1.What are the main tasks of universities: to offer students knowledge and skills eential for their future career, or to provide students with acce to knowledge itself? What do you think university education should contain?
引入话题， 观点提出：提供知识，并提升知识 ； 说明理由：1） 正 2）反 ； 回答第二个问题
Serve a larger population of students that are more culturally and socially diversified.
Universities should be perfectly aware of their main tasks : providing students with easy acce to knowledge and, at the same time, encouraging them to make active contribution to the advancement of human knowledge.
Universities, first, should be the learning communities where knowledge is not only dieminated but also advanced.As full-fledged members of this community, students should not be information recipients who learn the knowledge in a paive way.Instead, they should be challenged to achieve their potential and, indeed, to excel.Therefore, rather than focus merely on knowledge diemination and transfer, universities should contrive to provide learning conditions that encourage students to remain curious, to value diversity in opinions and perspectives, and to think critically and communicate effectively.In this way, students can gain problem-solving experience and confidence.
Furthermore, universities will never attain their goals if they tailor all their courses or programs to meet the needs of specific employers or occupational sectors.Today’s social environment is more dynamic and turbulent than ever before.Only those graduates who poe certain personality traits and can do well in diversified situations can distinguish themselves from other job applicants.
In order to fulfill the main tasks of universities, university education should contain amply opportunities for independent learning which can cultivate students who are more likely to adapt to the changing society.Students can also learn to exercise their autonomy more effectively, and they may clarify their own profeional interests while learning in an independent way.
2.Nowadays computers are widely used in education.As a result, some people think teachers no longer play important roles in clarooms.To what extent do you agree or disagree?
计算机是否可以取代老师 观点：老师仍重要
理由：1.电脑的缺点：不能创造性思维 2.老师的优点：组织学生，启发学生 3.老师的优点：互动
扩展句子时：可以用先夸后损，或先损后夸 ，或对比的方法
Invented le than a hundred year ago, computers are now used everywhere, even inside the clarooms.While teachers remain more or le the same, computers are doubling in speed and capability on a yearly basis.In light of the increasing presence and importance of computers in clarooms, people can’t help wondering whether teachers are as important as they once were.As far as I am concerned, teachers still play a major role are still of great importance.
It is well known that computers are better at repetitive work but incapable of creative thinking.However advanced they may be, computers are nothing more than human contrivances, programmed to perform certain tasks.They are unable to deal with students with different background.Needle to say, a claroom is a place where individual attention and creativity matter most.Therefore, computers are no better than other tools used by teachers and couldn’t poibly undermine the roles played by them.
It might be argued that in terms of accuracy and the amount of information , computers outshine humans; but to make a good teacher means far more than being an encyclopedia where one can acce all relevant information.Indeed, a good teacher organizes and inspires the students, putting them into different groups and sharing with them his or her own experience and understanding of a certain subject.Instead of being the source of knowledge, a teacher is more like a guide who shows students the right path towards their destination.
Besides, the interaction between students and teachers is vital for learning.According to most education authorities, real learning occurs during the discuion and sharing of ideas with one’s teachers and clamates, which is a task beyond the power of a computer.Moreover, a teacher is there to monitor every slight change in students’ attitude, to respond to and encourage them whenever they show a sign of frustration and impatience.Without this kind of interaction, education is unimaginable.
In conclusion, despite the increasing presence of computers inside clarooms, teachers are just as eential, if not more so, as instructors were in the past.Some inherent drawbacks make it impoible for computers to replace teachers in clarooms where creative thinking and interpersonal skills are vital to ensure succe.
3.As science and technology contribute most to the development of society, science students should get more financial support from government than students in other fields (e.g busine, language, etc.) to what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
题中出现因果关系：因为科技对社会进步做出的贡献最多，所以科技类学生应该获得更多的财政资助。
反驳时，可以从因 下手： 前提不存在，科技并没有做出最大的贡献 其次，财政资助 真正应该由什么决定 ：学生的学习成绩
4.Some parents maintain that co-education is better for their children while others believe it is better if boys and girls go to single-sex school .Discu.
Discuion 类：从正反两面展开论述，一段写：混和教育的好:自然，消除偏见，一段写：单一性别教育的好:安全，特别是对女生； 专心学习，防止早恋。最后一段指出两种各有利弊，因此不同人有不同的选择。
There have been schools catering exclusively to boys or girls in many countries.
Co-education seems the natural mode of education.They can ride on the same bus, eat at the same restaurant and work in the same company.There is no justification to set up separate schools.Co-education resembles the real world.After graduation, those students will not have difficulty adjusting to a world where the opposite sex also exists because they have learnt how to tolerate, appreciate and cooperate with each other in school.
Besides, co-ed schools help to reduce the prejudice against the opposite sex.By mingling with one another on a daily basis, boys and girls can relinquish the stereotype view about the other sex.They will find that a girl can be as brave as any boys and that goiping is also common among boys.Thus, we are equal.
On the other hand, single-sex schools have their unique appeals as well.safety is regarded as the foremost reason for choosing those schools, especially girls’schools .It is safe to send one’s kids to a place where they won’t be seduced, molested or even aaulted by the other sex.of course , it is to aume that none of the teachers an staff is criminally inclined.In addition, the students can focus more on their study.Free from the burden of co-existing harmoniously with the opposite sex, boys and girls often turn their attention to scholarly pursuits.This might explain why many prominent scientists went to single-sex school at one time or another.Last but definitely not least, single-sex school bars the poibility of the much-dreaded puppy love among students.
It might be gathered from the above that each type of school has its strength and weakne.
5.Many schools are troubled by students’ behavioral problems.What are the causes? What solutions do you recommend?
6.Should the teacher in physical education cla encourage the students to be more competitive or urge them to cooperate with one another? What is your opinion? 竞争还是合作 +体育
选择合作 ：理由1，2 让步竞争
竞争：a sense of competition can certainly bring about improvement.Driving force 合作：1.cooperation is more eential to succe.Most sports require cooperation among team members.Football, basketball, for example.To defeat another team, all team members must work together, adjusting to and communicating with each other.The total synergy is far more important than the strength of an individual player.After all, rarely can one accomplish much all by himself. 2.compared to competition, cooperation gives a greater impetus to progre.Whereas the urge to improve provided by competition is based on personal gratification, i.e.The seeking of glory and victory and the avoidance of pain and humiliation, that of cooperation is grounded on one’s devotion to a common goal.To put it simply, to compete one often works for himself; to cooperate one works for others.One will try his uttermost because his performance will affect others’ and because he cannot bear the thought of letting others down.
---succe is not achieved by defeating others but improving ourselves.
7.It is right that college graduates earn higher salaries than the le well-educated in the community.But they should also pay the full cost of their study.Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
大学生是否应该独立承担全部教育费用
观点类：不应该：１.否认它的前提：大学生并不比那些没有学历的人享受更高的工资 2.教育对社会有利
In reality, college graduates are far from enjoying higher salaries than those without a diploma.工资与贡献有关，一个人的工作表现与他收到的教育没有直接联系
Long gone are the days when college education guarantees enviable salaries.
A university does not and should not act as a career training center, whose aim is merely to prepare students for the work ahead.Rather, college education cultivates the mind of the students and improve one’s overall abilities.With more people receiving higher education, the whole nation benefits in numerous ways.This had been testified in the developed countries, all of which put a premium on education.Thus, it is fitting that gifted students with potential not be barred from universities simply because they cannot foot the bill.
Adequate grants and scholarships should be set aside to alleviate the financial burdens of those underprivileged students.
7.Many people believe that subjects such as music or sports are not useful.Thus school should concentrate on subjects that offer better career prospect.What is your opinion? Not justified .理由：1.教育的目的不是给学生提供就业培训，其目标在于完善一个人的综合能力。
Career prospect is on most’s people’s mind when choosing a major, but this can hardly justify the overemphasis on certain disciplines.It is not the goal of education to provide job trainings to students.Education aims to improve one’s all-round abilities.2.雇主看中的不只是专业技能。
8.Is distant learning as effective as school education?
9.Some think students can learn more effectively in groups, while others think they should study alone.What are the benefits of each method? Which one do you think is more effective?
10.Nowadays college students or even high school students start to work at a younger age.Do you think that it is a positive or negative development?
11.Many people think that education is losing its value.Do you agree or disagree?
12.Education used to be a period of schooling.But now people regard it as a lifelong proce.Do you agree or disagree? 13.Today, many students take the course international news in secondary school.Some say it is a waste of time.Discu and state your opinion.14.Some people think that in order to improve the quality of education, high school students should be encouraged to evaluate and criticize their teachers, but other people maintain that such evaluation and criticism may cause lo of respect for teachers and discipline.What do you think? 15.Some say that students with similar academic abilities should be put in one cla.Others believe a cla should include students with different academic performances.Discu.16.There are lots of difficulties for the new students on the first day in a high school or college because they feel lonely.What are the difficulties they may face on the first day? What can the school or college do to solve these problems? 17.Many schools demand that the students should wear uniform.Some people think that such a practice undermines students’ personality and individuality.What do you think?
