托福写作：毕业季到了，要不要间隔年一下？

　　毕业季到了，要不要间隔年一下？

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

　　After completing high school, students should take at least a year off to work or travel before they begin studying at a university.

　　Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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　　College Entrance Examination, no matter in which country, burdens/challengesstudents a lot and no wonder many of them would prefer to have one year gap and even longer to unwind themselves and lay back after theoverwhelming pressure. During the time, they would like to have a trip, participate some charitable/philanthropic activities or take an internship, which all sound fascinating. And many advocators also stand for the following impact on students’ future university education. However, is it necessary to suspend such long time just for releasing stress? Is it meaningful to absent a year or more for unrelated experiences? Is it beneficial to the future study? 【灵魂三连问引出下面的论点】I rather doubt these.

　　★除了模板化开头还可以尝试背景延展开头放式，需要同学们注意的是这样的写法要避免延伸太多比如经常有同学会写成with the development of technology/society…这种就太过于老套了。同学们也可以尝试在开头段进行rhetorical question这样的方式，既可以引出下面的论点，也增加了写作的特点。

　　First, it is a waste of time.【短句做关键句可以加快句子节奏】No one can [倒装结构] deny the intolerable load in senior high school, but a year or more for resting is too much. Students, after graduation, will be given a two-month-long summer holiday to relieve from the nerve-wracking study, which is absolutely enough for them. They can utilize the vocation to do those activities they plan to do like traveling or adventuring with friends and the duration is suitable since they can attempt those novel experiences rather than costing more time. This is because the longer time they spend on having a break; the more tired they would become.【因果论证】Moreover, Compared with studying, working and traveling in gap year, to some extent, are more relaxing and less painstaking, so after one-year or longer exciting experience outside campus, some young people tend to be reluctant to focused study even give up their learning.【对比论证】

　　★主体段的信息论述要充分且有依据。当然方法有很多中，这里给同学们匹配了因果加对比的论证手法，如果有相应的例子也可在文章中进行补充，这里不做示范。

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