1、雅思（写作）模拟试卷 44及答案与解析 一、 WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. You have had a bank account for a few years. Recently you received a letter from the bank stating that your account is $ 240 overdrawn and that you will be charged
2、$ 70 which will be taken directly from your account. You know that this information is incorrect . Write a letter to the bank. Explain what has happened and say what you would like them to do about it. You should write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write your own address. Begin your letter
3、as follows: Dear Sir, 二、 WRITING TASK 2 You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. 2 You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no specialist knowledge of the following topic: News editors decide what to broadcast on television
4、and what to print in newspapers . What factors do you think influence these decisions ? Do we become used to bad news ? Would it be better if more good news was reported ? You should write at least 250 words. Use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and r
5、elevant evidence. 雅思（写作）模拟试卷 44答案与解析 一、 WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 1 【正确答案】 Dear Sir, I am writing in reply to a Letter I received from you a few days ago. In your letter you state that I am $240 overdrawn and that you will be charging me $70. Iwould like to point
6、 out that the reason 1 am overdrawn is because of a mistake made by your bank. If you took through your records you will see that I wrote several weeks ago explaining the situation. For the last twelve months, I have been paying $ 300 a month for a car I bought last summer. The monthly payments were
7、 taken directly from my bank account. However, two months ago I sold the car and I wrote to you instructing you to stop paying the monthly instalments. 1 received a Letter from you acknowledging my request, but, for some reason, nothing was done about it, Another $ 300 instalment has been paid this
8、month and this is the reason why I am overdrawn. I would like you to contact the garage where I bought the car explaining your error. I would also like you to ask them to return the money. Yours faithfully, P Stoft 二、 WRITING TASK 2 You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. 2 【正确答案】 It has oft
9、en been said that Good news is bad news because it does not sell newspapers. A radio station that once decided to present only good news soon found that it had gone out of business for lack of listeners. Bad news on the other hand is so common that in order to cope with it, we often simply ignore it
10、. We have become immune to bad news and the newspapers and radio stations are aware of this. While newspapers and TV stations may aim to report world events accurately, be they natural or human disasters, political events or the horrors of war, it is also true that their main objective is to sell ne
11、wspapers and attract listeners and viewers to their stations. For this reason TV and radio stations attempt to reflect the flavour of their station by providing news broadcasts tailor-made to suit their listeners preferences. Programmes specialising in pop music or TV soap opera9 focus more on local
12、 news, home issues and up-to-date traffic reports. The more serious stations and newspapers like to provide so called objective news reports with editorial comment aimed at analysing the situation. If it is true, then, that newspapers and TV stations are tailoring their news to their readers and vie
13、wers requirements, how can they possibly be reporting real world events in an honest and objective light? Many radio and TV stations do, in fact, report items of good news but they no longer call this news. They refer to these as human interest stories and package them in programmes specialising, for instance, in consumer affairs or local issues. Good news now comes to us in the form of documentaries: the fight against childrens cancer or AIDS, or the latest developments in the fight to save the planet from environmental pollution.
