2016年1月9日托福写作范文

　　托福写作题目

　　Some people think schools should startclasses early in the morning. Othersthink schools should let their studentsget up later in the day. Which do youprefer?

　　托福写作范文

　　“Our first class begins at 6:00 in the morningand the dormitoryadministrator wakes us up at 5:00 every day except Sunday.”said a 17-year-oldstudent in Shandong province, who is going to participate inthe coming CollegeEntrance Examination (CEE) at the end of his senior highschool study. Under thehuge pressure from shortage of education resourcecombined with bombingpopulation, Chinese high schools are trying everythingthey can do to help theirstudents stand out from millions of competitors. “Extendinglearning timeespecially in the morning is pretty common in such an ‘educatioNPRovince’. We dobelieve it works.” That view is given by a sophisticatedEnglish teacher inShandong.

　　A recent BBC documentary named “Are ourkids tough enough? Chinese School.”suggests that he might be right. FiveChinese teachers were invited to BohuntSchool in Liphook challenging Britisheducation with four weeks Chinese styleteaching. One of the most significantchanges for the local British studentsvolunteering to attend the experimentalclass was their switching starting timefrom 9:00 to 7:00 and a 12-hour school day.Although the students’ reaction wasto revolt against traditional Chineseteaching method, their final grades ofmathematics, science and Chinese were 10marks higher with total average thantheir British counterparts. As a crucialfactor of traditional Chinese teaching,the earlier start undoubtedlycontributes a lot to the impressive result.

　　However, some health lobbyists are sodetermined to object to schoolsintroducing the early start scheme. An experimentconducted by a group ofphysiology researchers provides scientific evidence to thatstand. 42 volunteerswere required to get up at sequential time with a rangefrom 5:22 to 10:37 andtheir saliva was sampled eight times a day during thatresearch. The assay reportshowed that the cortisol, a hormone released to dealwith health decaying when wego frustrated or irritated, remained in higherlevel in whole days among thosevolunteers who got up earlier than 7:21compared with those who woke up later.Moreover, according to the ten weeksfollow-up, the complaint about muscle acheand headache also accompaniedearlier waking participants rather than the laterwaking control group, and sodid cold and negative mood. The study is in thejournal Global Times.

　　So far, those efforts are just not adequateenough to propel any changes inChina and western countries. Students in BohuntSchool remain 9:00 to start a daywhile Chinese public schools insist to setfirst classes normally at no laterthan 7:30. More targeted researches withlarger samples are still on the way. Tomake sense to such an issue, even morefactors and consequences are to beconsidered to lead a conclusion. We may becurious about whether race and genesmatter, and whether factors influencingsleep quality such as air pressure,oxygen density and temperature are alsoinvolved coming to different conclusions.Reluctantly, it seems that we have tolet schoolmasters and researchers keepstruggling for “a while”.