1、专业英语八级（作文）模拟试卷 25及答案与解析 一、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 1 Traditionally, teachers in kindergartens are dominantly female, but now male teachers are exceptionally popular in China. Whats your opinion? Do you think it is a good ide
2、a to hire more male teachers in a kindergarten? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. 2 Chinese are no longer strangers to Western Festivals. Many Chinese people now celebrate the Valentines Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and even Halloween. Some
3、 people think it is absurd for Chinese to observe these Western Festivals. Do you agree that we should discourage Chinese to celebrate Western Festivals? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. 3 The popularity of online bookstores is threatening the
4、 survival of many privately run bookshops in China. It is a fact beyond disputes that bookstores are losing their customers to online ones. As a college student, what measures would you recommend to save physical bookstores? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: How to Save Physi
5、cal Bookstores? 4 There is a growing tendency that most people are inclined to judge the quality of school education by referring to the students test scores and proportion of students entering higher school. As a result, most schools are more willing to lay emphasis on developing students test skil
6、ls, rather than students personality and characters. Some people observe that when test-oriented education is in conflicts with quality-oriented education, the latter one will be scarified. What is your opinion? Should schools resort to test-oriented education to improve the promotion rate? Write an
7、 essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. 5 According to a study conducted by China Population Communication Center, 75% of high school students in China admitted that they found it difficult to talk with their parents. As a college student, what measures woul
8、d you recommend to bridge the widening generation gap? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. 专业英语八级（作文）模拟试卷 25答案与解析 一、 PART VI WRITING (45 MIN) Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic. 1 【正确答案】 Kindergartens Need a
9、 Touch of Masculinity Speaking of kindergarten teachers, people commonly think about tender female ones who take care of children like a mother. However, recently male kindergarten teachers are getting increasingly popular in China. As far as I am concerned, the popularity of male kindergarten teach
10、ers is a good sign that helps to better the comprehensive education in kindergartens and that reflects the trend of gender equality. First and foremost, having male teachers in kindergartens is beneficial to the comprehensive education of children. While it is undeniable that females make very good
11、kindergarten teachers since they are patient, loving and good at taking care of children, male teachers add more masculine features to kindergarten education as a whole. For example, male teachers are better at outdoor activities and physical education. Unlike female teachers who are usually better
12、at arts and music, male teachers can teach children basketball, football and Tai Chi, sports that are apparently helpful to both the physical and psychological development of children. Research has shown that male teachers are much loved by children because of their outgoing and extrovert personalit
13、y. Furthermore, male teachers can also teach children to be stronger and tougher when faced with problems. In a word, male teachers serve as a very good complementation of female teachers and help to better the education quality of kindergartens in general. Secondly, hiring male teachers in kinderga
14、rtens also reflects the trend of gender equality. One important feature of social development is that people are no longer supposed to be confined to particular career choices because of their genders. For instance, women can join the police or become a fire fighter, jobs traditionally taken by men.
15、 According to a recent survey, however, the male-female ratio of teachers in kindergartens is still highly imbalanced: in every 100 kindergarten teachers, only 5 are male. Under this circumstance, hiring more male teachers helps to establish a sense of gender equality for children at an early age. B
16、y having both male and female teachers, children would realize that one can take the job he or she loves, regardless of the gender. To conclude, having male teachers in kindergartens is beneficial not only because it helps to build a compre hensive kindergarten education with unique male qualities a
17、nd personalities, but also because it helps to promote the concept of gender equality. 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 On Celebrating Western Festivals As our life is increasingly globalized, it is no wonder to see that Chinese celebrate both traditional festivals and some of the western ones. Despite the legiti
18、mate skepticism of celebrating foreign holidays, we should not discourage Chinese to do so. To begin with, Chinese, by observing western holidays, are looking for more reasons to do something special. For instance, people sending out “thank-you“ SMS messages on Thanksgiving Day are trying to express
19、 their gratitude to those who have helped them. Those who present a bouquet of red roses to their girl friends on Valentines Day are seizing another chance to assert their love and commitment. We should not make a fuss and balloon these behaviors into conspiracy, claiming that western ideas are thre
20、atening Chinese ones. I am sure on Qixi Festival, or better known as the Chinese Valentines Day, lovers will be no less committed and romantic to their partners. If people are looking for more opportunities to be grateful, happy and loved, we certainly should not be the buzz killers. Furthermore, we
21、stern festivals are another occasion to boost sales and promote consumption. As China is restructuring its economy, domestic consumption is yet to be spurred. In this context, western festivals are a good reason for people to spend. It is a common practice in China that on festivals, Chinese or West
22、ern, many department stores and shopping malls will go on sales campaigns, which attract the customer traffic and drive business. If western festivals are discouraged, the consumption industry will lose some of the catalysts to stimulate people to consume. While I extol the benefits of observing wes
23、tern festivals, I am not saying that we should do it without knowing the essence of the festivals. Each festival is a cultural and historical lesson for us to learn. That is why mass media should give full play to its function of informing the public. For example, on Halloween, mass media could brie
24、fly talk about its origin and development. Better still, the comparison between Halloween and Chinese ghost festival could be made in the Internet or newspapers. In this way, Chinese will become truly global citizens, who understand and respect the diversified cultures in the world. To conclude, we
25、should not discourage Chinese to celebrate Western Festivals. Instead, we should allow people more chances to have a festive mood and to contribute to the domestic consumption. With the help of mass media, observing western festivals could be a step forward to a tolerant nation, which embraces cultu
26、ral diversities. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 How to Save Physical Bookstores? Bookstores are dying: with rapid development of more convenient online bookstores, a lot of physical bookstores are forced to go out of business because less and less people are willing to buy books in physical bookstores. Under su
27、ch circumstance, people are discussing how to save endangered bookstores. As far as I am concerned, being cheaper and being unique are two key points in the revitalization of physical bookstores. First of all, in order to survive in the competition with online bookstores, physical ones have to contr
28、ol their price of books. A very important reason why people choose to buy books online is that they can save a lot of money that way. Typically, online bookstores offer discounts of up to 40%, while physical ones give very few or even no discounts at all. Apparently one would not want to spend more
29、money on the exactly same book. Therefore, in order for physical bookstores to survive, adjusting the pricing of books should be the first step. Physical bookstores should consider attracting more customers by giving special offers and membership discounts. They should perhaps also cooperate with pu
30、blishers to get lower prices for some books. In this way, customers would at least be more willing to step into a bookstore. Secondly, physical bookstores should also be more unique to lure customers. Online bookstores are usually very huge, and people have to browse through pages of book descriptio
31、ns to get what they want. The edge of physical bookstores is that the books they sell are immediately tangible. People can touch them, hold them and even read them before they decide to buy them. Physical bookstores should take advantage of this. They can have a display of selected books of the same
32、 genre for people to read. They can provide reading areas for customers. They can even set up in-store cafe. In that way physical bookstores would not only be selling books; they would also be selling a culture of reading, an atmosphere in which people can calm down, sit back and reflect on their ow
33、n lives. It would be a unique experience which online bookstores cannot offer. To conclude, in order to survive, physical bookstores should control the price of books and take advantage of their unique features. Traditional bookstores would definitely be loved if they provide cheaper books and fine
34、reading atmosphere. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 Test-oriented Education: Big NO! Although the concept of “quality-oriented education“ has existed in China for more than a decade, the essence of it never seems to be understood or implemented. The recent incident happened in Yishui County in Shandong Province,
35、 where educators rush back to test-oriented education as soon as promotion rate falls, proves the difficulties quality-oriented education faces. As far as I am concerned, resorting to test-oriented education to improve the promotion rate neglects the essentials of education and would lead to the dec
36、ay of education in China as a whole. First and foremost, test-oriented education counters with the essence of education. It is now universally accepted that the goal of education is cultivating people in order to make them well-informed, critical and rounded. In other words, education should help to
37、 foster better persons, not better scores. Test scores, however, only tells how well or badly students do in one single test. Although such scores are necessary for efficient evaluation, it is clear that too much emphasis on this highly partial and unreliable criterion wont help to achieve the real
38、goal of education. Educators should try to strike a balance between quality-oriented education and test-oriented education as well as attempt to come up with a more sensible and comprehensive evaluation system rather than thoughtlessly turning their students into learning machines in order to get a
39、pretty promotion result. Secondly, resorting to test-oriented education, in fact, will lower the education level in China. While Chinese students are famous for their ability in mathematics and in memorizing things, they are notoriously weak when it comes to imagination, innovation and creativity. Y
40、ears of test-oriented education have made Chinese students dull, stiff and highly inflexible. Facing practical problems, they dont know how to think, analyze or come up with solutions since they are so often taught just to memorize things and write them down on exam papers. Educational researchers h
41、ave already warned us that Chinese students lack competitiveness on international stage since they cannot adapt to the constantly changing conditions of contemporary society. If test-oriented education continues to pervade, it is not hard to predict that Chinese education will fall behind even furth
42、er comparing with other countries. The gravity of this problem should never be underestimated. To conclude, resorting to test-oriented education to improve promotion rate is unwise because it neglects the essence of education and is harmful to the development of education in China as a whole. 【知识模块】
43、 作文 5 【正确答案】 Shall We Talk? During a family reunion, my little cousin, once an energetic and naughty boy, now sat silently and kept to himself. He has become a mystery, an enigma, as was complained by my aunt. When communication is missing between two generations, I believe the best solution is thro
44、ugh mutual understanding and joint efforts. Firstly, young people should take the initiative in sharing with parents their thoughts and feelings otherwise hiding. Technological changes have brought about convenience and efficiency as well as solitary feelings. The availability of Internet enables yo
45、ung people to find friends of the same interest online, but they are reluctant to talk to parents who still consider the Net as a tool used for fishing or trapping. While shortening the distance between two localities, technology is yet widening the gap between two hearts. Its thus advisable for chi
46、ldren to take a step forward and expound to parents how new things work and what they think of the world. Secondly, only when parents throw off their parental airs and try to listen to and understand their children can this two-way communication work. One of the factors scaring off sensitive and reb
47、ellious children is the stubbornness of parents. When a child does something confusing, dont jump to any snap judgment that sentences them to reprimand and punishment. Instead, try to put yourselves in their shoes and explain rather than to exclaim. Constant nagging and scolding, though for children
48、s own good, repel them even more. Parents should therefore pay attention to their manners and be more patient while interacting with children. A case in point is the movie The Music Never Stopped. In the movie, conflicts happen frequently between a young man and his father due to their divergent opi
49、nions about politics and taste of music. But as the father tries hard to repair their relationship with patience when his son is in trouble, he finally successfully reconnects with his child. To bridge the generation gap, what parents need is love and patience. Finally, in order to get to know one another, its essential for families to spend sufficient quality time together. Boarding school has cut short the precious family time, not to mention college students who return home twice a year. As is illustrated in The
