【教师讲坛】托福写作思路大揭秘

托福写作思路大揭秘，此次列举了朋友类话题举例。朋友类话题是托福常考话题类型之一。具体话题如下：

1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Two persons can not be good friends if one person has more money than the other?

2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Competition between friends always has a negative effect on their friendship.

3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? One can learn a lot about a person from the types of friend a person has

4. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is impossible to be completely honest with your friends all the time. Use specific reasons to support your answer.

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生活在任何一个社会里，我们人类都离不开朋友。朋友话题对考生来说本应该很简单，但是托福涉及的朋友类话题都很敏感，话题问法都很犀利。很多考生觉得给观点容易，找论点难。

考点的内容经常涉及“朋友相处之道”。如上述第1，2，4话题所提及的“金钱”，“竞争”，“诚实”是否对友情有所影响。另外，如上述第3题所涉及的“朋友类型”是否可以揭秘一个人的信息。

通常来说，交朋友需要很多条件如经济背景、教育背景、生活方式、兴趣爱好、人生观、世界观等一致和包容，甚至还包括彼此相处的时间和对彼此性格特点的欣赏；维持友情更是如此

下面我们对4个话题总个思路上的剖析：

1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Two persons can not be good friends if one person has more money than the other?

解题思路版本1：

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Thesis statement: personal wealth is not an indispensable ingredient of a true friendship.

理由一: genuine friendship lies in shared interests rather than similar economic background.

理由二: friends do not have to be economically equivalent to provide each other with substantial assistance

理由三: friendship can be maintained stable when two persons could appreciate each other for one aspect or another.(Offering straightforward evaluation, sincere encouragement and sensible suggestions are irrelevant to personal wealth.)

解题思路版本2：

Thesis statement: Economical equality is an indispensable ingredient of friendship.

理由一: Disparate economic background is evidence that two persons differ in personal habits.

理由二: Dissimilar educational background, originated from different financial condition, tends to alienate one person from another. 

理由三: Those who are economically superior tend to trigger the sense of inferiority among friends.

2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Competition between friends always has a negative effect on their friendship.

解题思路版本1:

Thesis statement: the friendship tainted by rivalry tends to be detrimental for each party.

理由一：From academic perspective, contending for certain award tends to trigger embarrassment on friendship.

理由二：When it comes to employment opportunities, the contention might give rise to the breakdown of the friendship.

理由三：In terms of sports game, most friends are unwilling to compete with each other due to the undesirable effects of competition on friendship.

解题思路版本 2: 

Thesis statement: benign competition between friends is unlikely to exert detrimental implication on friendship.

理由一：The contention between friends tends to provide more incentive for each other in pursuit of expected outcome.

理由二:  Rivalry between friends creates a great number of opportunities to mutual help, thereby deepening friendship.

理由三：Genuine friendship lies in appreciation of mutual personality and ability and therefore, will not be affected even if one party wins the other in certain aspect.

3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? One can learn a lot about a person from the types of friend this person has.

解题思路版本1：

Thesis statement： As a saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. Accordingly, the types of friends explicitly manifest what and how a person is

理由一： in terms of a person’s living style or habit, the type of friend is an evident indication.

理由二： friends’ attitude towards life also overtly reveals something of a person.

理由三： it is of great necessity to acquire clues about a person’s social status from the friends he or she has.

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解题思路版本2

Thesis statement: it is of little likelihood to judge a person by learning the types of friends this person has.

理由一, firstly, on no account could casual friends reveal any explicit information about a person.

理由二, getting acquainted with people of distinctive characteristics does not expose a personal idiosyncrasy.

理由三. To be added more, every person is susceptible to constant alteration, suggesting old friend is unable to present individual disposition.

4. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is impossible to be completely honest with your friends all the time. Use specific reasons to support your answer.

Thesis statement: it is unlikely and unadvisable to confess everything to our friends/ to be entirely honest with our friends. (White lies & privacies)

理由一:  when friends are confronted with failures, they require sincere encouragement rather than candid evaluation (e.g. poor grades in school exam/ sports competition)

理由二: Undoubtedly, most of us show a great tendency to prevent friends from malicious criticism.

理由三:  No one would be willing to expose friends to unexpected reality, especially fatal ones. (White lies)

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Because we are social creatures, friends play an indispensible role in our life since early childhood. However, the maintenance of friendship does certain commitment of each part. Some people might assert that it is likely to show complete honesty with friends, but I am convinced that absolute honesty in a friendship is impossible.

First, when friends are confronted with failures, they require sincere encouragement rather than candid evaluation. Common knowledge is that encouragement refers to inspiring expression to motivate others to overcome the frustration in the face of failure and move on in pursuit of the next objective. It can be expected for students to encourage their best friend to put aside the frustrating mood when the friend get poor academic grade even if the poor result is due to insufficient preparation. It is also not a rare phenomenon for them to talk a friend out of depression even if he loses a sport competition in the absence of natural talent. For most people, it is encouragement from friends that enhance their self-esteem and render them more incentives to achieve more.

Secondly, most of us show a great tendency to prevent friends from malicious criticism. Hearing others’ comments about our friends is a common occurrence. In such a case, we have to act as peacemakers or mediator rather than straightforward information deliverer. For example, I have some friends who always pour out their feeling about each other to me, yet most of these so-called private talks can be regarded as subjectively discontent with minor manners of each other. The only way I deal with such disharmony is to convince them of the virtues that others possess and help them to discover each others’ strong points.

Thirdly, no one would be willing to expose friends to unexpected reality, especially fatal ones so white lies are regular solutions to the unexpected reality. A story from my grandfather can be a convincing one. My grandfather has an intimate friend from childhood and has kept in touch with each other in later adulthood. His friend is an extremely unfortunate person who suffers paralytic stroke and lost his son in the second year. When he is lying in bed afflicted with paralyzed body, no one has the merciless courage to tell him the sudden death of his son. Although my grandfather has frequent visits to his friend’s house, he never reveals anything relevant to his friends. Gradually, his friend perceives the fact himself at a time when the misfortune becomes an easy thing to take. 

In light of the above analysis, it is quite challenging for us to be entirely honest to out friends since most of us want to protect friends from undesirable events or events. It is our nature to prevent our friends from being emotionally hurt by various matters in life.

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