新概念小组第二次作业6月30日附感想 by Alick

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1．Claim:Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial supportthey need in order to thrive. Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation'scultural traditions are preserved and generated.


Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagreewith the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.


Why the major cities in one country should be offered enough money tolet them thrive? The people in small cities must be angry about this policy forthe unequal treat from Governments.
Ofcourse the major cities could be authorizes more money, but not be ensured financialsupport to let them keep improving. The small cities should be taken intoconsideration.

Undoubtedly, the big cities of one country are significant to thedevelopment of one society. In big city, there are usually a lot of famous places of interest. For example, Beijingis one of the cultural centers in China. There are many culturaltraditions reflected in this city. The Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and allkinds of Royal buildings have been the marks of China.
Of course, the governments should pay moremoney to maintain and keep these famous places well in Beijing. At present, with enough support, Beijing has become one ofthe most beautiful modern cities in the world, especially after the 29th OlympicGames. Thus the support from the government do have let Beijing improve greatly and provided a moremodernized city to world.

But does the financial support to major cities keep the cultural traditionwell? I doubt about it. Firstly, the money is usually used to set up the highand big buildings, which always interrupts the traditional buildings. Now in Beijing, it is not easy tofind the traditional Chinese courtyard house and some famous history sites are totallydisappeared. The traditional culture is not preserved but hurt. Thoughincreasing magnificent buildings occur in larger cities, the environmentquality is decreasing, with more cars and more pollution. Besides, the lifepace is so fast that the traditional culture is always neglected. Becausepeople have to spend more time on the work and after work they usually wouldrather stay at home and watch all kinds of boring soap operas. But the traditionalactivities, such as playing shadowboxing, kongfu and exercising traditionalChinese calligraphy, are gradually forgotten, especially for the young. So itis not effective to preserve and generate traditional culture in such majorcities.

The function of small cities is also key to maintain the culture in onecountry. At first, not all traditional culture things are included in largecities. Some special and valuable culture is just preserved in certain smallcities. Take the accent of one language for example. Though Chinese people speakChinese, the accent varied from place to place. If the government only ensuresthe need of major cities, more and more people will gather to there. Then somesmall cities will be on the wane, for the population of people is reducing here.Finally, the accent in those cities area may be lost. But it is one part of theculture of language in Chinese, which has certain culture value. To the contrary,if these small cities are also offered support from the government, the effectof culture preservation will be better than the same money put on the majorcities. For example, the special and historical interests of place in smallcities could be modified well with little cost, for it is unnecessary to costmoney to build large infrastructure, like car park, here.



All in all, though the major cities are key to the preserve of traditionalculture, it doesn’t mean lots of money could help to achieve the goal. Besides,if the small cities are considered properly and provided certain support, itmay be more effective to protect the cultural traditions.



2 Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessaryto ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believethat government funding of thearts threatens the integrity of the arts.

Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoningfor the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, youshould address both of the views presented.


Does the artist need the support from the government? For the poor and unfamiliarartists, they may accept the money to live. But for the famous ones, they will think it twice for the integrity of their works may beinfluenced by the government.

It is no doubt that the arts with the funding of government can be developedwell and let more people appreciate them. Just like the political activities,the politician is good at trying all kinds of method to make themselves famous.If the arts have been controlled by them, such as the films and books, theywill be hot sale soon after attracting advertisement of the arts. But the goalof arts is never against the government, let alone disclosed the scandal ofpolitics. Thus, though I agree with that the arts can flourish after thegovernment of funding of them, I can not see the true beauty of such kind ofarts, which is just one tool of the rule.

Furthermore, if the artist never accepts the fund from government, isthis good news? That depends on the financial condition of the artist. If he orshe can live on the sell of arts, he or she can refuse the economic support ofgovernment. But not every artist can live on themselves. What they will choose?If refusing money, they have to stop the creation of arts, at least findingsome jobs to live. In that case, the development of arts will be limitedundoubtedly. Some may argue that they can create works on their spare time. ButI doubt that high valuable arts can be created in this way, not every one couldbecome Leonardo da Vinci, one famous artist in the 15th century. So what thepoor artist should choose? I believe acceptance the government support withconditions is a wise choice. One of the key conditions is that keeping thedependence of the artistic creation. If this is not proved, the meaning of artswill be destroyed badly. Frankly speaking, some times this condition is thelast one that the government will accept. In that case, artist should refusethe fund decidedly. Because the arts are not beautiful works but just goods forthe government if they are used as political goal.

Last but not least, the goal of government funding to the arts issupposed to be seriously taken into consideration. If not for the hidden politicalgoals and just for the interests of the common, the artist could be cooperativewith the government. On the one hand, the artist could create better works withenough money. On the other hand, the government will share the arts with thepeople to improve the life quality. It's a win-win situation all around. Whyrefuse it?

In conclusion, I believe that the integrity of the arts is the essentialbeauty of the arts. If it could be proved, no matter who supports the arts, wedo not need to fear the funding, just let it help the arts flourish.



3 Governments should focus on solvingthe immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipatedproblems of the future.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagreewith the recommendation and explain your reasoning forthe position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation wouldor would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.


The policy or recommendation is a little arbitrary. Which one should besolve with more energy is not depend on that the problem occurs but thesignificance of the problem.

If the future anticipated problems are more important, the governmentshould begin to prepare it as soon as possible. Take the development of onecountry and the environment protect problem for example. If one country want todevelop the economy quickly now, increasing the number of factory is aneffective method, such as all kinds of heavy pollution plant. Then people canearn higher salary after working in these factories. Then they could buy moregoods if they like and enhance the development of the area. If the suggestionis carried out, then the environmental pollution will be neglected. But historyhas witnessed that this kind of development mode is wrong, which has cost moreto change the polluted environment back to the original one. Take the developedcountries for example. At the beginning, they have a fast development time andthe national economy increased sharply. Then the river turned to smelly andblack water pool and air was never fresh to people. Then lots of money is costto clean the river and change the polluted air. Finally, they realized that ifthey paid attention to the pollution firstly, the cost of them would be reducedgreatly. Thus the emergent potential problems are not supposed to neglect.

If the present problems are more vital, the government should spare noeffort to solve them. For example, this year the 9.0 earthquake in Japan hascaused great damage and loss to the whole Japanese people. What's worse, severalnuclear power plants have been destroyed badly. If the Japanese government didnot deal with them as soon as possible, the results can not be expected, whichmay be the scene of the famous film 2012 to Japan. Another example is the 8.0 earthquakehappening Chinain 2008. After it, the whole country began to help the people in the earthquakearea and provided many emergent goods to them.
As for these kinds of disaster, the anticipated problems should have arest and nothing could be more important than the emergencies. Or there wereindescribable disasters to the people.

If the present problems are as significant as the future ones, theyshould be treated equally. For example, at present economic crisis time, theunemployment problem and improving the ability of workers problems should besolve together. If the former one is not treated well, how can the capabilityof the workers be improved better? Firstly, government can not provide all of theunemployed with new jobs. Besides, it is hard for the unemployed to improvethemselves the abilities of work at this time, for they have to face up to thestarvation. It is supposed the government to do some thing for them in the longrun now. Then the government should solve the both problem together. If onecould not be offered proper job, he or she should be provided good training toobtain certain skills. Finally, the unemployment rate may be reduced quickly.


All in all, the concretecircumstances of problems should be taken into account firstly; then the sequenceof problem solution is depended on the priority of the problems not the time occurrenceof the problems.




今天
这三篇政治类
明显感觉比昨天教育类的难些，憋了好长时间才写完。
又被老板叫去开了一天会，只能晚上抓紧写了。
大家都加油哦！另外，确实要好好改一改了，昨天的作业自己还没改到三遍，更没时间看大家写的了，这不行，得抓紧。多写，多积，自改、互改
，大家一起戮力吧！