SAT真题作文题目汇总11-18

　　SAT真题作文题目汇总11-18

　　11. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:

　　Assignment: Should schools help students understand moral choices and social issues? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.

　　12. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:

　　Assignment: Do newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, the Internet, and other media determine what is important to most people? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.

　　13. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:

　　引文: Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present.

　　Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Ive Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation

　　引文: The media not only transmit information and culture, they also decide what information is important. In that way, they help to shape culture and values.

　　Adapted from Alison Bernstein, Artists Thrive on Freedom and Freedom Thrives on the Arts

　　引文: Most of our schools are not facing up to their responsibilities. We must begin to ask ourselves whether educators should help students address the critical moral choices and social issues of our time. Schools have responsibilities beyond training people for jobs and getting students into college.

　　Adapted from Svi Shapiro

　　引文: I cannot comprehend those who emphasize or recognize only what is useful. I am concerned that learning for learnings sake is no longer considered desirable, that everything we do and think must be directed toward the solution of a practical problem. More and more we seem to try to teach how to make a good living and not how to live a good life.

　　Adapted from Philip D. Jordan, The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

　　Assignment: Is success in life earned or do people succeed because they are lucky? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

　　14. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:

　　Assignment: Is societys admiration for famous people beneficial or harmful? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

　　15. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:

　　Assignment: Do we live in a time when people do not engage in serious thinking? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

　　16. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below:

　　Assignment: Should people make more of an effort to keep some things private? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

　　引文: This is a time for shallowness. Seriousness is so rare these days that we tend to make all kinds of allowances for those who only seem to possess it. In this way, shallow ideas are not recognized for what they are, and they are increasingly mistaken for deep thoughts.

　　Adapted from Margaret Talbot, The Perfectionist

　　引文: Nowadays nothing is private: our culture has become too confessional and self-expressive. People think that to hide ones thoughts or feelings is to pretend not to have those thoughts or feelings. They assume that honesty requires one to express every inclination and impulse.

　　Adapted from J. David Velleman, the Genesis of Shame

　　引文: 1. Celebrities have the power to attract communities of like-minded followers; they provide an identity that people can connect to and call their own. Celebrities are trusted; they stand for certain ideas and values to which followers can express allegiance.

　　Adapted from William Greider, Who Will Tell the People?