(完整word版)英语专业四级[2009-2018]作文真题(题目).docx

TEM 4 Writing[45 MIN]

[2009]

Tourism is a booming business in China. However, some people worry that too many tourists

may bring harm to the environment, while others don’ t think so. What is your opinion?

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

topic:

Will Tourism Bring Harm to the Environment?

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 opinion.

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

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

[2010]

It was recently reported in a newspaper that six students who shared a dorm at a local

university hired a cleaned to do laundry and cleaning once a week. And each of them paid her 60

yuan a month. This has led to heated debate as to whether college students should hire cleaners.

The following are the supporters ’ and opponents ’ opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the

opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

YES NO

College students’ first priority should be givenWithout a steady financial source, college

to academic pursuit and other social activities.students will put an even greater burden on

Hiring cleaners can free themselves from their parents by hiring cleaners to do laundry

chores and spare more time for them to and cleaning.

improve themselves.

A clean and tidy room always brings a good mood, which in turn, leads to efficiency in study.

A professional cleaner can surely offer students a better living environment at a reasonable price.It is an excuse for students not to do laundry and cleaning themselves for academic pressure and extracurricular activities. Laundry and cleaning job, if done routinely, just takes a fraction of time.

Recently government agencies in some big cities have been studying the possibility of

putting a“ pollution tax” on private cars. The amount of tax private car owners would have to pay

would depend on the emission levels, i.e. engine or vehicle size. This has caused quite a stir

among the public. The following are the supporter’ and opponents’ opinions. Read them carefully and write your response in about 200words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions

from both sides and give your view on the issue.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

YES

It turns out to be a fact that the emissions of cars increase the pollution. If the amount of tax

private car owners have to pay depends on the emission level, people would drive less or buy

low -emission cars in order to save money.

Vehicle emission will do great harm to our body ’respiratory system(呼吸系统 ). So it would be a blessing fro us to put pollution tax on private cars.

In a long term, taxing private car owners promotes sustainable development and environment protection by warning car -users to reduce emissions.

NO

It will be very difficult to implement the policy

of “ pollution tax ”How. to measure the exact amount of emission? How to avoid bribery for escaping from fine and punishment?

Taxing private car owners doesn ’treduce pollution, which is mainly caused by heavy industry.

Car-making industry at home will be heavily weakened by introducing pollution taxes. For the rise of tax, customers will pay much more to own a car, thus delaying their plan of buying cars.

Read carefully the following excerpt on private -education arguments in the UK, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:

Summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then

Comment on whether private education should advocated.

You should support yourself with information form the excerpt.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Do Parents Want to Go Private?

The latest Ipsos Mori poll for the Independent Schools Council shows that 57% of parents would choose private education if they could afford to do so. That is the highest figure since

these polls began in 1997.

The first thought, is why so many parents would choose private education? What is motivating them to do so?

We have smaller classes in private schools than a decade ago, better -paid teachers, fewer staff shortages, far more computers, and many more new school buildings. In terms of investment, education has done pretty well over the past decade: education spending now absorbs a higher proportion of the nation’ s wealth than 10 years ago.

Some of the figures show dramatic improvements. There is now one computer for every six private school pupils compared with one for every 23 in 1994. In 1997, around one quarter of all primary classes contained over 31 pupils. Now it is one in 10.

There has been no shortage of intervention strategies to tackle under -achievement: measures to close failing schools, the creation of expensive new academies, and schemes to target children who fall behind with their reading and maths.

Nowadays, such new ways of consumption as coupons, online group -buying have emerged. Will new ways of shopping make us smart customers? The following are the opinions of two different groups. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions from both sides and give your

view on the issue.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

YES

Most of the students do not have enough time to earn money and we have to live on our parents. So we collect all kinds of coupons, visit group -buying websites to save money.

The world nowadays is changing rapidly and fashion comes and goes fast. If we can buy those shining goods at lower price, that will be very great.

Such new ways of consumption as group-buying can be conducted online in just a few minutes. All you need to do is to get to the stores and enjoy yourselves.

NO

Products on sale may be sometimes of low quality and those group-buying deals are, in some cases, fake and misleading.

More often than not, such new ways of consumption tempt us to buy goods not because of their high quality and suitability but out of impulse.

Coupons and group -buying are not an on -trend treat offered by shopkeepers and manufacturers. Instead, they are actually marketing tricks. The only purpose of such tricks is to maximize profits.

Should English majors study maths in university? A letter written by an English major who

complained about the mandatory maths classes he had to take has gathered attention recently. The

following are the supporters ’ and opponents ’ opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the

opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

YES

Nowadays, mathematics is seen everywhere in the digital age. Average persons with a financial awareness should also do various calculations in their daily life. Sometimes they even have to deal with numbers in budgets, bank savings and so on, let alone those professionals in computer engineering.

For college students, the subject of mathematics also benefits them in further education and future job -hunting, which require postgraduates and employees to have a good mastery of data collection and analysis.

NO

The mathematics courses in university are designed to be in line with national curriculum. For those studying arts, if is a waste of time taking the courses only to get scores.

Generally speaking, students who major in English are often poor in mathematics. If they are forced to learn the subject, they would be very reluctant.

With the development of science and technology, we don ’ thave to learn those difficult formulas by heart and do complex calculations by ourselves because they are time -consuming and computers can do them all in just a few minutes.

Read carefully the following excerpt on homework banning arguments in the UK, and

then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:

Summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then

Comment on whether homework should be banned for the sake of both the children and

their parents.

You should support yourself with information from the excerpt.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Calls for Homework to Be Scrapped

A teachers group’is calling for kids to do no homework fearing it makes them stressed and unhappy.

Under the plans homework for primary school kids could be completely scrapped, and the amount teenagers have to do would be absolutely canceled.

But don ’think you ’ vebeen let off the hook just yet, as the idea is so far only being talked about. There are also calls for a group to be st up to look at other reasons why kids might be unhappy at school.

Mary Bousted from the union said: “ I think homework is a waste of time. ” Homework especially puts lots of stress on poorer children, who might not have as many books

and computers at home, she added.

The government says teachers don ’ t have to give homework, but they are encouraged to set it. A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said homework helped

children and young people develop their learning skills.

Read carefully the following excerpt on term-time holiday arguments in the UK, and then write

your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:

Summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then

Comment on whether parents should take children out of school for holiday during term

time in order to save money.

You should support yourself with information from the excerpt.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Term -time holiday will be banned

Parents are to be banned by Micheal Gove, UK’ s Education Secretary, from taking their

children out of school to save money on holidays.

He is to abolish the right of head teachers to“ authorize absence” from the classroom, which been used to let families take term-time breaks, and will warn them they face fines for their

children not being at school.

“ Any time out of school has the potential to damage a child’ s education,” a senior source Department for Education said this weekend.“ That is why the government will end the distinction between authorized and unauthorized absence.”

“ This is part of the government’widers commitment to bring down truancy levels in our

schools. There will also be stricter penalties for parents and schools.”

The tough measures on truancy are part of a wider attempt by Mr Gove to make education more

academically rigorous and to tackle a culture in the educational establishment which he believes

has accepted“ excuses for failure”.

Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the

measure would discourage parents from trying to put pressure on heads to sanction term time

holidays.“ The high cost of holidays outside of term time is still an issue but ultimately a child

education is more important than holiday,” he said.

Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200

words, in which you should:

Summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then

Comment on whether our brains will get lazy in a world run by intelligent machines.

You should support yourself with information from the excerpt.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

With intelligent machines to do the thinking, will our brain get lazy?

Changing technology stimulates the brain the increases intelligence. But that may only be true if

the technology challenges us. In a world run by intelligent machines, our lives could get a lot simpler.

Would that make us less intelligent?

Artificial intelligence is taking over many human jobs. For instance, planes are being flown much

of the time by automatic pilots. And the complex problem of controlling air traffic around

large modern airports is also achieved by artificial intelligence that operates well beyond the

capability of mere human air traffic controllers.

Artificial intelligence is embedded in many features of modern life for the implement reason

that intelligent machines can already outperform humans, including some aptitude where there

was once thought to be a human advantage, such as playing chess, and writing poetry, or even

novels.

As machines get smarter, they will do more of our thinking for us and make life easier. In the

future, the electronic assistant will develop to the point that serves similar functions as a real

living butler, fulfilling requests such as:“ Organize a dinner party for six on Thursday, Jeeves, and invite the usual guests.”

At that point, our long struggle with challenging technologies is at an end. Like Bertie Wooster,

we can take is easy knowing that the hard work of planning and organizing is being done by a

better brain -the electronic assistant. Starved of mental effort, our brains will regress.

Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words,

in which you should:

Summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then

Comment on the two points made by Stephen Corry, Survival’ s Director.

You should support yourself with information from the excerpt.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization,

language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Report exposes the dark side of conservation

A report launched by Survival International -the global movement for tribal peoples ’

rights-reveals how conservation has led to the eviction of millions of tribal people from“areas, ”since “ protectedareas ”like national parks should generally be “ nogo”for mining,

agriculture, dams, roads and pipelines.

Survival’reports shows that nearly all protected areas are,or have been, the ancestral

homelands of tribal peoples, who have been dependent on, and managed them for thousands of

years. But in the name of“ conservation tribal” , peoples are“ beingillegally driven out ”from

these lands and accused of“ poaching” ; meanwhile, tourists-payingandbigfee-game hunters are

welcomed in.

Bushman Dauqoo Xukuri from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana said,“ I sit and look around the country. Wherever there are bushmen, there is game. Why?Because we know

how to take care of animals.”

Survival’reports concludes that the current model of conservation needs a radical shake-up.

Conservation must stick to international law, protect tribal peoples’ rights to their lands, listen them, and then be prepared to back them up as much as they can.

Survival’Directors Stephen Corry said, “ Millions are being spent by conservationists every

year, and yet the environment’ s in deepening crisis. It’ s time to wake up and realize that there is another way and it much,’s much better. Firstly, tribal peoples’ rights have to be acknowledged

and respected. Secondly, they have to be treated as the best experts at defending their own lands.

Conservationists must realize it’ s they, themselves, who are junior partners.”