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TOEFL iBT TWE Essay:
“Moving Away from Old Friends”
Essay Topic>托福真题
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "It is often not a
good idea to move to a new city or a new country because of the loss of old
friends." Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Example Writing>托福范文
There are times when the decision to move away can affect some of your old
relationships. For whatever reason, the idea may bring about a mixture of such
feelings as betraying someone you have known for years by making new friends in
a new city or a new country. Once away, however, you are supposed to keep in
touch with old friends through phone calls or the Internet, although nothing can
beat seeing each other face-to-face as often as before.
The most important thing to do when moving away is to try not to be a
stranger, but to remember. There might be a couple of good reasons that make you
leave for a new place, but it would certainly not be a good idea to lose contact
with old friends. This is because the lack of communication with old friends
could mean an emotional loss, probably never to be recovered again. Therefore,
the least you should do is to stay connected electronically, although this being
a bit impersonal. Perhaps, you may have said that you would maintain
communication with certain friends and actually meant to do so, but things are
sometimes not that simple. After all, it makes nostalgic sense to always
remember that old friends are like your favorite stars: you do not always see
them, but you know they are there.
Inter-personal meeting as usual being not the case, relationships between
friends are likely to change anyway .Usually, after months or years since your
departure, long-time friends at a distance could be lost to various degrees by
calling often or calling seldom or not at all. As can be imagined, after getting
into everyday routine in a new city or a new country, you may not be able to
find the time to contact old friends. It may so happen that your old friends are
just as busy as you are and feel the same way. Even though everybody agrees that
old friends are best, it is no good giving up the idea of moving away in order
to keep up an old friendship the way it used to be. Undeniably, it is painful to
face the possibility that the pleasure of having fun of it together might be no
more
Moving away from old friends is truly a sentimental loss, but you must make
the life's decision on your own for your own best benefits. It is therefore
healthy to be romantic-- believing that old friends are forever, no matter how
far away and how long since. The question is: can miles and years truly separate
old friends? (Jeenn Lee Hsieh) |
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:22:28