写作里有一个说法是“凤首、猪肚、豹尾”，即是说“起要引人入胜，中要言之有物，结要耐人寻味”。今天咱们就来聊一聊如何可以不用有过多“干货”也可以写创造出托福独立写作的“凤首”，毕竟，这时每个考生都有可能通过短期努力达到的。首先，引人入胜并不代表要一定用华丽的辞藻、连篇累牍的复杂句式、适合的社会现象、或深刻的相关知识。在写作时，不论是开门见山还是娓娓道来，只要讲基本文字功打扎实，千锤百炼，把握好一个“度”字，依然可以写出清新亮眼的开头来。我们首先来看一下这道题：People who have learnt many different skills are more likely to succeed than those who focus on learning only one skill.学习多种不同技能的人比专精一项技术的人更容易取得成功。大家先看一个干净利落的开头：Before entering the workforce, everyone will be confronted with an inevitable question: do you prefer to be an expert of one skill or a complex talent of many skills? In terms of achieving success, I firmly believe that learning many different skills are more likely to ensure success than focusing on one skill.这个开头短短五十来字，怎么看都只不过把题目拆开了来自问自答，它好在了哪里?有时候，最为珍贵的宝石看起来也就不一定耀眼夺目。我们来仔细分析一下。首先看词汇：be confronted with, inevitable, complex talent, in terms of, ensure. 这些镶嵌在两个句子当中的词汇可谓字字珠玑，一下满足了用词准确和地道两个评分要求。有了这些，评卷老师那被“meet, face, wide, when it comes to”弄的昏昏欲睡的双眼就会突然一亮。接着看句型：两个从句加一个问句嵌套，简单高效的表达自己的观点，问句又起到了推波助澜的作用，是观点显得更加笃定。最后我们看一下逻辑：第一句话是暗含乾坤的，体现逻辑的缜密。一个before将skill和success的关系给理所当然的引出，精炼。由此可以看出，简短的开头不见的就一定没聊，哪怕是像该例这种开门见山的写法，也一样可以适时展示出积累和磨练来的句型和地道表达，在这狭窄的50多字的舞台上放出异彩，引出观点。所以，一定不要质疑句型练习的作用。我们再看一道题目：It is better to take a secure job with low pay than to take a job with high pay but is easy to lose.可以用这样的开头段来诠释常用句型和词汇所能达到的较高境界：If you ask a hundred people about their preferences regarding the security of a job and the financial returns, you are bound to receive more than one type of answer. A young man might choose high pay over security, whereas a 35 year old woman with a family might decide that a secure job with low pay is a better choice. As for me, I strongly agree that it’s not necessarily better to take a secure job with low pay than to take an unstable job with high pay.仔细分析会发现，这个开头其实也没有加入任何社会现象或相关的背景，甚至没有任何相关的知识点。从内容上说，它只做了一件事：就是把问题中的观点具象成两个人，然后用非常实用的条件状语从句来进行引导。结果，一个简单抽象的对比就变为生动有趣的场景，自然而又具有可读性。所以，“凤首”不一定必须要多么的高大上，也不需要大家有多么丰富的储备。开发智慧和创意，用丰富的想象力和恰到好处的表达来点亮自己的开头吧!
