8月16日托福考试独立写作预测及范文

Question:

Agree or disagree? There is no reason to be impolite (rude) to another person. Use specific examples and reasons to support your statement.

Answer:

In Japan, people bow their heads as a sign of being polite. In Germany, men kiss each other’s cheeks in demonstration of the same. No matter how big or small, acts of politeness form a huge part of our lives. As much as possible everyone wants to be always polite. But should this always be the case?

The golden rule states that we should treat others the way we want them to treat us. Thus, most people, through the course of their day-to-day interactions with other persons, strive to be polite. However, I believe there are always exceptions to the rule. Would you still be polite to someone who is trying to rob you? Would you still be polite to your boss who always humiliates you in the office even if there’s no reason to?

Respect begets respect. The same can be said as well for politeness. In our efforts of showing to the world that we are indeed good individuals, we sometimes tend to forget that being polite should not be easily dispensed. There is such a thing as personal respect. How can other people realize that you are a person who should be respected if you readily accommodate them even if they’re not treating you the same way? If this happens to me, I would certainly show a limited but definite level of impoliteness, not because I am really like that but because I deserve to be shown politeness too.

Let’s look at the big picture. 1984, a novel by George Orwell, depicts an abusive, certainly impolite, government composed of well, impolite officials. The reason they came to power is quite simple. The citizens were very gullible to the former’s propaganda and advances. Cut the long story short, an act of unnecessary politeness lead to the fall of that society’s standards and existence. If only people in that novel had been “necessarily” impolite. In reality, this is certainly also the case. Look around us. Many are suffering from problems that, in one way or another, were brought by being polite at all times—unfair job opportunities, rude neighbors, opportunistic friends.

At the core of every person, I sincerely believe that every man regardless of creed, status, or nationality, has a universal concept of what constitutes politeness. It is but fair to say that we should effectively respect and be polite to ourselves prior to being polite to others. That being said, under applicable situations like the ones stated above, there is a time and place that being impolite to another person is necessary.

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