九夏南笙GRE作文分类题库---ISSUE
一 教育类
1. A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer.\【5】
一个国家应该要求所有的学生在进入大学之前都学习由国家统一制定的课程，而不是允许由国家不同地区的学校去决定课程的安排。
国家统一和地区单独安排课程
2．Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience. Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use.【9】
近些年来，学科已经细化到了相当的程度以至于学者们的理念只影响小范围的人群。除非学者们能拥有影响等大范围的人群，否则他们的理念将几乎毫无用处。
过分专业化问题
3. A school or college should pay its teachers at the same rate in all disciplines, regardless of differences in salaries for related fields in the world outside of school. For example, entry-level teachers in mathematics and in the arts should receive the same pay, even if outside of school, math specialists earn a much higher salary on average than do specialists in the arts.【32】
不管在校园外不同领域之间薪水的差异有多大，学校对于所有学科老师的待遇应该是一视同仁的。比如，低年级的数学和美术老师应该享有同样的收入，即便在校外，数学专家的收入一般是要比艺术家高得多。
孤立的校园
4. Instead of requiring students to take courses in a variety of disciplines -that is, courses ranging from the arts and the humanities to the physical and biological sciences-colleges and universities should allow students to enroll only in those courses that will help prepare them for jobs in their
chosen fields. Such concentration is necessary in today's increasingly work-oriented society.【34】
与其要求学生们选修各种各样的学科--从艺术和人文科学到物理和生物科学--大学还不如允许学生们仅仅去选择那些有助于他们今后工作的学科。这种集中在当今这个工作至上的社会是必要的。
少数和多数之学科
5. While some leaders in government, sports, industry, and other areas attribute their success to a well-developed sense of competition, a society can better prepare its young people for leadership by instilling in them a sense of cooperation.【46】 当政府、体育界、工业界和其他领域中的一些领导者将他们的成功归因于一种高度的竞争意识时，一个社会还是应该更好的为那些即将成为领导者的年轻人灌输一种合作的意识。
竞争和合作
6. In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach. 【50】
为了改善大学的教学质量，所有的教员都应该被要求花一定时间到学术领域以外去参加和他们所教科目相关的工作。
孤立的教育
7. Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.【51】 教育只有被专门设计来满足每一个学生个人需求和兴趣的时候才是真正有效率的。
少数和多数
8. Education encourages students to question and criticize, and therefore does little to promote social harmony.【52】
教育鼓励学生们提出问题和进行批判，这样做的结果无助于促进社会的和谐。
教育问题
9. College and university education should be free for all students, fully financed by the government.【53】
大学教育应该对所有学生免费，由政府来全额资助。
教育问题之奖学金
10. Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education.【55】
追求高分严重的限制了教育各阶段的学习质量。
教育之分数
11. Colleges should require students to engage in public-service activities in order to assure that each student receives a balanced, well-rounded education.【67】
大学应该要求学生们参加公益活动，这也是为了保证每一个学生都能获得平衡而全面的教育。
少数和多数之社会实践和全面教育
12. In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.【73】
在大多数职业和学术领域中，想象力要比知识更加重要。
想象力和知识
13. Schools should be required to teach the essential interconnectedness
of all human beings and thus help eliminate wars, cultural clashes, and other forms of conflict.【78】
学校应该被要求去教授存在于所有人之间的重要联系，这样做可以消灭战争、文化冲突和其他形式的纷争。
分歧和统一
14. Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated. 【94】
大学应该要求每一个学生在自己专业课外选修各种学科，因为获得各种学科的知识才是获得真正教育的最好途径。
教育之必修课和选修课
15. Colleges and universities should offer more courses on popular music, film, advertising, and television because contemporary culture has much greater relevance for students than do arts and literature of the past. 【98】 大学应该开设更多关于流行音乐、电影、广告和电视的课程，因为当代文化比起过去的文学和艺术与学生们更加息息相关。
过去和现在之流行课程
16. The pressure to achieve high grades in school seriously limits the quality of learning. An educational environment without grades would promote more genuine intellectual development.【100】
在学校获得高分的压力严重得限制了学习的质量。一个没有分数的教育环境将会促进真正的智力发展。
教育之分数
17. For better or worse, education is a process that involves revising the ideas, beliefs, and values people held in the past.【102】
不论好坏，教育是一个修正人们过去所持有的理念、信仰和价值观的过程。
教育是除旧取新的过程
18. It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears. 【104】
如果一个文化想要它认为好的理念永世长存而摈弃它厌恶的理念，主要是通过正规的教育。
教育问题
19. Some educational systems emphasize the development of students' capacity for reasoning and logical thinking, but students would benefit more from an education that also taught them to explore their own emotions. 【112】
一些教育体系强调学生逻辑推理思维能力的发展，但是那些教学生们探究自身情绪的教育对学生们才更有好处。
教育之客观与主观
20. It is often asserted that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. In reality, however, formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.【128】
教育的目的据称是要解放思想和精神。然而实际上，正规的教育是要遏制我们的思维和精神而不是解放他们。（Spirit可以解释为勇气或者热情）
教育之解放思想
21. 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. 【130】
现在孩子的社会化程度决定了社会的命运。可惜的是，我们还没有学会教孩子怎么样去建设一个更好的社会。
教育之下一代
22. The university community consists of three different worlds-the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Because each world operates on its own assumptions and has its own special habits of thinking, rarely is there meaningful interaction among the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences.【132】 大学包括了三个不同的领域--科学、人文学科以及社会学科。因为每一个领域都根据自己的前提运转，每一个领域都有自己独特的思维习惯，所以在自然科学、人文科学和社会科学之间几乎是不存在有意义的交互的。
学科之间的关系
23. Students should be encouraged to realize that mental agility and rhetorical skill must be accompanied by sincerity and the true conviction of their own beliefs.【135】 学生们应该被鼓励而意识到思维的敏捷和口齿的伶俐必须和真诚与坚持自己的信仰相伴随存在。
现实与道德
24. Both parents and communities must be involved in the local schools. Education is too important to leave solely to a group of professional educators.【154】 父母和社会都必须参与到地方的学校中。教育太重要了以至于不能把教育完全交给一群职业教育者。
教育之合作
25. Contemporary society offers so many ways of learning that reading books is no longer very important.【155】
当代社会提供了如此之多的学习手段以至于读书已经变得不再那么重要了。
技术进步对人类社会的影响之阅读
26. Education should be equally devoted to enriching the personal lives of students and to training students to be productive workers.【191】
教育应该平衡的一方面丰富学生的个人生活，一方面把学生培养成训练有素的工作者。
