托福独立写作题目解析及答题要点

　　托福写作真题：Agree or disagree: spending too much time on watching sports on TV and following your favorite team would have a bad effect on yourlife.

　　题型分类：现象证明

　　论证角度：具象拆分(家庭、健康)

　　观点选择：让步

　　开头：同意过多时间看体育节目和关注体育队会影响生活(话题引入+他人观点+明确立场+过渡)

　　As always, sports is one of the few things that is extremely popular among people of all ages and all walks of life. A great many people spend a large amount of time watching sports on TV and collecting information about their favorite sports teams. This phenomenon gives rise to a grave concern about whether excessive focus on sports would bring a bad effect on life. As far as I am concerned, the answer to the question above is affirmative. My viewpoint can be supported by the following cases. (89字)

　　中间段1：影响家庭生活。(主题句+说理论证+细节例子)

　　Firstly, too much time on sports is detrimental to family harmony. It is because family should be a place where members need to care about each other by listening, talking and offering helps, but the obsession with sports would definitely deprive people of the “quality time” that belongs to family members. Imagine such a scene: a wife wants to ask advice about changing jobs from her husband, but the husband seems like indifferent and aloof. Later, the wife finds out that her husband has his mind so stuffed with football matches that there is no room left for listening to his wife’s inner voice. (104字)

　　中间段2：影响身体。(主题句+说理论证+细节例子)

　　Secondly, physical health would be negatively affected by excessive attention to sports on TV as well as sports teams. Fascination with something often comes at a cost. People go after sports stars and critical sporting events at the sacrifice of losing opportunities to rest or exercise. For example, I have a neighbor who is a maniac football fan. Duringthe 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he stayed up every night watching the games because of the time difference. Inadequate sleep and great pressure of work caused his health to suffer and he developed serious problems with his heart.(99字)

　　让步段：诚然，看体育比赛和关注球队也有好的一方面，比如增加社交谈资，丰富业余时间等等。但是，我们一定要把时间控制好，安排好，切不可过度沉迷，否则会出现上述的情况。(承认漏洞+堵漏)

　　But on the other hand, there are indeed some benefits that watching sports and following favorite teams bring to people. For instance, in social occasions, people do need a couple of common topics to start up conversation or strengthen mutual understandings. Besides, sports can be a nice choice to enrich our spare time. However, if we fail to manage our time and let our interests uncontrolledly occupy the time to work, exercise and communicate with family, undesirable consequences would occur. (79字)

　　结尾：重申观点，归纳理由/升华主题。

　　From what has been discussed above, we can safely draw a conclusion that too much time on sports on TV and following sports teams do have bad influence on our lives. There is an ancient Chinese wisdom that reads: “Things would turn for the worse if they go extreme.” Havinga hobby is a good thing, but if we do not strike a balance between it and our lives, it would become an obstacle. (74字)