SAT写作题目汇总及预测（三）
No. 29
Think carefully about the issue presented in thefollowing excerpt and the assignment below.
People’s lives are the result of the choices theymake-or fail to make. The path one takes in life is notarbitrary. Choices and their consequences determinethe course of every person’s life. All people whatevertheir circumstances, make the choices on which theirlives depend.
Assignment: Are people’s lives the result of the choices they make? Plan and write an essayin which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning andexamples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
No. 30
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignmentbelow.
Many people believe that “closed doors make us creative.” These people argue thatobstacles and restrictions are necessary, for without them we would never be forced to comeup with new solutions. But “closed doors,” either in the form of specific obstacles or a lack ofopportunities, often prevent people from reaching their full creative potential.
Assignment: Do closed doors make us creative? Plan and write an essay in which youdevelop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
No. 31
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignmentbelow.
People who like to think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic tend to take it forgranted that human nature is “selfish” and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest maysurvive. According to this view, the basic law by which people must live is the law of the jungle.The “fittest” are those people who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning,and superior ruthlessness.
Adapted from S. I. Hayakawa, “Language in Thought and Action”
Assignment: Do people have to be highly competitive in order to succeed? Plan and write anessay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position withreasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.