第八届创新英语大赛初赛试题
Directions:
Read the following paragraph and write a composition as stated at about 300 words in 60 minutes.Your composition will be graded according to clarity, accuracy and meaningfulne.
Some experts claim that parents` attitudes toward solving teenage problems are crucial determinants of child personality development.Do you agree or disagree? What role does parental attitude play in child rearing and personality development? You writing ought to contain three parts, your viewpoint, the supporting ideas, and the conclusion.
第八届创新英语大赛复赛试题
Directions:
Read the following paragraph and write a composition as stated at about 300 words in 60 minutes.Your composition will be graded according to clarity, accuracy and meaningfulne.
In accordance with CRI news, the spirit of Chinese volunteers, from responding to the May 12 earthquake to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, not only touched the Chinese people, but also generated worldwide attention.Official statistics show that china has accumulated about 8 billion hours of volunteer work from 380 million volunteers since 1993 and is going to have more and more volunteers, especially the youth.
How do you understand volunteer work? In what way(s) is it important to promote the well-being of individuals, families, communities and the world at large? Your writing ought to contain three parts, your viewpoint, the supporting ideas, and the conclusion.
第五届创新英语大赛复赛试题
Directions: Some people maintain that universities are the best place for young people to receive higher education; other people believe that young people can be equally educated by taking correspondence courses or going to evening claes and open universities in their spare time.
Write an article of about 300 words in which you compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of formal university education and informal higher education.Which do you think is more effective and desirable? Support your argument with appropriate examples or illustrations.命题思路：本试题要求学生对比高等教育的两种主要形式：正规的大学课堂教育与函授、夜大学、电视大学等业余的非正规高等教育。学生必须在对比权衡两种不同模式的利弊后，阐述自己的观点，并有适当的例证。
Informal Higher Education Serves Better
Although most students are still fighting for the diploma in universities after graduation from high school, it has been a clear trend that more and more students choose to start their working career earlier and receive informal higher education, which in my opinion, serves better to build more competition (competitive) and suitable personal abilities.
Informal higher education offers better opportunities to adapt to social life for students, and help them understand better the reality of their social community and responsibilities they are to take.Compared with those who spend entirely their time in the (on) campus, students who take evening claes could contact with more people, develop their communication skills and social behaviors during working hours.They know better how cruel and realistic the society is and that it is your power and capabilities that only speak.They understand and adapt better to the preure of life‟s difficulties which in universities could hardly be realized.
Secondly, after experiencing real working life, these (those) who attend correspondence courses would know better what kind of knowledge and abilities they must master, which definitely help them in future advancement and career choices.Suppose you‟re a graduate from high school and become an aist of a car repairing workshop.Then you‟ll have to know how the engine and different parts of the car works and how to deal with various crisises (emergent problems).Therefore, night schools‟ education (evening claes) would enable you (插入 to) acquire more specialized knowledge which are fit to you.However, in universities, you have to learn a great many courses, some of which are comparatively usele and can even make you bewilded of future
(bewildered to the future).
Furthermore, as they have more time to manage for themselves, students drop higher education in universities could earn some money and gain earlier start in career.These will ease their families‟ burdens and satisfy their desire for basic money needs.As a matter of fact, nowadays, more than a few American teens abandon university‟ s education and try to become a worker like air-conditional repairer (air-conditioner repairman) who can earn as much as $ 30, 000 for the first year.Thus, their decisions benefit themselves and their families.
Conclude (To conclude) from all the facts talked above, we can safely arrive at the summary that informal higher education is more efficient and serves better.It make (makes) you ahead of others in career development with more competitive skills, fit knowledge, pre cious experiences of social life and more leisure to earn some eential financial supports.As we‟ll one day indulge ourselves in the real soci (walk into the realistic society,) informal higher education serves better for our present and future developing.(development)
Universities or Informal Education?
It is an undeniable fact that, nowadays, a controversial debate has (插入 been) risen as to whether universities or informal higher education is more eential for students, (which is more eential for students, universities or informal higher education).People vary in their opinions on this question.
Those who are in favor of universities often provide the following evidence.First of all, universities are run by the government and seem to be more reliable, whereas informal higher education is short of serious disciplines.Moreover universities have the incomparable merits that with students living in their dormitories they provide (are provided) plenty of time to gain the knowledge they long for.
Neverthele, there are also people who set forth a totally opposite idea.They claim that there are various kinds of informal education ranging from correspondence courses to open universities and evening claes, from which students can choose freely according to their own needs and likes.Furthermore, students can get more spare time to step into other activities or continue their work during the daytime.While in universities, students have to stay inside all day.This, of course, will reject those workers who have an appetite for knowledge and want to further their study.
From my perspective, I think the former group‟s idea is more favorable.Three key components account for my choice.First and foremost, with a longer history, universities provide students with more accurate knowledge and can equip them better for their future career.What‟s more, during the four years of acdamic (academic) life, students can broaden their eyes, deepen their understanding, sharpen their mind and maintain specialized training.Last but not least, it is commonly accepted that universities are more experienced in education and have a better environment for students to develop themselves both mentally and physically.
Taking all these factors into consideration, I confidentally (confidently) come to the conclusion that one should give priority to universifies.Only in this way can they arm themselves with more knowledge and perfect their personalities.
Fruit & the Vitamin Medicine
With the world developing in (at) high speed, more and more young people take part in higher educated (education).Some of the (them) choose to go to universities, and the others joined evening claes and open universities or took correspondence courses.I think, if we put the formal university education as the fruits we eat and the informal higher education would be like the vitamin medicine.Both of them could give us what we need.
Let‟s see two examples: The first one is my elder sister, who studyed (studied) very well and went into Beijing University with a high mark.Now, after the four-year university life, she was employed by a lawyer firm and makes a large sum of money every year.
Another example is a girl who used to working in (work in) my father‟s bar.She was a country girl, (插入 and) she worked hard but got little money, so under my father‟s encouragement, she attended an evening cla in spare time.The first two years was a hard time, because on one hand, she must to (去掉) learn knowledge in the evening when she was very tired after one day\'s work; On the other hand, she had to make money to pay for the evening cla.But then her way was wider and wider, and now
she found a better job in a small company and can offer much more money to her poor family.
In my opinion, even both the girl and my sister got a good job at last, but I still think that enter (attending) formal university is better.Because in universities we could make more friends, we could get more chances to communicate with the experienced profeors, we could get more ways to receive information of our future jobs, and we could also send ourselves into the coulful (colorful) groups in the university so that we could have a happier higher educated life.But in the informal education, there could not be so much fun.
Though I thought like this, but I have to say equally that both fruit and vitamin medicine can give us the vitamins we need, the only difference between them is that some people love fruits and the others may thought (think) having medicine is easier.So whatever you choose, the fruit or the medicine (the formal university education or the informal higher education), the most important is that you can get the knowledge you wanted, isn\'t it?
Directions: We can be sure that most people have experienced failure and succe.Most often, when we are succeful we are happy.If we fail, we are sad.Now, you are asked to write an eay on the topic of Failure and Succe.You can give some examples and facts to support your opinion.Your eay should be written in English with on le than 300 words within 60 minutes.
Failure Leads to Succe
Staring at my marks, I was trembling.The highlighted „50‟ was like explosions in the sky (a bolt from the blue) , which suggested I was (去掉) utterly failed.However, to my astonishment, my mother didn‟t keep a straight face with my paper in hand.Slowly she said, “It‟s compulsory to face the music, boy.Always remember: Failure leads to succe.” Ever since then, I committed those words to memory to stand up again after failure.
My dear friends, failure is not dire.What is (去掉) really awesome is giving yourselves over to the bad mood after failure.It‟s a common sense that everybody wants to end up in succe, so sparing no effort to work hard becomes a corollary.In history, examples of peoples who succeeded after failure were as many as stars can be (去掉).
For instance, Edison was kicked out of school on account of his bad grades.However, he immediately overcame the sadne and committed himself to scientific invention.Then, as we all know, he became the greatest inventor after failure and was universally highly though (thought) of.From this, we can see, failure never defeated Edison.On the contrary, failure turned into the power of his succe.
On top of that, I want to mention Alert Einstein, whose life was considered a downright failure by his teachers.Alert‟s teacher used to maintain that he (the boy) was too iconoclastic and inevitable to become a philistine.Alert took a very view of that.He developed his interest in physics and tried his best to do research on some moscopolitan (cosmopolitan) problems.At last, his “Theory of Relativity” made the world convinced that he was succeful.
Depending on my personal experience and emotional concern, failure is totally the darkne before dawn.if (If) we pull ourselves out of the black aby, we will see the sun shining above the horizon.” God helps those who help themselves.” Only when we help ourselves in (out of) failure, it eventually leads to succe (can we eventually achieve succe).
Attitudes towards Failure and Succe
It‟s no exaggeration to compare our life stage to a battle field which is loaded with both failure and succe.From cradle to grave, people from different levels of life, almost everyone has to experience different kinds of battles: the competitions between students, between businemen, even between countries, etc.As a consequence, we will face not only succe but also failure.From the point of my view, proper attitudes should be taken towards failure and succe.
Most often, when we are succeful we are happy.After all, competition means that one do (does) one‟s utmost to reach for things which are wanted by others, blow that you are succeful, it means that you are the winner.So to speak, everyone dreams of succeeding and it‟s common to be happy if your dream comes into reality.However, just as an old saying goes: Pride goes before a fall.We mustn‟t sink our self (ourselves) into the world of flowers and congratulations.Come down to earth, more things of the eence remained to be done yet.History abounds with the example of that.Qing Dynasty fell behind other countries on account of its ridiculous satisfaction.It closed its window to the world and no foreign trades were allowed.Finally, it was beaten
by western countries.
Thus, we must be aware of the circumstances and can‟t be too proud of ourselves.Meanwhile, as failure is unavoided (unavoidable) in our life, more attention should be paid to failure.
First and foremost, we must absorb leons from our failure.One mustn‟t fall in the same place twice.Just as a proverb goes: Fall in a pit gain in your wise (A fall into a pit, a gain is your wit).Besides, everyone makes mistakes.Someone has said that show me a man who never makes mistakes and I will show you a person with two heads.That is to say, it‟s undeniable for one to make mistakes and failure is a piece of dish that everyone must taste, despite (although) you are reluctant to face it.As a result, positive attitude (attiutdes) should be taken towards failure.Failure is the mother of succe.Only if you are aware of that, you will succeed in the end.As is known to all, Napolon (Napoleon) is considered as the greatest person in France.He had experienced numerous wars before he succeeded.I remember that he once said, “You can never find „ failure‟ in my dictionary.“ Yes, he succeeded and he never regreted (regretted) for what he had done.Keep in mind that there is only one winner, but everyone should strive for it.Most often, the obstacle to succe is not our failure, but is our fears.If you failed, cheer up, everthing (everything) will be OK.
All in all, no matter it is sunny or cloudy, as long as we take positive attitudes towards it, succe will finally come.Confidence is the first step to succe.Come on, we are the best.
Failure and Succe
No one can avoid being influenced by failure and succe.As far as I know, there are countle people, who enjoy a high level of reputation, suffering from a great deal of failure and succe.Actually, the road of Life is twittered (littered) with boulders and pitted with holes.It seems the same that life is filled with failure and succe, making it more and more colorful .Because of them, the life is a long wonderful word.
As (插入 the) saying goes that no cro, no crown, failure always wins respect of many great scientists, for it adds color to the dull routine of everyone‟s life.For example, Madam Cuie (Madame Curie) suffered a large number of sufferings, achieving her goals.Eventually, she won the Nobel (插入Prize).Though it‟s poible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money, it‟s extremely difficult to estimate the true value of failure, for it maybe marks the prelude to a series of succe.
Obviously, succe is a shining star sought by a great many people.Some people hold a view that achieving one‟s goals is the only succe that matters.Frankly speaking, achieving one‟s goals is just a personal succe.Whether or not it is accepted by society depends on what the goals are and what the ways are.If your succe is built on another‟s suffering, it‟s not only unacceptable, but also immoral.In the light of this statement, Making (making) a contribution to society is the best way to enjoy succe, for your efforts and values are appreciated by society, so you will be succeful in the eyes of the public.
In the final analysis, failure is connected to succe, and they exert a great influence on us everyday.As a result, the more the failure we suffered, the more (greater) the succe we gained.So, come on, everyone, let‟s be greed of (greedy for) failure so that we can poe a colorful future filled with flowers!
