历年ACT考试写作真题解析

100留学小编带同学们原题回顾：2015年6月13日的ACT考试香港考区的Writing部分的题目为2008普林斯顿的原题。属于比较常规的ACT写作的考题类别，即广义上的“学生监管”类话题。此类话题，属于ACT写作部分的常考题目。当然，大多数的此类话题，会把这些监管政策的背景限定在校园范围内，比如说，“学校是否应该在教室里安装摄像头？”“学生是否应该带校牌？”等等。

而本次ACT写作考试的相关话题，是把监管者扩大到了community社区上来了。讨论的是，“社区是否应该对18岁以下人员实行宵禁管制？”。下面ACT考试网就带大家一起来回顾下6月13日的题目及范文。

2015.6.13.ACT写作题目　

In an effort to reduce juvenile violence and crime, many towns have chosen to enforce curfews on minors under the age of 18. These curfews make it illegal for any minor to loiter, wander, stroll, or play in public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, or other public places between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 5:00 A.M. Supporters of the curfew believe that it will reduce community problems such as violence, graffiti, and drugs. Those who oppose curfews for minors claim these laws violate the Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection and due process for U.S. citizens. They also believe that such curfews stereotype minors by presupposing that citizens under the age of 18 are the only people who commit crimes.

In your essay, take a position on this question. You may write about either one of the two points of view given, or you may present a different point of view on this questions. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

题目中同学们需要注意三个要点：

1. curfew指的是平时夜间的宵禁令。

2. 题目要求讨论的宵禁令针对的是high school student，也就是10-12年级的学生。

3. 发出宵禁令的是community，而不是其他题目中常写的家长或学校。

这道题目对于考生来说，难点有二。第一，有的同学不认识curfew这个单词，这属于词汇的问题。但是，同学们不用紧张，ACT写作题目的出题结构是背景信息加各方观点。在背景信息，也就是题目开头第一句话，有对curfew这个单词的定义和解释，即“限制18岁以下人员在晚上8点后出门”，大家只要能够理解curfew的内涵即可。第二，即便在认识curfew这个单词或者是在读清题目第一句话之后，由于文化、国情等的差别，还是高中生的考生们，一时间可能会不太能够理解宵禁的实施方式、实施影响等等，而导致在确立立场和展开立场的时候，会有“无话可说”之感。

回到开篇我们说的，此次考题，仍然属于“学生监管”的话题范畴。我们回忆一下课堂上我们对学生监管类话题的立场和理由的总结：正方永远都会觉得，各种监管措施可以”保障安全“和”改善环境“；反方则永远都会觉得，此类监管”侵犯权利“”影响心情“。这正、方两方的理由，反复出现在各类与监管相关的题目中。在我们练习的时候，一再跟学生们强调过”攒理由“的重要性。在我们弄清了本次考题的本质之后，文章是信手拈来的。

Sample Essay

Whenever opening the floppy pages, turning on the televisions or logging onto the internet, people can see extensive press coverage concerning safety issue of teenagers. With a goal to discourage young people from getting into troubles, some community members propose imposing curfew laws on teenagers, while others are strongly against it, holding that it is their parents or legal guardians' rights to make decisions like that, and they feel that the curfew laws should not be conducted since it would restrict individual students' freedom of social activity.

Freedom of social activity is significant, admittedly. People may argue that young people need to enjoy their free choice of how to spend nights after school for it is a practical practice to foster their social skills. Some would stay together late into the night, chatting over anything that fascinates them, like gossip of Tyler Swift or how vapid calculus is. Some teenagers who share the common interest can spend the whole night playing chess, watching movies or shopping together. However, these people ignore a well-known fact that with the advancement of network technology, teenagers are used to kinds of social online services, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, through which they can still keep in contact with their friends, having small talks and sharing their ideas, wherever they are. Additionally, the time spent at school is also important to cultivate their social ability: for instance, they need to understand how to cooperate, how to negotiate, and sometimes how to compromise. In that case, why not ask students under the age of eighteen stay at home in night to guarantee their safety?

From a personal perspective, curfew is not harmful due to the fact that I really enjoy the serene and peaceful nights at home. Some may prefer the heavy metal rock music in the bar, but not me. Without the hustle and bustle during the daytime, in my cozy room, I can concentrate more on my schoolwork or painting. Some academic subjects such as physics seem to be a bit challenging for me, so I need to spend extra time after school reviewing what I learned during the daytime. I believe those who are ambitious for a privileged university would also be willing to stay at home, rather than hang out aimlessly. What is more, I am deeply absorbed in charcoal painting: every brush, every shade of colors and every exquisite line can fascinate me completely. In that case, I find myself more creative and passionate in the moonlit night, staying at home, also.

In terms of safety, curfew laws are not only beneficial, but also necessary. We live in communities where bulldoggers or hoboes always hangout at nights, drunk and idle. It is obvious that they usually make troubles out of nothing. The statistics released by New York Times indicate that 67.28% violence take place after 8 pm. Hence it would be reasonable to keep teenagers at home, considering they are factually vulnerable to assaultive injury. Furthermore, as people under the age of 18 mostly lack the ability of distinguishing the right form the wrong, when they are allowed to go out at nights, they are more likely to kill their time in some pubs in which they are prone to some evil activities, such as drug abuse. Therefore, compared to putting them into a relatively unsafe and uncertain circumstance, a restriction like curfew is needed.

Also, when taking young people’s safety and developments into consideration, the statement that, it is their parents or legal guardians’ rights to make decisions like whether they should be kept at home or not, cannot hold water, as young people, is the future of our nation; therefore, the whole community, and even the whole society , should be responsible for them, pay special attention to them, and naturally, adopt strict regulations over them.

In conclusion, I strongly support curfew laws, which would be effective in securing teenagers’ safety, as well as in offering a chance to stay alone and focus better, although it may provoke some complaints about the so -called freedom. After all, we need to remember that there is no absolute freedom, could lead to impairments, to some extent.

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