托福写作模板：选择哪一类人合作更有效

　　题目：

　　Your teacher assigns a project to you, and you can select the members to work with.

　　--choose the members who think and work in similar ways

　　--choose the members who have totally different ideas

　　Which would you think is more effective to work with?

　　参考范文

　　It is more effective to complete a project with people who think and work in similar ways than to struggle to finish a task with people who have totally different ideas. Knowing each other and having similar interests facilitates the successful completion of a project.

　　Members who know each other well can divide the task and set up a reasonable working plan to ensure that the project will be completed on time. If members know the others’ strengths and weaknesses, they can decide which part to assign to which person to best get the task done. I specifically remember being in a team of three students who had to complete an assignment that included a written essay and a power point presentation. I was a good speaker but terrible at using the computer, so I gave the presentation. However, the power point slides were all generated by our friend who was shy but very capable with the computer. The third person was very detail-oriented, so she was the natural choice to organize the information into an essay.

　　Not only are team members who have similar ideas able to divide tasks effectively, but they also can create a solid common goal. If people are too different, it is hard to decide on a good thesis or theme, and the result might be a compromise that everyone is dissatisfied with. By contrast, people who think in similar ways can agree on a topic and develop it out, and it becomes very strong. In the assignment mentioned above, the three members quickly agreed on a common theme. We invested our working time into researching the theme rather than debating what to write about. Since we all were interested in the topic, we all invested our best efforts rather than just trying to get it over with, and the result was an A grade.

　　People with similar ideas and interests make the best team to solve a problem or complete a task because they know each other’s abilities, so canallot tasks accordingly. Even more important, they can select a topic that they are all interested in, so everyone wants to participate rather than do only the minimum to get the task done.

　　词句积累

　　strengths and weaknesses 优势与劣势

　　assign to 指派给

　　be very detail-oriented 非常注重细节

　　create a solid common goal 建立一个坚固的共同目标

　　invest our best efforts 投入我们最大的努力

　　get it over with 赶紧把事情做完

　　allot tasks accordingly 相应地分配任务