[gre学习小组]Issue82

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82. Colleges anduniversities should require their students to spend at least one semesterstudying in a foreign country.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to whichyou agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning forthe position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describespecific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would notbe advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

I admit the rationality of the assertion that students in colleges anduniversities should spend at least one semester studying abroad. Yet, in mypoint of view, when applying to reality, we should also take other respectssuch as their major, disposition and abilities in to account.

The primary reason why I consider this issue reasonable is that no onecan deny that rich experience can serve one's life and career, especially forthose who major in sociology, which requires abroad view of the world. For students who focuses on anthropology,studying in a foreign country would offer them the oppurnitury to research adifferent social group, culture and even race.For one who works on international relations,studying abroad could also help to better understand the current situationsbetween different countries. All these demonstrate the benefits of abroadstudying.

However, when it comes to some natural science,this advantage can sometimes be impaired. Consider a university with the mostadvanced medical research equiments and the most excellent professors in acountry, which likewise possesses the mostdeveloped medical technology in the world, it's much more useful for medicalstudents in this university to study just there, rather than abroad.

Even for the some sicences in humanities,studying in a foreign country is not so necessary. For example, for a studentwho mainly researches the culture and literatureof his or her own country, it's less meaningless to have a abroad learningexperience. And if the student do have a strong desire to understand othercultures, there's are some alternative resources to employ, such as the libraryand the internet, where almost any information and knowledge can be acquired.

In addition, we should also evaluate the personality and abilities todetermine whether a student is qualified to foreign study. Assume one who israther shy and would not like to communicate frequently with others, obviouslyit's not practical to demand the student to study abroad. Besides, studyingabroad requires one the adaptability to a new environment and the quickreaction to emergency of daily life in a strange country. And we must firstanswer the question that who should afford for the abroad study. If it's thestudent to pay for the expenditure, do we onceestimate the economic affordability of different individual? Those all remainsto be considered and resolved.

In sum, though it could be beneficicalfor students to study abroad in some occasions, but we can't ignor the importanceof facts like the nature of their major, their willingness, affordability andother things. Anyway, a respect for their own choices is what I moreappreciate.

附：提纲
思路：到国外学习需要什么条件？
交际能力(communication)、适应能力(adaptability)、应对紧急事件的能力(reactions toemergency)、经济能力(affordability)
观点：主要为不同意，应该由他们的专业、性格和能力决定，而并非强制性

a. 承认重要性：对社会科学，可以增加阅历，消除误解和偏见
例子：人类学anthropology 研究不同种族和文化；政治学political science 认清国际关系（尤其对国际关系学internationalrelations）

b.缺点1：留学并非一定可以获取先进技术和经验
例子：假设一个国家拥有世界上最先进的医学技术(medical technology)，而某所学校又是这个国家医学专业最好的学校，那么留学对这个学校而言就没有意义。真正有意义的是其他国家的学生到这个国家来留学

c.缺点2：考虑学生的宗教信仰religious belief (church) Christian
个人性格：内向(shy and quiet)的人，很难适应新环境
其它途径：互联网也可以获取知识
沟通能力和适应能力
经济：谁负担学费？学校/个人？