托福考试写作要避免走进这些误区

100留学小编告诉你：在TOEFL iBT Official Guide（托福官方指南，以下简称OG）中明确指出托福独立写作有三大考查维度：Development（展开论点），Organization（组织文章结构）和Language Use（语言运用）。因此，除了注意作文的内容和结构外，阅卷老师同样十分注重我们在作文中表现出来的语言基本功。

托福独立写作部分对于我们写作的总体要求是consistent facility in the use of language（语言运用的和谐流畅），给我们的具体建议是a variety of sentence structures（句子结构多样）和word choice should be appropriate（措辞贴切得体），评分者的审查角度是lexical or grammar errors（词汇和语法错误）以及the complexity of sentence structures（句子结构的复杂程度）和the quality and complexity of your vocabulary（考生所使用的词汇的质量和复杂程度）。接下来告诉你托福考试写作要避免走进这些误区。

1 用词不当

学生们写的托福写作里或多或少都会有一些用词不当的问题，但是要注意的是一些最最基本的错误是不能犯的。

In the show, if participators answer twenty problems that the host mentioned correctly, they will get five hundreds thousand U.S. dollars as a prize.

——problems应改为questions

2 拼写错误

这里的拼写错误不是指在考试时候的误打，而是托福考试考生对词汇拼写记忆的错误。

In conclusion, issue of whether parents are the best teachers is a complex one, requiring subjective judgement, consequently, there are no easy or certain answers.

——judgement应改为judgment

3 乱用大词

First of all, children can earn money from their jobs, although there isn’t too much, but they will keep their salary gingerliness.

这里的gingerliness根本是不知所云。该句子还有以下问题：

1)该作文题目是讲学生是否应该做兼职，因此children的出现就显得很莫名其妙;

2)although和but是不能连用的;

3)指代不明，they不知道是指代前面的什么;

4 表达中式

The second argument-it might have been noticed by others-is that in some occasion, it is quite difficult to compare parents to teachers because parents are a kind of people, teachers are a kind of vocation.

句子中划线部分的表达过于中式化。

5 表意重复

They shocked their friends, devastated their families, crushed their best friends.

前面已经提到了朋友，后面又提到朋友。

The show is so compelling but attractive.

compelling和attractive是同义词，所以这里这么写就让人不明白。

6 固定用法错误

To some extends, I agree with the author’s general assertion that if parents also have a comprehensive sense of professional knowledge.

——To some extends应改为To some extent

7 例证夸张

For example, when a doctor faces a patient who has got cancer, the doctor cannot tell the truth, for the truth may cause the patient’s immediate death.

虽然善意的谎言是必要的，但是其功效显然没有这么大。