1、雅思（写作）模拟试卷 167及答案与解析 1 When famous people such as actors, athletes and rock stars give their opinions, many people simply listen. Do you think we should pay attention to these opinions? 2 The length of the holiday that an employee receives per year varies from job to job. Do you think people should
2、have the same amount of holidays regardless of their occupations? Give reasons for your answer. 雅思（写作）模拟试卷 167答案与解析 1 【正确答案】 Famous people, such as athletes, actors, and other entertainers, are often interviewed by the press. They not only answer questions about their careers and personal lives, but
3、 also often give their opinions on issues of the day. The public tend to give more consideration to the views of the famous than it does to the opinions of more ordinary people. Should we give greater weight to these opinions? In my opinion, we should not, for the following reasons. First, famous pe
4、ople are not necessarily well informed about the issues under discussion. While everyone has a right to express his opinion, a willingness to speak does not imply knowledge. Furthermore, a famous person may be an authority in his field, but that does not mean he is also an expert in others. For exam
5、ple, an actor who plays a doctor on TV is probably not a true authority on medical matters. Second, a famous person may not be impartial. Rather, he may have financial or other motives for the opinions he espouses. This is particularly true when some type of product endorsement is involved. A good e
6、xample of this would be an entertainer who proclaims the benefits of a certain product when he has, in fact, never even tried it. Third, a reliance on the opinions of famous people may prevent us from thinking for ourselves. We should all develop the ability to evaluate facts and reach our own concl
7、usions. While there is no harm in listening to the opinions of others, we must realise that our situations are often very different. What may be true or beneficial for one person, may not be so for another. This is especially true in the case of famous people who, due to their wealth and fame, live
8、in circumstances that are very different from those of ordinary people. To sum up, we would be better off learning to evaluate situations and reach our own conclusions than relying on the opinions of others, no matter how well-known. Listening to the views of other people is a good way to gather inf
9、ormation and come to our own decisions. However, we should not accept the opinions of others blindly. Instead, we must consider their knowledge and motivation. Famous people have the power to draw attention to a certain message that might not otherwise be heard, but we must still determine the valid
10、ity of the message for ourselves. 2 【正确答案】 Nowadays, people are enjoying more and longer holidays and some people advocate that people should have the same length of holiday regardless of their occupations. They hold that it is unfair for people not to rest for the same length of time even though th
11、ey have worked as hard. They even regard this as a human rights issue, just like womens right to vote. But taking into account the characteristics of different professions, we may examine this issue from another angle. As we know, jobs vary from one another in their labour intensity, so that people
12、in different occupations may have a different kind and amount of leisure time to refresh themselves. For example, blue-collar workers may work longer hours and physically tired, while white-collar workers such as doctors and teachers are more mentally stressed. Therefore they can not work continuous
13、ly as long as those physical labour workers. Generally speaking, it needs more time to pull through the mental weariness than physical tiredness. Secondly, different tasks and duties are required for different professions, which results in the varieties of holiday periods for people in different wal
14、ks of life. Some employees cannot have their legal holidays and even have to work overtime, such as policemen, construction workers and people in the service line. This kind of professions just cant be interrupted for a moment; otherwise the society will be in a mess. Even for some people in the sam
15、e occupations, they can not have the same holidays entitled to them due to many factors out of human control, such as special assignments, health conditions, etc., then not to say people in different fields. Thirdly, with the development of science and technology, the ways people work are gradually
16、changing. Computer experts make their programmes, doctors give patients diagnosis and tutors give students instructions at home through optical-fabric cable connections, which saves them much time. Consequently, it may be quite natural for these people to have more leisure than their colleagues who
17、still have to take buses to go to work. In another word, the way people work is not fixed so that they need different holiday phases. All the above suggest that we can not come to the simple conclusion that the different length of holiday time indicates unfairness. We may discover that is it neither possible nor reasonable to apply this belief to practice.
