1、专业英语八级（作文）模拟试卷 68及答案与解析 一、 PART V WRITING 1 In recent years, a handful of university students choose to commit suicide in face of love issue, academic issue or job issue. The following article provides detailed information about this issue. Read it carefully and write your response in NO LESS THAN 3
2、00 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the article, and then 2. share your opinion on how college students handle tremendous pressures at campus. Mental Health Problems for College Students Are Increasing Of students surveyed in the National College Health Assessment this year, 33 perce
3、nt reported feeling so depressed within the past 12 months. Almost 55 percent reported feeling overwhelming anxiety while 87 percent reported feeling overwhelmed by their responsibilities. Almost 9 percent seriously considered suicide over the past year. Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., professor of graduate
4、 psychology at James Madison University says these numbers are clear indicators that college students are experiencing what he calls a “mental health crisis.“ According to Henriques, mental health survey results from the mid-1980s indicate that 10 to 15 percent of young adults could have been charac
5、terized as having significant mental health problems. Today, he said the number is anywhere from 33 to 40 percent While depression and anxiety are the most commonly reported mental illnesses, eating disorders, substance abuse, and self-injury are close behind. Jason Selby, a University of Oregon jun
6、ior, experienced massive anxiety about “every little thing in life,“ and he believed his anxiety was triggered by a multitude of social and academic stresses. “The pressure to succeed during school is oftentimes overwhelming,“ he said. “Students spend a majority of their time worrying about how to a
7、dd things to their resume, instead of worrying about how to better themselves as individuals.“ “College is great. Its the first time in a young persons life where they can experience freedom and make choices that could really impact the rest of their lives,“ he said. “At the same time, the fear of t
8、he unknown is a reality that becomes all too familiar in college.“ The growing number of options for young people and lack of a clear “life path“ could prompt existential depression or anxiety, Henriques said. “We certainly see a lot of confusion about students identity and how theyre going to contr
9、ibute to society,“ he said. “They dont really have a clear, easy track into a job or a career or a marriage, and so they sort of stagnate in adolescence. They struggle in finding a purpose.“ For former University of South Carolina student Margaret Kramer, the growing presence of social media and the
10、 Internet only contributed to the pressure she felt to be perfect. “I felt like I didnt fit in anytime I saw my friends posts on their fun, carefree lives,“ she said. “Those pictures, as well as other sources I found on the Internet, served as monitors for my extreme dieting and exercising.“ Accordi
11、ng to Dr. Jason Addison, service chief of the Young Adult Unit at Sheppard Pratt Health System, the growing role of social media might be to blame for increased levels of anxiety and depression. He also observed that social media could prompt unfavorable comparisons between peers, further exacerbati
12、ng symptoms of mental illness. Henriques believes social media and technology in general might exacerbate some students already-present symptoms, or cause them to rise to the surface. 2 In many countries, it is quite common that universities would assign students to share a dorm room. The following
13、article discusses the roommate selection system in some universities in the US. Read it carefully and write your response in NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the authors opinion and then 2. express your opinion on whether college students should be allowed to choose
14、their own roommates. College Housing Selection Process Should Let Students Choose Roommates Many college students have faced a roommate problem at some point in their lives. Why some universities would prohibit self-selection of roommates or assign roommates in order to get students “out of their co
15、mfort zone“ is beyond me. University administrators need to be aware of the unintended consequences of such policies. Not allowing students to choose roommates interferes with the natural social relationships people build during their college years. According to a recent USA TODAY report, Stanford U
16、niversity students cant choose roommates nor do they learn who their roommates will be until move-in day. Entering freshmen who might know people going to Palo Alto in the fall are forced to make friends with random people when they move in, possibly negatively impacting their freshman year experien
17、ce. Choosing roommate combinations that place different sorts of people together, can result in awkward living situations and unintended results. Most people like to choose the kinds of people they befriend. To pretend this does not continue after college in the “real world“ is naive at best and som
18、ewhat dangerous. The tragic incident of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide just days after his roommate spied on him and bullied him, helps to prove the point that some people just dont get along with certain others. Forcing such people to coexist for at least a year ca
19、n be harmful to both parties, and this policy should be pursued with caution. While creating combinations of students with different backgrounds might be what universities want, the students preferences should still come first. Look at it this way: the student is a paying customer, using certain fac
20、ilities and services the university with the expectation his or her experience will be an enjoyable one. Why sacrifice this in the name of artificial and forced cultural exposure? Students who like to be taken out of their comfort zones will definitely seek out opportunities to do this on their own.
21、 I believe Techs roommate selection process is decent Students can choose specific roommates even as incoming freshmen. Students can also choose random roommates, within certain basic criteria such as a students smoking habits and preferences of visitation hours. This works well enough, but could im
22、prove with the help of more selection factors. Rochester Institute of Technology will begin use a software program in order to match students with those who they are most compatible with. This approach ensures compatible people will have a chance to room together, making for, if nothing else, a more
23、 predictable freshman year. 3 Recently, some people argue that corporal punishment should be re-introduced to the education system for it was an effective way to discipline kids in schools. Some parents and education experts, however, voiced their concerns about this “brutal“ method at schools. The
24、following three excerpts are different opinions towards this issue. Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the opinions; 2. give your comment on whether corporal punishment should be reintroduced in schools. Excerpt 1 Teachers are there to help children
25、 learn, not to be their friends. While teachers can maintain a convivial atmosphere in the classroom, having access to corporal punishment is simply an extra weapon in the storage of learning tools available to teachers, giving them greater control over the classroom and their students, an essential
26、 part of the teaching environment. When the teacher does not control the classroom, teaching is difficult, or impossible. Studies show that teachers, parents, and most students agree that discipline is an essential part of classroom order. In a Gallup poll last year, 76% of the public thought that d
27、iscipline in US Schools was a very or somewhat serious problem. If the teacher is busy dealing with unruly children, and thus forced to divert from the lesson plan, there is less time to devote to actually teaching the students who want to learn. For the sake of students futures they must be brought
28、 to heal, by the threat and application of force when necessary. Excerpt 2 It is often the case in classroom environments that the vast majority of students are eager, to various extents, to learn. Disruption almost always originates with one or a few students who act up for attention or to cause pr
29、oblems. Corporal punishment deals effectively with these unruly individuals who make learning more difficult and school time less productive for the rest of the class. Without effective disciplinary mechanisms, these troublemakers impose costs on all of their classmates. By introducing corporal puni
30、shment, troublesome students are forced to internalize the costs, disincentivizing similar behavior in future. It is deeply unfair to the rest of the class that the teachers time and effort be sapped by dealing with uncooperative students at the expense of more interested classmates. Application of
31、corporal punishment demonstrates a dedication to the right to education, which should not be disrupted by unruly individuals seeking to undermine the authority of the teacher. Excerpt 3 Being hit, even in a controlled environment, is a jarring experience, particularly for young children. Even if it
32、were effective in reducing anti-social and disruptive behavior, the negative effects of corporal punishment outweigh the benefit. Physically being struck is painful and unsettling. Bruises and welts represent painful reminders of punishments that a student might well feel to be unjust. The lasting p
33、ain thus makes corporal punishment a much more serious cause of resentment than do less physically taxing punishments as detentions. Furthermore, the psychological harms of such punishment can be long lasting, creating in some children resentment toward authority generally. Worse, it can create rese
34、ntment and negative psychic impressions of school, and thus education generally, further weakening the ability of the school and the teacher to impart knowledge. 4 In China, violence against medical personnel is on the rise as the doctor-patient conflict gets increasingly nasty. According to statist
35、ics, violent crimes that cause severe injury or death to medical personnel have increased drastically to 27.3 cases last year. The following news report provides details of this phenomenon. Read it carefully and write your response in NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly
36、 the news report; 2. give your comment. Why Chinas Doctors Are Getting Beat Up The young doctor weeps as he is pulled before the crowd. The night before, he treated a patient for excessive alcohol consumption. That patient later died. And now he is surrounded by a mob that includes members of the de
37、ceaseds family. “Thats the doctor who killed the patient,“ someone yells. It takes 30 minutes for the police to break things up. Variations on this scene play out with alarming regularity in China. As the countrys healthcare system expands to meet the needs of an increasingly affluent, demanding pop
38、ulace, tensions between patients and doctors are running high. Over the past ten years, attacks jumped an average of almost 23% per year, according to the China Hospital Management Society. The causes are complex. China now provides some form of insurance to almost all of its citizens no small feat.
39、 But the scope of the coverage is limited, the quality is uneven and the costs are still high. For many families, an emergency medical procedure means going into debt. Doctors counter that they are overworked and underpaid. The number of properly trained doctors and nurses has not kept pace with dem
40、and for care, leaving hospitals thinly staffed, particularly in rural areas. And, unlike their U.S. counterparts, most Chinese doctors are considered civil servants, and are paid accordingly. Some earn less than $500 a month, a token compared to private sector salaries, which are on the rise. In mos
41、t major hospitals, pay depends on meeting patient quotas, ordering tests and prescribing medicine. The incentive is to focus on quantity, not necessarily the quality of care, argued Dr. Zhong Nanshan, a respected Chinese physician. “Think about this: In half a day a single doctor must see fifty or s
42、ixty patients,“ he said. “What does this say about patient access to a doctor and the doctors space to practice good medicine?“ When things go wrong or when patients think they do doctors have little protection. Quite often, a resentful patient and a terrified doctor will negotiate a settlement on t
43、he spot. If the doctor refuses to pay up, or is absent when the family comes looking, the situation may escalate. Last October, a patient angry about the outcome of nasal surgery stormed into the hospital, with a 30-cm blade. When he could not find his doctor, he charged at another doctor, who was s
44、tabbed to death. Morale could hardly be lower. “I regret very much having chosen to study medicine,“ wrote a Chinese medical student in the English medical journal the Lancet. The proportion of doctors who hoped their children would enter the profession dropped from a disheartening 11% ten years ago
45、 to a dismal 7% last year, according to statistics from the Chinese Medical Doctors Association. At annual meetings in Beijing this week, delegate Bai Yansong, a famous anchorman, suggested China establish Doctors Day to increase the publics respect for the profession. It is not a bad idea, and was
46、no doubt well-intentioned. But keeping Chinas doctors safe requires much stronger medicine. 专业英语八级（作文）模拟试卷 68答案与解析 一、 PART V WRITING 1 【正确答案】 Keep Yourself Mentally Healthy The article briefly looks into mental health problems for college students and the various factors that contribute to students
47、mental problems, which include the pressure to succeed during school, the growing number of options and lack of a clear “life path“ and the growing presence of social media and the Internet. At a time when mental health has become a serious issue, college students need to learn to decompress themsel
48、ves. Firstly, students should set a proper goal. Some college students, being elites in the school, have high expectations for their future and set unrealistic goals. When the pressure of realizing these goals becomes overwhelming, they simply collapse and even think of suicide. To avoid this kind o
49、f collapse, college students should evaluate themselves properly and find their positions with a practical mind. Secondly, shifting ones attention is also an effective way to ensure mental health. For example, busy as he was, the iconic Apple founder Steve Jobs happened to have immense interest in music, which helped him to relax after work and even inspired him to develop such musical gadgets as iPod and iTunes. Other than music, there are many other ways to relax oneself and let go of the dismay inside ones heart. The key is to devote ones
