外的。我们可以在视觉艺术中找到例子来支持这种相反的观点。古希腊人懂得透视法。他们知道如何让一幅画看起来像三维的，因为或者你可以说他们有技术。但他们没有采用这种技巧，因为在当时的希腊文化中，欺骗观众认为一幅画是真实的是错误的。
华华托福集训教室墙上的画
1.What is the main purpose of the lecture?
To propose arguments for and against a theory of social change
2.Why does the professor mention the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
To give an example of the delayed impact that a new technology can have
3.Why does the professor point out that painters in ancient Greece did not use the technique of perspective in their paintings?
To remind students of when the technique of perspective was first used by artists
4.Why does the professor show the class the painting Ball at the Moulin de la Galette?
To support the argument that society was prepared for the introduction of photography
5.What characteristic of the painting Ball at the Moulin de la Galette does the professor emphasize?
How natural and unplanned it seems
6.What is the professor’s opinion of the theory of technological determinism?
It does not acknowledge society’s role in the development and acceptance of new technologies.
