6. The most important thing you want to change about your hometown
If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons
and specific examples to support your answer.
『分析』
改变其环境，因为一个好的环境会使人们
更加快乐
更加健康
更加有效率
相关题目：[52]、[141]、[165]都可以选择改变其环境。这些题目实际上可以用一篇文章应对。
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『范文』
I was born in a small town named Hailin, located in the North-East of China. The most serious problems in
my hometown are the backward ideas about a woman's place in the family, school, workplace, and society. These
negative stereotypes hurt not only women, but all of society as well. If possible, I would change the attitudes of
the people in my hometown so they would view men and women equally.
Discrimination against women in my hometown begins before they are even born. Because people here
believe that only a man can carry on the family line, every family wants to have at least one son. Each family is
only supposed to have one child because of the overpopulation problem. This means that if a family can find out a
fetus is female before it is born they might abort it. Or in other cases, people will have many female babies before
they have a son, which only makes the population problem worse. If female babies were considered as important
as male babies, then these two problems probably would not exist.
Discrimination against girls continues as they go to school and work. The prevalent stereotype is that women
are not as smart as men and we shouldn't waste time and money educating them. Families often insist that their
daughters stay at home and help with housework while sending their sons to school. Girls are born every bit as
smart as boys and equally deserve to reap the benefits of education. Many of the world's famous scientists and
leaders are women, from Marie Curie to Margaret Thatcher. We need to eliminate the stereotype that women are
less intelligent than men so that our community can benefit from the achievements that women are capable of
making when armed with education.
In fact, women need to be respected enough to hold professional and leadership jobs in our community. This
would mean that in the classified section of newspapers, there would no longer be jobs for "men only." We will
never know how many women could have done those jobs better than a man could have until the parents of every
baby girl decide that their daughter is worth as much as their son. This is probably the most important thing that I
want to change about my hometown.
7. The influence of movies or television on people's behavior
How do movies or television influence people's behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support
your answer.
『分析』
电影、电视等大众传媒(mass media)往往可以对人们的行为产生影响
通过改变人们的价值观、世界观、审美观而改变人们行为
通过制造“社会热点”而使大众不停地讨论一件事情
通过满足人们的幻想，或使人们处于平衡状态，或使人们一定程度上失衡
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The impact that movies or television has had on our daily life, and society in general, is undeniable. No doubt
it will become even greater as the scope of which continues to grow, and as the relevant technologies become
more and more sophisticated, and so fascinating that virtually nobody will be able to escape. Already, it can be
seen how western movies are exercising influence on our youth generation: they grow long-hair regardless of their
gender, commonly part of which is dyed in gold; they wear jeans in each and every season, usually the knees of
which are deliberately tattered; boys are fond of earrings or other odd pendants; and girls are keen on Marlboros
and weird bad words.
The major means that movies and television influence the public is by creating topics of discussion in the
society. Movies offer people (the consumers) issues to talk and think about. Titanic had brought a worldwide
uproar by its extolling of fascinating immortal love; Prime Color and Wag the Dog met the national debate on
right and duty of the president of the United States. Antiwar movies such as Tears of the Sun and All Quiet on the
Western Front among numerous others have been raising the question that is any war really to uphold justice or is
it really worthy that an individual makes sacrifices to his country and at the same time ignores his own family or
his personal values?
Television also shapes our understanding of what is important and what is not important (to know). The
"important" issues are being discussed over and over or in the beginning of a program. The "not important" stories
are the ones that are not being told at all. The "not very important" stories are probably very short and hidden in
the last part. By prearranging public issue, movies and television make decisions for us. Even though there are
critical thinking individuals in any society, they are definitely in minority; the public in whole indeed lack skills of
critical thinking, and therefore they are often led by the movies and television.
In brief, movies and television, by offering topics and affecting the ways in which we discuss "the important
issues", has a strong influence on our perception of the truth, of the world or of the structure of our society. We
have to admit that it has a role in our lives as a source of information, experiences, entertainment, amusement and
relaxation.
8. Has television destroyed communication among people?
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television has destroyed communication among
friends and family. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
『分析』
不能同意这个观点
........
。一方面人们看电视的时间越来越多;另外一方面人与人之间的关系越来越冷漠。但是
这两个现象并不是完全、直接的因果关系。造成人们关系冷漠的原因很多，比如，来自方方面面的压力：
工作、生活。
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While television has been somewhat harmful in its effects, it has hardly "destroyed" communication among
friends and family, although for some people, the assertion that television has destroyed communication among
friends and family seems pretty plausible.
Television, invented in last century, with its wide availability, increasingly prosperous programs, becomes
one of the most powerful means of communication in the history, and is more and more difficult to ignore.
Television is as much a part of our lives as are our meals, work, or school; studies consistently show that the
average American child spends almost as much time watching television as does he or she in school. We all have
only 24 hours a day and it is clear that the more time one spends on watching television, the less time one does
with his or her family and friends. Hence the passage printed in the newspaper or magazine titled "Television took
my husband away."
Tempting as such claim might be, it is hardly true. Instead of television, it is the increasing pressure of
modern life that took her husband away. We have no definite evidence to say people nowadays endure more
pressures than did their counterparts in the past, but it is absolutely true that people nowadays undergo great
pressures that come from various directions, including work, school, economy, and so forth. Investigations show
that people who earn more than RMB 50, 000 annually spend at least 60 hours on work per week, much more than
those who earn RMB 20,000 annually. Today a bachelor's degree may no longer guarantee a decent pay, more and
more companies post their want ads claiming that applicants must have at least master's degrees, which take two
or three years longer.
People nowadays have very little time for anything; television is merely among many other factors that affect
communication, and is definitely not the main cause of degradation. It seems that the more one is educated, the
more one is aware of the deleterious effects that excessive television causes, and either deliberately avoid it or
actually do not enjoy it. On the other hand, there really are many people addictive to television. But the fact is,
were television not existent, surely these people would have found other escapes, such as alcohol or gambling for
example. In other words, people always find a way to do what they want to do. Therefore, I can hardly agree that
television has destroyed communication among friends and family.
9. Live in a small town or in a big city?
Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you
prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
『分析』
生活在大城市的优缺点：信息发达，工作机会多，生活设施完善;人情淡薄
生活在小城市的优缺点：温馨，安静，空气好;人们相互了解、友善;信息闭塞;没有好工作
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陈述自己的偏好(可以采取"it depends"的策略，不同的阶段有不同的偏好)
相关题目：[20]
『范文』
People seldom agree with each other even in such trivial issues as preference between a big city and a small
town. It's a little bit haste to say that it is better to live in a big city than in a small town, or vice versa.
Living in a big city has several benefits. First, there're more job opportunities readily available in big cities
than in a small town. Moreover, not merely are there more job positions in big cities and the qualities of the
position are much higher as well. In addition, the pay is more decent. Second, children are supposed to be able to
receive an education with a higher quality compared with their counterparts who live in a small town. For families,
children's education is always put in the first place. Finally, living in a big city usually has a superior living
standard to that in a small town. There are more commodities and services in city markets; there are more public
utilities available in big cities; there are even much more television channels in big cities.
However, living in a small town also has some advantages. People who live in a small town often have a
much comfortable life style. Most of them do not have to suffer high working stress. Although the average pay is
much less than that of big cities, the price of daily necessities, such as vegetables or meat, is usually less
expensive. Instead of suffering loneliness which is prevalent in big cities, children might grow up more healthily
because of harmonious relationship among residents in small town. People in a small town do not have to get up
so early in the morning because there has been no traffic jam, and nobody drive so fast in a small town as to cause
car accidents. They might have fewer channels in television, but they have more friends readily available to chat
or entertain with.
According to my current situation, although I am longing for the cozy atmosphere and relationship among
neighbors and friends which almost only exist in small cities, I have chosen to live in one of the biggest cities in
my country—Beijing, since I have found a pretty good job here, and a decent pay. I think I would prefer living in
a small town when I get retired one day.
10. Does luck have anything to do with success?
“When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” Do you agree
or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.
『分析』
nothing是一个绝对词，所以，不能完全同意也不能完全不同意。选择“很大程度上同意”。
指出luck确实存在
指出可能导致人们成功的若干原因：诚实、睿智、幽默;执著;肯于做不喜欢的事情[27];
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『范文』
Here is a true story, a story about an African man called Cinque who slew a most terrifying beast that any one
has ever seen, a lion. His siblings in the village who know about this anecdote gave him great respect and call him
the big man.
However, he told the truth later.
"It had killed several people, even hunters among us. Everyone including me was afraid.
"I was lying down with my family, when out of nowhere it appeared.
"As it came for me, I picked up a big rock and I threw it. And that wasn't bravery, because any man would do
the same to protect his family.
"But by some miracle, you see, I hit it. I don't know how that killed it, but it did. A rock, you see, a rock.
"I received the gratitude of everyone in the village. I was given respect. They treated me as if I was a prince.
They gave me the finest country cloth. All these things they gave me, I took them all. But I knew I didn't deserve
it, for when I threw that rock at that beast, if I missed it, I wouldn't be sitting here today trying to explain these
things to you or somebody else, I'd just be dead. I'm not a big man, just a lucky one."
You see, luck does exist. When it appears, mathematicians describe in such a way that something has an
extremely small probability but it does happen. People often say, one has to have an opportunity to succeed. In
this case, luck is the opportunity, and to some extent is an indispensable factor to achieve success.
When people say luck has nothing to do with success, I wonder it is not their intention to deny existence of
luck, but to encourage. Because luck in fact is a factor that one can not and should not count on, even though we
know people who have succeeded have their own luck. It is somewhere, but nobody knows where. It happens
sometime, but we don't know when. By contrast, hard work is something that everyone can count on, and as is
often the case, hard work might bring luck. Therefore, luck itself is of no hope, and lack of luck should not be an
excuse to failure.
