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发表于 2007-7-29 17:33:51
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TOPIC: ISSUE130 - "How children are socialized today determines the destiny of society.
Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a
better society."
提纲:1。孩子的社会化程度不是决定社会命运的唯一因素。
孩子的社会化程度高有利于他们更好的发挥才能,对社会做出贡献。
整个社会的价值体系(value system),政府部门的领导能力(leadership),全体社会民众的受教育水平都会对社会的命运产生影响。
2.我们对孩子的教育起到一定的作用。
现代的孩子很自信,有想法,富于创造力。
他们对妇女更加尊重,主张男女平等(Gender equality),讨厌种族歧视(racialism)。
这有利于建设平等,自由,民主的社会。
3.但是我们对孩子的教育还存在许多其它问题。
独生子女偏多,孩子们普遍缺乏良好的沟通能力与团队精神(teamwork)。
独生子女往往比较自私,这不利于建设互助友爱(friendliness),相互尊重的社会。
WORDS: 492 TIME: 00:45:36 DATE: 2007-7-29 下午 05:09:26
In the author's view, he concedes that the extent of children's socialization determines the
destiny of society and we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about
a better society. As soon as I am concerned, children's socialization is only one of the crucial
factors which have an essential influence on the development of society. Our education towards
children has made a lot of progress , however, there still exist many trouble problems.
To begin with, the destiny of society can be attributable to many reasons while the children's
socialization only belongs to it. Surly, the higher the extent of children's socialization, the
better the children's function of building up society acts. High Socialization ensures that
children's ability learned from schools can be used most effectively to various fields of the
society. Besides, there are some other factors be taken into account. Firstly, the value system
of the whole society exert a great influence on the society , in which a value that the industry
and honesty play an high role is beneficial to the destiny of the society. Secondly, the leadership
of the government also has a significant effect on the society. Thirdly, the educational level of
the whole populace is another important aspect which is even decisive sometimes .So, we must advance
lots of aspects rather that only one of them in order to render our society more healthy and prosperous.
Then, we need a thorough analysis of our education towards children recently. On one side, we really
achieve some exciting goals which is helpful to our children's growth. The majority of children nowadays
show a impressive confidence in face of many challenges .They have endless wonderful new ideas and are
always keen on creating some exotic things. Furthermore, many old conventional ideas left behind them.
They show more respect for their elder, especially for women. They insist the gender equality between
males and females. They enjoy playing with children with various races without any racialism . All the
cases mentioned above inform us the effectiveness and merits of our education which we should need keep
up in the long run. Our free, democratic , equal society is the beneficiary of those.
On the other hand, we must also admit and face many other serious problems frankly. Most of our children
grow up with no other sisters or brothers who gain the whole care and love from their parents which gives
rise to some issues such as the lack of the idea of teamwork and good communicative ability , Both of which
is the two most important making in front of the complex and competitive society .Many children indicate
their selfishness by their talks and behaviors which will do a big harm to build the ideal society packed
with friendliness ,love and respect for others. Thus, there are still a lot of things to handle with about
our education towards children.
To sum up, I draw the conclusion that the destiny of society is not only determined by children's socialization
and the education towards children is very crucial to the development of the society with many good merits
which we should hold on and other shortcomings which we should solve gradually.
TOPIC: ARGUMENT140 - The following appeared in a report of the Committee
on Faculty Promotions and Salaries at Elm City University.
"During her seventeen years as a professor of botany, Professor Thomas has
proved herself to be well worth her annual salary of $50,000. Her classes are among the largest at the university, demonstrating her popularity among students.
Moreover, the money she has brought to the university in research grants has exceeded her salary in each of the last two years. Therefore, in consideration
of Professor Thomas' demonstrated teaching and research abilities, we recommend that she receive a $10,000 raise and a promotion to Department Chairperson
; without such a raise and promotion, we fear that Professor Thomas will leave Elm City University for another college."
提纲: 1。(前提错误)T教授要区别的学校。
文章中没有提供这方面的信息。也许T教授对她现在的待遇很满意,根本没
有离开学校的打算。
2.(原因错误)T教授的teaching and research abilities
T所开的课学生最多,可能是因为学生必须的上,或是这门课目前只有T教,人手不够,
所以同学们没有选择。
T所带来的研究经费超过她的工资,不能说明她的研究能力。
可能所有的教授都能做到,而T所带来的是最少的。
就算经费很多,也只是过去两年的。也许更早,或以后,她就拿不到科研经费了。
3.(类推错误)T教授可能不适于当系主任。
系主任的工作比较繁琐,同时要与很多人打交道,还要有大局观。
而T教授可能就不具有这些能力。
WORDS: 461 TIME: 00:30:00 DATE: 2007-7-29 下午 07:38:59
In the author's argument, he asserts that the committee on Faculty Promotions and Salaries
at Elm City University should increase Professor Thomas's salary to $10,000 and give her a
promotion to Department Chairperson .To support his claim, the arguer point out two facts
that the professor's class has the most students in the university and the grants she bring
to the university has exceeded her salary in each of the last two years. Based on the unfounded
assumption and poorly supported evidence ,I am specious about the author's recommendation which
suffers from several flaws.
To begin with, the author comes to his recommendation relied on the assumption that without
a raise and promotion for Professor Thomas, she will leave Elm City University for another college.
However, the assumption is totally unfounded since the author does not give any information about
the Thomas' will to leave for the college. It is entirely possible that Professor Thomas is very contented
with her now salary and status so that she never has the inclination to leave Elm City University . The fact
mentioned above ,if true, will definitely weaken the foundation of the author's recommendation. So ,it is
hard for me to concede that the author's assumption is untenable.
Secondly, it is obvious that the author makes a fallacy of false cause. The author's proposal is
attributable to Professor Thomas's demonstrated teaching and research abilities. The former is
verified seemingly by the fact that her class maintains the biggest number of students in the
college which does not equally mean her excellent teaching ability. There is a chance that the
course her teach is indispensable to most students, or here is a lack of teachers who can teach
the same courses. The later, similarly, does not convince me Professor Thomas wonderful research
ability since there is no detailed information about other professor's grants brought by them.
Maybe, her grant is one of the least ones for all the professors. Without ruling out these possibilities
cited above, I can not be convinced by the questionable evidence that the author's conclusion is plausible.
Thirdly, the author makes a fallacy of false analogy between the two occupations-a Professor and
a Department Chairperson. The two jobs have many different demands for people. The Department
Chairperson should have the ability to handle with a lot of tackles ,have more tolerance and patient
with others and can communicate effectively with other Professors. It is likely that Professor Thomas
does not have the qualified abilities mentioned above. So, the college would need a skilled and excellent
professor rather than a poor Department Chairmen. Thus, the false analogy undermine the author’s claims
strongly so that I can not be easily bewildered .
To sum up, the author's recommendation is entirely unpersuasive. In order to make his claim more
cogent, he should supply more details about the real research and teaching levels of Professor Thomas ,
the grants of other professor bring in and whether Professor Thomas is capable of the job of the
Department Chairperson.
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