1、专业英语八级（社会热点类写作）模拟试卷 2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 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Electronic communication will replace traditional means of communication. Use specific reasons and examples to s
2、upport your opinion. Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your opinion, and in the second part you should support your opinion with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring wha
3、t you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 2 “With the growth of global networks in such areas as economics and communication, there is
4、no doubt that every aspect of society will benefit greatly from international influences.“ Do you agree to the statement or not? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and
5、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. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may
6、result in a loss of marks. 3 It is said that it is primarily through identification of social groups that we define ourselves. How do you define the relationship between self-identification and joining social groups? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your
7、essay. 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. Marks will be awarded for content,
8、organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 4 There are no lack of people who are seemingly born with leadership and thus are always surrounded and worshiped. Almost everyone envies them and wants to be them. But is leadership a
9、natural gift or acquired later on? Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Talented peoples leadership is inborn and cant be learned by people. Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your essay you should state cl
10、early 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. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to foll
11、ow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 专业英语八级（社会热点类写作）模拟试卷 2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】 Will Electronic Communication Replace Traditional Means of Communication? With the arrival of informatio
12、n age, the communication between people has become much more convenient than ever. Electronic communication media has provided us with high-speed and economical ways of communicating. However, in many respects it cannot replace the traditional means of communication. It is true that electronic commu
13、nication media has its own advantages; the most conspicuous one is their high speed. By the means of electronic mail, the time spent in transit is greatly reduced. In addition, it has saved a large quantity of money. For instance, we no longer have to buy a ticket to see an opera. Furthermore, elect
14、ronic communication has also brought us convenience: with the aid of a telephone, people thousands of miles away from each other can have a talk without meeting face-to-face. There are still many other advantages of electronic communication media, but despite all these advantages, it does prevent me
15、aningful and thoughtful communication and therefore, is inferior to traditional ways of communication in some respects. First of all, the screen is emotionless: the words are emotionless: the sentences are emotionless: the mail is emotionless: no one sees the mood behind the letters. People are gett
16、ing used to the lack of truthfulness on the Internet; who knows what kind of person you are chatting with? On the contrary, in traditional face-to-face communications each person gets a vivid impression of the other, and understands and thoroughly appreciates the others opinion and mode of expressio
17、n. We see each other, hear each other, and can acknowledge what the other is really thinking about with only the hint of gesture. Secondly, it is rather hard to find real friends by chatting online. Many netizens simply regard chatting as a pastime, so they talk nonsense more than they talk sense. A
18、s a result, when you want to pour out your troubles, few are willing to lend a sympathetic ear. Whats worse, if it is a social networking site you are using for making friends, then adding the person as a friend means he will have access to all your details. The person if not good can misuse your pe
19、rsonal details for malicious motives. To sum up, high-speed electronic communication media has its advantages, while the merits of the traditional ones cant be overlooked. The traditional ways of communication outweigh the electronic ones without any doubt. The former should not replace the latter,
20、but learn from them. 【试题解析】 本文结构合理，论证有力。作者在开头段清楚表达了自己的观点，即电子通讯无法取代传统的交流方式。随后，作者并没有直接分析电子通讯本身存在的弱点，相反，在第二段中，作者用整段的篇幅介绍了它的优点，并在第三段开头使用让步状语从句直接引出全文的主题，即电子通讯的确阻碍了有意义的、有思想的交流，因此，它在一些方面比传统的交流方式差。这样，文章便顺理成章地开始分析电子通讯的缺陷。这样的结构安排以退为进、先抑后扬，使全文的论证更为有力。在论证方式上，本文主要采用了对比论证和举例论证的方式，如在第三 段中将传统通讯方式和电子通讯进行了对比，凸显了前者的优势
21、；而第四段中电子交友网站的例子则证明了通过电子通讯交友的危险性和不可靠性。 【知识模块】 社会热点类 2 【正确答案】 Globalization of Communications Not Necessarily a Benefit The increasing globalization of telecommunications and the rising interdependence of the economies of the various countries of the world cannot be denied. While there is no doubt tha
22、t most aspects of society can and probably will benefit from these interconnections, there is doubt as to whether all aspects of society will benefit greatly from international influences. Education probably has the greatest opportunity to benefit from these global networks. In-depth research on any
23、 subject can be done now while simply sitting at a computer rather than by tedious searches through stacks of books or rolls of microfilm in a library. It is possible that a student in the United States can “sit in“ on a class at a university in China. Nevertheless, with the field of politics, it be
24、comes a little less certain on the subject of potential benefits. On the one hand, people of most countries now have direct access to the people of other countries via email, instant messenger services and chatrooms and thus can instantaneously4 find out about the political environments and conditio
25、ns of almost every other country in the world. This could potentially lead to great advances in democracy as more people demand to have a voice in their governmental representation. On the other hand-governments may see this as a threat to their power and strive to eliminate access to these types of
26、 communications, which would clearly not be a benefit to the population as a whole. As for the arts and culture in general, global networks may actually be more of a threat than a benefit. Although fans of arts now have greater access to the arts and cultures of other countries than ever before, thi
27、s could lead to a type of “globalization“ or homogenization of the arts by creating an international standard that could potentially eliminate cultural artistic differences in the future. As one example, the French government mandated that only a limited amount of information could be broadcast in E
28、nglish in an effort to preserve French culture and language. It would seem to be a natural progression for the arts and culture to actually lose national identity as global networks become more widespread. In general, in the rush to understand and communicate with each other, it is important that in
29、dividuals do not lose those unique cultural characteristics that make them different from anyone else. 【试题解析】 本篇一反常态，没有急于赞同全球化给人类带来的优势，而是通过冷静的思考分析，得出结论：在某些领域，全球化，特别是通讯全球化也许大有裨益，但在政治、文化艺术等领域，通讯全球化反而可能造成负面影响，其中最为突出的便是可能丢掉本国的文化特色，出现全球文化过于整齐划一的尴尬局面。本文立意十分新颖，见解独到，说理充分，是一篇上乘之作。 【知识模块】 社会热点类 3 【正确答案】 Joini
30、ng Social Croups for Self-identification As primarily social animals, human beings naturally seek out different groups to which they feel they have a certain sense of belonging. But there are two different aspects of this issue involved: identifying oneself with a social group for its social implica
31、tions and identifying oneself with a social group for internal needs. There is a natural dichotomy between the two sides of ones personality that is usually displayed between the different types of social groups with which an individual may identify oneself. Self-definition can be either honest or d
32、ishonest. A person may join a social group because he or she thinks that the people that belong to this type of group are the same as he or she, whether it is true or not. As one example, consider a person who grew up poor and poorly educated, but became wealthy through the luck of the lottery or an
33、 inheritance from an unknown but wealthy relative. This individual then joins a wine-tasting club and buys season tickets to the local Philharmonic Orchestra and opera house. Although this individual knows nothing about wine, orchestras or opera, he or she is seeking to identify himself or herself a
34、s a culturally literate person simply because the person is now wealthy. Through joining these social groups, the individual is seeking to define him or herself as socially elite. On the other hand, there are individuals that very clearly demonstrate who they are by their identification with certain
35、 social groups. At a very basic level, younger people may join gangs based on a sense of identification with certain gang members or gang ideas. Certain religious groups also give a clear identity to their members. Joining an Islamic fundamentalist group such as the Taliban or an Orthodox Jewish org
36、anization indicates a certain identity that is common to all of its members. In all of these cases, an individuals self-perception and how others view that individual are probably very similar. These types of organizations speak to a persons very fundamental values and joining one is probably that p
37、ersons way of saying to the world “this is who I am“. All in all, it depends on the individual and the particular social group under discussion as to whether we primarily identify ourselves through association with social groups. 【试题解析】 本文层次分明，结构清晰。开头段落单刀直人地指出人们加入社会群体多半出于两方面考虑：社会意义和个人需要。正文部分分两段进行论述，
38、涵盖了上述两个方面。第二段开头虽然没有逻辑连接词，但第三段的 on the other hand已经说明了一切，有时这样看似 “不合规矩 ”的写法反而更能给人地道的感觉。结尾段言简意赅，概括说明了加入社会群体与自我定位问的关系要分情况讨论。整篇文章抽象论点与具体论据相结合，将抽象的题目以浅显的事实佐证，说理透彻，长短句搭配，用词精确 ，是一篇值得借鉴的好文章。 【知识模块】 社会热点类 4 【正确答案】 Leadership, Nature vs. Nurture All talented people are endowed with many excellent skills, among
39、 which is leadership. No one would doubt the undeniable effects that this essential skill exerts in ones road to success, but, in the meantime, people are having conflicting opinion about the origin of peoples leadership. Is it in the blood of those talented people or learnt in their later life? As
40、for me, people acquire their leadership through learning process. To start with, many experts in different fields possess leadership for what they learn. It is because these people enjoy extensive knowledge, deep thinking, original views and special ability that make them authorities in certain fiel
41、ds. For instance, in an anti-virus company, the employees are definitely willing to obey the instructions from their MIT-graduated chief manager with more than 20 years experience in the industry concerned. Also, in an operation room, the doctors doing a very difficult brain surgery on a patient ten
42、d to ask the guidance from their director of the hospital, with the title of the winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine. Due to their knowledge which was obtained in their school years, they are admired and leadership comes to them. Whats more, remarkable eloquence, which is achieved by learning, can als
43、o generate leadership. The reason is that great lecturers are always idolized by their words full of tender affections and speeches introducing soul stirring, which brings them countless followers. The first black American President, Barack Obama serves as a great example. He was never very popular
44、among his peers when he was young, and even failed to get along well with other children for his skin color. In order to encourage him, his mother read him the stories about Martin Luther King. After he entered the college, he practiced imitating mountains of speech materials from John Kennedy and o
45、ther famous speakers, even their tones, speech speed, expressions and moves. Finally, he won the general election in the political life and the one of main reasons that American people made him their president is his eloquence. Lastly, people raised in a family with great moral values will learn to
46、care for others and win leadership. For instance, the winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, Mother Teresa is the case in point. She was born in a Catholic family and her mothers benign behavior towards others planted the seed of kindness in her little soul. Under her mothers guidance, she never denie
47、d a beggar and often volunteered in the slum. After traveling to India, she started her humanitarian7 activities until her last day in this world. Yes, she is nobody but a common person, but the richest companies supported her, more than 7000 full-time social workers and countless helpers in more th
48、an 100 countries followed her steps. She was respected by presidents, kings, media giants and business leaders for her noble virtues and philanthropic deeds, which was the result of her early education. All in all, leadership can be gained through consistent knowledge enrichment, persistent eloquence practice and early moral education. All these methods are learning process for sure. 【试题解析】 文章开篇提出了领导力的重要性，随后直接引入了本文主题：领导力到底是天生就有还是后天得来 ?作者对此做出了明确回答：领导力是靠后天培养的。在后文中，作者采用了总分结构，通过三段分别说明了培养领导力的必备素质。其中特别值得考生借鉴的是，作者并没有简单地夸夸其谈，而是援引了诸多名人实例，如美国总统奥巴马、特蕾莎修女等，读来既不乏味，又增添了说服力。 【知识模块】 社会热点类
