留學題在台灣考生考的批次出現頻率特別高——2024 兩次、2025 三次。本篇示範 Adv/Dis 題「優點顯著大於缺點」的標準寫法。
題目
A growing number of young people choose to study at universities in foreign countries.
Do the advantages of studying abroad outweigh the disadvantages?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.
題型：Advantages outweigh Disadvantages——必須明確稱量哪邊重。我的立場：advantages clearly outweigh, provided the student is well-prepared。
完整範文（296 字）
¹ Pursuing a university degree overseas, once reserved for the wealthy few, has become an increasingly mainstream pathway as middle-class families across Asia and Latin America seek a stronger return on their educational investment. ² While the experience carries real costs, in my view its long-term benefits comfortably outweigh them, particularly for students who plan their move thoughtfully.
³ The most significant advantage is exposure to academic and professional environments that are often substantially ahead of those available at home. ⁴ Top-ranked universities tend to offer better-equipped laboratories, more experienced faculty and tighter links to industry, all of which accelerate the practical skill-building employers actually pay for. ⁵ A 2023 HSBC graduate-outcomes report covering 12,000 returnees found that internationally educated alumni earned, on average, 31% more during their first five working years than peers with comparable domestic degrees. ⁶ Beyond the numbers, students return with adaptability, language fluency and cross-cultural confidence — qualities increasingly demanded in globally oriented sectors.
⁷ It would be misleading, however, to ignore the difficulties involved. ⁸ Tuition can be prohibitive, homesickness during the first year is well documented, and graduates occasionally struggle to re-integrate into local labour markets where networks have shifted in their absence. ⁹ Even so, these challenges are largely manageable when families budget realistically and students maintain home contacts through occasional visits and online networks. ¹⁰ Compared with the lasting career and personal gains, they look more like temporary trade-offs than fundamental drawbacks.
¹¹ In conclusion, the advantages of studying abroad clearly exceed the disadvantages, even though the latter deserve serious planning. ¹² With the right preparation, an overseas degree remains one of the most reliable accelerators of both income and global competence available to young adults today.
句句解析
§1 — Intro
- 句 1 (Context): "Pursuing a university degree overseas, once reserved for the wealthy few, has become..." — 倒裝/插入語結構展示文法 range，once reserved for the wealthy few 是 reduced relative。
- 句 2 (Thesis): "...its long-term benefits comfortably outweigh them, particularly for students who plan their move thoughtfully." — comfortably outweigh 比 outweigh 精準，particularly for... 預告條件。
§2 — 優點
- 句 3 (Topic): "The most significant advantage is exposure to academic and professional environments..." — 強化詞 most significant 標記主論點。
- 句 4 (Develop): "Top-ranked universities tend to offer better-equipped laboratories..." — 三 noun + all of which accelerate relative clause。
- 句 5 (Evidence): "A 2023 HSBC graduate-outcomes report covering 12,000 returnees... 31% more..." — 機構 + 年代 + 樣本 + 數字。
- 句 6 (Beyond data): "Beyond the numbers, students return with adaptability, language fluency and cross-cultural confidence..." — 三 noun + em-dash 收尾。
§3 — 缺點 + Concession
- 句 7 (Pivot): "It would be misleading, however, to ignore the difficulties..." — 倒裝結構 It would be misleading to V 展示文法。
- 句 8 (Develop): "Tuition can be prohibitive, homesickness... is well documented, and graduates occasionally struggle..." — 三句並列展示三 disadvantage。
- 句 9 (Mitigation): "Even so, these challenges are largely manageable when..." — 反駁缺點。
- 句 10 (Weighing): "Compared with the lasting career and personal gains, they look more like temporary trade-offs than fundamental drawbacks." — temporary trade-offs vs fundamental drawbacks 是 Adv/Dis 題的稱量句。
§4 — Conclusion
- 句 11 (Restate): "...the advantages of studying abroad clearly exceed the disadvantages, even though the latter deserve serious planning." — even though concession 收尾。
- 句 12 (Forward): "With the right preparation, an overseas degree remains one of the most reliable accelerators..." — accelerators of income and competence 是 Band 7+ 比喻。
四大評分項證據表
| 評分項 | 本篇證據 | Band | |--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------| | Task Response | 明確稱量（comfortably outweigh, clearly exceed）；優點 + 缺點都展開；缺點有 mitigation；條件式立場（provided well-prepared） | 7 | | Coherence & Cohesion | 段落功能分明；linker 多樣（Beyond the numbers, however, Even so, Compared with, With...） | 7 | | Lexical Resource | Topic-specific（returnees, alumni, cross-cultural confidence, internationally educated, prohibitive）；搭配（accelerators of income） | 7 | | Grammar Range | Reduced relative（once reserved for）；relative（all of which accelerate）；participle（covering 12,000 returnees）；em-dash | 7 |
三個可複製的動作
1. comfortably outweigh 取代 outweigh
Adv/Dis 題的稱量副詞：comfortably / clearly / decisively outweigh ——一個副詞展示 Task Response 的精準度。
2. temporary trade-offs vs fundamental drawbacks
句 10 的對比公式：把缺點降級成 temporary，把優點升級成 fundamental。Adv/Dis 題的稱量必殺句。
3. Once-reduced relative 開場
句 1 "...once reserved for the wealthy few, has become..." ——用 once + past participle 插入語，比 "In the past, X was..." 高階兩級。