1、Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Paying Kids for Chores? You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below. 1. 现在有不少家长付钱让孩子做家务 2. 有人对此赞成,也有人表示反对 3. 我的看法 Paying Kids for Chores?
2、 Paying Kids for Chores? To foster a love for work and help them become accustomed to it, many Chinese, especially those in big cities, pay their only child to do chores at home. Usually the amount of money given to the child depends on the child’s age, the family’s income and the child’s exp
3、enses. People’s opinions vary towards this phenomenon. Some people think it’s a good idea for parents to pay kids to do housework. It motivates children to do more jobs around the house, as paying chores shows them that they have to work in order to get allowances. Others, however, argue that it
4、’s improper for parents to take this approach, since paying them makes them lazy. They say many children now refuse to do anything unless there is some kind of compensation. I’m in the camp that parents should pay their children in return for work done around the house. On the one hand, it teac
5、hes children that they should work for what they want in life. On the other hand, it provides solid lessons and opportunities related to money management. Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Students’ Driving to Sch
6、ool. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below. 1. 目前有不少大学生开车上学 2. 人们对此看法不一 3. 我的看法 Students’ Driving to School Students’ Driving to School With the development of society, more and more families possess private cars, and many college students now
7、drive themselves to school. This sparks off a heated debate on students’ driving to school. Some are in favor of students’ driving to school. They claim that it can save time to go to school or go home, especially for those living far off the campus. Besides, driving is a basic skill for future
8、work, which is always required in job recruitment. On the contrary, some are against it. They hold that young drivers, known as road killers, are not careful enough in driving. “Li Gang Gate” incident is a typical lesson and should be prevented forever. What’s more, they believe that it is a way of
9、showing off, an ill mental state. For my part, I object to students’ driving to school. For one thing, driving to school adds a financial burden to many families. For another, parking is a serious problem. As more and more cars are parked in campus, our beautiful schools will be messy parking lo
10、ts. 87. They are going to ___________________________ (紧急情况时调动军队). 88. ___________________________ (令人难以置信的是) our economy develops at such a speed. 89. The higher an area’s living standard is, ___________________________ (这一地区的辍学率就越低). 90. Not only ___________________________ (这家工厂完成了生产任务) la
11、st year, but it also doubled its output. 91. At the conference yesterday, our differences ___________________________ (进一步缩小). Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic Why People Migrate to Another Country? You should write at least 120 words, and
12、base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese): 1)近年来越来越多的人移居到国外 2)分析其原因 3)“我”的看法 Why People Migrate to Another Country? Many people choose to live in a foreign country, which has aroused great concern. Nowadays, more and more people, especially plenty of intellectuals, migrat
13、e to some developed countries, such as America, England and Canada. In addition, there are still many people studying and working in foreign countries struggling for “green cards”. There are many reasons accounting for this phenomenon. Among all these factors, pursuing high-quality life plays a c
14、ritical role. Moreover, most of them migrate to some foreign countries with a view to making their children receive good education there. Besides, some people just want to experience a different culture they like. All these above factors contribute to their choice to migrate to another country. A
15、s far as I am concerned, though I enjoy various cultures all over the world, I won’t migrate to another country. For one thing, I don’t like to live far from my friends and relatives. For another, I can’t bear to speak and listen to a foreign language from day to night. In a word, everyone has his r
16、ight to decide where to live, and everyone’s choice should be respected. 1. 现在有不少家长付钱让孩子做家务 2. 有人对此赞成,也有人表示反对 3. 我的看法 Paying Kids for Chores? Part I Writing 【参考范文一】 Paying Kids for Chores? A rising proportion of parents pay their children to do chores around the house nowadays.
17、 For example, some parents will give their kids allowances if they clean the room, do laundry, set the table, or prepare simple food for the family. People differ on whether parents should pay their kids for doing housework. Supporters say tying kids’ allowances to housework is a good way to teac
18、h kids accountability and responsibility. It also helps children learn about money and how it works. But critics of this approach say children should do routine housework for free. The reason is simple: chores are part of a family, and everyone does chores. Personally, I don’t think parents shoul
19、d adopt the pay-for-work view. Paying kids to help out sends the wrong massage: they are entitled to freely have everything parents provide for them while the contributions they make to the family have to be paid for. It risks creating teenagers who would worship money and who are likely to drive a
20、hard bargain just to take out the garbage. 【参考范文二】 Paying Kids for Chores? To foster a love for work and help them become accustomed to it, many Chinese, especially those in big cities, pay their only child to do chores at home. Usually the amount of money given to the child depends on the
21、child’s age, the family’s income and the child’s expenses. People’s opinions vary towards this phenomenon. Some people think it’s a good idea for parents to pay kids to do housework. It motivates children to do more jobs around the house, as paying chores shows them that they have to work in orde
22、r to get allowances. Others, however, argue that it’s improper for parents to take this approach, since paying them makes them lazy. They say many children now refuse to do anything unless there is some kind of compensation. I’m in the camp that parents should pay their children in return for wor
23、k done around the house. On the one hand, it teaches children that they should work for what they want in life. On the other hand, it provides solid lessons and opportunities related to money management. 1)很多大学里“占座”现象十分普遍 2)这种现象会带来哪些影响 3)你 对此的看法 【思路点拨】 本题属于提纲式文字命题。提纲第1点指 出一种现象,提纲第2点要求分
24、析该现象带来的影响,提纲第3点要 求谈谈“我”对该现象的看法。 根据所给提纲,本文应包含如下内容:描述大学生在教室和图书馆“占座”的现象;说明这种现象带来的 不良影响;阐述“我”对“占座”现象的看法。 Reserving a Seat We often see there is a table cloth, a book or something else on the desk in the classroom or library, indicating the seat is taken. This kind of phenomenon is very usual in
25、 almost all colleges and universities. Strangely enough, most of students seem to take this for granted, and few will protest it. Though most of students’ taking seats in advance is for better study, this kind of phenomenon has great negative effects. On the one hand, it is a selfish behavior, wh
26、ich damages other students’ interests. Sometimes even if many students come to the classroom very early, they can not find a seat. On the other hand, reserving a seat violates the rule of fairness. No matter how late you come to class, the seat is still reserved for you even though many others are eager for that seat. Considering the above-mentioned, I think, it is high time that we college students took a good look of our behavior. Indeed, only if all of us can improve our consciousness, it is not a difficult task for us to get rid of this kind of phenomenon “reserving a seat”.






