作文:
托福独立作文题目:
Even though many people from different countries care about environment problems (pollution, global warming), the environmental situation can’t be improved in the future.
解析:
【题目翻译】
即使现在很多国家的很多人都非常关心类似于污染和全球变暖这样的环境问题,但是环境状况在将来还是不会得到改善的。你同意还是不同意这个观点?
【话题分析】
此题考查的是环境话题,其实,教育、环境、媒体、个人成功、工作等话题都是托福考试的重头戏,其中教育、个人成功和工作一直名列前茅,但是环境话题的再次出现,也是给各位考生提了个醒,要注意老话题的复习,包括素材和词汇的复习。
【历年相关考题】
大陆考题:
2008.6.22-The most important thing that the government can do in improving health care is to clean the environment.
2008年11月22日—Instead of spending money on the exploration of outer space, the government should spend money on the improvement of the environment.
北美考题:
2008.1.12-The government should focus more on environmental problems and less on economic development.
2008.3.14-The environmental issue is too complex to be solved by the individuals.
2008.4.26-The government should give priority to improving healthcare than to solving environmental problems.
【思路拓展】
如果同意上面的观点,那就是认为:即使现在很多国家关心环境问题,但问题还是得不到改善,可以有以下理由:
1. 很多国家只是关注(care about / pay more attention on …),或者可以理解成是意识到环境问题的严重性(realize the importance of environment problems),但是都不采取具体的行动(but they have not taken practical and effective measures),如此下去,环境问题也不会得到改善。比方说,由政府间气候变化专家委员会(Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change)制定的京都议定书(Kyoto protocol),旨在减少二氧化碳排放量(reduce the emission of carbon dioxide),减轻全球变暖,都改了好几次了,但是全球变暖未见改善。
2. 很多国家,尤其是发展中国家和不发达国家,为了发展经济,大量的挖掘地球的资源(excavate all kinds of resource),排放废气废物(contamination),因此,他们是在以牺牲环境为代价来发展经济(develop a country’s economy at the cost of environment damage),如此以来,环境问题不仅不会改善,而且还会恶化(deteriorate)。
3. 很多污染单一国家或地区很难独立解决(it is too complicated for individual country to solve some environmental problems)。很多污染都是没有国界的(boundless),即使有的国家在关注,甚至采取行动,如果不把站在国际的角度上去解决这个问题 (tackle this problem at an international level),也是很难有成效的。
按照上面的具体分析,可以按照最简单的三点五段式来安排文章结构。