16509 谢振礼 TOEFL Essay: Keeping old friends and making new friends
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TOEFL Independent Writing
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>Essay Topic:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important to keep your old friends than to make new friends.
Use specific reasons and examples or details to support your opinion.
>Sample Essay: Jeenn Lee Hsieh
Making new friends should not mean losing old ones, both types of friends being important to your feeling happy in life. For that matter, it is necessary to harmonize relations with the new and the old. Typically, there are benefits of keeping old friends and making new friends.
On the one hand, making new friends can make vast contributions to your happiness. The great thing about new friends is that they can bring you a sense of well-being by introducing new perspectives, new experiences, new ideas, new opportunities and new social networks into your life. When you make friends with someone new, you never know how close of a friend he or she may become. In fact, if you close yourself off to new friendships, you may miss out brightening up up your life due to the possibility that a new friend may turn out to be a long-lasting valuable friend. So, speaking of friends, it is not so much about whom you have known longest as it is about who came, and never left your side. Incidentally, you do not really realize in advance how well any new friendship will work out, do you?
On the other hand, it is very important to maintain old friendships for your well-being. Often there is no happier feeling than having old friends who love you, have your back, and most of all, have fun. They accept you for who you are, flaws and all, and reinforce your identity as a person who matters. After years of experiences together and inside jokes, old friends have seen you at your best and at your worst, known your likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses. Usually your old friends are your constants and the ones who have always been there for you and will always support you through thick and thin. Probably that is why in this rapidly changing world, long-term relationships should be valued as shared (golden) experiences that no new friends (even with silver rings) could replace.
In sum, people come into your life for a season, a reason or a lifetime, and you need both new and old friends to keep things balanced in order for you to be happy. Both old friends and new friends can be important because you may need the former to help you grow old with fun and the latter to stay young with energy. It is as the cliche goes: "Make new friends but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold." (Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh 谢振礼原创托福文 ielts360toefl@163.com 微信: ielts360toefl )
Note: 以上一道托福独立写作真题来自TPO TOEFL Independent Writing 练习题Topic No 3:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Use reasons and specific examples or details to support your opinion.
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Educating children is a more difficult task today than it was in the past because they spend so much time on cell phones, online games, and social networking websites.
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When teachers assign projects on which children must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects.
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Young people today have no infouence on the important decisions that determine the future of society as a whole.
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Because the world is changing so quickly, people now are less happy or less satisfied with their lives than people were in the past.
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It is more enjoyable to have a job and you work only three days a werk with long hours rather than work five days a week with shorter hours.
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To improve the quality of education, universities should spend more money on salaries for university professors.
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Parents today are more involved in their children's education than parents were in the past.
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If people have the opportunity to get a secure job, they should take it right away rather than wait for a job that would be more satisfying.
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It is better for children to choose jobs that are similar to their parents' jobs than to choose jobs that are very different from their parents' jobs.
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Young people nowadays do not give enough time to helping their communities.
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One of the best ways that parents can help their children prepare for adult life is to encourage them to take a part-time job.
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In today's world, it is more important to work quickly and risk making mistakes than to work slowly and make sure that everything is correct.
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Teachers should not make their social or political views known to students in the lcassroom.
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For success in a future job, the ability to relate well to people is more important than studying hard in school.
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Successful people try new things and take risks rather than only doing what they know.
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Ir order to be well-informed, a person must get information from many different news resources.
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Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends.
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Most advertisements make products seem much better than they really are.
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The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide.
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Ir order to become financially responsible adults, children should learn to manage their own money at young age.
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People benefit more from travelling in their own country than from travelling to foreign countries.
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The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) is less important now than it was in the past.
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It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject.
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Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think that access to too much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with?
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Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.
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Technology has made students less creative than they were in the past.
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Television advertising directed towards young children (ages two to five) should not be allowed.
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It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
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Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.
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People today spend too much time on personal enjoyment, doing things they like to do rather than doing things they should do.
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In 20 years there will be fewer cars in use than there are today.
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It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.
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Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people.
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At universities and colleges, sports and social activities are just as important as classes and libraries and should receive equal financial support.
