1、专业英语八级（作文）模拟试卷 52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 With the improvement of peoples living standard and the popularization of the Internet, the consumption pattern of the general populace has undergone changes. This years N
2、ational Day holiday saw another peak of online shopping. How do you think of this phenomenon? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: On the Sharply Rising Zeal of Online Shopping 2 The past few years have given way to a heated debate about whether downloading free online music is
3、legal. Some, especially record companies and singers, think its theft, while many others regard the Internet as a public library and hold that users are justified in using the free resources. Whats your opinion? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic; Should Free Music Downloads Be
4、 Outlawed? 3 Nowadays many novels are adapted into films or TV plays. What do you think of film adaptations of literature? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: My Views on Film Adaptations of Literature 4 Food security has become an increasingly urgent problem in China. We have
5、heard of various kinds of food which are harmful to peoples health, even the milk and milk powder for babies can lead to dangerous diseases, or even death. What do you think? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic: On Food Security 5 With the development of science and technology,
6、great changes have taken place in our daily life at a faster pace. Various kinds of new inventions and phenomena appear and thus generate many new words in every field. Some people consider these words to be meaningless and not good. Whats your view? Write an essay of about 400 words on the followin
7、g topic: My Views on Coined Words 专业英语八级（作文）模拟试卷 52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】 On the Sharply Rising Zeal of Online Shopping Shopping online has become a commonplace in everyday life. Even my nine-year-old youn
8、ger brother knows how to buy goods on the Internet. He told me a few days ago that he found an amazing toy gun on a well-known online shopping website, namely, Taobao, and wanted to buy it. There is no doubt that online shopping has a lot of advantages and such a “hotness“ gives us an impression tha
9、t it would overtake the traditional way of consumption. Once a new industry springs up, the relative ones are bound to push forward. Online shopping is one part of electronic commerce, whose prosperity is beneficial to other industries among which logistics takes the lead. According to the express i
10、nformation statistics, the volume of business has soared since last September, with eighty percent coming from online shopping. China, following after the United States and Japan, becomes the third biggest express country in the world. The larger the volume of business become, the more working staff
11、 are needed. It means that more jobs can be offered, which is a piece of good news to the whole society. On this account, online shopping is making great contributions. Online shopping is very convenient. People dont have to waste a lot of precious time on the way to stores and back home, nor do the
12、y need to walk from one shop to another to select what they like from a sea of goods. All they have to do is to sit in front of a computer, open the website of a commodity shop and click the mouse. Goods of different kinds lay before their eyes, in various shapes, sizes and colors. After ordering an
13、d purchasing, the commodity will be delivered to the buyer in a short span of time. Then the whole buying process is completed. Prices of commodities in the online shops are lower than those in the traditional shops. The traditional shops operate in the model of “ manufacturer distributor consumer“
14、and they act as distributors from whom people buy products with extra money. Most online shops, however, cut the second link, and it is themselves that function as the manufacturers, accompanied with the advantages of free duty and no rental, the price of commodities, thus, is much lower. No wonder
15、so many people are wild about online shopping. Based on the above, we can safely draw the conclusion that online shopping emerges as the times requires and it benefits people a lot in their life. However, people should not blindly drift with the tide. They should be rational and make the best use of
16、 it. 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 Should Free Music Downloads Be Outlawed? Recently, much attention of the music industry has been focused with great interest on digital downloads. Concerning MP3 downloads, their impact on the recording industry and the industrys attempt to thwart such downloads have been in
17、the news continuously. For my part, downloading free online music is stealing the time, efforts and talents of musicians, and will eventually destroy the music industry, so it should be outlawed. Firstly, using the Internet to download copyrighted works without authorization can be considered as ste
18、aling from musicians who spend a lot of time and efforts producing music. Being not tangible does not mean that a piece of music does not belong to someone. On the other hand, stealing from artists is not a good way to show appreciation for their work. As we have zero-tolerance for theft, we should
19、not tolerate this kind of act., Digital distribution is not going out of style, but just like radio and retail distribution, the artist needs to be respected and paid for their work. Secondly, free music downloads in the current environment come as a mortal blow to the music industry. It is conceiva
20、ble that MP3 downloads contribute to the decline in record sales because they are becoming substitutes for the purchase of the prerecorded materials. The advance of technology, such as peer-to-peer file sharing, provides the Internet users almost unlimited access to a wide variety of music. MP3s are
21、 even more likely to replace CDs with the spread of CD burners and inexpensive portable devices, for MP3s are not only used on computers. Consequently, record labels will be confronted with recession and have no funds to take on talented artists if the music industry is not earning money. The whole
22、industry will fall into a vicious cycle. Thirdly, some new file-sharing ways emerging online can protect copyrighted music as well as satisfying the listeners. Now many websites enable visitors to listen to music online, mostly only one-time access to each song for free. Hopefully, the real “sharing
23、“ , with permission of musicians and record companies will be a win-win approach to this issue, although many people still prefer downloading. My conclusion, in a nutshell, is that free music downloads will cause fatal harm to the record industry, and therefore should be banned. As a copyright-based
24、 industry, music industry ought to take measures to protect themselves against online pilfering of their products. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 My Views on Film Adaptations of Literature One objection is commonly made to adapting novels to the screen. In what follows I shall argue that it is ill-founded. This
25、 objection goes like this; (a) novels are, by definition, long and complex; (b) films are, also by definition, short and relatively simple; ( c) how can you translate a book-length literary work into a 2-hour long cinematic experience without substantially compromising the novels integrity? The film
26、 cannot be sufficiently faithful to the original work for the audience to appreciate its subtlety; ( d) so adapting novels to the screen is no good. Against the premises of the argument namely, (a) , (b) and (c) I have no complaint. But the reasoning from (c) to (d) , i. e. the conclusion, is fallac
27、ious. That the reasoning is bad can be seen more clearly by considering an analogous argument: particle physics is concerned with subatomic particles; mechanics is concerned with the motion of and application of forces to visible, extended bodies; how can you focus on bodies which are large-scale ob
28、jects composed of invisible particles without neglecting the microscopic world? (e) So mechanics is no good. Since (e) is clearly unacceptable, the argument constitutes a reduction ad absurdum. The model is that you cant repudiate A simply because A seems pale in comparison with B. A may have its ow
29、n raison detre, and indeed for film adaptations there are two. The first is that film adaptations have something to offer which novels simply are incapable of; a fresh, vivid, true-to-life sensory experience. Reading novels requires a lot of imaginative and mental efforts, and sometimes you ( or, at
30、 least, me) may just want to lie back, switch on the screen and enjoy yourself for a while, without having to rack your brains to figure out who is who or what is what. Now, someone may counter this claiming that he has a keener imagination, even livelier than his senses. Credibility aside, this sur
31、ely cannot be the reason why others, who may have duller imaginations, should not be allowed to use their eyes and ears. To possess a finer faculty may be a blessing, but to impose that upon others is sheer snobbery. The second reason for the existence of adaptations is that it may play a complement
32、ary role. The analogy between particle physics and mechanics is relevant here. It is a well-known fact that many large-scale phenomena are explained only at the atomic or even subatomic level, so that anomalies observed at the macroscopic level may lead to new discoveries at the microscopic level. S
33、imilarly, audience who are fascinated by the film will naturally want to know more about the details, thus entering the subtler world of literature and satisfying themselves with all those things which literature alone can not offer. To sum up, the relationship between a novel and its film adaptatio
34、n may be seen as analogous to that between a book and its preface. The preface serves the unique function of allowing casual readers to satisfy themselves with light reading, but it serves also as an invitation to a fuller perusal of the book itself. In either case, however, to demand that the prefa
35、ce be eliminated is simply ungrounded. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 On Food Security In recent years, Chinese people are racked with continuously emerging food security problems. According to a recent survey, it is the food security that tops the concerns of people. Today citizens are becoming more and more c
36、autious in eating and drinking for fear that they might be poisoned by toxic chemicals. The issue of food security is a huge matter concerning peoples health and a nations development. Therefore, faced with this urgent situation, all citizens, various organizations and institutions should work toget
37、her with governments at all levels to solve this problem. We need to take actions immediately. To begin with, in order to hold food production within bounds, our central government should strengthen food security regulations. The lack of relevant and strict regulations will give a chance to unscrupu
38、lous manufacturers. Although the country began regulating food security long time ago, it still has not established a legal system which is efficient in ensuring food safety. To eliminate unsafe food products. the government must work out specific laws and regulations to punish those involved with m
39、ore serious fines and tougher measures. Besides, governments at all levels should strengthen their inspection over the enforcement of those regulations. In the past, we emphasized lawmaking too much and neglected the supervision over law enforcement. The result has turned out to be that there are la
40、ws to abide by, but due to the lack of strict law enforcement, those manufacturers who break the law are not punished accordingly. Laws have become a castle in the air without strict supervision over their enforcement. No wonder so many companies dare defy the law! At last, we should bring the role
41、of the mass media into full play. Food security problem concerns people from all walks of life and the future of our country, so we need to appeal to all citizens, organizations and institutions to collaborate on this long and tough struggle. Among them, we should pay special attention to the functi
42、on of mass media. Governments at all levels can make full use of mass media to disseminate advanced knowledge of food security. And they can also encourage the press to expose to the public those illegal activities and award people who report illegal activities to the government in the first place t
43、o stimulate their initiative in supervising manufacturers. Needless to say, there is a long way to go for Chinas food security. Maybe it will take us a fairly long time to tackle this problem, but it isnt invincible. Anyway, we have seen food security improvements under way in our country. What we s
44、hould do is just to make joint efforts and never give up. 【知识模块】 作文 5 【正确答案】 My Views on Coined Words With the development of science and technology, especially the extensive utilization of the Internet, coined words emerge in an endless stream. They are currently prevalent among the majority of stu
45、dents and Internet users, which serves as an evidence to show the vitality of net language and the progress of our era. While words are the means by which we understand others and express our own opinions, only when we accept the expressions can we enrich our language. Although some people consider
46、coined words as meaningless and absurd, I hold the opinion that they are the products of social development and we should take an objective attitude toward them. Many factors contribute to the existence and prevalence of coined words. Revolutionary innovation marks their greatest characteristic. The
47、y can be extremely simple and concise in form but intricate and profound in meaning. These dynamically designed words tend to create a relaxed and jubilant atmosphere. Once individuals command these words, they could increase the pleasure and excitement in communication. The nature of humor makes co
48、ined words attractive and prevailing among young people. It is precisely because of the advantages of coined words that they are accepted and widely used. Of course, everything has two sides. When new words give rise to sense of novelty among users, they cause inconvenience as well. New words in lif
49、e and Internet spring up one after another, as a result, some unavoidably go beyond language standards. The spread of these words with mistakes, quaintness, and even grammar or structure errors must have adverse effects on standard language. Whats more, excessive innovation makes their followers too busy to attend to them. And the phenomenon that one undefined originality heels another causes anxiety and panic in the hearts of conservative people. Furthermore, since youngsters are relatively easy to jump on the
