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SAT 作文素材整理——Fantasy and Imagination 题目举例： “When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” ——Albert Einstein “There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.” ——Jonann Wolfgang von Goethe Assignment: Do you believe that fantasy or imagination is more important than knowledge? 素材： 1 The Wright brothers started out creating airplanes by studying the flight of eagles to discover the secret of freeing themselves from gravity and collecting the cheap end of the market which could be taken to construct efficient machines. Although they were called “odd”, they kept on drawing pictures of “steel bird” and trying to make thin-wall steel tubes and chain drives into a birdlike machine. This is the point at which engineering intersects with the imagination. When Wilbur was asked how he learned to fly after their success, he loved to reply through his scarcely opened lips: “Like a bird.” Without imagination, waste is only waste, but in Wrights’ hands it became a masterpiece. (化用自OG 中的一篇阅读) 2 Andrew Lloyd Webber, a genius at modern musical, was born in family which both his parents were music teachers. When he was nine, he wrote his first musical. After several years, he entered Royal Academy of Music. However, he didn’t finish his study, because he thought the dogmatic teaching would ossify his imagination. Despite this, he wrote lots of brilliant musicals, such as “Cats” in 1981, “Phantom of the opera” in 1986. Both Sides of an Issue 题目举例： “In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.” ——Walter Cronki...