作者：北美考试院托福写作组 李砚丹

题目解析：

这场考试涉及到的话题是商业，属于在综合考试中较为小众的话题。所幸内容上难度并不高，听力对阅读进行的反驳也较为直接。

TPO中可参考的相关练习有TPO1，2，19。

可以类比下列TPO的综合写作

TPO 1 Four-day Workweek

阅读：每周四个工作日的制度比较好

• 员工休息好工作效率高

• 降低失业率

• 可以提高员工生活质量

听力：四个工作日不太好

• 公司需要花钱雇佣更多新员工  

• 公司会要求员工通过加班完成相同的工作内容

• 降低了生活质量，对工作的稳定和升职有不良影响

题目解析：

2020年的 个周末，独立写作题目的难度也显得比较温和，话题涉及到大多数考生都比较熟悉的学校类。这道题目的出题角度也并不刁钻，两个选项都能够想得出两到三个分论点。题目问某个同学在作业上需要帮助的话，你会推荐下面那个解决办法？一个是向“你”求助，另一个是找导师求助。那么，我们首先考虑一下向导师求助的好处。导师能够提供比较专业的解题思路，甚至提供不同的解决办法来适配这位同学的水平；另一方面，导师也能够更好的了解同学们学习的进度和对知识的掌握情况，比如说，如果有几个同学都对同一个知识点产生了疑问，那么导师也许会考虑集中给全班的同学一起讲解一下这个问题。

如果想要选择向“你”求助的话，可以参考如下范文：

Asking professional tutors for help has always been recommended to students, because tutors can provide the most precious solution indeed. However, tutors are unlike watches that are wrapped around your wrists. There are times in which tutors are not available. Under such circumstances, I would say that if my classmates need help with schoolwork, turning to me for help could also bring merits.

To begin with, asking me for help can get perspectives from a peer student, which can be different from that of a tutor. People in diverse positions see the world differently. Even tutors are professional in expertise of knowledge itself, and they may try whatever they can to imitate the way of thinking of a student, they still cannot understand a juvenile student the way I do, simply because they are not students anymore. Sometimes a student gets stuck not by the knowledge, but by their bizarre way of thinking.  

Furthermore, more interaction between classmates enhances the relationship. Establishing and maintaining relationship with people around is vital in daily life, and helping a classmate provides the opportunity. Asking classmates for help lengthens the time you spend together, and solving problems side by side will make you consider your partner reliable: “if we could solve this together, we could solve other problems as well”. Naturally, your relationship expands from study to other fields of interest, and that is how friends are made.

Lastly, providing help with schoolwork also facilitates my own study. Helping a classmate is more like a win-win situation, because both parties could benefit. Mastering the knowledge requires not only that you can understand the knowledge, but also that you can explain the matter unambiguously to others. While understanding the knowledge means that you understand the knowledge roughly, briefing the matter to another until they understand ensures that primarily you have to understand the matter in detail, so that you can represent in different ways until the other fully understand. Thus, turning to me for help does me good as well. 

All in all, it is undeniably true that asking tutors for help is a good way to study. Meanwhile, let us not forget that your fellow students could also benefit you in the course of study.