1、专业英语八级写作-43及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、BWRITING/B(总题数：1，分数：100.00)1.Timeless Abraham Lincoln（分数：100.00）_专业英语八级写作-43答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、BWRITING/B(总题数：1，分数：100.00)1.Timeless Abraham Lincoln（分数：100.00）_正确答案：(Abraham Lincoln turns 200 this year, and hes beginning to show his age. When his birt
2、hday arrives, on February 12. Congress will hold a special joint session in the Capitals National Statuary Hall, a wreath will be laid at the great memorial in Washington, and a webcast will link school classrooms for a teach-in honouring his memory. Admirable as they are, though, the events will st
3、rike many of us Lincoln fans as inadequate, even halfheartedand another sign that our appreciation for the 16th president and his towering achievements is slipping away. And you dont have to be a Lincoln enthusiast to believe that this is something we cant afford to lose. Compare this years celebrat
4、ion with the Lincoln centennial, in 1909. That year, Lincolns likeness made its debut on the penny, thanks to approval from the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Communities and civic associations in every comer of the country erupted in parades, concerts, balls, lectures, and military displays. We st
5、ill feel the effects today: The momentum unloosed in 1909 led to the Lincoln Memorial, opened in 1922, and the Lincoln Highway, the first paved transcontinental thoroughfare. The celebrants in 1909 had a few inspirations we lack today. Lincolns presidency was still a living memory for countless Amer
6、icans. In 2009 we are farther in time from the end of the Second World War than they were from the Civil War; families still felt the loss of loved ones from that awful national trauma. But Americans in 1909 had something more: an unembarrassed appreciation for heroes and an acute sense of the way t
7、hat even long-dead historical figures press in on the present and make us who we are. One story will illustrate what Im talking about. In 2003 a group of local citizens arranged to place a statue of Lincoln in Richmond, Virginia, former capital of the Confederacy. The idea touched off a firestorm of
8、 controversy. The Sons of Confederate Veterans held a public conference of carefully selected scholars to reassess the legacy of Lincoln. The verdictno surprisewas negative: Lincoln was labeled everything from a racist totalitarian to a teller of dirty jokes. I covered the conference as a reporter,
9、but what really unnerved me was a counter-conference of scholars to refute the earlier one. These scholars drew a picture of Lincoln that only our touchy-feely age could conjure up. The man who oversaw the most savage war in our history was describedby his admirers, rememberas nonjudgmental, unmoral
10、istic, comfortable with ambiguity. I felt the way a friend of mine felt as we later watched the unveiling of the Richmond statue in a subdued ceremony: But hes so small! The statue in Richmond was indeed small; like nearly every Lincoln statue put up in the past half century, it was life-size and wa
11、s placed at ground level, a conscious rejection of the heroicapproachable and human, yes, but not something to look up to. The Richmond episode taught me that Americans have lost the language to explain Lincolns greatness even to ourselves. Earlier generations said they wanted their children to be l
12、ike Lincoln: principled, kind, compassionate, resolute. Today we want Lincoln to be like us. This helps to explain the long string of recent books in which writers have presented a Lincoln made after their own image. Weve had Lincoln as humorist and Lincoln as manic-depressive, Lincoln the business
13、sage, the conservative Lincoln and the liberal Lincoln, the emancipator and the racist, the stoic philosopher, the Christian, the atheist Lincoln over easy and Lincoln scrambled. Whats often missing, though, is the timeless Lincoln, the Lincoln whom all generations, our own no less than that of 1909
14、 can lay claim to. Lucky for us, those memorializers from a century agoand, through them, Lincoln himselfhave left us a hint of where to find him. The Lincoln Memorial is the most visited of our presidential monuments. Here is where we find the Lincoln who endures: in the words he left us, defining the country weve inherited. Here is the Lincoln who can be endlessly renewed and who, 200 years after his birth, retains the power to renew us.)解析：
