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GRE

作文分类题库

---ISSUE

一

教育类

1. A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum

until

they

enter

college

rather

than

allow

schools

in

different

parts

of

the

nation

to determine whi

ch academic courses to offer.”

2. While some leaders in government, sports, industry, and other areas attribute

their

success

to

a

well-developed

sense

of

competition,

a

society

can

better

prepare

its young people for leadership by instilling in them a sense of cooperation.

3.

In

order

to

improve

the

quality

of

instruction

at

the

college

and

university

level,

all faculty

should be

required

to spend time working outside the

academic world

in

professions relevant to the courses they teach.

4. Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside

the student’s field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic

disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.

5. Colleges and universities should offer more courses on popular music, film,

advertising,

and

television

because

contemporary

culture

has

much

greater

relevance

for students than do arts and literature of the past.

6. It is

primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate

the

ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears.

7. Some educational systems emphasize the development of students’capacity for

reasoning and logical thinking, but students would benefit more from an education

that also taught them to explore their own emotions.

8. It is often asserted that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the

spirit.

In

reality,

however,

formal

education

tends

to

restrain

our

minds

and

spirits

rather than set them free.

9.

How

children

are

socialized

today

determines

the

destiny

of

society.

Unfortunately,

we

have

not

yet

learned

how

to

raise

children

who

can

help

bring

about

a better society.

10. Both parents and communities must be involved in the local schools. Education

is too important to leave solely to a group of professional educators.

11. The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a

standard, a set of ideas

—

not to prepare them for a specific job.

12. Society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities

and begin training them at an early age so that they can eventually excel in their

areas of ability. Othervise, these talents are likely to remain undeveloped.

13. Although innovations such as video, computers, and the internet seem to offer

schools

improved

methods

for

instructing

students,

these

technologies

all

too

often

distract from real learning.

二

学习类

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1.

We

can

usually

learn

much

more

from

people

whose

views

we

share

than

from

people

whose

vies

contradict

our

own.

Disagreement

can

cause

stress

and

inhibit

learning.

2.

No

field

of

study

can

advance

significantly

unless

outsiders

bring

their

knowledge

and experience to that field of study.

3. Anyone can make things bigger and more complex. What requires real effort and

courage

is

to

move

in

the

opposite

direction-in

other

words,

to

make

things

as

simple

as possible.

4. Students should memories facts only after they have studied the ideas, trends,

and concepts that help explain those facts. Students who have learned only facts

have learned very little.

5. Scholars and researches should not be concerned with whether their work makes

a contribution to the larger society. It is more important that they pursue their

individual interests, however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem.

6.

In

any

academic

area

or

professional

field,

it

is

just

as

important

to

recognize

the limits of our knowledge and understanding as it is to acquire new facts and

information.

7.

Facts

are

stubborn

things.

They

cannot

be

altered

by

our

wishes,

our

inclinations,

or the dictates of our passions.

8. Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should

question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.

9. There is no such thing as purely objective observation. All observation is

subjective; it is always guided by the observer’s expectations or desires.

10. The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only

tools of human minds.

11.

Critical

judgment

of

work,

in

any

given

field

has

little

value

unless

comes

from

someone who is an expert in that field.

12.

People

who

pursue

their

own

intellectual

interests

for

purely

personal

reasons

are more

likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people

who

try to act for

the public good.

13.

Originality

does

not

mean

thinking

something

that

was

never

thought

before;

it

means putting old ideas together in new ways.

14.

The

study

of

ac

academic

discipline

alters

the

way

we

perceive

the

world.

After

studying the discipline, we see

the same world

as before, but with different eyes.

15. The way students and scholars interpret the materials they work with in their

academic

fields

is

more

of

personality

than

of

training.

Different

interpretations

come

about

when

people

with

different

personalities

look

at

exactly

the

same

objects,

facts, data, or events and see different things.

16.

As

we

acquire

more

knowledge,

things

do

not

become

more

comprehensible,

but

more

complex and more mysterious.

17. It is a grave mistake to theorize before one has data.

三

行为类

1. Although many people think that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary

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life

are

entirely

harmless,

they

in

fact,

prevent

people

from

developing

into

truly

strong and independent individuals.

2. Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people

to be interested in their private lives. When they seek a public role, they should

expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy.

3. Creating an appealing image has become more important in contemporary society

than is the reality or truth behind that image.

4. The concept of ‘individual responsibility’ is a necessary fiction. Although

societies

must

hold

individuals

accountable

for

their

own

actions,

people’s

behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.

5. People work more productively in teams than individually. Teamwork requires

cooperation, which motivates people much more than individual competition does.

6.

In

any

realm

of

life-whether

academic,

social,

business,

or

political

—

the

only

way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of vies.

Pragmatic

behavior

guarantees

survival,

whereas

idealistic

views

tend

to

be

superceded by simpler, more immediate options.

7. It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define

ourselves.

8. Only through mistakes can there be discovery or progress.

9.

Most

people

recognize

the

benefits

of

individuality,

but

the

fact

is

that

personal

economic success requires conformity.

10.

People

who

are

the

most

deeply

committed

to

an

idea

or

policy

are

the

most

critical

of it.

11. No amount of information can eliminate prejudice because prejudice is rooted

in emotion, not reason.

12. The most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain

consistently committed in particular principles and objectives. Any leader who is

quickly

and

easily

influenced

by

shifts

in

popular

opinion

will

accomplish

little.

13.

Sometimes

imagination

is

a

more

valuable

asset

than

experience.

People

who

lack

experience

are

free

to

imagine

what

is

possible

and

thus

can

approach

a

task

without

constraints of established habits and attitudes.

14. In any given field, the leading voices come from people who are motivated not

by

conviction

but

by

the

desire

to

present

opinions

and

ideas

that

differ

from

those

held by the majority.

15. It is always an individual who is the impetus for innovation; the details may

be

worked

out

by

a

team,

but

true

innovation

results

from

the

enterprise

and

unique

perception of an individual.

16. Success, whether academic or professional, involves an ability to survive in

a new environment and--, eventually, --to change it.

17. Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerations as

the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they

can expect to make. Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her

natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work.

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