TOEFL iBT Topic: Cars and Airplanes
Task 2: Independent Writing Task
Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective essay will contain a minimum of 300 words.
回忆：相关真题多次重现海内外，不过往往试题的角度有变化。飞机，汽车，甚至于脚踏车，对于大众生活都有很大的影响。你认为到底哪一种交通工具更重要？看法因人而异，所以没有正确的答案。 离谱错误的答案倒是可能发生，比方说走向议论汽车与飞机的因果利弊。其实，真题包含的问题是1.）二者都重要？2）何者更重要？
如果比较汽车和飞机， 猫头鹰的立场倾向汽车，主要的论证是因为各型机动车辆的数字远超过飞机，直接地影响更大的人口。
2012年8月19日的大作文题目好像是这样（请网友以试题为凭）：
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "Cars (automobiles) have greater effects (influence) on society than airplanes." Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
提醒：老托福题库185（No. 36）
Choose one of the following transportation vehicles and explain why it has changed people's lives? Automobiles? Bicycles? Airplanes? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
>Example Writing>实验范文
Created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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起--汽车比飞机更影响社会。
承--飞机的重要影响。
转--汽车的重要影响。
合--汽车比飞机更影响社会。
Although the invention of the airplane did revolutionalize the world's long-distance travelling, what has really changed the way people live would be the car. In terms of the impact on society, the automobile would not be replaced by the airplane, as if the horse having been replaced by the automobile. To explain the importance of the motorized vehicles on ground transportation over that of the flying vehicles, one has only to decide which one would be more difficult to do without.
The airplane became the symbol of the twentieth century as did the automobile in the nineteenth century. The flying vehicle is shrinking the planet to the point that a person can fly anywhere in the world in a matter of hours. Not only have modern jet planes made travel fast and safe, but they have provided many other services that could be of help to society. The benefits range from crop dusting to fighting forest fires to overnight delivery of packages and merchandise to chasing hurricanes. Also, the impact of the aviation technology has redefined the warfare, turning battle into a long-range affair fought at arm's length. In view of these advantages, it seems hard to do without the airplane.
Nevertheless, it seems even harder to do without the automobile. To begin with, mathematics matters. The number of motorized vehicles far exceeds that of flying vehicles by hundreds of millions, which may serve to explain the over-riding effects of engine carts on wheel over the routine lives of the most people. Once the automobile became a practical and reliable source of transportation in the past century, it changed almost everything world-wide. The horse and cart began to disappear gradually while much of the country was paved over to make room for endless ribbons of asphalt. Among other things, the automobile has brought about obvious economic effects, making it possible to truck in goods that would otherwise be difficult to acquire. More than the airplane, the automobile gives people such a degree of mobility and personal freedom as never before seen.
In comparing the influence of both types of transportation, the automobile appears to be more important than the airplane since it affects more people's lives more directly. Without the automobile, it is no doubt unpleasant to imagine using the horse and cart again, particularly during the summer heat with intolerable odor and manure. However, without the airplane, people could still dream to fly anytime. (Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh, essay3663@hotmail.com 指错评论 )
