托福寫作提升的比較好方法是閱讀和仿寫

　　不少同學(xué)總是抱怨自己寫的文章用詞不夠高大上，想要解決語言單一的問題，平日積累是必不可少的。因?yàn)樽鳛檩敵鲂涂荚?，前期的輸入過程至關(guān)重要。積累的最好方法就是閱讀和仿寫。閱讀的材料在體裁上盡量選擇essay(散文、評(píng)論性文章)。讀英文小說，對(duì)培養(yǎng)閱讀興趣和語感很好，但對(duì)托福寫作的幫助不直接。因?yàn)檫@些作品屬于文學(xué)寫作，其語境和議論文有很大差別，即便學(xué)到很炫的詞句，也很難有用武之地。最后，別忘了一件事情：仿寫。只看不寫，永遠(yuǎn)不能將輸入語言化成輸出語言。就像大家背單詞，可是考場(chǎng)上很難使用出來是一樣的。盡量仿寫整句，保持原句結(jié)構(gòu)，替換內(nèi)容。作文，尤其獨(dú)立作文，應(yīng)該是個(gè)人化的。因此，從一開始大家就應(yīng)該在語言上打造屬于自己的風(fēng)格。

　　那么，托福考試對(duì)于語言的要求到底是如何的呢?也就是說怎樣的文章能夠獲得ETS的青睞?我們來看一下《官方指南》對(duì)獨(dú)立寫作評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)(scoring rubric)對(duì)語言的要求，考綱中有這么一段話“Displays consistentfacility in the use of language, demonstrating syntactic variety, appropriateword choice, and idiomaticity, though it may have minor lexical or grammaticalerrors.”通過對(duì)比之前介紹的綜合寫作的語言要求，獨(dú)立寫作對(duì)語言的要求顯然更高，對(duì)詞和句都比較具體的要求，而且尤其指出了“靈活多變的句式”和“恰當(dāng)?shù)脑~匯”，這里就包含了詞匯的變化，不能老是重復(fù)使用某個(gè)詞匯或表達(dá)。也就是說托福對(duì)語言的要求是“多變”’。

　　詞匯方面，通過分析《官方指南》(p211)上誠(chéng)信這篇滿分范文可以看出，考官(Rater)對(duì)其語言的評(píng)論用了“fluent, accurate and varied”三個(gè)詞。在這篇范文中，題干的核心詞是“tell the truth”，而作文中用了“honesty”，“dishonesty”，“reliability”，“lie”，“lying”，“hide”和“trust”等替代了核心詞。這樣不僅讓考官領(lǐng)略到你詞匯的豐富(lexical resources)，而且還能感覺到你對(duì)于核心信息展開和解釋的能力。

　　在句式方面，考官評(píng)論中用了“a variety of sentence structure”(句子結(jié)構(gòu)的多樣)。包括如下句式：1)各種從句：that引導(dǎo)的定語從句，after引導(dǎo)的時(shí)間狀語從句，although、however和even though引導(dǎo)的讓步狀語從句。2)使用wish的虛擬語氣句3)用but引導(dǎo)的轉(zhuǎn)折并列句，還有either…or的否定并列句4)現(xiàn)在分詞做狀語的非謂語現(xiàn)象5)How和What引導(dǎo)的反問句(rhetorical questions)，還有感嘆句。6)as…as的同級(jí)比較句，還有比較級(jí)和最高級(jí)的使用。此外，常用語法現(xiàn)象如不定式、動(dòng)名詞等也是比比皆是。這篇文章雖然語言樸素簡(jiǎn)單，幾乎沒有任何高大上的詞匯，且文章的整體結(jié)構(gòu)也不是傳統(tǒng)的五段三體(開頭主旨+主題三個(gè)分論點(diǎn)段+結(jié)尾結(jié)論)，但語言上卻充滿各種變化，所以僅靠這一優(yōu)勢(shì)就足已讓這位考生的文章脫穎而出，獲取考官滿分的褒獎(jiǎng)，這是值得我們反思，學(xué)習(xí)和模仿的。

　　實(shí)際上大家身邊有很多出色的語言材料可以利用，我個(gè)人比較推薦《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》這種學(xué)術(shù)性較強(qiáng)的雜志。今天帶大家來欣賞一篇文章，文章中的語料尤其適合作為數(shù)據(jù)舉例法的框架，大家平時(shí)也可以按照這種分析方法進(jìn)行積累，仿寫。

　　Sorry, Strivers: TalentMatters

　　How do people acquire high levels ofskill in science, business, music, the arts and sports? This has long been atopic of intense debate in psychology. (這就是我們常說的：XX話題正在被熱議)

　　Research in recentdecades has shown that abig part of the answer is simply practice — and a lot of it. In a pioneering study, the Florida StateUniversity psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and his colleaguesasked violin students at a music academy to estimate the amount of time they haddevoted to practice since theystarted playing. By age 20, the students whom thefaculty nominated as the “best”players had accumulated an average of over 10,000 hours, compared with just under 8,000 hours for the “good” players and not even 5,000 hours for the leastskilled.

　　這一段就可以用在利用研究做論證來支持論點(diǎn) ,通常是這樣一個(gè)結(jié)構(gòu):研究機(jī)構(gòu)( In a pioneering study, the Florida StateUniversity psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues +研究目的(toestimate the amount of time they had devoted to practice)+比較結(jié)構(gòu)students(跟修飾限定語 )do sth, compared with 另外一群體

　　Exhibit A is a landmark study of intellectually precocious youthsdirected by the Vanderbilt University researchers David Lubinski andCamilla Benbow. Theyand their colleagues tracked theeducational and occupational accomplishments of more than 2,000 people who aspart of a youth talent search scored in the top 1 percent on the SAT by the ageof 13. (Scores on the SAT correlate so highly with與XX有緊密聯(lián)系I.Q. that the psychologist Howard Gardner described it asa “thinly disguised” intelligence test.) The remarkable finding of their study isthat, compared with the participantswho were “only” in the 99.1 percentile for intellectual ability atage 12, those who were in the 99.9 percentile — the profoundly gifted — were between three and five times morelikely to go on to earn a doctorate, secure apatent, publish an article in a scientific journal or publish a literary work.A high level of intellectual ability gives you an enormous real-worldadvantage.

　　這里附上簡(jiǎn)化模版 :

　　A survey, conducted by a psychologist and hiscolleagues in Florida State, shows a remarkable finding after tracking 100people who has frustrated experience after doing challenging things. Thefinding indicates that those people tend to be less confident when face a newthing. 這里的地點(diǎn)和人物,以及研究對(duì)象都可以根據(jù)不同的題目來換。

　　下面我們用一道機(jī)經(jīng)題目進(jìn)行仿寫吧!

　　Do you agree or disagree? It was easier to identify whatjobs or careers were secure and successful in the past than it is now.

　　A survey, conducted by Career Service Center in China, showsa remarkable finding after tracking two groups of people with the first at theage of 50 and above and the second aged from 20 to 30. The remarkable findingof the study is that, 32.5% of the first group respectively choose the optionof civil servants and teachers, and 72.4% of the second group circled the thirdoption of other occupations such as singers, freelance writers and so on. Thedifference in the two groups of figures lies in the transition of people'sattitude of choosing a job.

　　分析這篇文章旨在幫助大家學(xué)習(xí)如何用研究事例支持自己的觀點(diǎn)，以后會(huì)和大家分享更多的滿分文章或者實(shí)用段落，大家平時(shí)也要多多積累，勤于練習(xí)!