先来看道题目：

No amount of wealth can help humanity move forward and make progress, even under the management of the most dedicated and  socially  conscious  workers. Money leads only  to  selfishness  and  becomes  an  irresistible temptation to its owners to abuse it. The only thing that can lead people to praiseworthy ideas and noble deeds is to follow the example of those great individuals who put other factors before money. Adapted from Albert Einstein in Alice Calaprice, The New Quotable Einstein【2012年6月】

Does money lead to selfishness?

这个题目是讨论钱和人性的问题，有钱到底会不会导致自私,钱和人性的问题以及快乐的问题一直是SAT比较喜欢考的内容。那么我们来看下应该如何来给这个题目写开头：

第一种方式：可以是这个题目的背景加上个人观点：

这个题目的背景是钱和人性的问题所以我们可以在开头中就这两个部分来进行背景的论述，不需要向托福一样联系社会发展，直接就切入主题，这样比较SAT的写作思路，以下是供同学们思考的三个第一种方式的开头：

It is usually believed that money enables people to be more selfish instead of being altruistic. However, there are several compelling examples against this view including in the business and charity fields.

People are born to pursue money and reputation, which drive people to lose their innocence and conscience in the process, which is quite common in business and political circles.

People are born to pursue money and reputation, which may ruin one’s relationship and one’s simple mind. Even worse, it may destroy a company or a nation since its rulers are lost in the search for profit.

第二种：可以参考prompt里面的内容，做一些改写，然后再给出自己的观点。这个是来自于题目的prompt：

No amount of wealth can help humanity move forward and make progress, even under the management of the most dedicated and socially conscious workers. Money leads only to selfishness and becomes an irresistible temptation to its owners to abuse it. The only thing that can lead people to praiseworthy ideas and noble deeds is to follow the example of those great individuals who put other factors before money

然后以下是改写部分：

Fortune is an ultimate force to move forward human society without any question. Money results in merely selfishness and becomes an unavoidable seduction to its owners. Certainly, there are someone who can resist this temptation and take other factors rather than money into their consideration first. To them, wealth is not their final goal, but conscience and empathy is their constant pursuit.

大家可以看到我们几乎没有改动prompt的意思，做了单词和句型的替换，对于考生来讲这样的开头是速度最快的，同时也是最容易操作的。不用自己想很多内容。所以我相对比较推荐学生使用这样的开头方法

另外如果你的中间部分例子比较多的话，可以选择把一个例子放在开头来写，这样的开头也会比较新颖，能吸引考官的眼球，但是有个要求，例子不能太长，否则开头会喧宾夺主,比如我们把mother Teresa的这个例子可以放在开头：

Mother Teresa devoted her entire life to the missionary of charity to aid those poor and unhealthy people globally. For her, she never considered the profit and reward brought by her altruistic behavior/action. Even she never swayed after she has got reputation and enormous funding from other sources. Actually, there are other figures who share the same spirit. in terms of them, money never makes them lose conscience/selfish.