DISHONESTYKILLS RELIABILITY

There are certainconsiderations or factors that everyone takes into account in arelationship. People may look for honesty, altruism, understanding,loyalty, being thoughtful etc! Everyone would more or less wish thatthe person she is dealing with, has some of these virtues above.Putting them in an order according to their importance, however canbe very subjective and relative. 

（首段为背景描述段落，展开题目中的最大概念与小概念之间的关系）

When someone askshim/herself the question “What do I consider to be the mostimportant thing in my relationship?” the answer depends on a lot offactors such as how his/her earlier relationships were.

（这种模板段落并不必要，但加入时尽量不要放在首段，给人千篇一律的感觉）

After stating thateveryone’s opinion can be different about this, for me honesty, inother words, always telling the truth is the most importantconsideration in a relationship. Opposite of this is inarguably lyingand if someone needs to lie, either s/he is hiding something or isafraid of telling me something. 

(观点段，给出明确的观点，并且简单一句话解释，常用的办法就是否则怎样…)

In any relationshipof mine, I would wish that first of all, the person I’m dealingwith is honest. Even though s/he thinks that s/he did something wrongthat I wouldn’t like, s/he’d better tell me the truth and not lieabout it. Later on if I find out about a lie or hear the truth fromsomeone else, that’d be much more unpleasant. In that case how canI ever believe or trust that person again? How can I ever believethat this person has enough confidence in me to forgive him/her andcarry on with the relationship from there. So if I cannot trust aperson anymore, if the person doesn’t think I can handle the truth,there’s no point to continuing that relationship. 

(主题段落：主题句+解释)

Although I wouldlike to see altruistic, understanding, thoughtful and loyal behaviorfrom people, an instance of the opposite of these behaviors would notupset me as much as dishonesty would. Among all the possiblebehaviors, dishonesty is the only one for me that terminates how Ifeel about a person’s reliability. Therefore, honesty would be myfirst concern and the most important consideration in a relationship.

（收尾段：让步内容+托出自己观点+因果强调自己观点）346

尽管只有短短的346个单词，但是符合了一个重要的结构性标准就是ETS所要求的文章架构。

那么，问题来了，文章架构在哪里呢？

很简单，答案是官方指南的610页。

在官方指南的610页里我们不难发现，原来首段是要写好介绍段落的，而同学们在自己的作文中更多的是在第一段里写很多的模板，这是不符合官方的要求的，那么问题来了，我们如何写好介绍性段落呢？

让我们看看以下的表述，今天我们谈谈背景描述，也就是说，我们要清楚的知道上下文的结构是什么样子

A Recipe for Writingan Introduction

Background About theTopic

Since the beginningof time, there have been teachers. The "classroom “teacher hasmany important tasks to do. A teacher has to teach information whilekeeping things interesting. She also sometimes has to be a referee, acoach, and a secretary. At times, a teacher has to be a nurse or justa good listener. This career demands a lot, but it's a career mostwant to have.

从这个官方的例子里面，我们了解到，只要按照时间结构先写，写到关于教师的职能，和学生的互动关系即可。大家特别注意的是全文中没有特别的大词，但是可以取得高分。

后面的文章中会描述到更多讨巧的官方文章写法，大家关注。