有關11月SAT考試寫作真題

下面SAT思為大家整理了SAT考試寫作真題，供考生們參考，以下是詳細內容。

If you took the November 2008 SAT Reasoning Test, you would have been given one of the essay prompts below:

Prompt 1

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

If an old tradition is still around today, we can assume that it deserves to remain in existence. Well-established customs, styles that are still popular, and ideas that people still find sensible survive because these traditions are strong enough to survive. Continuity guarantees quality. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in businessall these traditions have qualities of survival. Fortunately, these will always be with us.

Adapted from Jacob Braude, Jacob Braudes Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes

Assignment:

Do all established traditions deserve to remain in existence? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

Prompt 2

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

We cannot appreciate what we have for its own merit. We see ourselves as fortunate only when we have as much as, or more than, other people. Thus, our judgment of what represents an appropriate limit on anythingon wealth or status or possessionsis never arrived at independently. Instead, we compare ourselves to other people, always wondering if what we have is enough.