1、专业英语八级写作-18及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、WRITING(总题数：1，分数：100.00)1.Directions: Nowadays, there are multiple activities for students to attend to develop their mental agility and rhetorical skills, such as debate contests, speech contests and the like. In view of this situation, some people claim that
2、 students should be encouraged to realize that mental agility and rhetorical skill must be accompanied by sincerity and the true conviction of their own beliefs. What do you think of this statement? Write an essay of about 400 words.In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main
3、argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar
4、 and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.（分数：100.00）_专业英语八级写作-18答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、WRITING(总题数：1，分数：100.00)1.Directions: Nowadays, there are multiple activities for students to attend to develop their mental agility and rhetorical skills,
5、such as debate contests, speech contests and the like. In view of this situation, some people claim that students should be encouraged to realize that mental agility and rhetorical skill must be accompanied by sincerity and the true conviction of their own beliefs. What do you think of this statemen
6、t? Write an essay of about 400 words.In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.You sh
7、ould supply an appropriate title for your essay.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.（分数：100.00）_正确答案：(参考范文 Achieving a Balance Between Mental Developmentand Molding of PersonalityThere is
8、 an academic tendency today to overemphasize mental agility and rhetorical skills, while giving little attention to students sincerity and the true conviction of their own beliefs. As we can see, there are multiple activities for students to attend on campus to develop their intellect and rhetorical
9、 skills, such as debates, speech contests and the like. Intellectual wins in these mental and rhetorical games become more important to some people than true beliefs and convictions; displays of intellectual brilliance are more important to them than representing what is true. In view of this situat
10、ion, some people expressed their worries. I believe these worries are justifiable.Of course, these skills have their place and it is essential that they should be developed. Mental agilitys value lies in helping us reason more effectively and thoroughly and discriminate between right and wrong. This
11、 is its rightful purpose, but it should not be used as a tool to belittle our opponents by concealing faults or weakness in our reasoning, or by setting fallacious intellectual traps for our rivals. Similarly, the true value of rhetorical skills doesnt lie in making a falsehood seem beautiful and lo
12、gical. Only the pursuits of truth and right are essential for the career of scholars and other educated people.One can easily observe the dangers of such imbalance: without the accompanying of sincerity and true conviction of ones beliefs, students might easily abuse their mental agility and rhetori
13、cal techniques. Only concerning with the technique itself, a student might not hesitate to say something in which they dont believe, or make a statement about which they havent even given much thought. Ensuing discussion and exchange of ideas will be of no value except as a mere game for displaying
14、ones intellectual brilliance. More dangerously, such a tendency to use these intellectual techniques as a goal rather than a tool, would be likely to eventually weaken ones ability to distinguish between right and wrong. Such a result ignores our academic goals.The last argument opposing to one-side
15、d development of intellectual skills is the difficulty to develop really cogent and strong point of views if mental and rhetorical skills are not accompanied by the sincerity and true conviction of ones beliefs. Such sincerity and conviction are essential elements of a wholesome and learned mind. Wi
16、thout such sense of responsibility, students would tend to develop a sophistic but superficial way of thinking and talking, which might influence their whole life. Without question, this once again violates our academic goals.In conclusion, it is high time to lay equal emphasis on students mental development and molding of personality. Only by achieving a balance between the two can students develop in a healthy way.)解析：
