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托福TPO3 独立写作试题：
It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.
托福满分作文-范文赏析：
In our lifetime, we move from one school to another, then one job to the next, and, along the way, we pursue various leisure activities which all put us into contact with different people. Some of these people naturally become friends and some friendships stick while others do not.
For humans, as social animals, friends provide an alternative to family ties as a shoulder to lean on, someone to turn to for help and advice, or just someone to talk to and share time with. They become an essential part of one’s life and bonds can quickly form. Yet, as we switch careers or hobbies, these bonds may seem to become less immediately useful in our new surroundings due to distance or knowledge. Good friendships naturally tend to outlast these moves as closeness and trust evolves beyond the passing acquaintance stage. Trying to keep friendships alive that are less firmly grounded can be time-consuming and unproductive, since the likelihood of being ‘useful’ may outweigh their potential benefit. Even though, it may seem mercenary to describe friendships in such a way, thus it is no doubt how we instinctively act. Gathering lots of acquaintances implies lots of time and effort for shallow relationships with little meaning and little potential pay-off. Only deep relationships can supply the kind of support we need that we can otherwise only find from a family.
Some people are adept at networking; they naturally gather many friends throughout each stage of their lives; while others are less socially inclined. For those more socially-skilled, they no doubt maintain a mixture of connections with people, some deeper than others. They may manage their associations with others to the best effect for profit in careers or politics, or they do so just to be around people of whom they enjoy the company. For most people, there comes a time when old connections fade as new ones appear due to new circumstances and new needs. Devotion to old friends is lost due to time pressure whilst newly-made friendships are cultivated due to need. These new friendships need a lot of effort and time to build up the necessary trust, comfort levels and shared memories felt with old associates. It takes time and various situations to gauge if someone is a true or a fair-weather friend. No doubt we all naturally assess our new contacts’ personalities, common interests, and thereby invest a lot into this process.
In conclusion, beneficial though keeping old friends is, the virtues of making new ones cannot be easily neglected. New opportunities require new relationships whereas time considerations demand that some old friendships need to be sacrificed.
托福作文满分要素剖析:
一、 语言表达
本文多用长句和并列结构。读来略显晦涩，但是细读之后值得回味。是作者高超语言功力的体现。而且作者的用词非常准确讲究，非一般考生所能驾驭，立刻总其他作文中脱颖而出。
1. In our lifetime, we move from one school to another, then one job to the next, and, along the way, we pursue various leisure activities which all put us into contact with different people.本文用了两种指代。Another指代School，next指代the next job，这是很常用的一种英文表达方式。而且作者使用了两个插入语，调整了句子的停顿和节奏。
2. Some people are adept at networking; they naturally gather many friends throughout each stage of their lives; while others are less socially inclined.本句是典型的并列句式。分号表示句子并列，相当于and，使句子间的联系更紧密了。而且本句的用词也十分讲究。Be adept at表示熟练，是skilled的替换词。Incline表示倾向于。是分词作定语的用法。
3. It takes time and various situations to gauge if someone is a true or a fair-weather friend.本句的用词值得借鉴。Gauge表示仔细研究。Fair weather表示忠实的，都可以在今后使用。
二、 逻辑结构
本文不是传统的总分总结构，而是采用了分总的结构。层层递进。首先点明主题，并对主题词友情进行分析。之后从老朋友和新朋友两方面分别进行分析。并从不同人的角度分别进行了深入分析。最后提出了自己的观点，即新老友情都很重要。
网温馨提醒：考生们拿到托福作文试题，审题后，先决定总体思路，然后列出两三个具体的分论点，每个论点找出一些例子来说明。这里要注意例子的选择，尽可能生活化、生动化、形象化，不要太死板，
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