6月SAT考试写作真题

　　Prompt 1

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

　　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

　　Assignment:

　　Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present?

　　Prompt 2

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

　　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

　　Assignment:

　　Do people put too much emphasis on learning practical skills?

　　Prompt 3

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

　　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. sat

　　Adapted from Svi Shapiro

　　Assignment:

　　Should schools help students understand moral choices and social issues?

　　Prompt 4

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

　　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

　　Assignment:

　　Do newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, the Internet, and other media determine what is important to most people?