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1、押題5  大眾傳媒對公眾的影響題目要求    In the Information Age, the mass media have been playing an ever more important role in shaping our society. In the following excerpts, the author lists the benefits as well as the setbacks brought about by the mass media. Read the excerpts carefully and write y

2、our response in about 300 words, in which you should:1. summarize briefly the authors opinions about the mass media;2. give your comment.    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions ma

3、y result in a loss of marks.    We are told the mass media are the greatest organs for enlightenment that the world has yet seen; that in Britain, for instance, several million people see each issue of the current affairs programme, Panorama. It is true that never in human history were so

4、many people so often and so much exposed to so many intimations about societies, forms of life attitudes other than those which obtain in their local societies. This kind of exposure may well be a point of departure for acquiring certain important intellectual and imaginative qualities, width of jud

5、gment, and a sense of the variety of possible attitudes. Yet in itself such exposure does not bring intellectual or imaginative development. It is no more than the masses of stone which lie around in a quarry and which may, conceivably, go to the making of a cathedral. The mass media cannot build th

6、e cathedral, and their way of showing the stones does not always prompt others to build. For the stones are presented within a self-contained and self-sufficient world in which, it is implied, simply to look at them, to observefleetinglyindividually interesting points of difference between them, is

7、sufficient in itself.    Life is indeed full of problems on which we have toor feel we should try tomake decisions, as citizens or as private individuals. But neither the real difficulty of these decisions, nor their true and disturbing challenge to each individual, can often be communicat

8、ed through the mass media. The disinclination to suggest real choice, individual decision, which is to be found in the mass media, is not simply the product of a commercial desire to keep the customers happy. It is within the grain of mass communication. The organs of the Establishment, however well

9、-intentioned they may be and whatever their form (the State, the Church, voluntary societies, political parties), have a vested interest in ensuring that the public boat is not violently rocked, and will so affect those who work within the mass media that they will be led insensibly towards forms of

10、 production which, though they go through the dispute and enquiry, do not break through the skin to where such enquiries might really hurt. They will tend to move, when exposing problems, well within the accepted cliché assumptions of the society and will tend neither radically to question thes

11、e clichés nor to make a disturbing application of them to features of contemporary life. They will stress the “stimulation” the programs give, but this soon becomes an agitation of problems for the sake of the interest of that agitation itself; they will therefore, again, assist a form of accep

12、tance of the status quo. There are exceptions to this tendency, but they are uncharacteristic.    The result can be seen in a hundred radio and television programs as plainly as in the normal treatment of public issues in the popular press. Different levels of background in the readers or

13、viewers may be assumed, but what usually takes place is a substitute for the process of arriving at judgment. Programs such as this are noteworthy less for the “stimulation” they offer than for the fact that that stimulation (repeated at regular intervals) may become a substitute for, and so a hindr

14、ance to, judgments arrived at and tested in the mind and on the pulses. Mass communications, then, do not ignore intellectual matters; they tend to castrate them, to allow them to sit on the side of the fireplace, sleek and useless, a family plaything.    Write your response on ANSWER SHEE

15、T FOUR.審題思路    本題探討的是大眾傳媒對公眾的影響，屬于社會(huì)焦點(diǎn)類話題。要求簡要概括所給材料中作者的觀點(diǎn)，并發(fā)表自己的評論。在具體行文方面，考生可以開篇點(diǎn)題，簡要概括作者對大眾傳媒的負(fù)面觀點(diǎn)。第二部分可以提出自己對這一問題的看法，并闡明理由。最后一段總結(jié)全文，重述論點(diǎn)，提出倡議。高分范文My Views on the Mass Media    Undeniably, the mass media have been greatly influencing our lives. However, in essence, they dont p

16、rompt intellectual development for the sake of their poor power of offering solutions to our real troubles in real life. This inability lies in the grain of communication which has been invented to pacify rather than agitate the masses. So with few exceptions, the mass media, instead of stirring int

17、ellect among their users, choose to castrate it, making themselves useless pastimes.    A century or so ago, a book named The Crowd written by LeBon shocked the world into a new recognition about the role the controlling power played in influencing the masses. A century later, that control

18、ling power puts on a new vest and calls itself the mass media.     While we hail the juggernaut of information thanks to its ubiquity, more sober minds worry about suffocating whiff the mass media puff. More often than before, we witness several reversals of the same story publicized

19、by the media, which is so twisting that it can rank a Hollywood movie. Due to their haste to catch the public attention, many mass media lose their professionalism of accuracy to rash reports. For example, some irresponsible editors base their reports on unreliable sources to cry wolf to cater to th

20、e prying eyes, only to make themselves subject to later mockery. Worse still, owing to the strict censorship, the so-called visceral truth-telling may turn out to be a thinly or thickly veiled lie to serve some purposes. “So wicked it looks loyal; so fake it looks real” speaks true of some if not ma

21、ny pieces of information the mass media presented. All in all, bad omens though these may sound from doom-mongers, the mass media, as the most powerful mouthpiece of one group or another, cannot withdraw themselves from us. It is us, who are equipped with better-nurtured minds, that should choo

22、se to digest the news they offer. 押題6  別跟漢字說再見題目要求        Nowadays, over-reliance on computers and smartphones has eroded our penmanship. Worse still, it may further worsen our reading skills which are based on the recognition of Chinese characters. Read the excerpts ca

23、refully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:1. summarize briefly the views on this issue;2. give your comment.       Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instru

24、ctions may result in a loss of marks.  Bad Characters Some Chinese Forget How to Write        Calligraphy has been a revered art form in China for centuries. Children are taught to write with brushes; endless copying of characters is a rite of passage in their schooling

25、. Writing is a feat of memory. Mastery requires learning thousands of unique characters. Despite these ordeals, literacy rates have increased from around 20% in 1949 to over 95% now. But computers, smartphones and tablets are posing a new obstacle to progress. Penmanship is on the decline. Reading s

26、kills may follow.        Pundits all over the world blame a reliance on computers for shoddy handwriting and spelling. In China the problem is particularly acute. The number of primary schoolchildren with severe reading difficulties is rising, according to a 2012 study in the Pro

27、ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors linked poor reading scores to increased use of keyboards.        One reason is that learning to write is so arduous. Chinese uses ideograms, or characters, rather than an alphabet, to represent each syllable. An ideogram i

28、s a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may also

29、 be referred to as pictograms. It normally takes six years of primary education to master the 3 ,000 or so characters required to read a newspaper.        Nowadays Chinese can use keyboards to type a word in pinyin, a Romanisation of Chinese words that reflects sounds but not app

30、earance. They then select the right character from a list. This process does not reinforce how to write the separate strokes that make up a character, and may even disrupt the process of remembering, says Wai Ting Siok of the University of Hong Kong. Ms. Siok predicts that on current trends literacy

31、 levels will begin declining within ten years.        The problem is already evident. A government body helped to launch a popular television spelling show that pits middle-school students against each other to write difficult words; in one episode in July more than 50% of the ad

32、ult audience incorrectly drew a two-character word meaning “gossip”, feiwen.        Over the past century, some have campaigned to raise literacy by replacing characters with an alphabet. That remains unlikely. Homophones are so common in Chinese that many different words would b

33、e spelled the same. And China views its script as near-sacred. Abandoning its written form would be entirely out of character.        Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.審題思路         本題探討的是在數(shù)字時(shí)代，中國漢字所面臨的種種困境這一話題。命題屬于社會(huì)焦點(diǎn)類話題。要求簡要概括所給材料中的觀點(diǎn)，并發(fā)表自己的評論。在具

34、體行文方面，考生可以開篇點(diǎn)題，簡要概括材料中的觀點(diǎn)。然后提出自己對這一問題的看法，并給出充分的論據(jù)支撐。最后總結(jié)全文，重述論點(diǎn)，升華主題。高分范文                         Do not Say Goodbye to Chinese Characters        Nowadays, our penmanship of Chinese characters is being eroded for tw

35、o main reasons. One is that as an ideogram system, it is hard to learn to write Chinese characters. Worse still, most keyboards of electric devices are equipped with pinyin, which skips the arduous drawing of each stroke. Their users can select the right character from a list, which leads to the neg

36、lect of mastery of separate strokes that make up a character. Statistics show that with the decline of penmanship, so down goes the literacy level.         Try drawing a difficult word yourself and then lament over what we have lost. Once revered as an art so beautifully cre

37、ated, Chinese characters have traversed mountains and seas to the neighboring countries and influenced their cultures to a large extent. Chinese characters, as hieroglyphs, are laced with ideograms and pictograms. More than a way to communicate, characters are entitled as jewel of the soul of Chines

38、e culture.         This shrined position of Chinese characters can be vividly epitomized in a legend in Huai Nan Zi, which says in ancient times when Cang Jie, the forefather of Chinese characters created them, grains poured from the heaven and spirits wailed at nights. Iron

39、ically though, these soul-soaked characters which survived many chapters of time are on the endangered list nowadays owing to our reliance on the easy access of pinyin on our keyboards. Gone with them is our reading ability and possibly our overall literacy. Gone with them is the treasure of a uniqu

40、e tradition of fairly long time.         In an era where people dash for conveniences, dismissing an easy way of typewriting seems like a sting in the tail. So the question is how to worry wisely. New ways of script should be invented to cater to keyboard users. Hopefully, w

41、e will not soon forget the characters our ancestors have passed down from thousands of years ago.押題7  老齡化問題題目要求    Just like other nations in the world, China has been entering an ageing era demographically. How serious is this problem and what can we do to tackle it? Read the excerpt

42、s carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:1. summarize briefly the authors opinions about this issue;2. give your comment.    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the ab

43、ove instructions may result in a loss of marks.  Aging    Liu Caiping is a former teacher, now 71, who has lived alone in Xian since her husband died last year. The radio is her steadfast companion. Her eyesight is failing and she rarely goes out. Like many city residents, her former

44、neighbours have scattered, and her two daughters live far away. When she can no longer cope on her own she will go to a nursing home, she says. That option remains extremely rare for old Chinese. And that highlights the problem: China is struggling to cope with a rapidly ageing society and a rising

45、number of elderly people living by themselves.    For most of the past two millennia the family has been central to how Chinese have seen themselvesand the state has been seen as a family writ large. Filial piety was somewhere near the heart of a Confucian order regulating society, and the

46、 family was an extended, stable unit of several generations under one roof. A very common saying encapsulated it all: yang er fang lao“raise children for your old age”.    Today multi-generation families are still the norm. Almost three-fifths of people over 65 live with their children, a

47、higher proportion than in most rich countries. Yet things are changing fast. Increasingly, parents are living apart from their childrenand when one spouse dies, as with Ms. Liu, the other often lives alone. A fifth of all single-person households in China are made up of over-65-year-olds. In contras

48、t to younger Chinese living alone, few elderly do so by choice. Many are poorly educated. Women predominate, because they tend to outlive their husbands.    China is unprepared for the consequences of solo dwelling among the elderly. Government policy enshrines the idea that families shoul

49、d live together and provide for the old and others unable to look after themselves. Despite efforts to extend pensions and other social protection, provisions fall far short because the state assumes offspring will help the old and sick. The welfare system is ill-equipped to help the elderly living

50、alone.    State financial support has improved in the past decade, but many millions of elderly Chinese still have no pension or retirement income. Health insurance is increasingly widespread, but usually covers only the basics. Rural areas lag far behind cities in the provision of pension

51、s and health care for the old.    By 2025 nearly one in four Chinese will be over 60. Chinas one-child policy has made a mockery of yang er fang laofewer among the younger generation are around for the old to move in with, a trend reinforced by starting families later. By 2050 there are li

52、kely to be just 2.5 working-age adults for every person over 65, down from eight today. Chinese born in the boondocks who migrate to far-off cities in search of work cannot easily take older family members with them even if they want to.    Despite the challenges, many in China still regar

53、d responsibility towards their family as a defining feature of their culture. Not much difference with other countries there. But the expectation of filial piety means that those who are not recipients of it often feel ashamed or isolated. Many are reluctant to seek the help of neighbours when they

54、need it, for instance.    The government acknowledges the problem. When it relaxed the one-child policy, one reason it cited was a growing number of elderly singletons. Some enterprising local governments have introduced schemes aimed at the lonely old. But with a weak social-safety net, l

55、ittle support is in place when families fail to help those living alone.     Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.審題思路         本題探討的是中國的老齡化問題，屬于社會(huì)焦點(diǎn)類話題。要求簡要概括所給材料中的觀點(diǎn)，并發(fā)表自己的評論。在具體行文方面，考生可以開篇點(diǎn)題，簡要概括作者的觀點(diǎn)。然后提出自己對這一問題的看法，并給出充分的論據(jù)支撐。最后總結(jié)全文，重述論點(diǎn)。高分范文Aging 

56、   Statistics show that China is entering an ageing era. Once boasting for its filial piety, Chinese society puts the burden of provision of the old on each family. Yet previous family plan, the current late marriages and migration away from homes make this task hard to achieve. Despite some pe

57、nsions and social protection, provisions still fall short to help the old and the solo-dwellers in particular. Schemes are urgently needed to help the elderly or well face a bleak future.    January 1, 2016 did not only summon the coming of a new year, but also a new policy which says fare

58、well to family plan in China. Nowadays, Chinese couples are allowed a second child. One aim of this newly-baked policy is to quench the population crunch. It means ageing problem has been more pressing than expected.    Once a virtue adored for thousands of years in Chinese culture, “raisi

59、ng children for your old age”, this catchword incurs a mixture of feelings due to a spate of reasons. First, many parents live apart from their children. Second, sandwiched between two generations, the middle-aged find themselves inadequate to take care of both. Third, the rising life expectancy, co

60、mbined with the stingy pensions and provisions for the old makes life especially hard for the elderly.    To solve this problem, efforts from all sides must be made. But first and foremost, instead of unfairly imposing responsibility solely on the next generation, our nation should do more

61、 to dispel the twilight mood. For example, stronger social-safety network should be built to cover the basic needs of the old. Moreover, health care and pensions should be raised steadily in correspondence to the rising living cost. After all, “the working young and the idle old” is our mutual

62、dream. After a whole lifes ferocious dedication to our nation, we deserve a comfortable old life rather than senseless torpor in pauperism. 押題8  大學(xué)文憑是成功的必要條件嗎？題目要求        It is commonly believed that one needs higher education in order to succeed, but is college education really necessary? Is a university degree a prerequisite to success? Rea