托福写作185题库之第126题范文

126. Is there anything that young people can teach older people?

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? There is nothing that young people can teach

older people. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

『分析』

不能同意。nothing是一个修饰词。

确实，大多数情况下，年龄大一些的人有更多的经验，年轻人要向他们学习。举例。

然而，年龄大不一定等于懂得多。有很多时候哪怕很小的孩子也可以教我们很多东西。举例。

『范文』

It has been a common conception that young people have nothing of value to teach their elders I firmly

disagree with this statement, and posit that in fact, the opposite is true. Young people have a plethora of information

to teach old people.

One of the advantages of being young is having a different perspective on life than one's seniors. Young

people have not been influenced by nearly as many people as an old person, and therefore, their thoughts and ideas

are more their own. An older person can learn from these new ideas, and once again, see the world with the

freshness and fascination of a young person.

Also, young people tend to embark on all of their projects with a kind of intensity and perseverance. This

quality can sometimes be lost as one gets older. After spending time with a young person, an old person tends to

gain back some of this vitality. For example, I have seen many older people who did not live their lives to the

fullest. However, with the addition of a grand-daughter or a grandson, they regained much of their youthfulness. In

my opinion, this was fully due to their seeing the vitality in the young, and learning from it.

Finally, young people tend to enjoy experimenting when they are working on a project. Older people are

usually set in their ways, and will continue doing a chore one way, even if it is not the best way. Young people can

offer insight into new methods of doing even the simplest tasks and often will think up new systems that do not

occur to the elderly.

In conclusion, I think older people can learn much from the future generations. Of course, this is not to say

that young people cannot learn from their elders. The educational process does not only work one way through

generation gaps.