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题目
207"Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are."

Rituals and ceremonies are significant for a culture in that they can help define it. We should not omit their importance, but we also can not exaggerate their roles, without them, people still can have a sense of themselves by other means.
  Rituals and ceremonies was a representation or symbol of a particular culture, they can reveal the internal essence in that culture and thus help people appreciate and identify with the culture. People pass down their culture and tradition from generation to generation mainly through the rituals and ceremonies. Take spring festival as an example, it is the most important ceremony for most Chinese people, even those who live abroad, no matter how busy they are, they will try their best to go home and stay with their families. The spring festival almost is the symbol of Chinese culture, children grow up abroad can learn their culture and identify themselves by it. For the westerner, it is undeniable that Christmas is their most important ceremony, Christmas is also the representation of the western culture. Although westerners working in China do not have holiday that day, none of them will not celebrate it, their children who are born and live in China learn their own culture mainly through it. In a short, rituals and ceremonies are significant for people to learn their own culture, especially for those who are outside their culture.
   However, rituals and ceremonies play a significant role in revealing the internal essence of their culture, they also witness their ever-increasing rapid disappearance from the vision of modern life. Nowadays, with the rapid development of modern technology, the communication between cultures becomes more and more common. Besides, the revolution of society and the increase in people’ knowledge also make people gradually lose their faith in old conventions. All of these make the traditional rituals and ceremonies far away from the modern lives, especially the negative ones. For example, in the past, the wedding ceremony acts as the sole procedure of marriage, only through which people can be identified as wife and husbands. Today, registry becomes the only licit form to marriage and many couples choose no wedding marriage. Likewise, many superstitious ceremonies are replaced by new and scientific method, such as exorcism.  
   Furthermore, rituals and ceremonies are not the whole of a culture. Without them, people can understand and identify themselves through other means, such as clothing styles, eating habits, as well as language. All of these can also help people distinguish them from others. For instance, Chinese people living abroad can make them different from the native by the Chinese traditional clothes, Chinese food, as well as Chinese besides the rituals and ceremonies.
  To sum up, although rituals and ceremonies do play an important role as a symbol of one culture, with the progress of our society, their importance will fade gradually, so the saying  that people without them can not have a sense of themselves is unjustified.

zealot31UID: 191633

有谁在二月考gre吗？
能不能发一下机经啊谢谢

lisploreUID: 195645

还是先给一篇介绍性的文章吧，看过以后也许你会有些新的想法。

flyrainUID: 194955

谢谢楼上的...

TO 二楼的,置顶的里面有啊

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Rituals and ceremonies are significant for a culture in that they can help define it. We should not omit their importance, but we also can not exaggerate their roles, without them, people still can have a sense of themselves by other means.（开头挺清晰，不错）
Rituals and ceremonies was a representation or symbol of a particular culture, they can reveal the internal essence in that culture and thus help people appreciate and identify with the culture. People pass down their culture and tradition from generation to generation mainly through the rituals and ceremonies. Take spring festival as an example, it is the most important ceremony for most Chinese people, even those who live abroad, no matter how busy they are, they will try their best to go home and stay with their families. （这句有点废话，关键是例子怎么论证你的论点）The spring festival almost is the symbol of Chinese culture, children grow up abroad can learn their culture and identify themselves by it. For the westerner, it is undeniable that Christmas is their most important ceremony, Christmas is also the representation of the western culture. Although westerners working in China do not have holiday that day, none of them will not celebrate it, their children who are born and live in China learn their own culture mainly through it. In a short, rituals and ceremonies are significant for people to learn their own culture, especially for those who are outside their culture.（我觉得这一段不错）
However, （although)rituals and ceremonies play a significant role in revealing the internal essence of their culture, they also witness their ever-increasing rapid disappearance from the vision of modern life. Nowadays, with the rapid development of modern technology, the communication between cultures becomes more and more common. Besides, the revolution of society and the increase in people’ knowledge also make people gradually lose their faith in old conventions. All of these make the traditional rituals and ceremonies far away from the modern lives, especially the negative ones. For example, in the past, the wedding ceremony acts as the sole procedure of marriage, only through which people can be identified as wife and husbands. Today, registry becomes the only licit form to marriage and many couples choose no wedding marriage. Likewise, many superstitious ceremonies are replaced by new and scientific method, such as exorcism. (ye
Furthermore, rituals and ceremonies are not the whole of a culture. Without them, people can understand and identify themselves through other means, such as clothing styles, eating habits, as well as language. All of these can also help people distinguish them from others. For instance, Chinese people living abroad can make them different from he native by the Chinese traditional clothes, Chinese food, as well as Chinese besides the rituals and ceremonies.(也挺好）
To sum up, although rituals and ceremonies do play an important role as a symbol of one culture, with the progress of our society, their importance will fade gradually, so the saying that people without them can not have a sense of themselves is unjustified.（有点晕）