1、考研英语（短文写作）模拟试卷 19 及答案与解析Part BDirections: Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following information. (20 points)1 For this part, you are supposed to write a composition on the title My View on Examinations.1. The meaning of Examinations in peoples mind.2. Examinations effect.3. Your opinion
2、 about Examinations.4. Examinations potential development.2 For this part, you should write a composition on the title Water Shortage in China according to the following OUTLINE. The first sentence of each paragraph has been given to you.1. Status of water shortage.2. Reasons of water shortage.3. Me
3、thods to solve it.3 For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic It Pays to Be Honest. You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline below %1. Nowadays, there are many phenomenons of dishonesty.2. Honesty will do good to both the ho
4、nest people themselves and everybody else. Everyone should be honest.4 There has been a discussion recently on the issue of tradition in a newspaper. Write an essay of about 200 words to the newspaper to1. show your understanding of the symbolic meaning of the picture below the content of the pictur
5、e the symbolic meaning the special understanding2. give a specific example / comment, and3. give your suggestion as to the best way to treat tradition.5 A Hindu legend goes that three blind men were trying to describe an elephant: The first man, feeling its trunk, asserted, “ It is like a snake “; t
6、he second, trying to reach around the beasts massive leg, argued, “no, it is tike a tree“; and the third, feeling its powerful side, disagreed, saying, “ it is more like a wall.“Please write a composition based on what do you learn from the story.考研英语（短文写作）模拟试卷 19 答案与解析Part BDirections: Write an ess
7、ay of 160-200 words based on the following information. (20 points)1 【正确答案】 My View on ExaminationsWe might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the method of testing a persons knowledge and ability remains as primitive as it ever was. For most people, a test means that the candi
8、dates or examiners are sitting in a room with a pen in their hands and are supposed to finish the questions on the test paper within a limited time.Examinations are used for various purposes. A teacher may use it to measure how much progress his students have achieved after a period of instruction a
9、nd the results of examinations reveal what knowledge and ability the students are lacking. Outside school, examinations are used for the purpose of selection and promotion. Therefore, examinations are of great import to modern society.However, I believe examinations have a negative on education. On
10、one hand, the validity and reliability of the test results themselves are questionable. On the other hand, both teachers and students are working for the sake of a high mark on the academic record. Examples have shown that Chinese students who score very high in English proficiency tests have seriou
11、s communication troubles while abroad.With the development of new teaching methodology, examinations will be used as an appropriate measurement of a persons intellectual abilities and potentials rather than the only means to evaluate what the students have achieved from their studies.【知识模块】 短文写作2 【正
12、确答案】 Water Shortage in ChinaWith the growth of population and the development of modern industry, water shortage has become a growing concern for Chinese government and people. This problem is at its worst in Northern China, especially in big cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang and so forth.Se
13、veral factors contribute to this problem. First of all, water supplies are being consumed by a growing number of heavy industries. Also, as the population keeps growing at a steady rate, the amount of water consumed by them is naturally increasing too. Deforestation at the upper reaches of rivers ha
14、s made the situations worse for the well-developed root system of trees can keep the water from diffusing into the earth. For example, the Yellow River has been out of currents for several months each year for the past few years.To solve the problem, we still have some options. First, we must econom
15、ize on the use of water resources and practice a recycling policy. Secondly, stiffer laws and regulations should be implemented to protect the limited water resources we have. Also, more diversion projects should also be used so as to direct the surplus water resources in Southern China to the under
16、-supplied regions.【知识模块】 短文写作3 【正确答案】 It Pays to Be HonestNowadays, wherever you go, you will hear people complain about peoples dishonesty. On campus, people are talking about students cheating in exams; in job market, the employers are troubled with confusing false credentials; and in shopping are
17、as, customers are worrying about the many fake commodities they can never protect themselves from buying. In a word, there is cheating and dishonest practice in every walk of our life.Why is dishonesty so prevailing? There are, to my mind, plenty of contributing causes, among which, the following on
18、es are particularly worth mentioning. First, competition is always so fierce everywhere, from campus to company, and from job market to supermarket. Second, people are attaching too much importance to the improvement of their material life that they neglect the development of the spiritual and moral
19、 values, and consequently, they do a lot of things insensibly. And finally, we lack powerful and effective laws, rules and regulations to fight against this social problem.It pays to be honest in the long run, and honesty will do good to both the honest people themselves and everybody else. To be ex
20、act, honesty will bring you friends and more business partners, and thus bring you happiness and fortune. Besides, to behave ourselves is to behave in an honest way. And whats more, being honest is the essential step towards spiritual civilization. Therefore, lets remember that “honesty is always th
21、e best policy“.【知识模块】 短文写作4 【正确答案】 TraditionTradition is an essential part of us, for its past in today. But, as is shown in the picture, like a mountain, it can only be seen clearly from a distant place. In other words, tradition is a living part of today only when it is changed according to todays
22、 taste.An example at hand is the Beijing Opera. Though it is beautiful and is greatly engrossing to most old people, it can hardly attract the present young generation. The operas still staged are mostly of old themes, outdated structure, slow rhythm and over-complicated music. Nearly everything is
23、encoded like ancient language in which only archaeologists are interested. Nevertheless, if we embody something like feelings of modern people, the opera will continue to survive with its popularity growing into an ever-lasting glamour. In a word, the past is already gone. If there is anything left,
24、 thats the spirit of the opera in expressing peoples life which is always changing.That helps explain the fruitless efforts to introduce the Beijing Opera to the younger generation. The best, perhaps the only, approach to tradition is to strip it off the shabby clothes and put on, for instance, jean
25、s or high-heeled shoes. After all, change is the only changeless thing in the world which brings life and prosperity.【知识模块】 短文写作5 【正确答案】 Experience: Is It the Only Guide?Man has been curious about nature and the universe for tens of thousands of years. From this very curiosity and thirst for knowled
26、ge rose religion, philosophy and branches of natural sciences.In a small way, each of the blind men was right. But none of them was able to understand or describe the whole elephant. Each of them feels one part of the entire beast and asserts his notion of the elephant as the only interpretation, wh
27、ich, of course, is incomplete and ludicrous in an observers eye. This fable tells us that in order to understand the world we must stop looking at the world from a perspective based solely on our own experiences. In other words, we cannot rely entirely on our own experiences to give an adequate and
28、objective description of things around us.Another lesson we can draw from this fable is that we should learn not to be too hasty to draw any conclusions. We should always keep in mind that no definite answer could be arrived at until we have made ample investigations into the matter, and that a hasty conclusion may very well be misguided and hence, mistaken.【知识模块】 短文写作
