issue65 一道高频考题，可能审题有问题，写得很不爽，请各位枪正！

happyman2000UID: 136936

65 "People have been so encouraged by society to focus on apparent differences that they fail to see meaningful similarities among ideas, individuals, and groups."
人们经常被鼓励去寻找事物之间的不同，以至于往往忽略了事物之间有意义的相似之处。

Admittedly it is true that the ability to determine similarities among ideas, individuals and groups is very crucial for people to shaping a well-rounded personality, but one should not ignore such a basic fact that what is more meaningful and more beneficial for people is not to see the similarities but to find out apparent differences among things. Therefore, there are some sound justifications for any society to encourage its people to focus on apparent differences rather than similarities.  

The modern society is vividly characterized by the ever-deepening labor division and specialization. To make labor division and specialization work more efficiently and effectively, people should find out apparent differences of themselves from others in the beginning and thus determine what are their virtues or shortcomings. Only by this comparison can they make rational decisions about what professions they should enter into. Without a conscious idea of one’s deficiency in logic thinking, for example, one would mistakenly devote too much time into learning mathematics while his/her power points in the arts would be severely ignored; likewise, only the firms which are aware of its comparative advantages and disadvantages can make provident decisions about what they should produce, how to produce and how many they should produce. Therefore, to encourage people to focus on their differences from others in its nature is to encourage people to find out their own advantages and thus enhance their competency in the possible competition.

Secondly, to find out the differences is also an important resource of discoveries and innovations because differences always imply different backgrounds and different explanations. Only those who can deeply unearth the underlying differences behind the superficial phenomena have a possibility to attain a profound appreciation about objects and thus make some great discoveries or contributions to their involved enterprises. In some sense, an excellent scientist distinguishes him/herself from a common one in that he/her usually has a stronger ability than does the latter to determine the apparent differences between the ostensibly same things. Without concentration on the differences, for instance, there would be no modern biology because the discovery of gene actually originated from a long-term observation over the small differences in the colors of pea flowers. Therefore, it is very necessary to encourage people to develop their ability to find out differences because differences mean potential discoveries and innovations.

To sum up, without consciousness of differences between ideas, individuals and groups, one would fail to understand people’s different advantages and disadvantages and thus could not make full use of one’s all potentials; also, one would be more likely to be misled or even beguiled by the ostensible similarities among objects and as a result, no important discoveries or innovations would ensue.     (450 words)

imongUID: 140258

Only by this comparison can they make rational decisions about what professions they should enter into （into多余）

while his/her power points in the arts would be severely ignored; points in是什么？ severely ignore不好

the ostensibly same things 改，the seemingly identical ....

一般，尤其是第三段一共就5句话，作为第四句的例子支持得很勉强。
可能对题目理解的层面比较潜，分析自然不够深入
建议可以考虑从其他角度讲，比如social pressure to conform之类的

小地方的用词要注意，用的浅也不能用错

happyman2000UID: 136936

the seemingly identical ， 好，我记住了！多谢imong 又教会了我一个好东东！
我的这篇作文的主要问题是审题，我写不下去时才发现可能要从竞争与合作的角度分析。由于这是个高频考题，我会重写的！

blake_wangUID: 9871

这道题目，谈了两个方面， 而且断言重视前者，导致忽视后者。这个导致有点儿离谱，很难同意啊，同意了不好写。为什么重视了前者导致了忽视了后者？没有道理。不如反对，否则不合常理。

feier521UID: 109747

zhuzhu，呵呵，这一次是不是限时的，你不是都是600到700吗？
To make labor division and specialization work more efficiently and effectively怎么这么别扭呢？ 两个名词修饰work
determine what are their virtues or shortcomings － what their virtues or shortcomings are
devote... to 可以into吗？
are aware of its comparative  its 改为their
he/her  呵呵，没见过

happyman2000UID: 136936

最初由 blake_wang 发布
[B]这道题目，谈了两个方面， 而且断言重视前者，导致忽视后者。这个导致有点儿离谱，很难同意啊，同意了不好写。为什么重视了前者导致了忽视了后者？没有道理。不如反对，否?.

以下省略...... [/B]

前后两个东西是一对矛盾，重视前者导致忽视后者，就好像我们强调多吃肉必然导致少吃蔬菜一样，我觉得逻辑还是比较清楚的吧！
我感觉折衷最好写。

imongUID: 140258

zt我一开始说得不太对啊
可以这样来
比如说，社会太过于强调文化的差异以至于极端状况下人性的共通被彻底抛弃，不能不承认这个现象的社会基础
而从个体出发，个人主义的蔓延导致similarity的让步于difference，从本性出发的需求是认识不同点，哪怕是在同一个文化，同一个subculture，同一个community

先从大的说，再把原因找到个人的本质上
一点看法，可能不太成熟