篇一：2014年12月6日北美SAT作文真题及范文
2014年12月6日北美SAT作文真题及范文
2014年12月6日北美SAT作文题目：
Is it better to be passionate in something or emotionally detached?2014年12月6日北美SAT作文解析：
题目问凡事应全情投入还是冷静客观?针对题目考生可以根据自己的例子素材选择一方观点进行论述。如果选择be emotionally detached, 可以从emotional detachment可以帮助人们在遇到压力困难不幸或者他人的批评的时候，保持清醒的头脑，做出正确的判断。同样，它也可以使人们enjoy a state of inner peace and equanimity or free people from worries, fears, and anxiety。如果选择be passionate, 考生可以讨论作为一种积极乐观的生活态度，热情可以鼓励和激励人们以更加积极的态度面对生活，迎接生活的每一次挑战，最后帮助人们排除万难，实现梦想，找到生命的意义。若从热情这个角度展开，考生可选择的例子素材相对比较广泛。无论选择哪方观点只要言之有理论之有据即可。2014年12月6日北美SAT作文范文：
Oprah Winfrey once said, “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” This profound saying emphasizes the importance of passion in life. Passion acts like “rocket fuel” that keeps us going, and fills our life with meaning and happiness. It also accelerates us to go through any difficulties, and drives us to accomplish anything we set our mind to. To experience a meaningful and successful life, being passionate in something is of much more significance.
By being passionate and establishing goals towards that end, people will be able to discover the true happiness. Florence Nightingale, the Mother of Modern Nursing, experienced her life and work to the fullest extent by discovering her passion for nursing and allowing it to lead her to do great work. Born in a rich and upper-class family, Nightingale always suffered from depression and the feeling of unworthiness as the upper class, and attempted to discern the purpose of life at a young age. Defying her parents’ desire that she married into a socially prominent family, Nightingale wished for meaningful work and began to imagine herself caring for others. It was by the age of 25 that Nightingale found her true passion in nursing as the
means to fulfill her goal. Despite the fact that nursing was an unpaid and unpromising career in Victoria London, Nightingale was passionate in helping the sick and making a change to their lives. During the Crimean War, Nightingale worked tirelessly to tend to the wounded British soldiers and was dubbed “The Lady with the Lamp” after her habit of making rounds at night. Because of her devotion and dedication, Nightingale successfully improved the plight of the wounded, reducing the mortality rate from 42.7% to 2.2%. On her return from the Crimea, Nightingale also devoted her fervent passion into developing nursing as an essential and educated component of healthcare. She established the Nightingale School in London, and published books such as Notes On Nursing which sparked the worldwide health care reform. It was her passion of helping and serving others as a nurse that propelled Nightingale to find the true meaning in life, and to obtain the deep and lasting happiness by making significant changes to nursing practice.
篇二：SAT历年作文题目独家汇总
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SAT ESSAY QUESTION COLLECTION
No. 1
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Nowadays nothing is private: our culture has become too confessional and self-expressive. People think
that to hide one’s 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”
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. No. 2
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Every important discovery results from patience, perseverance, and
concentration — sometimes
continuing for months or years — on one specific subject. A person who wants to discover a new truth
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the problem.
Adapted from Santiago Santiago Ramón y Cajal, “Advice for a Young
Investigator”
Assignment: Are all important discoveries the result of focusing on one subject? 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. No. 3
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
A colleague of the great scientist James Watson remarked that Watson was always “lounging around,
arguing about problems instead of doing experiments.” He concluded that “There is more than one
way of doing good science.” It was Watson’s form of idleness, the scientist went on to say, that
allowed him to solve “the greatest of all biological problems: the discovery of the structure of DNA.”
It is a point worth remembering in a society overly concerned with efficiency. Adapted from John C. Polanyi, “Understanding Discovery”
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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.
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篇三：SAT作文题目大全
SAT作文题目汇总SAT ESSAY QUESTIONS COLLECTION
1. OG Practice Test 1: Is there always another explanation or another point of view?
2. OG Practice Test 2: Is deception ever justified?
3. OG Practice Test 3: What motivates people to change?
4. OG Practice Test 4: Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better?
5. OG Practice Test 5: Is conscience a more powerful motivator than money, fame, or power?
6. OG Practice Test 6: Can success be disastrous?
7. OG Practice Test 7: Do we need other people in order to understand ourselves?
8. OG Practice Test 8: Is the world changing for the better?
9. OG Practice Test 9: Do you think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity
to help us discover who we are?
10. OG Practice Test 10: Should heroes be defined as people who say what they think when we
ourselves lack the courage to say it?
11. OC 1: Is the way something seems to be not always the same as it actually is?
12. OC 2: Are bad choices and good choices equally likely to have negative consequences?
13. OC 3: Do people learn who they are only when they are forced into action?
14. OC 4: Are people’s lives the result of the choices they make?
15. OC 5: Do closed doors make us creative?
16. OC 6: Do people have to be highly competitive in order to succeed?
17. CB-1: Is style more important than substance?
18. CB-2: Can what we value be determined only by what we sacrifice?
19. CB-3: Is perfection something to be admired or sought after?
20. CB-4: What makes a person wise?
21. (2005.3) Is the opinion of the majority — in government or in any other circumstances — a
poor guide?
22. (2005.3) Is creativity needed more than ever in the world today?
23. (2005.3) Are people better at making observations, discoveries, and decisions if they remain
neutral and impartial?
24. (2005.3) Is a person responsible, through the example he or she sets, for the behavior of other
people?
25. (2005.5) Do people depend on work—whether it is a job, schoolwork, or volunteer work — to
determine what their daily activities and interactions with others should be?
26. (2005.5) Does progress depend on people with new ideas rather than on people whose ideas
are based on the current way of doing things?
27. (2005.5) Are people afraid to speak out against authority, whether the authority is an
individual, a group, or a government?
28. (2005.5) Does worrying too much about other people’s opinions prevent us from seeing things
clearly?
29. (2005.6) Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed
in the present?
30. (2005.6) Do people put too much emphasis on learning practical skills?
31. (2005.6) Should schools help students understand moral choices and social issues?
32. (2005.6) Do newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, the Internet, and other media
determine what is important to most people?
33. (2005.10) Is success in life earned or do people succeed because they are lucky?
34. (2005.10) Is society’s admiration for famous people beneficial or harmful?
35. (2005.10) Do we live in a time when people do not engage in serious thinking?
36. (2005.10) Should people make more of an effort to keep some things private?
37. (2005.11) Should our perceptions of beauty be influenced by the perceptions of beauty of
other people?
38. (2005.11) Is praising others, even if the praise is excessive or undeserved, a necessary part of
life?
39. (2005.11) Is conflict helpful?
40. (2005.11) Has the acquisition of money and possessions replaced more meaningful ways of
measuring our achievements?
41. (2005.12) Are leaders necessarily people who are most capable of leadership?
42. (2005.12) Is knowledge of the past no longer useful for us today?
43. (2005.12) Is it necessary to limit or put restrictions on freedom of thought and expression?
44. (2005.12) Do the benefits of scientific and technological developments come at the cost of
undesirable changes to people’s lives?
45. (2006.1) Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things in their own way?
46. (2006.1) Is it necessary to make mistakes, even when doing so has negative consequences for
other people?
47. (2006.1) Can any obstacle or disadvantage be turned into something good?
48. (2006.1) Are all important discoveries the result of focusing on one subject?
49. (2006.4) Is it best not to change our ideas, opinions, or behaviors?
50. (2006.4) Is our ability to change ourselves unlimited, or are there limits on our ability to make
important changes in our lives?
51. (2006.4) What do you think motivates people to do their best?
52. (2006.4) Should each individual decide what and how to learn?
53. (2006.5) Are we free to make our own decisions or are we limited in the choices we can
make?
54. (2006.5) Would the world be a better place if everyone always told the complete truth?
55. (2006.5) Does the success of a community—whether it is a class, a team, a family, a nation, or
any other group—depend upon people's willingness to limit their personal interests?
56. (2006.5) Does the truth change depending on how people look at things?
57. (2006.6) Does a strong commitment to technological progress cause a society to neglect other
values, such as education and the protection of the environment?
58. (2006.6) Are established rules too limited to guide people in real-life situations?
59. (2006.6) Is it sometimes better to take risks than to follow a more reasonable course of action?
60. (2006.6) Do we tend to accept the opinions of others instead of developing our own
independent ideas?
61. (2006.10) Do people achieve more success by cooperation than by competition?
62. (2006.10) Is it important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of
authority?
63. (2006.10) Does true learning only occur when we experience difficulties?
64. (2006.10) Can deception—pretending that something is true when it is not—sometimes have
good results?
65. (2006.11) Do we put too much value on the ideas or actions of individual people?
66. (2006.11) Can books and stories about characters and events that are not real teach us
anything useful?
67. (2006.11) Can people achieve success only if they aim to be perfect?
68. (2006.11) Do success and happiness depend on the choices people make rather than on factors
beyond their control?
69. (2006.12) Are people more likely to be productive and successful when they ignore the
opinions of others?
70. (2006.12) Is it better for people to be realistic or optimistic?
71. (2006.12)Is it important to try to understand people’s motivations before judging their
actions?
72. (2006.12) Is happiness something over which people have no control, or can people choose to
be happy?
73. (2007.1) Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their
communities or the nation in general?
74. (2007.1) Is it more important to do work that one finds fulfilling or work that pays well?
75. (2007.1) Is education primarily the result of influences other than school?
76. (2007.1) Is it better to change one’s attitude than to change one’s circumstances?
77. (2007.3) Is it more valuable for people to fit in than to be unique and different?
78. (2007.3) Is it best to have low expectations and to set goals we are sure of achieving?
79. (2007.3) Do we really benefit from every event or experience in some way?
80. (2007.5) Should modern society be criticized for being materialistic?
81. (2007.5) Can knowledge be a burden rather than a benefit?
82. (2007.5) Is it always best to determine one’s own views of right and wrong, or can we benefit
from following the crowd?
83. (2007.5) Do circumstances determine whether or not we should tell the truth?
84. (2007.6) Are people more likely to be happy if they focus on goals other than their own
happiness?
85. (2007.6) Is there a value in celebrating certain individuals as heroes?
86. (2007.6) Have modern advancements truly improved the quality of people’s lives?
87. (2007.6) Do people truly benefit from hardship and misfortune?
88. (2007.10) Is identity something people are born with or given, or is it something people create
for themselves?
89. (2007.10) Can people ever be truly original?
90. (2007.10) Do people achieve greatness only by finding out what they are especially good at
and developing that attribute above all else?
91. (2007.10) Should we admire heroes but not celebrities?
92. (2007.11) Does having a large number of options to choose from make people happy?
93. (2007.11) Is it always necessary to find new solutions to problems?
94. (2007.11) Is the main value of the arts to teach us about the world around us?
95. (2007.11) Is criticism — judging or finding fault with the ideas and actions of others —
essential for personal well-being and social progress?
96. (2007.12) Do people need to “unlearn”, or reject, many of their assumptions and ideas?
97. (2007.12) Should people choose one of the two opposing sides of an issue, or is the truth
usually found “in the middle”?
98. (2007.12) Do images and impressions have too much of an effect on people?
99. (2007.12) Is the most important purpose of technology today different from what it was in the
past?
100. (2008.1) Is it always better to be original than to imitate or use the ideas of others?
101. (2008.1) Is the effort involved in pursuing any goal valuable, even if the goal is not reached? 102. (2008.1) Should people always prefer new things, ideas, or values to those of the past?
103. (2008.1) Is there any value for people to belong only to a group or groups with which they
something in common?
104. (2008.3) Are organizations or group most successful when their members pursue individual
wishes and goals?
105. (2008.3) Should people always be loyal?
106. (2008.3) Do people learn more from losing than from winning?
107. (2008.5) Are there benefits to be gained from avoiding the use of modern technology, even
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108. (2008.5) Do people place too much emphasis on winning?
109. (2008.5) Are people’s actions motivated primarily by a desire for power over others? 110. (2008.5) Do incidents from the past continue to influence the present?
111. (2008.6) Does fame bring happiness, or are people who are not famous more likely to be
happy?
112. (2008.6) Is it better for a society when people act as individuals rather than copying the ideas
and opinions of others?
113. (2008.6) Are widely held views often wrong, or are such views more likely to be correct? 114. (2008.6) Are the actions of individuals more valuable than the actions of groups or teams? 115. (2008.10) Is compromise always the best way to resolve a conflict?
116. (2008.10) Are the decisions made quickly just as good as decisions made slowly and
carefully?
117. (2008.10) Can a group of people function effectively without someone being in charge?118. (2008.10) Do actions, not words, reveal a person or group’s rule attitudes and intentions? 119. (2008.11) Do all established traditions deserve to remain in existence?
120. (2008.11) Do people need to compare themselves with others in order to appreciate what they
have?
121. (2008.11) Is it necessary for people to combine their efforts with those of others in order to be
the most effective?
122. (2008.11) Should society limit people’s exposure to some kinds of information or forms of
expression?
123. (2008.12) Is persistence more important than ability in determining a person’s success? 124. (2008.12) Is acting an essential part of everyday life?
125. (2008.12) Can people have too much enthusiasm?
126. (2008.12) Do we only help others in order to help ourselves in some way?
127. (2009.1) Does planning interfere with creativity?
128. (2009.1) Do highly accomplished people achieve more than others mainly because they
expect more of themselves?
129. (2009.1) Should people change their decisions when circumstances change, or is it best for
them to stick with their original decisions?
130. (2009.1) Is striving to achieve a goal always the best course of action, or should people give
up if they are not making progress?
131. (2009.3) Does being ethical make it hard to be successful?
132. (2009.3) Is it sometimes necessary to be impolite?
133. (2009.3) Should we limit our use of the term “courage” to acts in which people risk their own
well-being for the sake of others or to uphold a value?
134. (2009.5) Should we pay more attention to people who are older and more experienced than
we are?