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2013年7月21日托福写作真题解析
综合写作：
文章讲了对不健康商品如烟,食物和饮料征税的好处。
第一，价格高了，人们不会再买，减少人们消费有毒商品,有利健康。反驳：人们不会减少抽烟，人们会买廉价的烟，更有害健康，而且一直买，没钱花在健康上。如果是食品，人们吃习惯了即使贵也要吃
第二，公平。加税对没这些臭毛病的人更公平，因为治病需要公费医疗，而这些吸烟的人更容易生病，生病花医保的钱，对不吸烟的人不公平。吸烟者花得更多就应该交得更多，这样才公平financial fairness
反驳：加税对有这些臭毛病的人不公平，因为每个人挣得不一样多，税对富人的影响比对穷人的影响要小
第三，增加政府收入，使政府能有更多钱做其他事，如基础设施和教育投入，从而大家都受益。反驳：收税使政府容易留着钱，就不鼓励减少这些坏习惯了，比如政府为了税收就不会制定有效政策禁止公共场所甚至私人场所抽烟。 独立写作：
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: it is impossible to be completely honest with your friends.
Honesty is a good quality to find in friends. A lot of people say a loyal and honest friend is the best kind of friend. I believe that a friend should be as honest as possible; however there are some situations when honesty is not the best policy. First and foremost, a friend should strive to be as completely honest as possible. There are some people in the world who always tell the truth, regardless of the
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situation. Everybody has at least one friend like that. These are good friends because their honesty makes them reliable. If you are in any situation where you need support, turning to this kind of friend is the most comforting. You know that no matter what they say, it is the truth.
On the other hand, there are some friends that find it very hard to tell the truth. For example, I have one acquaintance that can never tell the full truth. She always says whatever she thinks the other person wants to hear. So if I ask her if she wants to make plans, so always says she is free. When it comes time for us to meet, she always remembers that she cannot come. I would not call her a true friend, because she is not reliable. There are some people that find it hard to be completely honest, but I usually do not consider them my friends.
Admittedly, there are some times in a friendship when it is not wise to tell the whole truth. In order to fully support a friend, we need to tell a variation of the truth. For example, one of my friends once got a really terrible haircut. She realized it looked really bad and was really self-conscious about her appearance. As her friend, it would have been cruel of me to tell her the complete truth. Instead, I told her it did not look as bad it she thought and then I helped her figure out how to style it so it did not look so bad. Even though a person might have a bad haircut, if she acts with confidence, people might not even notice her bad hair. As her friend, it was my job to make her feel confident. In this kind of circumstance, an honest friend should be sensitive to the wants and needs of his or her friend.
The best kinds of friends are those who are honest. Honest friends are more reliable
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and trustworthy. However, sometimes complete honesty can hurt a friend, so a white lie, or a variation of the truth, is acceptable. While it is possible to always say the complete truth to a friend, sometimes it is not recommended. (542 words)
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