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1、專業(yè)英語考試復(fù)習(xí)資料專業(yè)八級分類模擬527專業(yè)英語考試復(fù)習(xí)資料專業(yè)八級分類模擬527專業(yè)八級分類模擬527WRITING問題:1. Undoubtedly, our world has changed a lot with the development of science and technology. Some people think that technology has made the world a better place to live. Do you agree OR disagree with this idea? The following are the opini

2、ons from different people. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the opinions from different sides; 2. give your comment Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Fa

3、ilure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. A middle-aged man It is true that the technological development solves many problems and makes life better. At the same time, technological changes may create new problems thereby threatening or damaging quality of life. For examp

4、le, with the Internet and smart phones, we expected a closer relationship with one another. But instead, face-to-face communication is largely reduced, because other ways, e.g. sending emails or messages, replace it. So it could be said that the distance between people is lengthened, not shortened.

5、Whats more, technology increases our working efficiency, accelerates the development of the whole society, but at the same time, it leads to more and more stress and pressure. I have read a paper, which found that todays people have more serious psychological problems than ever before. A college stu

6、dent Nowadays, we are in an age of technological revolutions. The technology has brought about many conveniences. In my opinion, technology really has made the world a better place to live. Computers changed the traditional ways of reading and writing, which brings us great convenience. Moreover com

7、puter users can communicate with one another across the globe. For me, a foreign language learner, I can practice my spoken language with native speakers through WeChat or other instant messengers. Moreover, technology has created plenty of educational opportunities for us. We can learn in the form

8、of course-specific web pages, email communication, online courses, and so on. Hi-tech tools are used specifically in the classroom like laptops, calculators and presentation hardware, which makes education keep pace with the times. A common office worker With the technological advances, the ways of

9、our life changed dramatically and the quality of life improved a lot. Personally speaking, I agree with the idea that technology has made the world a better place to live. Firstly, I live a more comfortable life with the technological development. For example, I can use air conditioner in summer to

10、cool down and heating system in winter to keep warm. I can eat whatever vegetable and fruit I want. I can find them in the supermarket without worrying whether they are off the season. Secondly, the world is now more convenient to live in. We can travel around by plane and high-speed rail. For insta

11、nce, it only takes me several hours to go to other countries by plane. We can talk to each other in the long distance by telephone or video-chat. Lastly, technology provides me with many ways to entertain myself in my spare time. I can do plenty of things with my smart phone: listening to music, cha

12、tting with friends, updating my status, watching movies or doing some readings downloaded from the Internet. They really make my life colorful and wonderful. 答案:范文 Has Technology Made the World a Better Place to Live? It cant be denied that our world has undergone great changes because of the develo

13、pment of science and technology. While many people are excited about the economic boom and industrial development brought about by technology, others indicate that technology has carried with it a lot of problems and worry that if developed unregulatedly, it may one day destroy the planet we live in

14、. As far as I am concerned, both of the viewpoints have validity because technology itself has both advantages and disadvantages. It is true that high technology helps solve many problems and makes our life more convenient. The introduction of computers has improved efficiency in almost every aspect

15、 of our life and together with the Internet, computers make it possible for us to know things that are happening in the world without stepping out of our bedroom, to keep in touch with friends afar by sending emails or chatting online. Besides, the introduction of new technologies to increase produc

16、tion has been very effective. These are just a few examples to illustrate the advantages of technological advancement. On the other hand, technology may generate a lot of problems too. Industrial wastes have seriously polluted our environment, which in turn leads to a lot of human diseases and the e

17、xtinction of some plants and wild animals. In another word, the deteriorating environment is a price paid for industrial development. This price, which used to be considered acceptable, is now deemed as too high. Its really difficult to say whether technology has done more good or harm. But I am con

18、vinced that technology itself has no fault and thus no responsibility to shoulder. The core of the problem is us human beings. It is the way we use technology that decides whether it has made or can make our world a better place to live, not technology itself. Therefore, what us should do is to take

19、 advantage of technology appropriately, while avoiding the possible side effects it may bring us.解析 思路點撥 題目要求探討科技是否使世界變得更美好。換句話說，也就是探討高科技的優(yōu)、缺點。如果認(rèn)為優(yōu)點多于缺點，那么觀點自然就是科技可以使人類更幸福；反之，則是科技不能使人類生活得更好。當(dāng)然也可以認(rèn)為優(yōu)點、缺點相當(dāng)，那么這時一定要有自己的觀點。本篇范文中的觀點為：科技本無罪，關(guān)鍵看人類。 文章開篇介紹背景，總結(jié)閱讀材料中各方的觀點，提出自己的觀點科技的發(fā)展有利也有弊。 中間部分首先論述科技給人類生活帶

20、來的便利等優(yōu)點，然后再論述科技的發(fā)展所帶來的諸如電子垃圾等問題。 最后擺明自己的觀點：科技到底是會造福人類還是帶來危害，關(guān)鍵看人們?nèi)绾稳ダ盟?由于科技問題在這兩年被探討得比較多，所以應(yīng)該算是大家比較熟悉的話題，可寫的素材也不少，因此一定要注意精選分論點，適當(dāng)進行例證。切不可簡單羅列一系列原因，而沒有任何的詳細論述。 問題:2. 題目要求：A unique social phenomenon exists exclusively in Chinachunyun, or Spring Festival Travel Rush. The following excerpt is about ho

21、w a foreign reporter views this issue. Read the excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the content of the excerpt; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language qualit

22、y. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Tootling back to the Village The lunar new year holiday shows the strength of rural ties. It is often described as the worlds biggest recurring movement of people: a 40-day period spanning the lunar new year, during which ast

23、onishing numbers of people travel to join distant family members to celebrate the Spring Festival. Officials call this period chunyun, or spring transportation. The term evokes horror in the minds of many: trains are so jammed that the only place to sit is on lavatory floors. This year the projected

24、 number of journeys on public transport during chunyun, which will end on March 15th, is nearly 2.9 billion, a 10% increase over the comparable period a year ago. Yet there are reasons to be a little less gloomy about what this entails. The numbers suggest that despite rapid urbanization, the pull o

25、f the countryside remains strong. Many of the journeys involve mingong, or peasant workers, as the nearly 300m migrants from the countryside who work in urban areas are often snootily called. Their families are often divided. Children stay in the villages, because a fragmented social-security system

26、 makes it difficult for migrants to enjoy subsidized education and health care in the cities. Many migrants think it a good idea that some relatives remain: the stay-behinds can help retain land-use rights which might come in handy for the migrants if urban work dries up. The authorities themselves

27、are keen for migrants to keep this backstop. But migration patterns are changing. Wang Kan of the China Institute of Industrial Relations says that, during chunyun, trips between provinces have been declining. This is because migrants are often working closer to home, thanks to the relocation of som

28、e industries away from the coast to inland provinces where labour is cheaper. We can see the emergence of more regional hubs, says Mr. Wang. No longer is the chunyun rush so concentrated in the biggest and wealthiest cities. Analyzing chunyun data is difficult. Xiaohui Liang of Renmin University of

29、China says that companies have recently begun providing private long-distance coach transport for their workers. These trips do not get counted in official statistics. Other workers, he says, get counted twice if they go by train to a regional hub and from there continue by bus to their hometowns. A

30、 single worker doing this in both directions would account for four chunyun journeys. The growth of an urban middle class further complicates the picture. Journeys made by holiday tourists, with no rural reunion in mind, are on the rise. Researchers had long felt it safe to assume that trips taken o

31、n pricey high-speed trains were made by such travellers. But according to Mr. Wang, migrant workers are increasingly opting for the speed and comfort of the more expensive trains. This, he says, suggests that the purchasing power of migrants is on the rise. Some are even heading back to their villag

32、es in newly bought cars (perhaps with paying passengers to offset some of the cost). One source of data on this years travel rush is Alibaba, an e-commerce firm which has analysed the sale of train tickets through Alitrip, its online travel business. In a new trend this year, the company says, some

33、families are migrating in reverse for their holiday reunions. Alibaba says there has been a tremendous increase in the number of elderly parents travelling from their rural homes to industrial centres, such as the southern city of Guangzhou, to spend the festival with their children. That implies th

34、at some migrants are now proud enough of their new urban homes to begin showing off. 答案:范文 Spring Festival Travel Rush The definitely unique occurrence in China, chunyun, or the Spring Festival Travel Rush can be ranked as the largest scale of annual human migration. Despite rapid urbanization, the

35、allure of returning to the hometown for Spring Festival, the tradition that has been cherished since ancient times, is stronger than anything else. The peasant workers contribute most to chunyun as they work in economically vibrant cities while leaving their families behind. Moreover, journeys made

36、by holiday tourists are increasing. However, the relocation of some industries from coastal cities to inland provinces helps ease the flow. Furthermore, the elderly parents travel from the countryside to the cities to reunite with their children. This reverse route also helps slow down the frantic c

37、hunyun. In my opinion, fruit of urbanization though chunyun appears to be, it embodies the familial value we have been cherishing for centuries. In spite of the higher travel costs, the expected extravagant spending on gifts and other festival items and the bumpy road back home in terms of several p

38、ratfalls in securing a train ticket, most Chinese people choose to drop any business at hand just to desperately go back home in hope of celebrating the most solemn festival with their families. The hubbub on the crowded and often suffocating coaches and trains can never quench their burning nostalg

39、ia for long-departed homes. Their pampering spending on their families mirrors a champion of love even though the money may well be earned painstakingly through travail over many furiously sleepless nights in sweatshops. In China whose social welfare epitomizes its fair coverage of every citizen, so

40、me systems such as hukou and the soaring housing prices in cities have successfully shunned migrant workers from settling in their workplaces, thus resulting in this gushing rush. So a generously defined social welfare system might be a panacea for this swelling in travel, or chunyun is doomed a chr

41、onic fight-or-flight issue. 問題:3. 題目要求：The rapidly developing technology disturbs the relationship between parents and their children, which is now rated a social problem that we need to pay attention to and guard against. Read the following article carefully and write your response in about 300 wor

42、ds, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the research findings; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. The increased presence of technology

43、 in the daily life of modern children has caused the relationship between parents and their children to be affected. Khan, an educator, did a study on the relationship between the duration of adolescents (14 to 18 years old) technology usage on computer, mobile phone and video games and their relati

44、onship with their parents. This research was done in a New York high school on 63 students. These students represent a generation that has been exposed to technology the most throughout their lifetime. It was found that when they spent long time on computers, the closeness towards parents diminished

45、. On the other hand, there was no correlation to be found between the usage of mobile and the closeness with parents as mobile phone is still a way for both parents and their children to communicate. Similarly, another research also has shown that relationship between children and their family membe

46、rs is affected by the amount of time they spend on the Internet. Young (a psychologist) investigated whether any decline and loss of desire for face-to-face communication with their use was related to Internet surfing. The age range (14 to 18 years old) of this study was controlled because there may

47、 be restrictions implied in their use of Internet by parents and also because that generation is being exposed much to technology since birth. Youngs research found that students use the Internet more often, which in turn causes them to spend less time with their family. Plus, the desire for face-to

48、-face communication with family members declined when more time was spent on the Internet. Children who spend hours on the Internet will find that there is not much time left for any other types of interaction or bonding time with their family. Consequently, children and their parents as family memb

49、ers will have a poorer relationship instead of being able to maintain a stronger family relationship. On top of that, Lee (a scholar) reported that the use of computer for recreational and communication purposes among 1,312 adolescents from the United States (age 12 to 18) replaced their time with t

50、heir parents and Lees result had showed an increase of 1 hour in computer-mediated communication results in a decrease of 2d minutes in time with parents. Lees finding shows a negative correlation between the time spent on computer and on parent-child relationship. However, one drawback that was fou

51、nd in Lees study was that she did not consider including the specific type of online activity and also the type of social networking sites. Punamaki, Wallenius, Holtto, Nygard, and Rimpelas research had shown similarities in their findings. Their research was conducted on 478 Finnish children and ad

52、olescents from seven schools. The result found that using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for entertainment is related to poor peer and parental relations. In addition, engaging in intensive Internet surfing however was found to associate with poor maternal relation which is seen most

53、 in daughter-mother communication. As there is only 24 hours in a day, the time used on the computer will reduce the time spent on other activities. Thus, the relationship between parents and children are affected by the usage of ICT causing both parents and children to have poor communication with

54、one another, when communication is essential in building a strong parent-child relationship. 答案:范文 Family Relationship and Technology Several studies (though possibly with a few exceptions) which were conducted in different areas have shown that technology affects the relationship between parents an

55、d their children. It seems that when the children spent long time on modem technologies like computers, the closeness to their parents diminish because children spend less time with their parents, showing that regular communication is fundamental in establishing a strong parent-child relationship. T

56、he effect of technology on parent-child relationship illustrates the facts that firstly, many students are nowadays spending or wasting a lot of time on surfing. It is true that a computer is connected with the academic success of a student for it offers a unique platform to get access to the most u

57、p-to-date information. However, we should not undermine the fact that many students use their laptops chatting, playing computer games, watching soup operas all day long (or even by skipping classes). Secondly, the parent-child relationship depends much on communication. Smartphones and wifi nowaday

58、s make it convenient to realize the purpose of online chatting, watching videos, sending emails or using various apps. As a result, the family members are reluctant to talk to each other. The pro is that such technologies do help us communicate with our family members, but the con is that the real duration for communication is far less than we use them for visual and acoustic joy. The study and our common sense show that there is no exaggeration to say technology drives us, generationally, apart. To protect us from