2020年12月13日托福写作答案解析12月13日托福综合写作题目：
Topic 议题：the special functions of the hammer-shaped head of a kind of a shark
12月13日托福综合写作范文：
Sample answer：
The reading and listening discuss about the special functions of the hammer-shaped head of a kind of a shark. The passage mentions three functions. Whereas, the professor totally refutes the three points presented in the passage.
Firstly, the professor rebuts the reading’s first point that sharks with such shaped head turn around quickly. The professor claims that this kind of shark does turn around quickly, but it is not because of the special head, but because of other factors such as skeleton. Besides young sharks were used in the previous experiment, thus the young also affected the result. Maybe the old ones with such special heads cannot turn around that quickly.
Secondly, the professor contradicts reading’s second point that such head helps impr ove the shark’s sensitivity to electricity field. The professor mentions that an experiment proved that all sharks with and without this special head have similar sensitivity to artificial electric field.
At last, the passage states the third view that the head can be used as a weapon to hunt prey. However, the professor
explains that Sharks’ eyes are located at both sides of the hammerhead, which is risky for them to use hammerheads as weapons. Besides, there’s no evidence to prove that sharks ever used heads as weapons.
12月13日托福独立写作题目：
作文题目：
Some people believe older children should help parents to take care of younger siblings, while others believe this is parents' responsibility. Which do you prefer and why?
12月13日托福独立写作解析：
题型类别：价值判断类
写作思路：
本次的独立写作并不难，话题是我们日常生活中很常见的，(不由想起了前段时间的“二胎政策” two-child policy)。
所以当谈及思路时，我相信同学们有很多想说的～
老师先说下，如果选择的角度是“让大一点的孩子帮忙照顾小一点的宝宝”，可采取的解题方式——拆分法：1.对older children有好处; 2.对家长有好处; 3.对家庭关系有好处;
那么如果大家选择了“parents' responsibility”也能够写：1. 让孩子去帮忙照顾孩子可能会照顾不好。
2.一般来说现在grandparents 也能帮忙带孩子，也不需要让孩子来帮忙照顾。
3.现在的孩子其实也没有那么多的free time(大家能够讲下当下中国的小孩，有些很小就被扔到boarding school去了，2周才能见回一次家等这类情况)，他们想照顾也没办法。
写作指导：
Main point： Older children should help parents to take care of younger siblings
Sub point1. 能够让older children更加成熟(mature)。
主要体现在：独立自主的水平&心态。
帮忙照顾sibling 的过程中能够学到很多生活技能，例如如何给宝宝换尿布(diaper);冲泡牛奶时要注意什么;如何做一些简单的饭菜等。
这个系列的活动让孩子更加的patient,更加independent;就心态这块来说，older children在照顾弟弟妹妹(sibling)的过程中懂得从对方的角度看问题，更加的包容懂事。
例如弟弟妹妹还处于婴儿期(infancy stage)时会哭，这时older children 就会去考虑到底是饿了?还是躺着不舒服? 还是要换尿布了?…这些都
会让他们的心智更加成熟。
Sub point2. 减轻(relief)父母的负担(burden)。
一般来说养一
个孩子是比较累的，更别说(let alone) 两个、三个孩子了。
父母白
天要工作，就算妈妈是全职太太(housewife)，一个人也顾不过来。
所以需要older children帮家长。
比如，妈妈出去买菜的时候，older children能够照顾下(attend)小宝宝;…(有弟弟妹妹的同学能够拿自己来举例，我相信自己亲自experience过的例子一定能够写的很生
动!)这些都会极大减轻父母的负担。
Sub point3. 有些人说照顾孩子是父母的事，不应该让older children来做。
但是我们要注意了题干中说的是help to take care of,也就是说仅仅帮帮忙，主要的照顾任务当然还是adults的。
In fact，这样做对于older children有利无害，成长了自己，协助了爸妈，还能够让家庭氛围更加的joyful and harmonious(能够体现在parents与children之间，以及older children和younger one之间)，何乐而不为呢?。