新托福综合写作：2012年10月19日北美真题再现
Task 1：Writing Based on Reading and Listening
Directions: You should allow 3 minutes to read the passage. Then listen to thelecture. Then allow 20 minutes to plan and write your response.
Passage：
Essential Air Service (EAS) is a U.S. government grant program. Its aimis to ensure that small communities once served by commercial airlinesdo not lose air services. The EAS now plans to build airports in remoterural communities that are more than 110 km away from a commercialairport. Several benefits are stated in support of the program.
First, the service is aimed at farmers, fishermen, small miners, loggersand others working in remote areas. Without air connections, some ofthese towns have noconvenient connection with the outside world. Theair subsidy program attempts to make it possible for people living inrural areas to enjoy the same access to air travel as people in cities.
Second, the service can also boost the local economy. Communities oncedistant from population and transport centers now become local touristdestinations. Skagway, Alaska, for example, is a day’s sail from the statecapital of Juneau. But, by a small plane, it is only a half-hour trip. Withthe advent of a small local passenger service, the little burg turned froma ghost town in the early 1980’s to a tourist destination receiving nearlya million visitors a year by the year 2000. The vast majority were cruiseship tourists brought from Juneau by air.
Finally, the program provides a modest economic stimulant as itencourages the purchase of small aircraft and the development of localairports. Also, the sales of fuel and aircraft maintenance provide an extrashove to seasonal and sluggish local economies.
Listen
Narrator: Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading passage.
You must finish your answer in 20 minutes.
>>点击查看托福写作备考全集合专题，阅读更多相关文章！
-
托福写作字数和实际得分关系深度分析 合理安排写作篇幅让文章内容更有料
托福考生对于写作部分的字数要求一直存有疑问。写得字数太少担心被扣分，写得太多时间又会不够用。如何才能把握好作文字数和实际得分之间的关系呢?本文将为大家深度分析托福写作字数和得分的关系，帮助大家了解托福写作的正确篇幅安排。
- 备考托福写作范文资料备考如何高效运用？这3个练习重点不容忽视
- 托福独立写作开头段写法基础4步骤讲解 循序渐进让高分作文开个好头
- 托福写作7种常用高分句型汇总分享 结合句式实例提升写作用句水平
- 托福写作机经正确使用方法技巧和注意事项一览 掌握用法才能发挥机经价值