托福写作考古题第三号：
快餐与慢餐
谢振礼老师海外投稿
TOEFL Essay:
Fast Food vs. Slow Food
Created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
Consumers who are accustomed to making it easier to cook had better learn lessons about the risks of fast food. People must eat to live, but they must eat slow food rather than fake meals in order to avoid undesirable effects. Eating ready-to-prepare and junk foods day in and day out, while saving time, cannot be beneficial to people, considering the cost of losing taste and of getting sick or fat in the long run.
The popularity of prepared food nowadays may explain in part that progress is not always good insofar as human health is concerned. Such food with low preparation time is said to be harmful to health, probably making people ill and certainly overweight. It may be hard not to think that whatever might be the father of a disease, a bad diet could be the mother. Another disadvantage about eating convenient meals must be the probability of having extended waistlines that happen to be symbols of not a few modern consumers, including children, who find it difficult to keep themselves in shape. In short, food has become easier to prepare of course, but this does not mean many people are eating well and staying fit.
In consuming so much food so easily prepared, people are gradually giving up the habits of cooking that kind of healthy food which is characteristic of good taste. The pleasure of eating traditional meals like hot soup is a sign of quality life enjoyed by people of older times. For instance, as simple and as homely as it may seem, hot soup used to be a liquid comfort which along with fresh fish and green vegetables could account for half the emotions of human life in the dining room. But that was before the invention of the microwave ovens. This age is a high-tech fancy-food culture associated with patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically designed to kill the appetite and deceive the stomach. It can not fail to be seen that much of the art of home cooking, so common among grandmothers, seems to be absent from modern-day kitchens.
Slow and delicious food, prepared with good and green materials fresh from local marketplaces, must be the option for people with problems of bad taste and overweight. In a certain sense, all sorts of ready-to-eat food are unnatural, almost immoral, to good eating and good cooking. To improve the way people eat, it is therefore necessary to promote taste and health education.
》以上范文是改写鹦鹉小姐QQ2420263544的习作。原来鹦鹉引言的中文大意是说近年来对于快餐的利弊，世人争议不休。有人说快餐改善生活。有人不以为然。鹦鹉认为，每个问题都像铜板的两面。鹦鹉赞成后者的看法。
》谢振礼老师点评说，这种模板写法不好，因为考官都看腻了，换个新鲜的开头吧。开头第一句就说出常吃快餐的人毛病多。虽然人人都得吃才能活，但是不吃健康的慢餐，肯定活不好。有两个主要缺点是1. 丧失胃口。2. 发胖成病。
》主体两段。第二段谈吃快餐不利胃口。第三段谈吃快餐会抱病或发胖。
》结论模仿引言，但是句子的排列要颠倒次序。
》鼓励鹦鹉参考【起承转合】的【隐形模板】--看不见的模板，不算是模板。看得见的模板死板板，不厉害。
》谢振礼老师不鼓励迷信模板。有时候玩猜题，有时候买彩卷，两者都失败，哈哈。再接再厉，再猜三题，下周开奖。本周缺钱，不再买六合彩了。
猜题【托福写作第三号真题】
003. Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
猜题【第七号范文】请访网页
007. How do movies or television influence people's behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
猜题【第166号范文】请访网页
166. People recognize a difference between children and adults. What events--experiences or ceremonies--make a person an adult? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.
