1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Government should make preschool education free of charge.

解题思路：选择同意

① 可以让学前教育惠及更多民众（make early education accessible to a greater number of people）。解释：当前社会贫富差距大(a serious financial disparity)，这意味着很多社会成员还挣扎在社会底层（a quite big number of social members are struggling at the bottom）。他们养家糊口都成问题(have difficulty feeding their families)，更别说给孩子提供良好的教育了(let alone giving their young kids decent education)。

② 可以刺激经济的发展(boost economy)。解释：如果费用取消(be canceled)，学前教育的需求将会井喷(a heavy demand for preschool education will be created)。会有大量的幼儿园建立(be excepted to be built)，大量老师会被招聘从事幼儿教育，这是提振当下经济疲软的一剂良方(serve as an impetus to the current sluggish economy)。

③ 让步段：取消学前教育收费固然优缺点，比如：政府会面临巨大的经济压力(will face a financial burden)，或许会对其他领域征收更多的税(levy higher tax on other fields)。但是，教育问题关系到千家万户(the issue of education concerns almost all families)，孩子是国家的未来。如果政府能够向公众解释这一行为的动机(inform the public of the intention of this conduct)，就没什么可以担心的了(there will be nothing to worry about)。

2. A high school has decided that all students must take a class in which they learn a practical skill. School administrators are trying to decide whether to hold a class in cooking, managing personal finances or auto repair. Which do you think the school should require students to take? Why?

解题思路：选择理财课最重要

① 可以提升学生的节约意识（raise the awareness of saving money）。解释：现在很多的高中生都备受家人宠爱(be spoiled)，家长总是试图满足他们的需求(satisfy their needs)。因此这些被宠坏的孩子(pampered kids)甚至不知道该如何省钱。理财可以让他们意识到赚钱和理财并非易事。

② 可以增加孩子在未来获得财富上成功的可能性(increase the odds for students to gain financial success)。有理财能力的人更容易获得大量财富(acquire much wealth)，理财课恰好能帮助学生为获得这种能力打下坚实的基础(lay a solid foundation for having such ability)。

③ 让步段：另外两个选项也有一定的价值(the other two options are also of certain values)。烹饪课可以培养孩子的独立性，帮助他们健康饮食(allow them to eat more healthily)；汽车维修可以锻炼孩子的动手能力(practical ability)。但是这两种课程都有缺点：烹饪课上，孩子会因为用火不当而造成严重的后果(the inappropriate use of fire could cause a severe consequence)；另外，现在汽车的质量都很好，很少需要维修，而且去专业维修站自理也很方便。

3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Young people today are more likely to invest their time and efforts in improving the world than young people were in the past.

解题思路：同意

① 互联网给年轻人带来了改变世界的信息（the Internet furnishes young people with information to improve the world），这些有助于打开他们的思维。解释：有了互联网的发展，让年轻人有机会(young people are given a possibility )去了解世界的需求，并且了解自己能为世界做些什么。

② 教育方式的转变(the transformation of teaching methods)让年轻人更多地思考他们能为这个世界做些什么。解释：老师们不再要求学生只专注于学业(focus on academic performance)，而是尽可能地鼓励他们为这个社会多想、多做。因此，这些年轻人收到了鼓舞，想出好的主意，实践它们，从而改变这个社会(those young people are inspired to think of good ideas and carry out them to change the community)。

③ 让步段：确实，以前的年轻人也都为改变世界做出贡献。但是，在过去，孩子们通常都被要求为更好的成绩而奋斗(be demanded to strive for better grades at school)，这让他们没有机会去想出改变世界的好主意以及去实现这些想法（leaving them no changes to come up with ideas and practice them to improve the world）；另外，由于沟通方式受限(limited ways of communication)，一些活动也很难组织起来。

4.  Many university students are encouraged to study in those majors, which have an increase of job growth (more needed in the job market) like Science, Technology, Engineering, Math. What are your opinion about to choose those majors instead of what they are interested in? 

解题思路：选择自己感兴趣的

①　Interest can help students achieve greater success in their area. 解释：当一个人的专业是其兴趣与未来职业规划的结合体时(a combination of interest and future career plan)，这无疑会促使一个人去花比别人更多的时间和努力去钻研自己的专业，那么即便这个专业不是one of the hottest major，学生仍有可能在该领域内获得很好的发展。并且这个学生会因为能够自己感兴趣的事情而感到快乐。（对比论证），相反情况，被迫使选择自己不感兴趣的专业，那么学生很可能一味地很纠结苦恼，并且无法完全沉浸在学习中。最终，即便这些学生学则的时hot major，但不能用心学习，不能在该领域去努力钻也，同样时无法得到好的未来发展的，并且不快乐。

②　If students choose their interested majors by heart, the social competition tends to be naturally balanced. 解释：如果每个人都一味的去追逐所谓的热门专业，那么该领域的竞争必然会急剧加大（the competition in this major or area must increase dramatically）。这样发展下去（If so,），即便这是个社会需求量大的专业，也会因为人才过多而变得很难找到工作(even if it is a major in demand, it will become highly difficult for graduates to find job due to the superabundant job seekers)。

③　让步：虽然说choosing a hot major seems guarantee a student a more stable future career development, which can be understood that the student might at least find a job for a living (最起码能找到一份谋生的工作). Nonetheless, 个人兴趣对于未来发展的不可忽视的影响（The unignorable influence of personal interest on future development），以及社会大环境的不断变化都应该被更多的考虑在大学专业的选择中。

5. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Rather than help their children do school work, parents should encourage their children to do work independently.

解题思路：选择同意，encourage children to do work independently好。

①　Doing school work independently is a good opportunity to review what students have learned in class. 解释：without the help of parents, children为了完成作业，不得不自己亲自去再次复习回忆学校课堂里学习的理论（theories）、方法（methods）、公式（formulae）、例子（examples）等内容，甚至在父母的鼓励下，能够主动的去整理所学知识（organize what they have learned）。

②　Children can be more independently overall. 解释：习惯了独立学习之后（after being used to studying by their own），孩子渐渐地就会懂得遇到问题时(run up against roadblocks)主动寻求（seek for）解决问题的方法，而不是（instead of）依赖于别人的帮助(rely on the help from others)。

③　让步段：some may stress that assisting children with their homework is far different from simply offer help for study. Actually, this is the precious parent-child time（亲子时间） for busy parents to get closer to children and know how children perform in school. The children perhaps are willing to share some little secrets deep in heart. Sounds sweet, right? However, the truth would possibly be far from（远非，完全不） sweet. After wrestling with（努力克服，全力对付） all sorts of thorny problems at workplace, the exhausted parents possibly tend to be out of patience, especially when they find that their children even fail to solve an easy question. These impatient adults are likely to lose their temper and take their anger on the innocent children.

6. Which one do you prefer？In times of economic crisis, in which field do you think the government can cut financial support?

1.Art

2.Scientific research

3.Parks and public gardens

解题思路：选择减少Art上的财政支持

① 艺术更多的是使生活丰富多彩（add spice to our lives），（例子可以举音乐，话剧）很难产生直接的巨大的（direct and considerable）的经济效益；然而科学研究（scientific research），可以降低生产成本（lower cost of production），并且提高不同行业的生产力（productivity），从根本上有利于解决经济危机（economic crisis）。 所以减少art方面的财政支持意味着有更多投入到与经济直接相关的项目中；

② 艺术相关的东西并不是人们生活中重要（indispensable）的，因此经济危机时期减少艺术上的投资不会给人们的生活带来直接的不便（inconvenience），换句话说，人们并不会因为少看一场艺术展（art exhibition）或少看一场音乐会（concert）而抱怨不止，但是很可能抱怨因为确山公园没有地方进行休闲活动（complain about the lack of parks and gardens because they could go nowhere to easily access leisure activities）。

③ 艺术相关的领域往往不会需要昂贵的大型的（ultra-expensive and large-scale）的专业设备，所以即使减少相关的投入也不会有导致灾难性的后果（cause catastrophic consequences），相反科学研究往往需要专业昂贵的设备（involve professional equipment which may cost millions of RMBs）, 缺少的话很多重要研究会受到影响，而公园中往往也要各种各样的运动器材（equip with a diversity of sports facilities），所以在经济危机期间减少艺术项目的投入是合理的（it is reasonable to reduce investment in arts during economic recession）。

 

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