2017年托福写作技巧：写变量型文章的方法

　　为什么要写变量型文章? 　　什么样的文章适合写成变量型? 　　例：Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children. 　　Structure 　　Due to the progress of technology, many things in daily life are much easier and more convenient than in the past. 　　However, progress does not only make our life easier, and it also makes surviving harder in many ways. 　　段落扩展示例 　　However, progress does not only make our life easier, and it also makes surviving harder in many cases. 　　Explanation 　　Examples and/or details 　　Explanation: Advanced technology allows people to live longer, so that an increasing population consumes the limited natural resources on this planet. 　　Examples and details: This gives raise to many problems like starvation, unemployment, and even wars for resources like water and petroleum. The recent wars in our world had many things to do with such resources and wars take away people’s lives and destroy happiness and hope. (To be continued) 　　Examples and details: Unfortunately, since our technology is not advanced enough to create resources, such conflicts are unlikely to be finished and they may become more serious in the future. Also, the increasing population makes our cities much more crowded than in the past, and graduates from colleges and universities have slimmer changes to get good jobs as well because there are too many of them but so limited positions. Such problems are all created by technological progress and people in the past did not need to face them at all. 　　真题解析 　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A job with a high salary but little vacation time is better than a job with a low salary but much vacation time. 　　Structure 　　Most young people and middle-aged people care much more about how much they earn than about the leisure time. 　　For aged people, the main purpose to have jobs is no longer to make money, and they may need more vacation time instead of higher salaries. 　　Paragraph Developing 　　Topic sentence: Young people are willing to sacrifice some or even all of their leisure time for more money because that they all wish to live a vivid life. 　　Sub point 1: desire for money 　　Sub point 2: sacrifice vacation time 　　Sub point 1: For most young people, money is needed everywhere. Boys are fascinated with the latest digital products and even automobiles, and girls are addicted to fashionable clothes and makeups. Plus, they hang out with friends and have dinners with people at work frequently. That requires much expense as well. Without money, young people are unlikely to feel happy and satisfied. 　　Sub point 2: As for vacation time, young people really do not care about it very much, for they have many other choices to get relaxed or to have fun. They can get over and feel energetic again by having a good sleep at night, and they can watch movies or go shopping or play video games with friends after work. 　　Conclusion: That is why what they expect the most from their jobs is the income but not vacations.