《SAT作文你也可以拿滿分》是2011年出版的圖書，作者是鐘莉。
基本介紹
- 書名：SAT作文：你也可以拿滿分
- 作者：鐘莉
- ISBN：978-7-302-25678-6
- 定價：39.00元
- 出版社：清華大學出版社
- 出版時間：2011年7月
- 裝幀：平裝
- 開本：16開
圖書信息,內容簡介,作者簡介,目錄,序言,
圖書信息
書名：SAT作文：你也可以拿滿分
責編：陳莉 高屾
版次： 1-1
定價：39.00元
編目分類：SAT考試/英語考試
內容簡介
本書是美國名校入學考試指導系列之一。該書詳細闡述了SAT作文寫作技巧，提供了充實的各類論證素材，並通過作文點評解讀獲取高分的技巧，是不可多得的英語備考教材與讀物。
SAT作文測試學生的語言掌握及運用能力，考查學生的邏輯推理與思維能力。本書不僅詳解應對SAT作文技巧，而且提示學生要培養良好的閱讀習慣和思維習慣，使學生成績受益的同時，思想也跟著受益。
作者簡介
鐘莉(Christy L. Zhong)
北京外國語大學英語語言文學碩士，SAT英文教育專家，加拿大BC省翻譯協會會員，常春藤100教育全職專業SAT英文教師。在中國和北美地區從事英語語言教學十餘年，對東西方教學理念及應試模式有深刻的了解。著有：《弗朗茨·舒伯特及其時代》、《克萊普納廣告教程》等。
目錄
Chapter I SAT Essay Overview 1
What you need to know before you write 1
SAT essay is 25 minutes in length 1
Use pencil 2
Write legibly 2
No “right” or “wrong” answer to topic assignment 3
Who are the readers? 3
How are the essays graded? 4
What are the scoring criteria? 4
Scoring of 6 4
Scoring of 5 5
Scoring of 4 5
Scoring of 3 6
Scoring of 2 6
Scoring of 1 7
Scoring of 0 7
Chapter II 7 tips to know for maximizing your score 8
Tip one: Attitude decides everything
——be positive over negative 8
Tip two: Cultivate good reading habits
——take notes while reading 10
1. create a reading list 10
2. think while reading 11
3. take notes while reading 11
4. reading is pleasure 12
Tip three: Examples, examples and examples
——make a summary of example resource 13
1. make a list of examples 13
2. read the news 14
3. practice arguing by using examples 14
4. Vary the sources of examples 14
5. Can I use song or Harry Potter examples? 14
Tip four: Write long
——one and a half pages at least 15
Tip five: Use big words
——don’t go overwhelmed 16
1. use big words appropriately 16
Tip six: be direct
——avoid wordiness 19
Tip seven: Entertain your reader
——add fun to your essay 22
1. don’t be too personal 22
2. humor impresses readers 22
Chapter III 8 steps for writing a good essay 23
Step one: Decide your position
——read the prompt carefully 24
Step two: Find examples
——two examples are fine, too 25
Step three: Write introductory paragraph
——state your position 26
Step four: Begin the body
——use examples to support your position 26
Step five: Write the conclusion
——you must close 27
Step six: Show variety in sentence structure 28
1. Vary the rhythm by alternating short and long sentences. 28
Vary sentence openings. 29
Step seven: Diversity in word choice 30
Step eight: Check and polish
——revise for grammatical and writing faults 33
Chapter IV 9 SAT Essay Topics and Essay Sample Explanation 34
Section I: Modern Society Issues 34
Topic 1: Is apathy a problem in today’s society? 34
Topic 2: Is the world changing for the better? 41
Topic 3: Should modern society be criticized for being materialistic? 46
Section II: Technology “Advancement” 50
Topic 1: Do the benefits of technology always outweigh the costs? 50
Topic 2: Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make
them better? 54
Topic 3: Have modern advancements truly improved the quality of people's lives? 58
Section III: Media and information 60
Topic 1: Do violence and immorality in the media make our society
more dangerous and immoral? 60
Topic 2: Do newspapers, magazines, TV, radios determine what is
important to most people? 62
Section IV: Individuality and group 63
Topic 1: Is it always best to determine one’s own views of right and wrong, or can we benefit from following the crowd? 63
Topic 2: Is there any value for people to belong only to a group or groups
with which they have something in common? 67
Topic 3: Are organizations or groups most successful when their members
pursue individual wishes and goals? 69
Section V: Honesty 71
Topic 1: Are people bound to tell the truth at all times, or are there situations
in which it is better to lie or tell only partial truths? 71
Topic 2: Can deception - pretending that something is true when it is
not - sometimes have good results? 74
Topic 3: Do circumstances determine whether or not we should tell the truth? 77
Section VI: Education and knowledge 79
Topic 1: Is education primarily the result of influences other than school? 79
Topic 2: Can knowledge be a burden rather than a benefit? 81
Section VII: Success and adversity 85
Topic 1: Can success be disastrous? 85
Topic 2: Is striving to achieve a goal always the best course of action,
or should people give up if they are not making progress? 88
Topic 3: Is it more important to do work that one finds fulfilling or
work that pays well? 94
Section VIII: Making decisions 96
Topic 1: What two options are the most difficult to choose between? 96
Topic 2: Are people best defined by what they do? 100
Section IX: Others 102
Topic 1: Does fame bring happiness, or are people who are not famous
more likely to be happy? 102
Topic 2: Do incidents from the past continue to influence the present? 104
Chapter V Example sources for SAT 107
Section I: Law of life 108
Buddha’s teaching 108
Three fables 108
What you should know about life 109
Section II: Historical documents and speeches 110
United States Declaration of Independence (Adopted in Congress 4 July 1776) 110
The Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863) 113
I have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. (August 28, 1963) 114
Blood, Sweat, and Tears, by Winston Churchill (May 13, 1940) 118
William Faulkner on accepting Nobel Prize in Literature (December 10, 1950) 120
Section III: Philosophers and thinkers 121
Laozi 121
Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) 122
Socrates (469 BC-399 BC) 123
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 125
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) 127
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 128
Section IV: Artists 129
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) 129
Michelangelo (1475-1564) 130
Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) 132
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 133
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) 134
Section V: Authors 135
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) 135
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 135
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 136
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 137
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) 138
Jules Verne (1828-1905) 139
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 140
Section VI: Humanitarians 141
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) 141
Eleanor Roosevelt(1884-1962) 141
Section VII: Scientists and inventors 142
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 142
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 143
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 144
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) 145
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 146
Thomas Edison (1847-1931) 146
Marie Curie (1867-1934) 147
Section VIII: Leaders 148
Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC) 148
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869--1948) 149
George Washington (1732-1799) 150
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 152
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) 153
Section IX: Businessmen 154
The du Pont Family 154
Henry Ford (1863--1947) 154
Bill Gates (1955---) 155
序言
SAT，又稱學術能力評估測試，是1901年以來美國普遍使用的大學入學考試，也是國際學生申請美國本科必須參加的考試之一。經過多年不斷地修改和完善，目前的SAT版本不僅測試考生的知識水平，而且注重考查他們運用知識和獨立思考的能力。
考生要在SAT考試中取得高分並不容易，對母語不是英語的中國學生來說尤其如此，所以平時持之以恆的努力和考前全力以赴的衝刺都是必要的。為了提高考生平時練習的效率，有目標地進行考前突擊複習，我們特意編寫了美國名校入學指導系列。
在編寫過程中，常春藤100教育的資深顧問團隊將其多年豐富的入學申請成就和諮詢經驗進行了總結，同時，SAT教學專家仔細研究了歷年的SAT考題，並收集了大量美國歷史、文化、新聞及教育方面的素材，以求我們的這套叢書更貼近真題，更有指導性、針對性和時代性。
這套叢書包括：
● SAT數學寶典
● 美國大學入學申請文章寫作及例文欣賞
● SAT辭彙寶典
● SAT作文：你也可以拿滿分
● SAT閱讀分析及訓練
● SAT語法攻略
其內容包攬了常春藤100 教育10年來對美國著名大學錄取標準的分析，東西方教育體制的比較，以及指導考生成功進入美國名校的經驗和個案。在英語和數學方面，這套書從辭彙、語法、閱讀、寫作，到幾何、代數、統計、機率以及基礎數論的計算和分析都做了詳盡的解釋和深刻的剖析，並給予學習方法上的指導和考試技巧上的提示。此外，該叢書還收入了大量由常春藤100教育SAT專家撰寫的相關練習和仿真限時考題。
在使用這套叢書的過程中，考生對SAT會從知之甚少到駕輕就熟，從茫然不知所措到坦然從容應對。這個過程幫助他們豐富科學知識，接觸美國文化，提高英語技能，熟悉考試模式，充分認識自我，增強應試能力。
從準備參加SAT考試，到如願以償進入理想的美國大學，是一個短至數月長至數年的過程。這個過程猶如在崎嶇不平的小道上攀登，是對毅力的磨練和恆心的考驗。對正處於個性形成期的中學生而言，這個過程對他們將來的人生軌跡和成功有著重要的作用。SAT是一項有相當難度的考試，考生在準備考試的過程中，需有堅強的毅力克服重重困難，需有持久的恆心面對種種挑戰。從這個意義上來說，準備SAT考試就是為將來鍥而不捨勇往直前的人生鋪路，以達到自信自強的目的。
參加SAT考試，進入理想的美國大學，需要考生的勤奮和努力，也需要家長的支持和培育。家長希望孩子受到良好的教育，更希望孩子敢於面對挫折，經得住生活的考驗，有百折不撓的精神。當孩子複習考試遇到困難時，理解與幫助會給孩子溫暖；鼓勵和鞭策會給孩子動力。敢於參加SAT考試並為之付出努力本身就是積極向上的態度和行動。不管結果如何，通過這一過程，孩子會逐漸積累知識，培養毅力。這是不可多得的經歷，是現代教育的理念，也是考生家長的期盼。
SAT不僅寄託著家長的希望，更孕育著考生的成功！
