DISHONESTY KILLS RELIABILITY

There are certain considerations or factors that everyone takes into account in a relationship. People may look for honesty, altruism, understanding, loyalty, being thoughtful etc! Everyone would more or less wish that the person s/he is dealing with, has some of these virtues above. Putting them in an order according to their importance, however can be 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 asks him/herself the question “What do I consider to be the most important thing in my relationship?” the answer depends on a lot of factors 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 that everyone’s opinion can be different about this, for me honesty, in other words, always telling the truth is the most important consideration in a relationship. Opposite of this is inarguably lying and if someone needs to lie, either s/he is hiding something or is afraid 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 relationship of mine, I would wish that first of all, the person I’m dealing with is honest. Even though s/he thinks that s/he did something wrong that I wouldn’t like, s/he’d better tell me the truth and not lie about it. Later on if I find out about a lie or hear the truth from someone else, that’d be much more unpleasant. In that case how can I ever believe or trust that person again? How can I ever believe that this person has enough confidence in me to forgive him/her and carry on with the relationship from there. So if I cannot trust a person 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 would like to see altruistic, understanding, thoughtful and loyal behavior from people, an instance of the opposite of these behaviors would not upset me as much as dishonesty would. Among all the possible behaviors, dishonesty is the only one for me that terminates how I feel about a person’s reliability. Therefore, honesty would be my first 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 Writing an Introduction

Background About the Topic

Since the beginning of time, there have been teachers. The "classroom “teacher

has many important tasks to do. A teacher has to teach information while keeping things interesting. She also sometimes has to be a referee, a coach, and a secretary. At times, a teacher has to be a nurse or just a good listener. This career demands a lot, but it's a career most want 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。

本文作者英度教育：王宇非老师

主授：TOEFL口语、写作／IELTS口语／GRE写作／考研阅读、写作

原西安新东方学校校长助理、国外部总监、教学管理部总监

鲁汶大学K.U.Leuven（2017 QS世界大学排名71）

荷兰代尔夫特大学TU Delft（2017 QS世界大学排名54）

普林斯顿ETS（TOEFL,GRE出题机构）访问学者，官方认证培训师

British Council官方认证雅思培训师

TOEFL，GRE等国外考试高分获得者，托福写作满分

托业考试（TOEIC）高分（950分/满分990）

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