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　　11月7日亚洲SAT考试重复2013年3月北美SAT考试整套卷子

　　今天(11月7日)SAT考试亚洲卷的写作题目是：

　　Is it foolish to develop or improve things that already exist?

　　这道题目是典型的“创新”话题，通过回答：No, 可以使用经典的创新的话题的例子写。用创新的例子来证明：现存的一切事物都可以通过创新和不断改进来使之变得更好：

　　比如：乔布斯让电脑和手机变得更好;Uber或者滴滴让打车变得更方便;Tesla让汽车变得更加环保;屠呦呦改进了治疗疟疾的治疗法;李小龙改进了功夫等等。

　　另外，今年10月3日的SAT考试也是重复北美原题，并且写作也考的是典型的话题：贡献社会。可见，最后的几次旧SAT考试的重复性很强。今后同学们应对12月和1月SAT写作考试，一定要把历年考过的如下高频话题准备好充分的例子来应对，比如：创新、挑战权威、逆境成功、贡献社会、合作竞争、真实谎言、科技利弊等。

　　下面这篇范文以屠呦呦改进和提升传统的治疗疟疾方法的贡献以及李小龙通过创新和改进功夫的成就证明了不断改进和完善现存的事物是非常重要的。

　　Is it foolish to develop or improve things that already exist?

　　The whole history of human civilization is a process during which people are not just satisfied with what have already existed and continuously strive to perfect and upgrade those existed things. From the examples of Tu youyou and Bruce Lee, it can clearly be seen that extraordinary persons are those who could develop and enhance existing things.

　　Tu youyou, a Chinese medical scientist, pharmaceutical chemist, pharmacist, and educator is known for discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which saved millions of lives dedicatedly improving traditional medicines. Malaria was once considered as one of the fatal diseases affecting human lives and was juxtaposed with cancer and AIDS. More than one million people died because of Malaia annually. Although there were some existed medicines, they were expensive and not effective enough to save millions of infected people, especially African people. The cost-effective treatment has been a puzzle for scientists for centuries. Facing this situation, Tu youyou spent 11 years working on developing effective cure measures for malaria. Her notebook summarized 640 prescriptions. Her team also screened over 2,000 traditional Chinese recipes and made 380 herbal extracts, which were tested on mice. In order not to be disturbed, she sent her two daughters away to live in other families. It is just through devotedly focusing on improving medicine without any hesitation that Tu youyou discovered artemisinin (named qinghaosu in Chinese), which saved 0.24 billion persons each year in Africa alone. Her devotion to improving medicine won her the noble reputation as the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine and the first citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive the Nobel Prize in natural sciences, as well as the first Chinese person to receive the Lasker Award.

　　Besides Tu youyou, Bruce Lee is another successful example in real life who obtained outstanding achievement through totally concentrating on improving and developing the existed thing, Kung Fu. Bruce Lee, a revolutionary of world’s martial arts, the father of MMA, the world-well-known filmmaker, was fascinated by Kung Fu of all kinds since he was young and throughout his life. But he was not satisfied with the current martial art system and was eager to improve and perfect it and build his own system. In order to enhance existed traditional Kung Fu, he would not lose a single second on exercising. He trained himself diligently everyday with unimaginable intensity, far beyond the boundary of human physics. He also read extensively on martial art and got in touch with other top-class martial art masters such as Joe Lewis, and Chunk Norris. There was nothing in his life that had no relation with his new and improved fighting system. The outcome of his concentration on perfecting Kung Fu was rewarding. He created a kind of creative Kung Fu, a free style boxing skill, which made him world-famous. He could do push ups with one finger only and kick a man away as far as 22 meters. He also created many world’s records, such as punching 7 times in one second. Even after he won the fame as the “world’s greatest fighter”, he did not stop developing and advancing Kung Fu. It was his continuous passion and focus on improving and developing Kung Fu by innovating his own martial art style that finally impressed westerners, wrote Kung Fu in western dictionary.

　　From the stories of Tu youyou and Bruce Lee, it is evident that only by improving and developing already existed things could people accomplish tremendous success for themselves and make great discoveries and contributions to the world. Had Tu youyou and Bruce Less not been dedicated wholeheartedly to developing and improving existed things, millions of African people’s lives could not have been saved and Kung Fu and Bruce Lee could not have been so influential in the world. So, it is imperative for all of us to purse improvement in everything in our life. Only by doing so, can we achieve exceptional success and can our world become more beautiful.

　　备考君顺便再说几句，CB越来越偷懒，10月份只是重复部分，这次竟然完全重复了，虽然这套试题CB没有公开，但国内考试机构完全可以搞到，SAT考试改革之前，CB应该不会花太多心思放在最后几次考试上，所以，也正好给了某些机构可乘之机，而现在这些机构已经开始在晒“命中”的战果，答案正传的欢。那么接下来的结果可能大家猜也能猜到了，要么大面积压分，delay,严重的话还可能像去年一样取消成绩，所以备考君给大家一些建议：

　　1、今年申请的学生：把重要心思花在文书材料上，SAT成绩在美国大学招生官的录取标准里肯定又降了一个档次，所以文书的重要性更加突出，如何写好文书，大家可以看今天发出的另一篇文章《杜克前招生官：优秀的文书是什么样的》，如果自我感觉这次考试也没有把握的话，尽快报名12月份的考试做备胎吧。

　　2、对于明年申请的学生来说，把这次当一个考试体验吧，还是做好新SAT备考的计划，毕竟改革后的前几次考试对大多数学生来说都是公平的。

　　接下来看看学生的反馈吧

　　本文作者：啄木鸟太原分公司王君