1、第一类：利弊类2011.12.18ML VDo you think it is better for government to spend more money inbuilding future housing or preserving historic or traditional buildings and homes?观点：修建 modern buildingSP 1: Peoples basic living demand cannot be well satisfied unless they live in modern buildings. Take my own expe
2、rience for example. Last summer my mother took me to visit a remote relative, whose house was quite traditional. It is said that that house was even older than my grandfather. Before setting out, I was more than excited, believing that the trip to the traditional house would be an amazing exploratio
3、n. However, what followed next was a complete disaster. Just upon arriving, I was sweating all over and was in desperate need of a nice hot shower. But I was told that there was no such thing as “24-hour hot water” available in the old house. You can imagine how disappointed I was. But thats not the
4、 worst thing.In the next a few days I had to bear the room temperature of over 36 degrees, simply because there was not a single air conditioner in the entire house because of some pipeline problems! That was driving me crazy! On the brink of collapse, I hurried back to the city, and ever since then
5、, I have firmed my idea that only modern buildings can satisfy my living demand!SP 2: 有些人会说，保护古老的建筑能让人们尊重历史(respect the culture and history)。确实啊。但是，完全有其他更好的替代方案(alternative)啊！。政府可以考虑 1, documentary; just as how “The Bite of China” had attracted peoples attention on Chinese traditional food culture,
6、a documentary of architecture can well instruct people with sufficient information about the ancient architecture of a certain country. besides, .establish some buildings of the historic style in the museums。比如，我在我们当地的博物馆去看到历史上比较有特点的四合院(quadrangle )建筑的时候，通过听解说员讲解它的采光（lighting）以及庭院设计（garden design） ，
7、我感受到前人 predecessor/successor 的智慧，对历史更为尊重。2008.7.12ML/2007.1.14ML VDrivers should pay a certain amount of fees so that they can be permitted to drive out in traffic busy time.司机们应当支付一定的费用，取得“城市高峰通行许可证”，才能在高峰期间上路。谈谈你的看法。Agree. Sp 1. This is beneficial for the people who choose to pay for the fees. Whe
8、n this policy is applied, the traffic on the road will no longer be too heavy, which makes it more convenient for the drivers to arrive at their destination and improve the commuting efficiency. Eg. my personal example. I live in a place far from the company and there is no subway around my neighbor
9、hood. So I have no choice but to drive my car to the company every day. During the traffic busy time, however, sometimes there will be serious traffic jam on the road, because of which it even could take me 1 hour and a half to get to the company, although when the traffic condition is good, it just
10、 takes 30 minutes. That is really torturing. So even if I have to pay more, its still worthwhile, as long as the traffic could become lighter. Sp 2. Besides, the city environment as a whole could become better off with this policy.Currently the air pollution in big cities such as Beijing is extremel
11、y serious, (details put here) And the major cause, as we know, is the automobile exhaust produced by the waiting cars on the road. 现在的人比过去的人幸福。 科技使人们的生活变得更简单，而不是更复杂？1. working and studying2. entertaining and leisure lifeIt is reported thatwhen the car is waiting, the car exhaust could be 3 times as
12、much as when it is running. Accordingly, peoples health condition will be at stake.With higher fees and the corresponding lighter traffic, we could expect a cleaner air for all the citizens as well. isnt it great?2013.2.23NA In order to attract good students，many university spent a lot of money in s
13、ociety activities, do you agree or disagree. 观点：不同意SP 1. 吸引学生的本质是教学质量(educational quality)和就业前景(career prospect)。所以更多的钱花费在这里才是更加值得的。举例说明当地的一个大学会计学院（或其他） ，虽然学校本身并没有非常靠前的学术排名(academic ranking)，但是由于学校重在提高学生的应用技能(practical skills)，就业很好。因此很多优秀学生也愿意选择sp 2. 有些人会说，社会活动可以提高学生综合素质(overall quality)，学生冲着这个也会来(s
14、oft skills)。确实啊。但完全有替代方案啊！即便不是社会活动，在学校内部建立良好的学生会系统(student union)和社团系统(club system)，这样学校就像一个小社会一样，同样可以提升学生的各种软技能。举例自己学校。 、2012.9.23/2011.10.14NAadapting or adjusting to the changing condition 重要还是 excellent knowledge in job 重要适应环境的能力更重要。1） 如果缺乏这个能力，在工作环境变化的时候一个人会死的很难看。One might be falling in serious
15、 failures in work when the condition changes unless he is well equipped with the ability to quickly adapt to the E.Eg. 一个销售。之前业绩很好，被称作“金牌销售”，因为他的老板每次会乐此不疲地指点到非常具体的工作，包括哪天去拜访哪个客户，准备什么礼物等。这个销售的执行力很强，所以业绩很好。但是后来换了老板，这个人的风格就很 free-style， 只下任务，不告诉你怎么做。这个销售还在等着老板的各种指示，最后业绩下滑严重。被炒。2） 有人说，excellent knowledg
16、e in job 很重要。没有它则无法完成工作。但其实事实并不是这样的。很多时候，即便你没有很优秀的工作技能，你可以请求他人的帮助和支持，同样可以出色完成工作任务。而同事的帮助通常是建立在你可以良好融入环境的基础之上的。举例一个新老师，刚开始当老师，并不那么专业，也不知道应该如何向学生传递知识。他注意到同事们每周五都会有 Party 和户外运动，于是他很积极参与，虽然他自己并不是那么的热衷这些活动。有时候他还会主动买单。同事们都觉得他很不错，给予很多工作上的建议，包括多用反例点出学生的问题，将课堂设计成问答形式，等等。所以 。 。 。 。force-feeding 2011.4.15NA /2
17、012.2.5ML大学把资金用来改善学校的设施 facilities,比如图书馆之类的，相比花钱雇著名的老师而言，显得更重要。Famous teachers. Sp 1. Famous teachers usually are very authoritative in the academic field; their rich experience and advanced perspective give students the inspiration that nothing else could provide. For instance, as an economics majo
18、r, Ive always been wondering how the economic crisis in the year 2007 took place. I checked much information from the Internet, the magazines and the academic books, still I kept uncertain about the entire process. This situation only was improved when I went to professor Lees course. He is the rese
19、archer in the Chinese Economic Developing and Researching center, and owns high reputation in the economics field. It is after his course that I could connect the housing price, the financial derivatives, peoples expectation and the final economic crisis. Without his inspiration I could never have u
20、nderstood how the economic events could connect togetherSp 2. Someone might argue that the facilities such as libraries are important for students. It might be true. But in fact, without the correct guidance of the great teachers, even if students could enjoy the library with various kinds of profes
21、sional journals and books, still, they might be like the lost birds, failing to navigate towards the right direction. For instance, when I was learning marketing, I simply knew that I needed to read some books other than the textbook. And in the school library, there were thousands of books about ma
22、rketing. Honestly, I did not know what to choose. But our marketing teacher provided us with a detailed book list that contained 10 relevant books.() this surely improved the efficiency of my study. ()2010.2.7ML/2008.10.11NADo you agree or disagree with the following statement? In order to succeed,
23、you should be more like others than be different from everyone else.Yes!Sp 1. By thinking outside the box, one could be more likely to discover the market potential and explore the wealth. In the 1990s, the IT industry believed in pragmatism, so the prevalent computers and phones were not impressive
24、 in appearance design. We could still remember when Dell was all the rage in the market, right? Computers only differed in internal configuration, and the external appearances were similarly ugly. But Steve Jobs thought differently. He thought that the computers and cell phones represented the perso
25、nal life quality and taste. So he designed apple products as if he was designing an artwork. He applied his great aesthetic value to the product, which turned out to be a complete success. Sp 2. The average people tend to be risk-avoiders. But successful people are not. In fact, only when someone br
26、avely welcomes the risks can he possibly be successful. Take FDR, the 32nd president of the US, for example. in the year 1929, the US suffered the Great depression, in which the unemployment rate kept surging and the monopoly enterprises were taking the market order. Under this circumstance, FDR had
27、 2 choices: to keep the economic liberalism or to have the government regulate the economy. the latter choice was really risky, because nobody could tell whether this would lead to an even more serious consequence. But FDR nevertheless took the risk and challenge and carried out the New Deal, in whi
28、ch the economic market was under serious supervision of the authority. The result? As we can see, the economy was gradually bailed out, and FDR himself became one of the most influential presidents in the US history. Of course, this would never happen without his courage to take the challenge. 2009.
29、12.5ML Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? As modern life becomes more complex, it is essential for young people to have the ability to plan and organize.Yes, of course!Sp 1. The ability to plan ensures young people to get things done. Or else someone may hardly realize what he sh
30、ould do in order to successfully achieve a goal. Eg. two freshmen both set their goal to study in the US after graduating from college. When they were admitted to their college, they had similar academic background. But the only difference is that A was willing to plan for his life and his study-( )
31、, while B kept living and learning with his freestyle: ( ) and as you could expect, upon graduation, who is the one that successfully realized his goal?Sp 2. The ability to organize is equally important, because is guarantees young people to “do things effectively and efficiently”. In order to do so
32、mething well, people need to make good use of all resources that are available; and without good ability to organize, its even possible that a person will turn a blind eye to the useful resources and travel through so many detours, which is time-wasting and energy-consuming. For example, when I was
33、in college, I was in the news department of the student union. All members in the department all had some edgesEric, for example, excelled in taking excellent news photographs, Sophia was an outstanding editor, and I was a good interviewer and reporter. However, turned out that we news department wa
34、s operating with low efficiencysometimes we could not publish the news immediately after an important news event took place in our school. Why? Our leader, Joe, in fact did not organize the entire human resource welleach time when just one personnel was adequate to finish the task, he would send 3 m
35、embers to do the exactly same thing; but in fact the time could be used to do other important things such as doing the proof reading and connecting the publisher. So as the world is becoming more complex, young people have more things to “manage”, and of course第二类：现象类2011.11.13是否可以通过 learn a lot of
36、their friends 来了解他们。是的。拆分：Learn 朋友的什么？sp 1. 通过了解人们朋友的价值观和人品 .两个不同价值观的人很难走到一起。For example, a person who keeps lying as his only way of dealing with problems can hardly have a friend who is upright and keeps honest. Likewise, someone who believes in speculation cannot win the friendship with someone e
37、lse who thinks that only hard work will bring about the ultimate success. Similarly, if a girl establishes her own happiness on the financial support from the “sugar daddy”, then chances are rare that she would develop intimate friendship with another girl who believes in true love. Sp 2. 通过了解朋友的性格（
38、characteristics）,大致可以知道这个人的性格。这两个最好朋友的性格通常是互补(complementary)的，才能携手走向永恒！自己例子：曾经在大学时候遇见一个女生，两人有十分相似的兴趣爱好（时尚，电影，帅哥等） ，于是总有很多话题可以聊。但是渐渐发现你们特别的性格特别相似，都是外向冲动 impulsive 的。所以后来很多时候两个人都太想要表达自己的感情而忽略了安静地倾听。于是渐渐在互相遭遇问题的时候，发现对方无法满足自己的情感需求。不是对方不好，只是太相似555 be drifted apart2011.1.8MLDo you agree or disagree with t
39、he following statement? The food we eat today is much healthier than in the past. Farm produce 不是的。拆分：food sp1. Raw food materials are far less healthy than those in the past. Let me be more specific: the vegetables we consume every daycabbage, carrots or even tomatoes are covered by pesticides, whi
40、ch in large quantity could damage our digestive systems. Likewise, the eggs, milk, and meat currently are filled with artificial hormones. This is already not the news for people in the society. As we know, the hormones could interfere with our normal reproducing system and produce results that we c
41、an hardly imagine. Further, even the soybeans we have now are also not safethey might be genetically modified, which might result in uncertain danger for our human body. In stark contrast, a few decades ago people did not have the urgent demand of maximizing the unit of production, so they had no ne
42、ed to add unhealthy ingredients or materials when growing the farm produce. Instead, they applied a rather organic way of growing the raw food material. Everything was natural. So of course, the current food is not as healthy as that in the past. Sp 2. Food that has undergone deep processing is occu
43、pying our life; and they are very unhealthy as well.Fried chicken/chips contain too much oil, which might lead to the heart and liver diseases.Snacks on the shelf of the supermarket usually lose all the vitamins, fiber and water and is left with very few nutrients. Also, in order to extend the shelf
44、 life of the food, producers usually put harmful additives into the food, such as tony redAnd dont forget the melamine milk powder scandalKidney stone 做各种体育运动可以让人们身体素质提高2010.9.26ML 新技术并不会让生活简单，反而让生活变得复杂? 当然更简单！拆分：生活sp 1. Working and studying Thanks to the technological advancement, our working and s
45、tudying efficiency could get largely promoted. Let me be more specific: 20 years ago, students had to make the plan of reciting/memorizing the words themselves, so it seemed impossible for a lazy student to command a large vocabulary. But currently, with the aid of the technology, even the laziest s
46、tudent can make use of an app to plan how many words to recite and how many words to review each day; and if students do not finish the task, the app can even send messages to alert the students. This largely improves the studying efficiency. likewise, a few decades ago, arresting a criminal could b
47、e difficult for police officers, because once the criminal escaped into another province or another country, the chance of finding him might be so small. However, in the contemporary society, the global positioning system, the finger print identification system and the eavesdropping technology have
48、helped to ease the whole process of looking for a hiding criminal. Of course, other professions also enjoy the merits brought about by the high technology. So who can say that technology is complicating our lives? Sp 2. Entertaining and leisureWhen you are alone, computer games, movies, music, novel
49、s.When you are together with your friends, google map, 大众点评， trip advisor, weather forecastStudents are more interested in politics now than students were in the past. 2011.9.25ML/2010.11.6NA Do you agree or disagree with the statement? It is easier for parents to raise children now than in the past. 是的：原因分析sp 1. 因为经济发展，养活很容易！In the 1960s, when my parents were young, they could barely even have a meal with meat in an entire year. And sometimes even rice was a luxury for them. Also, I heard from my mothe
