托福獨立寫作中常見的審題誤區(qū)

同學們考寫作考了這么多年，大多數出題的形式都已爛熟于心，這種看似"熟練"的表象下藏著巨大的隱患--同學們很有可能因為看得太快而忽略某個決定題目意思的關鍵詞。例如：
    Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Advertising is the only main cause for people's unhealthy eating habits.
    看到這個題目，同學們會開始想，有沒有other reasons for unhealthy habits，想出三條如：
    1. People's tight schedules do not allow them to eat at regular hours;
    2. Sometimes people are eager to lose weight or to keep fit so that they go on "endless diets";
    3. Bearing heavy burden both physically and mentally, some consider eating constantly as their most effective stress reliever.
    綜上所述，advertising is not the only cause.
    這個寫法看起來非常完備，但其實犯了一個不起眼卻嚴重的錯誤--題目不是要我們證明it is not the only cause，而是要我們去證明it is not the only main cause。多一個"main"，意思是很不一樣的。如果我們只需要證明it is not the only cause，那么找出other causes即可即例1中的寫法。但是，如果我們要證明it is not the only main cause，就需要證明other causes that we mentioned are also main causes，這就需要在每一段中加上一些專門的說明�；蛘�，更簡單的辦法是去證advertising is not even a cause, 直接在每段的末尾加上advertising與該段所論述的unhealthy eating habit無關的論述即可。If it is not a cause, how can it be the onlymain cause? 這樣一來，就不用通過證明還有其他main cause來反駁了。
    事實上，證明某種cause是main cause還是挺有難度的，因此筆者推薦同學們用后一種方式進行論述。因此，文章還是disagree，而三段的主題句分別應該是：
    1、1. People's tight schedules do not allow them to eat at regular hours, and it is obvious that they are too busy to be influenced by advertising;
    2. Sometimes people are eager to lose weight or to keep fit so that they go on "endless diets", and this is more like a result of human nature, the pursuit of beauty, but not advertising;
    3. Bearing heavy burden both physically and mentally, some consider eating constantly as their most effective stress reliever, and it is quite clear that no advertising encourages them to do so.

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