2016年托福独立写作备考模拟试题(9)

　　The New York Times is an American daily newspaper that boasts the largest circulation of any metropolitan newspaper in the United States. Reporters and editors of The New York Times have undertaken a large-scale effort to bring readers a variety of high-quality news reports, articles and analyses on issues within America and throughout the world. In 2007, they issued a special series of reports on industrial workers at Foxconn, a manufacturing Titan based in China. Readers were exposed to a detailed analysis of the problems facing those workers, which included a rise in contingent employment, a decline of social welfare benefits and deteriorating working conditions. All of these problems had resulted in a dramatic suicide rate increase at Foxconn. More importantly, the report raised general concerns among American and Chinese politicians and economists of the challenges confronting workers globally and of the possible creation of a universal coalition of workers.

　　单词和词组

　　undertake a large-scale effort 努力做...

　　=strive for

　　✎ undertake an unremitting effort to …

　　be exposed to 接触到

　　✎ expose children to television violence

　　✎ expose people to new ideas

　　句型结构

　　…, which include (s) …, … and … 非限定性定语从句结构

　　✎ Although caring for an animal helps children nurture a sense of responsibility, other actions are also effective, which include reading stories that teach responsibility, setting good examples and encouraging them to help with more household chores.

　　适用考题

　　✎ In order to be well informed, a person must get information from many different news sources. (TPO 19)