Task 1

INTEGRATED

综合写作

太空中的太阳能板比地球上的太阳能板好处多。

阅读给出三种观点：

1：太空中的太阳能板比在地面上capture more energy。地球上的云层会挡住一部分太阳光，所以地球上的太阳能板接收的太阳能较少；另外，由于大气层会吸收掉一部分太阳光，所以地球上的太阳光比太空中的会弱很多。

2：太空中的太阳能板有技术*护不会被破坏，地球上的太阳能板会被风吹的碎片破坏。

3：Better for the environment。地球上的太阳能板通常被放在没人居住的原生态地区，太阳能板用占用一定的土地资源，也需要修建道路通往这个太阳能板的地区，自然会破坏生态环境。然而太空中的太阳能板就不会破坏环境。

听力逐一反驳：

1：不会接收到更多的能量。

2：太空中的太阳能板也不能被*护，因为space dust特别小，现有的技术无法防止这么小的物质不会撞击太阳能板。另外，高速的陨石会给太阳能巨大的热量，如此高的热能也会一定程度上破坏太阳能板。

3：会破坏臭氧层，对地球的环境也不好。因为太空中太阳能板在释放能量的时候会破坏臭氧层。然而臭氧层在*护动植物方面有重要的作用，破坏了它对环境也不好。

Task 2   INDEPENDENT  独立写作

话题类别

教育类

考题文字：

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Some people think that younger children should be taken care of by the older children in a family; others think that younger children should be taken care of by their parents or other adults in their family. What is your opinion and why?

Use specific reasons and examples to explain your choice.

参考范文：

Taking care of children is never an easy task. When it comes to who is more suitable for taking care of younger children, some people put forward that the older children are a better choice, while others insist that parents or other adults are more competent. In view of more experience and much stronger ability to handle unexpected situations, parents or other adults are more skilled in taking care of younger children.

First, parents or other adults are more knowledgeable and experienced in taking care of younger children. Parents have accumulated enough knowledge on how to take care of children during their development from books, media or the people around them. Besides, they’ve already had children, so they have accumulated considerable experience and skills on how to looking after children. On the other hand, the older children are newcomers to the world and everything remains mysterious to them, so they are not qualified to take care of their siblings.

Additionally, parents or other adults are more capable of tackling with emergency situation arising from looking after younger children. Even if the older children could be trainer to look after their sisters or brothers, what they can do is still limited. However, there are much more potential dangers associated with taking care of children and the accident happens all the time. When it happens, younger children are ill equipped with dealing with dangers, which may cause disastrous consequences. By contrast, the adults have awareness of various dangers, they are able to respond to hazards at the first place.

Granted, older children are suitable for taking care of younger children to some extent, for they have more time compared with adults. However，since older children themselves are children as well and they are not physically strong, they may hurt themselves or the young children during holding them. Besides, the older children may hurt their siblings due the jealousness result from the fact that more attention of their parents has been put on their siblings rather than them and they have to spend time taking care of their sisters or brothers.

本次写作考试点评：

本次新托福考试重复2015年12月13日大陆考题，2017年09月29日北美考题，总体来说写作难度适中。

参考思路：

观点：parents or other adults in their family。

理由段一：成年人更有知识和经验照顾*。

理由段二：成年人面对突发情况也能够成功应付。

让步段：older children也有好处，比起成年人他们有更多的时间。但是*们的身体上不够强壮，看护弟弟妹妹可能会造成伤害。另外，他们可能会因为妒忌而伤害他们的兄弟姐妹。