英语专业四级预测作文 (2)

1.

Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Should We Give Up Our Dreams? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below．

1．如今的许多大学生对待生活越来越现实，不再有梦想和激情；

2．有人认为现实些好，有人觉得梦想更重要；

3．你的看法。

Should We Give Up Our Dreams?

Nowadays, many college students tend to be more and more realistic to their lives. They live their lives without dreams and enthusiasm. Some people say that it’s good to be realistic while others argue that we should not give up our dreams. I believe that having dreams is very important to us.

First, when we have dreams, we have clear goals to fight for. If life is like a sail（航行）, dream is our compass（指南针）, with which we can find our best way to go. Secondly, having dreams often make us work harder. With great dream, we will work hard to prepare ourselves for the potential opportunity. Thirdly, dreams give us enthusiasm. Having dreams, we can always be red-blooded and work as if we are never tired.

Therefore, we should not give up dreams. We can adjust our dreams according to the reality, but we should never give them up. (149 words)

2.

Learn to Be Grateful

1. 现今, 越来越多的大学生缺乏感恩之心。

2. 出现这一现象的原因…

3. 为了改变这种状况,我认为….

Nowadays, quite a few college students lack consciousness of being grateful. They turn to take such things for granted, as parents supporting them, teachers helping them, and waiters serving them. They are even mean to say "Thank you" to others. This phenomenon has caused great attention from the whole society.

The following reasons can account for the lack of grateful consciousness. First of all, unsound family education plays an important role. Many parents turn to pay too much attention to children's academic performance, but ignore their value orientation. Moreover, schools don't input enough time and money in moral education. Besides, nowadays, college students get so much love that they are insensitive（感觉迟钝的）to others' care and help.

Considering the seriousness of the problem, it is high time we took effective measures to strengthen college students’ consciousness of being grateful. First, parents should improve self-quality and influence children by their own behaviors. Secondly, our society and schools must increase input in moral education, and try to build the atmosphere of being grateful. Finally, we college students should learn to express our gratefulness to people around us, just beginning from the simple "Thank you". (191 words)

3.

How to Reduce Drunken Driving

1.酒驾频现引起广泛关注

2.酒驾的危害

3.为了减少酒驾，我们应该……

It is commonly known that drunken driving is a taboo（禁忌，禁止）to drivers, because alcohol can penetrate（渗透）into people’s blood, affecting their brain and leading to traffic accidents. However, many drivers today drive even when they are drunken, either for their personal habits or for business reasons.

Drunken driving can be very disastrous（灾难性的）. For one thing, it can bring about disasters to the victims, who are either killed or severely injured in the accidents. For another, it is hazardous（有危险的）to the driver himself, and the driver should at least be partly responsible for it. Furthermore, drunken driving jeopardizes the security and stability of the society.

There are many ways to reduce drunken driving. In the first place, there should be a provision（规定）in the law to prevent people from driving when they are drunk. Secondly, the mass media should also play a role in publicizing the hazards of drunken driving, as well as in educating people to obey the traffic rules. Last but not least, the drivers should establish a strong sense of responsibility for others as well as for themselves. After all, life is the most important. (187 words)

4.

More and more college students complain that graduation means the coming of unemployment. What advice will you give to the undergraduates to avoid this dilemma?

Write on ANSWER SHEET THREE a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: My Advice to the Undergraduates

You are to write in three parts.

In the first part, state specifically what your view is.

In the second part, support your view with appropriate details.

In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

You should supply an appropriate title for your composition.

My Advice to the Undergraduates

Because of the severe competition in the job market, it's quite difficult to get a decent（得体的，相当好的）job for a college graduate. Many college students complain that graduation means the coming of unemployment. To avoid this dilemma, I have some advice to the undergraduates.

To avoid unemployment after graduation, the undergraduates have to prepare themselves for the job-hunting long before their graduation. First, study as hard as you can. Surely an applicant with more high marks in his resume（简历）will be more likely to get a job. And a hard-working student can acquire more knowledge and pass interviews easily. Second, get a part-time ob which is related to the job you want to get in the future. Many college students like to find a part-time job, but most of them do this only for pocket money. Can this part-time job be written into your resume as a related job experience? Can this part-time job bring you new friends who are doing the very kind of job you want to do after graduation? Think it over and make full use of your part-time job.

If the undergraduates prepare themselves well for the job-hunting, they will have more chances to find a good job after graduation. （203 words）

5.

Every now and then we hear news about poisonous food, such as tainted steamed buns, toxic milk powder, toxic capsule, illegal food additives, and illegal cooking oil, which pose great danger to people's health. Give your ideas of cracking down on poisonous food.

Write on ANSWER SHEET THREE a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: My Ideas of Cracking down on Poisonous Food

You are to write in three parts.

In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.

In the second part, provide one or two reasons to support your idea OR describe your idea.

In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

My Ideas of Cracking down on Poisonous Food

Recently there are a lot of news about poisonous food, such as tainted milk powder, illegal food additives, and illegal cooking oil, which do great harm to people's health. The news has aroused much panic among people, and it's high time that we took measures to crack down on poisonous food.

To crack down on poisonous food, I have some ideas to offer. First, the government should make laws to forbid the making of poisonous food. Manufacturers who are caught making these kinds of food should be punished severely, and factories in which these kinds of food are produced should be closed down. Second, food manufacturers must be well informed that they should produce safe food as food safety is their first priority（优先考虑的事）in business. Third, people should be more cautious. When you are shopping food, please remember that natural food is usually safer, better and cheaper than artificial food. And if you think that some brands of food may be poisonous, complain to the related department without hesitation.

In one word, only when both the government and citizens take some measures can poisonous food be cracked down on. (189 words)

is hazardous to human health危害人体健康

引起的原因一般归纳为以下几点：

1. inundation of materialism（desire for money）物质主义泛滥

2. lack of regulation 监管不力

3. absence of morality 道德缺失

6.

Helping strangers used to be considered as a virtue. But nowadays people tend to be very cautious of strangers. They are afraid that helping others can sometimes bring them trouble. What's your opinion?

Write on ANSWER SHEET THREE a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:

Should We Help Strangers?

You are to write in three parts.

In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.

In the second part, support your opinion with appropriate details.

In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Should We Help Strangers?

We used to appreciate those who like to help strangers. But nowadays people tend to be very cautious of strangers, because they are afraid that helping others can sometimes bring them trouble. In my opinion, we should try our best to help others in a reasonable way.

We should try to help others, no matter they are strangers or not. First, helping others is a virtue, and

it will make our society more harmonious. Just imagine what a terrible world it would be if everyone was coldhearted! Second, to some extent, helping others is helping oneself. We may come across some trouble and need others' help some day. If everyone turns a blind eye to our trouble and turns a deaf ear to our appeal for aid just because we are strangers to them, what shall we do at that time? Therefore, we should be glad to help others.

However, helping others may sometimes bring us trouble or even put us in danger. So when we are helping others, we should also protect ourselves and offer our help in an appropriate way. For example, to help someone who was robbed, calling the police is a much wiser way than chasing（追赶）the robbers alone. (203 words)

7. Should Retirement Age Be Postponed?

1. 近年来，推迟退休年龄引发人们热议

2. 推迟退休年龄有利也有弊

3. 我的看法

范文：

Based on a recent survey on the Internet, a majority of individuals admit that aging society will bring a variety of problems to their life. Along with the trend of longevity, it has become a trend for people to debate whether it is wise to postpone retirement age. Some people favor postponing the retirement age. In their eyes, it is this policy that enables the aging society to build up enough work-force.

As a matter of fact, people in mounting numbers have come to realize this problem in an aging society. Even so, others hold a different view that postponing retirement age carries some risks. This policy can bring old people stress, but cannot arouse their enthusiasm for work, and cannot help them to enjoy their retirement pension. I am convinced that we should balance old people’s interest and this aging society. Thus, if those seniors have enthusiasm for work, we should educate, advocate and encourage them to work and perform their tasks. If we try our utmost to do so, the future of old people’s life will be promising, hopeful and rosy.

8.

It is inevitable that as technology develops, traditional cultures must be lost. Technology and tradition are incompatible（不相容的，矛盾的）; you can’t have both together. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Write on ANSWER SHEET THREE a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: The Balance Between Science and Technology and Traditional Culture

You are to write in three parts.

In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.

In the second part, support your opinion with appropriate details.

In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

The Balance Between Science and Technology and Traditional Culture

It is an undeniable fact that scientific and technological developments bring great benefits to people. But I think that the loss of our traditional culture is too high a price to pay for this.

In the first place, our culture has formed the customs and values of our people for centuries. A comfortable but spiritually（在精神上的）empty life, without the traditional bonds of kinship（亲属关系）and friendship, would not be worth living.

Secondly, it is obvious that people are anxious to preserve their culture. The culture is familiar to people. For instance, Chinese people who use computers and cars during the day sit down to watch Peking Opera and eat traditional food in the evening. Especially when people move to other countries they become homesick and form national culture societies.

Last but not the least, we should make science and technology serves traditional culture. This can be done by making festivals and other cultural occasions more widely known, using development in telecommunications（通讯）, such as e-mail.

In conclusion, I think we should never allow science and technology to dazzle（使眼花）our eyes so that we lose sight of our cultural values. On the contrary, we should use the discoveries of science and technology to reinforce（强化）our fine cultural traditions. Let science and technology and traditional culture develop at the same time. (217 words)

9.

Proportions of Old Population in the Future

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of no less than 150 words on Proportions of Old Population in the Future.Study the following curves carefully and your composition must be based on the information given in the graph and the outline below. You should quote as few figures as possible.

It is generally believed that our world is entering a world of old people. As can be seen from the chart that the proportions of populations aged 65 and over in all the three countries are enlarging steadily at present, although Japan seems to vary just a little between 1940 and present. But starting from about 2025, the percentages of old people in all the three countries will shoot up until they reach about 25% by 2040.

There are clearly many reasons why there will be more and more old people in our world. First, thanks to the development of science and technology, both the quality and quantity of people’s life in general are improving. As a result more people are enjoying a long life. Secondly, the work population started to explode in the 1960s. Those born in this period and afterwards were great in number and they will reach their 60’s and 70’s around 2015. Finally, birth control all over the world is also contributing to this change, as fewer babies are born into the population.

Hopefully, the world population will see a negative growth after 2050. And after than time, the ratio of old people to young ones will gradually return to a normal level. (207 words)