TPO68 写作题目

TPO68 [Writing]

TPO68 Writing

Integrated Writing

Reading（3 mins）

At a sale at a private home in California several years ago, a man purchased a box of

photographic negatives stored in envelopes (negatives are photographic images on

film or glass from which actual photographs can be made). The negatives dated from

the 1920s and showed landscape scenes of the western United States. While the

negatives carried no indication of the name of the photographer who created them,

some people have concluded that the negatives were in fact made by the landscape

photographer Ansel Adams, one of the greatest American photographers of the

twentieth century. Several arguments have been offered in support of this idea.

First, the negatives include images of landscape features that Ansel Adams is known

to have photographed. One of the negatives shows a large pine tree leaning

downward on a cliff. The same distinctively shaped tree appears in another

photograph that, without a doubt, was taken by Adams in the 1920s.

Second, the envelopes holding the negatives are numbered and marked with

handwritten place names. The handwriting on the envelopes seems to resemble the

handwriting of Virginia Adams, Ansel Adams’ wife. Virginia Adams is known to have

assisted her husband in his work, so those who believe that Ansel Adams created

these negatives have concluded that she helped her husband organize these

negatives by numbering them and recording the names of the places where the

images were created.

Third, a number of the negatives have been damaged by fire, it is well known that

Ansel Adams’ photography studio had a fire that destroyed or damaged nearly a

third of his negatives. The fact that some of the negatives bought at the sale have

fire damage is consistent with the idea that they once belonged to Ansel Adams.

Listening

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Directions: You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will

be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response

presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage.

Typically an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.

Question: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they

cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage.

Independent Writing

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay.

Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Visiting museums is the best way to learn about a country.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.