创新英语作文大赛第六届优秀作文选登

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 classes 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。就题目所涉及的内容而言，考生比较熟悉，因为高等教育是与他们最贴近的现实。这样可以在一定程度上保证本次写作考试的信度，确保学生不至于因为思路障碍，无话可说而影响英语写作。从组织结构而言，本试题是典型的”对比型”作文，能够比较有效地考察学生的逻辑思维能力、观点表达能力以及运用适当的语言形式来实现转折、衔接、连贯等语言能力。

Informal Higher Education Serves Better

姓名黄沁江苏省南京市南京师大附中学校高二（13）班级准考证号

0413

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 classes 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 pressure 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 assist of a car repairing

workshop. Then you’ll have to know how the engine and di fferent parts of the car works and how to deal with various crisises (emergent problems). Therefore, night schools’ education (evening classes) 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 useless 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 fac t, 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 essential 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)

Fruit & the Vitamin Medicine

姓名俞艾杉辽宁省大连市第二十四中学校2·10班级准考证号0335

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 classes 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 class 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 class. But then her way was wider and wider,