从2006年8月起新托福考试正式在中国大陆实施，新托福采用iBT网考形式，总分为120分，包括阅读、听力、作文、口语。北美各高校新托福最低分数要求在80分(相当于旧托福550分)。

在ETS公布的新规则当中，ETS特意提高了对托福作文和口语成绩的最低要求。由于印度考生和巴基斯坦的考生在口语和写作上有明显竞争优势，所以中国区考生将面临着这两个国家考生的竞争压力。由此可见，托福作文和口语成绩会在极大程度上影响申请者最后进入的学校好坏和取得奖学金的数额。

由于托福作文（新托福也是如此）考题都来自ETS题库中的真题，所以现在为大家提供ETS托福作文185道题目及范文，本人和广大网友一起来练习写作这些真题，互相学习，希望这样能帮助考生在短期内突破写作瓶颈。

【托福福作文185篇真题范文专项练习】
　　

Topic 3：食物容易保存是否改变了人们的生活习惯
　　

Topic3、 Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Nowadays, wherever we turn our gaze, we can see different types of food that are easier to prepare. For instance, we can buy frozen foods in a supermarket and just prepare it in a couple of minutes, whereas before it could have taken us maybe hours to prepare this kind of meals. I would accept that this so-called improvement has changed our lives, but I believe that there are some drawbacks as well.

　　It is true that these kinds of food do not involve hard work to prepare, but food that is easy to prepare generally has some artificial ingredients mixed in it that makes it "easy-to-cook". If we take time to read the ingredients, we would definitely come across words like preservatives or artificial flavorings. It was just a couple of days ago that I came across a newspaper article which stated that someone was poisoned because he ate this type of food. He was hospitalized for almost a month.

　　Not having to cook has also taken the fun out of cooking. Cooking is an art, but in today's world, this is no more true. People are so busy with their work that they just rely on this simple foods. The invention and production of this foods have made people lazy not only for cooking but also for a well family get-together. It was not like former times when families would sit together and eat freshly baked food. Instead, they are getting these artificial things with minimal nutrients in them.

　　Cooking in the yesteryears was much better than today's. People would spend more time in the kitchen, preparing the food in the way that they liked it. This brought families closer together and also contributed to the high quality and nutrition of the food. Granted, people are busier nowadays and do not have as much time as they did in the past, but I believe that people have forgotten the importance of healthy, fresh food and of the time a family spends together preparing the food. So, I would say that having food that is easy to prepare has had many disadvantages.