美国加州de anza college英语Placement Test

我在De Anza College 做过ESL的placement test。题目是:你为什么来美国？
据说每次不一样。也有过：最让你难忘的一件事。

题目都不难，不用担心。用心做，考出你的真实水平比较重要。
建议你同时读专业课，这样更利于你的英文进步。

The new SAT examination begins with a 25-minute writing task: The ESSAY

You have no choice of topic: you have to write on the PROMPT given in a text box. For example you may see something like:

Time has a doomsday book, on whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Underneath the prompt is the ASSIGNMENT – a statement that clarifies what you are supposed to do.

For example, after the issue given in the prompt above, you might see:

ASSIGNMENT:
Are there some heroes who will be remembered forever? Or are all heroes doomed to be forgotten one day? Plan your response, and then write an essay to expl