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beckyyeeUID: 8330

1.We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own. Disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning.

2.Scholars and researchers should not be concerned with whether their work makes a contribution to the larger society. It is more important that they pursue their individual interests, however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem.

3.Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways.

lemonzzUID: 48920

1,和toefl的only through defending an idea can one find the value of that idea.很象
2,<1>what scholars and researchers should do is to provide sth to his world,and contribute to the developement of this world.
   <2>their salary comes from others,needless to say they should reciprocate them,and work in their minds,not to satisfy theri own interests.
3 parochial.
   right in certain circumestances.
  but to create ideas and ways to solve problems is also originality.

gteryyUID: 114434

2.knowledge and science should be applied to real life to be meaningful.
想不出来了。我觉得学者和研究人员感兴趣的必然是科学，否则能称之为学者吗？既然是科学，自然是可以应用的。其中当然有基础理论和应用科学之分。学者追求兴趣和服务于社会是因果关系，不是谁更重要的问题，我觉得题干。。。有点说不通。是不是我自己在较真啊，大家怎么想的？

3.if I write this essay, I will try to prove that originality includes both thinking something that was never thought before and putting old ideas together. And then I will try to find some evidence to prove it.

WRITTING IS REALLY A HARD WORK, IT KILLED MY BRAIN CELLS EVERYDAY.  Faint......

beckyyeeUID: 8330

哈哈哈~~，gteryy你很可爱呀~~ GRE writing gonna kill me too~~ but whatever, we gotta keep at it!

我第3题和你的想法一样。

对于2，my view is the ultimate goal should be to serve for the society, however, it should be admitted that scholars and researchers made contributions to the society by simply pursing individual interests or by seeking truth out of curiosity.

angeikimUID: 4857

终于可以来了:)
issue topic 1:
FOR:
a. contridiction fans sparks of ideas.
b. different point of view from different person could make us understand more profoundly.
c. when one is questioning one's own knowledge and opions, one could get most impressed.
d. development of our society will not be so advanced if human think the same through generations on all feilds.
example to support:
a. if we all agree that earth is flat, than we would miss many fabulous advantures.
b. that  is those people who believe AIDS is not  uncurable seeking solution for it and provide hopes to millions of people who are suffering mentally and physically.
c. .....
想不出来了。

angeikimUID: 4857

最初由 gteryy 发表
[B]2.knowledge and science should be applied to real life to be meaningful.
想不出来了。我觉得学者和研究人员感兴趣的必然是科学，否则能称之为学者吗？既然是科学，自然是可以应用的。其中当然有基础理论和应用... [/B]

1.知道不知道那个搞笑诺贝尔奖？ 可惜英文我忘记了。这个奖项就是专门奖励一些无法应用或者根本没有应用价值的一些科学研究。
2。很多学者还有研究人员感兴趣的不只是科学，而是之后带来的一些利益。这个就是 virtue of scientists and researchers.
my humble opion is that many aspects of  knowledge and science are  limited by reality that could not be applied. however, one could not simply judge that it is not meaningful. like communism gets tremendous difficulties to be actually applied by one society, be could we say it is not meaningful?

GcanadaUID: 118286

1.We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own. Disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning.

2.Scholars and researchers should not be concerned with whether their work makes a contribution to the larger society. It is more important that they pursue their individual interests, however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem.

3.Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways.

1.position:As for the upper topic ,I think I cannot agree with it.
A.Acquiring from people whose views contracts our owns is more impetus than those whose views share.
B.Common idea people share does not encourage us to improve our knowledge.
2. Position:       Scholars and researchers should  be concerned with whether their work makes a  contribution to the larger society!
A .Although scholars and researchers who are interested in science prefer to their interests,they need to make a contribution to the society.
B.Even if  they consider their interests are more important than contribution to society,they should be concerned with the society because of life!
实在是想不出来了,现在真的感到G作文的厉害了!
3.我也同意gteryy的想法,可是我好象没有什么论据,天啊,现在我连提纲都写不好,成文该怎么办?

angeikimUID: 4857

yep, it is very hard for us. the ets just wants to overcomplicate it to make us feel frustrated though. actually, this could be the  proof of the third topic of ISSUE third. :P
well, lets get together to conqure it!!

imongUID: 140258

9708 TOEFL阅读 passage5

Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd, Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science, A Modest proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression the satiric method that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.

Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they lived in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.