听力部分：

本期考题考察的话题是常考话题，属于在托福综合写作考试中考察的考古类话题，主要考察石板上符号的功能。考古类话题一直是综合写作比较高频并且让学生容易产生畏难情绪的，所以在平时的练习中要多加注意，这类话题也出现在TPO33, TPO25, TPO16, TPO13, TPO5 的综合写作里。

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2020.10.10 托福独立写作真题

题目：When you give money to the charitable organizations, would you prefer to choose how the donation will be used (for example, donate money on food, service or advertisement for organizations) or leave the decision to the organizations? (2020.10.10)

写作思路：

这道独立写作题重复了 2019年12月1日考题。捐钱应该捐助者自己做决定捐哪里还是慈善机构决定用在什么上？对于考生来说，这是一个热门但又不容易写好的一个话题，碰到这种类型的文章，建议大家可以考虑写个让步段，正方理由很容易想出一个分论点。

文章结构：

议论文的标准结构，总分总。主体段为一个让步段，先写出个人自己在慈善活动中做决定的好处，再转折指出坏处。第二个立论段先具体化，加例子进一步证明观点的说服力，然后小结。

参考范文:

Philanthropic acts, such as helping the have-nots financially or support the needy, are often encouraged and praised by the public. However, recent years witness numerous scandals and corruptions in terms of the management of the donated money, sparking off a debate about what is the wise way to deal with this large sum of money. Some experts suggest that this donation should be arranged by the donors to decide which part is the top priority, say food, or service, but I claim that it pays to entitle the charitable organization to cope with the raised fund.  

It is true that controlling the distribution of collected fund brings us a sense of dominance and achievement.【中心句】To be specific, less poverty-stricken people will suffer or even die in a severe famine and more unemployed workers are able to get trained to acquire employable skill, 【对比句型】with purpose to land a new job and therefore feed their family, if the donors give precedence to the poor people in the slum, especially during the widely-spread pandemic of covid-19. It seems that their donation is allocated properly and timely. However, this individual behavior frequently creates a negative public image of the charity and begets a strong mutual mistrust among ordinary people, ending up weakening the function of charitable activities. For example, the other urgent issues, such as the severe lack of face masks for the medical staff or the unavailability of medicine for the infectious patients often attract the public attention but seldom get addressed at once. It is the charitable organization that provides professional service to contact the oversea manufactures of face masks and deliver these precious resources to the doctors fighting the coronavirus and patients suffering from this disease. 【强调句】Without their work, human beings will lose hope and chance to win this game.

On the other hand, getting involved in charitable programs not only occupy our work or study time, but also lessen the quality time spent with our family members, plunging our normal life into chaos. 【中心句】It is universally acknowledged that charitable activities include numerous trivial tasks, such as finding an idea location to hold a fund-raised party, creating a poster for charitable work, or confirming the number of guests present. Unlike common people, charitable staff are trained systematically and payed monthly to accomplish their assignment patiently and successfully. In this case, leaving the charity to make a decision will maximize the advantages of collected money and minimize the risk of disturbing our normal life. To illustrate, my uncle, an renown philanthropist, injects huge passion into assisting the people in poverty by constructing a primary school for the local illiterate children. It takes nearly two years to get the preparation ready for launching this project, because building a new school needs to receive approval from the local government and recruit experienced teachers and staff. As a result, my uncle feels exhausted and am beat, let alone looking after his business and family. On the contrary, if my uncle gave this charitable fund to the charity, he would balance his dream and life. 【虚拟语气】

To conclude, as a layman, we should not let the charitable programs dominate our normal life, leaving the decision to professional workers in the charitable organization.

主题相关语料：

善行                  Philanthropic acts

引起讨论           spark off a debate

给 权力            entitle

穷人               poverty-stricken people

产生强烈的不信任   beget a strong mutual mistrust

感染的病人         infectious patients

注入很多的激情     inject huge passion into

搅乱正常的生活     plunge our normal life into chaos

启动这个项目       launch this project