Elizabeth Blackwell
was rejected by 17 medical schools before she got admitted to New York's Geneva Medical College and graduated at the head of her class and became the first woman to receive a medical degree in America
lies & truth
the digital divide
gap; access to more information
科技让生活更简单还是更复杂
Child pornography
proliferation
互联网的利弊
Obama Girl
an Internet celebrity, I got a crush on（暗恋）Obama
读书的意义/儿童业余时间工作的利弊/过去成功容易还是现在成功容易（类似的个人几乎控制整个行业的例子当然还有J.P.Morgan）
Alan Greenspan
Federal Reserve, excess liquidity（流动性过剩）
risk话题
Andrew Jackson(他就是20块美金正面的那个“卷毛儿”）
冒险的意义
Donald Trump
real estate, The Apprentice, reality show, "Your're fired."
电视节目对年轻人的影响
Edgar Allan Poe
tales of mystery, financial difficulty
是否只看写实的书/人该为了什么工作
政府与个人leisure的关系/计划的重要性
Marbury vs. Madison
the basis of judicial review
个人经验vs.他人建议
the Underground Railroad
Block slaves, abolitionists, secret routes
the Bay of Pigs（这个可跟猪流感没什么关系）
the safety of nuclear plants; ralatively low levels of radiation; no new nuclear plants were built in America since the accident
科技对生活的改变是利还是弊
the Exxon Valdez Oil Spoil
了解历史才能更好地处理现在的问题
科技让生活更复杂还是更简单
George Lucas
Sting imaginative/ special effects
严肃电影vs.娱乐电影
Herbert Hoover
who was blamed (somewhat unfairly) for the Great Depression
高效率不完美vs.低效率完美
Sputnik
Soviet satellite, shocked Americans, efforts to catch up with the Soviet Union in space
太空研究
Model T
assembly lines, mass production, effective advertising
广告与产品的关系
Clara Barton
the "Angel" of mercy: at first, the Red Cross only assisted soldiers; the new clause in the Red Cross Constitution that provided for civilian relief
学习历史可以更好地解决当代问题
Andy Warhol
"In the future, everybody will be worldfamous for 15 minutes." commercialization
媒体的影响力
Ben Bernanke
an expert on the economic and political causes of the Great Depression
Al Gore
个人与环境的关系
American Idol
Simon Cowell
是否应该总讲真话/cooperation
Haiti earthquake
catastrophe humanitarian
是否应该关注与我们生活不直接相关的时事
Table 2
名人
关键词
相关新托福话题
Andrew Carnegie
媒体的影响
the Challengerdisaster
broke apart, seven crew members
太空研究
the Mars Exploration Mission
the Spirit Rover & the Opportunity Rover
太空研究
the national debt topped $ 11.4 trillion
了解历史是否帮助解决现在的问题
BlackBerry
smart phone
这个可是“一代名机”，用它来论述科技相关话题很棒
Bono
third-world debt relief/ Africa
成功的标准
Bruce Barton
The Man Nobody Knows, sold 700,000 copies in two years, whether advertising was wasteful and dishonest
“有米”是否是成功的唯一标准
the subprime mortgage crisis
high-risk loans, uncalculated risk
risk话题
Goole Earth
convenience, great accessibility
科技是否让生活更复杂
An Inconvenient Truth/ Our Choice
latchkey kids
lack of parental supervision
工作与家庭的关系
empty nest syndrome
the extended family is less common; loneliness
年轻人与老年人的关系
the Three-Mile Island accident
rotation in office, the spoils system, ordered that all public land could be sold only for silver or gold, the bank panic, the Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears
按计划工作还是有创意的工作
the Twenty-First Amendment
the repeal of Prohibition, drinking alcohol was legal again, poorly-planned, only 550 agents enforced the ban in the whole country
the ship's captain, negligence
个人对于环境可能造成的影响
the impeachment of Bill Clinton
"I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again… I never told anybody to lie a single time. These allegations（指控）are false and I need to go back to work for the American people."
"Seward's Folly", gold was discovered in Alaska in 1897, the deal paid off thousands of times over
take risks的意义
the founding of the Library of Congress
工作的意义应该只为了金钱么
Carly Florina
failure to communicate with her staff, departure from HP
与他人合作的能力是否越来越重要
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator; the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
credit, emergency
plan & risk话题
Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
"Your company is now bankrupt, our economy is in crisis, but you get to keep $ 480 million (￡276 million). I have a very basic question for you, is this fair?"
the entire world was on the brink of nuclear war, destruction of the sites might trigger World War III, doing nothing means exposing America to possible nuclear destruction.