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篇1：新概念英语第四册对托福及GRE写作的帮助

One of the most important problems a young person faces is deciding what to do. There are some people, of course, who from the time they are six years old “know” that they want to be doctors or pilots or fire fighters, but the majority of us do not get around to making a decision about an occupation or career until somebody or something forces us to face the problem.

Choosing an occupation takes time, and there are a lot of things you have to think about as you try to decide what you would like to do. You may find that you will have to take special courses to qualify for a particular kind of work, or you may find out that you will need to get actual work experience to gain enough knowledge to qualify for a particular job.

Fortunately, there are a lot of people you can turn to for advice and help in making your decision. At most schools, there are teachers who are professionally qualified to give you detailed information about job qualifications. And you can talk over your ideas with family members and friends who are always ready to listen and to offer suggestions.

新概念英语第四册多项选择题：Finding fossil man

Multiple choice questions 多项选择题

Choose the correct answers to the following questions.

Comprehension 理解

1，In illiterate societies, story-telling is a way of ____.

(a) teaching people how to write

(b) allowing us to find out about things that happened 5,000 years ago

(d) preserving sagas recounted by story-tellers

2，It is extremely likely that ancient people ____.

(a) moved from one place to another

(b) came from Indonesia

(c} have left us information about their migrations

(d) preserved their sagas and legends

3，Anthropologists have been curious about ____.

(a) how Indonesia came to be inhabited

(b) how the Polynesian islands came to be inhabited

(d) how the sagas told by ancient people were written

4，Though wood and skins rot away, anthropologists can learn a great deal from ____.

(a) materials that are easy to shape

(b) the bones of men who made tools

(d) ancient tools made from stone

Structure 句型

1，In some parts of the world people are still ____ to write. (11.1-2)

a.incapable

b.impotent

c.enable

d.unable

2，They can preserve their history ____ downlegends. (1.3)

a.by hand

b.by handing

c.to hand

d.in hand

3，The ____ why these legends are useful is that theytell us about migrations. (1.4)

a.cause

b.effect

c.why

d.reason

4，There weren't ____ of them who could write down what they did.(1.5)

a. any

b. none

c. no one

d. noVocabulary词汇

1，The only way they can preserve their history is to ____ stories. (11.2-3)

a.tell

b.make

c.say

d.recount

2，The people who lived long ago could not ____ their history.(1.5)

a.make

b.know

c.record

d.note

3，Some sagas tell us about the ____ of Polynesian peoples.(11.6-7)

a.origin

b.ancestors

c.explanation

d.legend

4，Tools made of stone, especially flint, were made by ____ (1.11)

a.old men

b.men who lived long ago

c.men of old

d.past men

新概念英语第四册多项选择题：Spare that spider

Multiple choice questions 多项选择题

Choose the correct answers to the following questions.

Comprehension 理解

1，Spiders are our friends because they ____.

a.are beneficial insects

b.destroy insects without hurting us in any way

c.protect insect-eating animals

d.include some of the greatest enemies of the human race

2，Birds and beasts ____.

a.eat as many insects as spiders

b.eat more insects than spiders

c.can't compare with spiders as destroyers of insects

d.destroy a larger fraction of insects than spiders

3，If spiders were insects, they would ____.

a.have eight legs

b.have six legs

c.be able to fly

d.not destroy their own kind

4，Spiders are active in killing insects ____.

a.all the time

b.for most of the year

c.in the summer months

d.for a minimum of six months of each year

Structure 句型

1，It would ____ impossible for us to live in this world if insects had no enemies.(11.2-3)

a.make it

b.stay

c.be

d.have it

2，We owe ____ to the birds and beast who eat insects.(1.4)

a.a great deal

b.a lot of

c.a great many

d.much of

3，How many spiders are involved ____ this work on our behalf?(1.9)

a.at

b.for

c.in

d.to

4，There are many different ____ spiders.(1.11)

a.sorts of

b.kind of

c.type of

d.kinds

Vocabulary 词汇

1，Spiders ____ insects.(11.3-4)

a.defend us from

b.guard

c.protect

d.insure us against

2，You can see at a glance that spiders are not ____ insects.(1.7)

a.similar

b.like to

c.as

d.the same as

3，Spiders are creatures with large ____.(1.13)

a.hunger

b.appetites

c.desires

d.eating

4，Spiders like to eat more than ____ a day.(1.13)

a.three

b.three time

c.three times

d.threes

篇2：《新概念英语》第四册与托福、GRE写作

新概念四并不是为托福、gre等考试而专门编写的应试教材,然而,由于新四着意于提高学习者各方面的英语能力，因此，该教材很多方面都可以运用到各类高级英语考试中来。我们这篇文章主要是谈谈新四对于提高大家托福、gre写作的作用。新概念四中的文章是编者alexander精心挑选的各个领域的散文名篇,这些文章文笔优美,说理透彻。课文不是教给大家机械的写作模式，而是要让学生领悟到高水平的作文的真谛。因此，深刻把握新四文章的写作特点，能让大家在托福与gre这样高级的英语考试中写出不同于一般人的具有高水准的作文。下面我们来看一下新四在哪些方面可以给托福、gre写作提供借鉴。

一、“破题”技巧

二、论证技巧

托福、gre的写作一般来说都是论说文。论说文首先要有自己的观点，这并不难做到，关键是如何用行之有效的论证技巧来证明自己观点的正确性。很多同学由于没有系统掌握论证技巧，所写托福、gre的作文往往论证空洞，很难让批卷者信服。新四中的很多文章则为大家提供了多种论证技巧，我们选取其中的几个技巧来讨论。

1，数字论证这种论证技巧在第二课《不要伤害蜘蛛》（sparethatspider）中比较典型。这篇课文是要说明蜘蛛给人类带来的巨大好处，以此劝告人们不要伤害蜘蛛。作者为了告诉读者蜘蛛杀死害虫的数目巨大，用了一系列的数字，比如，一英亩的场地就有2,250,000只蜘蛛，相当于一个足球场就有6,000,000蜘蛛。1和2,250,000，1和6,000,000相比，读者一眼就能发现蜘蛛的数量之多，就可以想象出每年蜘蛛将清除多少的害虫。

2，比较论证我们还是用第二课为例。作者在第一段中将蜘蛛与鸟类和兽类做比较，指出：all of them(birdsandbeasts) put together kill only a fraction of the mr destroyedbyspiders. 这样就突出了蜘蛛在清除害虫方面的重要性。接着，作者又写道：moreover, unlike some oftheother insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us orourbelongings。看到此处，面对如此有百利而无一害的蜘蛛，读者当然不忍心再去伤害了，而作者的论证也就达到了目的。

3，“以退为进”法这种技巧适用于驳论。作者先把要反驳的与自己论点相对的论点摆出来，然后用事实来推翻，这样就更能证明自己论点的正确性。我们以十九课《话说梦的本质》（thestuffofdreams）为例：作者首先提出大家习以为常的论点，即认为睡眠的作用是让身体休息，这符合读者的直觉，接着，作者用确凿的证据表明，身体休息并不是非得依靠睡眠。这样，读者在自己直觉上认为正确的论点被反驳后，就易于接受作者下文论证的观点。再比如十四课《蝴蝶效应》（thebutterflyeffect），作者的论点是：再好的天气预报的预测性也不会超过七天。文中最有说服力也是最精彩的论证也是用的“以退为进”法：作者在第二段中先假设了一个最为精确的理想化的气象预报仪器设备，让读者感觉这种设备已经到达了极致，在理论上可以推翻作者的论点。但是接着，作者还是用科学证据表明，即使用这种现实中不可能采用的理想化仪器，依然不能解决问题。这样，读者就没有任何理由不接受作者的观点了。

我们这里只是列举了几种论证技巧，大家通过新四的学习，会了解更多的论证技巧，比如第三十一课中的“先抑后扬”法，第二十八课的“例证——极度例证”法等等。

三、修辞

前面两个部分我们都是讨论的宏观上的写作技巧，这部分讨论的是写作具体的遣词造句，即修辞。对于托福和gre的写作，修辞是大家语言功底最好的展示。修辞包括词汇的运用，句式的变化和修辞格的使用。我们下面从这三个部分来讨论新四课文与托福、gre写作的关系。

1，选词新四词汇表上的新词基本上都是属于较高层次的单词，因此，掌握新四的词汇自然能够让你在写作中体现出高水平的英语文字功底，而词汇的应用是任何英语写作的重要评分标准之一。当然，并不是掌握了大量的词汇就能够保证写作水准的提高，高质量的作文应该是在较大词汇量的基础上恰当地使用词汇。新概念四的课文几乎每一篇都体现出作者用词的精妙，我们在学习课文时，如果能够在记忆词汇的同时，仔细体会课文中单词的选用，就能够在自己的写作中也尽量做到选词精当。我们以第五课《青年》（youth）为例，在课文第一段的最后一句话中出现了两个future,作者在这两个词前都要用“辉煌的”作定语，为了避免重复，作者在第一个future前用了glorious来修饰，在第二个future前则用splendid。再看下一句话：hemaybe conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous, orfatuous,……。这句话中，作者一连串用的四个形容词恰倒好处，令人叫绝。

2，句式的变化很多同学认为托福和gre中，只要一味写长句就可以显示自己的语言功底了，其实，这是一种对英语写作的误解。英语写作讲究多变，避免重复，词汇的使用如此，句式的选用也是如此。一方面，写作中必须要长短句相结合，在一连串的长句之后，应该有意识地选用短句，短句短促有力，在论证中可以增强文章的语气。另一方面，在使用长句时要避免只用一种句式。中国学生在写托福和gre等考试的作文中，为了使用长句，经常反复地使用定语从句，这会令文章显得过于单调，拖泥带水，读来索然无味（这也是一位在中国执教英语写作多年的美国教授亲口对笔者说的感受）。要让作文充满生气，就必须学会使用不同的长句句式，新四课文中有不少好的范例，大家在学习时可以仔细体会，并运用到自己的写作中。比如，我们在二十四课中可以学到典型的排比句用法，在三十一课中作者则巧妙地使用了倒装句式，二十三课中的长句很多，大家可以仔细体会作者是如何避免句式重复的。

3，修辞格的使用修辞格的使用可以增强文章的生动性与可读性。托福、gre写作的研究表明，在考试中，恰当的修辞格使用可以极大地提高作文的层次。第十一课《如何安度晚年》（howtogrow old）是修辞格使用的经典范例。作者在文中把人生比作河流(an individual humanexistenceshould be like a river), small atfirst指的是人的儿童期，rushingpassionately指的是人的青年期，boulders和waterfalls则喻指人生中的坎坷，而become mergedinthesea则是指死亡。某种程度上来说，正是这绝妙的比喻使这段话成为英语散文中的经典语段。修辞格除了比喻以外还有拟人、夸张等等，这些都可以在我们课文中找到相应的例句。

研读经典范文，学习写作技巧是提高写作的有效方法，新四的课文在这方面是不可多得的好材料。本文只是从大体上介绍了新四中值得托福、gre写作借鉴的几个方面，大家在具体的学习中一定会有更多的收获。写作具有很强的实践性，一方面，同学们在学习新四时要有意识地揣摩文章的写作手法，借鉴写作技巧；另一方面，大家一定要常动笔写文章，将自己的感悟在实践中运用，在不断的练笔中提高写作水平。（编辑：赵露）

（胡旭辉，南京新东方学校优秀教师，英语语言文学硕士。丰富国际展览会随行翻译经验，参与《钱伯斯学生英语辞典》的翻译工作。酷爱中英文写作，对诗歌、散文、英语学习与教学的理论与实践有着丰富的经验）

篇3：全面论说新概念英语对四六级的帮助

《新概念英语》（new concept english），是英国路易·亚力山大（louis g. alexander）1967年专为非本族的中学和成年学习者编写的一套英语课本。全套共四册：第一册《英语初阶》（first things first），第二册《练习与进步》（practice and progress），第三册（培养技能）（developing skills），第四册《熟练掌握英语》（fluency in english）。四册科学地融合了听、说、读、写、译五方面的技能，从初级、预备中级、中级，直到高级，由浅入深，前后互相衔接。

一、新概念英语各册简介

各册的共同特点是：1）不重传授抽象知识，而重培养实际运用英语的技能；2）分为许多分量适中的单元，循序小步前进，学习起来困难小，用力省，收效显；3）听、说、读、写四会并重，全面训练；4）兼顾趣味和实用，课文短小精悍，语言自然地道，内容生动有趣；练习精当，富于针对性。

第一册以对话为主，明快上口；第二、三册以短篇故事为主，活泼幽默，耐人寻味；第四册都是原著文章选段，体裁多样，题材广泛。由于具有以上特点，《新概念英语》自1976年由英国朗曼公司（longman group limited）出版以来，受到许多国家和地区广大英语学习者和教师的欢迎。

二、新概念英语读者对象

如果你是属于以下的情况，可以考虑学习新概念英语：

*不满足于只是应付四六级考试，想全面的提高自己的英语水平；

*短期内没有出国留学的打算，可是又对自己的英语水平感到不满意；

*在校的大中学生，打算在学习课业的同时选择广泛的阅读材料；

*已经毕业多年，不经常接触英语，想重新“充电“；

*素质教育的全力拥护者；

三、哪册书最适合你

【一册初级】：学习英语的敲门砖----“first things first“ 英语初阶

从基本的发音、重音和语调开始，让您逐步学会使用英语中的基本词汇、语法及句型结构。适合中国小学四，五年级至初中一、二年级的学生。学好第一册，是练好英语基本功的关键，掌握了第一册，才算真正踏进了英语之门。

【二册基础】：构建英语的基石-----“practice and progress“ 实践与进步

在第一册全面技能训练的基础上，由浅入深，进一步在语法、口语、阅读、写作技能方面进行大信息量的全面培训，通过对关键句型的分析、词汇基本用法的讲解、摘要写作及作文练习中的串联造句、书信格式与题材的逐步介绍，将使学习者真正能用听、说、读、写来实践英语。属中级以下水平的综合性教材，适合初二至高一的学生学习。

【三册中级】：掌握英语的关键----“developing skills“ 培养技能

着重分析句子之间内在的逻辑关系，让学员充分认识和领悟英文句型的精练、优美、实用和可模仿性，从而将其有机地运用到英文写作之中；同时，将进一步扩充讲解词汇、语法及句型的实战运用。属中级水平的综合教材，重点强化阅读和写作训练，培养学生高级英语能力，是高中至大学低年级阶段或考四级学生的有益辅助教材。

【四册高级】：体味英语的精髓----“fluency in english“ 流利英语

全册涵盖了文学、经济、哲学、艺术、体育、政治、美学、心理学、社会学、天文学等三十多个学科门类，语言修辞精美独到，句型结构复杂多变，内容精练，同时，许多文章蕴涵着深厚的哲思、美学及西方文化中独特的思维方式，从而使该教材成为每一位欲掌握英语语言精华的学习者不可多得、不可不学的读物，理解了第四册，便理解了英语文化。

四、学习方法

1、自学是一种可以选择的学习方式，尤其是当你只是把新概念英语作为一种泛读材料的话，就无需费心多花时间了。但是，如果你的目标是通过新概念英语提高自己的英语水平，就不能太掉以轻心了。这时，选择一个合适的教学班，即掌握一种很好的学习方法和拥有一种良好的学习氛围是非常重要的。

任何一套教材都可以自学，但对于一种难以驾驭的语言来说，自学的确很难达到理想的效果。首先你无法检查自己的错误，更难以扩展自己的知识，而且它要考验学员的毅力及领悟力，否则难以善始善终。《新概念》也是如此，姑且不论有四册，即便是任何一册，自学也是很难达到学习的最终目标。老师的指引才能使“事半而功倍”。

2、新概念英语的语音与学习

看到论坛中的网友都在找新概念美语版的录音，可能与现在的大部分听力材料都是美语有关(如voa toefl)。不过我推荐大家使用由英国longman公司录制的新概念，原因很简单，这套录音根据不同的英语水平设计了不同的时速，从第一册的每分钟约100歌单词到第二册的每分钟120-140个单词，再到第三四册的每分钟150-160个单词，使学习者逐渐熟悉适应正常的说话速度，设计较为合理，而不象一般的录音都是一个速度。同时该录音采用的是received pronunciation。即bbc所使用的standerd english，有利于大家以后适应收听bbc。

另外一个大家比较关心的问题是对听惯了英国英语后会否听不懂美语，实际这种担心是不必要的，我还没听说哪个英国人听不懂美国话，从我的实践来看也不存在这种问题，二者虽有差异，但并非很大。同时许多网友听voa没有问题了，再听bbc也不存在听不懂的问题。

第二个大家比较关心的是发音问题。实话实说，不论你学的是美语还是英语，对于大部分不是从幼儿时期就说英语的人，你所发出的永远是中国腔的英语，只不过是程度上的差异而已。同时许多专家也提倡在学英语的初期学习英国英语，因为英国英语的发音比较规范，容易养成良好正确的发音习惯。而且从英语改说美语也并不难，找几部美国电影，跟着里边的台词说几遍，你的发音就会大大的得以改变。

第三点我想强调的是大家在学新概念时所忽视的一点，就是新概念同时也是训练大家提高写作水平的一本好教程，大家仔细看一看每课后的写作练习，从最简单的简单句写起，一步一步引导你写出较复杂的句子，再到不提供提示，独立写出句子和段落，循序渐进，为大家的英语写作打下坚实的基础。

五、关于背诵新概念

最后我想说一下关于背诵的问题，新概念的文章语言简练，知识点突出，生动有趣，适合作为背诵和复述的材料，许多人从背诵新概念中得到了很大的帮助，极大的提高了英语水平。(这其中也包括我本人)但是背诵的方法要得当，一般有一下几种方法供选择:

第一步:要将课文录音听到烂熟于心的地步，(达到本步的标志是，听录音时，听到上句几乎可以想起下句，同时能在不看教材的基础上，能流利的跟读录音，)这样做的目的是纠正读音，同时减少背诵的难度。

第二步:又分两种方法:

1、将课文自己亲自翻译出来，然后再根据译文说出英文。(练的是英汉翻译的能力)

2、将课文中的关键词写下来作为提示，来背诵课文。(练习用英文思考的能力，同时提高背诵的效率，和练习说英语的流利性)。

第三步:可在上两步的基础之上练习复述，用自己的语言说出课文的主要内容。对于初学者可暂不进行该步。(初学者应一丝不苟。一字不差的按照原文背诵)

写到这儿我想起有的网友问每天背一篇新概念，为什么并不见什没效果。其实仔细想一想你每天背一篇，虽然背下来了，是否熟练。当你背到的50篇时，前边的49篇你还记得多少。其实背诵的主要目是为了尽量熟悉英语的表达习惯，如果只是急功近利的背诵，不假思考是没有太大用处的，同时也不可能坚持太久。语言是需要经过一段时间的学习和实践才可能发生一个质的飞跃。不是三天打鱼两天晒网所能达到的。不论是钟道隆，郑赞容，还是扶中汉。李杨，他们开始学外语时，每天学习时间都在四个小时以上，甚至十几个小时。外交部翻译朱彤，听遍了多小时的录音材料。钟道隆，听坏了6台walkman，翻坏了四五本字典，听写稿堆满了一柜子才达到了今天的水平。实践证明在学习初期如果每天学习时间不能达到三四个小时以上，那么要想在半年至一年的时间使英语水平有一个质的飞跃几乎是不可能的(除非你很有语言天赋)。当然光学教材是远远不够的，赶紧下决心把书本学完，投身到广阔的英语海洋中去吧。

五、众人评说新概念英语

评说一：网友眼中的新概念英语好在哪里

1、新概念的词汇手册编得好

按照课文顺序编写，一个单词的解释只有课文中唯一的一种意思。

2、新概念的课文编得好

循序渐进，内容丰富，安排合理，体系科学。

3、新概念的辅导vcd出的好

讲解清晰、信息量大，免去一大笔培训开销。

4、围绕新概念的学习工具丰富

几乎说有的软件、硬件产品都包含新概念的学习。如轻轻松松背单词，网络课程，新概念句霸、电子词典、音文秀、劲牛单词王等等

评说二：英卓语言总结的新概念英语（英卓语言为一培训机构）

英卓语言的新概念专家组更是通过四原则来阐述英卓语言“全新概念”的新概念英语：首先，是新概念的“系统性原则”，英卓语言的新概念横跨的英语学习梯度是绝无仅有，该书是以零基础为起点，经过英卓语言专家组对该书每册难度的细致研究，总结出新概念英语的“半册飞跃理念”，即每半册新概念英语就是一个梯度的水平飞跃一直达到纯熟精通的英语水平——考tofel，gre如履平地；

其次是新概念英语学习的“重复原则”，即在整体教法上，注重听、说、读、写的反复训练，从量变到质变，让学生们的英语水平得到质的飞跃，在教学内容上，高频词汇、句型，重点语法、结构反复出现，让你熟飨于心，“不觉之中上层楼”；然后，就是新概念英语的“文化原则”，该书就是整个英国风俗文化的缩影——从历史到宗教，从工作到休闲，篇篇经典，深厚的不列颠文化底蕴和浓郁的英格兰风情跃然纸上，深邃而耐人寻味；在有，就是新概念英语的“实用原则”，该书无论是从听、说、读、写哪一方面都可以无可厚非地成为经典教材，吃透新概念，英语运用即可娴熟自如，独步天下！

篇4：对写作有帮助的名人名言

对写作有帮助的名人名言

世间最美好的东西，莫过于有几个头脑和心地都很正直的严正的朋友——爱因斯坦

和你一同笑过的人，你可能把他忘掉;但是和你一同哭过的人，你却永远不忘纪——伯伦

没有朋友也没有敌人的人，就是凡夫俗子——拉法特

对众人一视同仁，对少数人推心置腹，对任何人不要亏负——莎士比亚

单独一个人可能灭亡的地方，两个人在一起可能得救——巴尔扎克

所谓内心的快乐，是一个人过着健全的、正常的、和谐的生活所感到的快乐——罗曼·罗兰

快乐没有本来就是坏的，但是有些快乐的产生者却带来了比快乐大许多倍的烦扰——伊壁鸠鲁

放弃基本的自由以换取苟安的人，终归失去自由，也得不到安全——富兰克林

宁愿在所有人之前被一个人说坏话，不愿在一个人之前被所有人说坏话——霍威尔

谄媚也可造成协调，但这种协调是借奴性的无耻的罪过或欺骗所造成——斯宾诺莎

有时人们也痛恨阿谀奉承，但只痛恨阿谀奉承的方式而已——拉罗什夫科

给自己辩护的人，告发了他自己——托尔斯泰

友谊永远是一个甜柔的责任，从来不是一种机会——纪伯伦

篇5：浅谈阅读学术期刊对论文写作的帮助

浅谈阅读学术期刊对论文写作的帮助

阅读学术期刊不仅可以获取相关学术信息,而且可从中捕捉大量的'写作信息,这对于论文写作和发表都有很大帮助,出于论文写作需要去阅读学术期刊可从研究期刊目录、分析刊文题目、挖掘潜在信息,总结文章结构等方面入手,寻找到最佳选题,增强写作灵感,悟出写作技巧,从而潜移默化地提高论文写作水平,增加发表机率.

作者：覃云 QIN Yun 作者单位：湖北民族学院,图书馆,湖北,恩施,445000 刊名：农业图书情报学刊英文刊名：JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES IN AGRICULTURE 年，卷(期)： 19(6) 分类号：N55 H05 关键词：学术期刊阅读写作帮助信息

篇6：托福写作20多分为什么GRE作文只有3分

托福写作20多分为什么GRE作文只有3分?从GRE写作特点分析备考要点

GRE写作和托福写作相同点

首先必须肯定的一点是，GRE写作和托福写作是存在一定共同点的，毕竟是ETS座下的同门弟子，对于考生在写作方面的基本要求还是比较相近的，比如基础的英语写作能力、文章的整体框架搭建、论述的逻辑思维水平、遣词造句的能力等等。这些方面两者的要求可以说是基本一致的。而从题型角度上来看，GRE写作中的ISSUE也和托福写作里的独立写作有近似的题目要求，也就是根据题目提出自己的观点并进行论述，也就是中文里常说的立论文。所以在小编看来，能在托福写作中拿到20多分，至少可以说明考生在GRE写作评分标准的写作技术层面上是能够达到考试要求的。

GRE写作题目深度远超托福写作

既然写作技术没有问题，那么为何托福考生的GRE作文得分却并不理想呢?原因其实很简单，作文题目本身的深度根本不在一个层次上。大家可以回想一下托福考试作文特别是独立写作，问的问题内容是不是都涉及比较基础的认知内容，大多数都是围绕大家熟悉的常见话题比如学校生活日常活动等等，即使是社会现象也是大家能够随口就说出一些看法事例的“大路货”。而GRE考试的作文题目就完全不同的，来看下面两个例子：

“Truly profound thinkers and highly creative artists are always out of step with their time and their society.”

真正影响深远的思想家和具有高度创造力的艺术家们总是超越时代和社会的。

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

典礼仪式有助于定义一种文化。没有了它们，社会或者人类群体就会削弱对对自身的认知。

这两道题目都是小编随手从ETS的GRE官方ISSUE作文题库中选出来的题目，可能很多人刚看到这两个题目都会觉得比较懵，既不知道应该赞同还是反对，一时半会儿也想不出可以举出的例子，可以说用中文都觉得不太好写的题目，更不用说用英语去写了。而GRE作文题目中这样的题其实并不在少数。也就是说GRE写作从题目深度上远非托福作文可比。即使考生拥有足够的写作能力和技巧，面对不知道动笔的话题也很难发挥出自己的水平，得分当然也就会受到影响了。

从GRE官方题库中寻求突破点

那么，对于这些其实已经具备足够写作技能，但却缺乏积累或者说知识面不太够的同学，怎样才能拿到更为理想的GRE作文分数呢?小编认为方法既可以说很简单也可以说很困难，那就是刷题库。说这个方法简单，是因为ETS可能已经考虑到大家会存在知识面不宽之类的问题而公开了题库，理论上考生只要能够把所有的ISSUE和ARGUMENT题目都看一遍了解一下，就能提前做好准备不至于被完全无话可说没东西可写的题目打个措手不及。说很困难则是因为题库里面的题目实在有点多，ISSUE和ARGUMENT的题目总数接近500道，即使去掉一些重复的题目也有超过300道题需要大家逐一准备，工作量和耗费时间可以预期都是比较惊人的。对此，小编的建议是既然不需要再重新练习写作技能，那么有托福写作高分基础的考生在备考GRE写作时就可以把重心放在看题库研究题目上，尽早开始看题库，对题目以熟悉内容构思论点思路和储备论证素材为主，而不要试图去把每个题目都写一遍。这样的做法可以最大程度节省大家的考试时间，也能帮助考生从写作的内容层面充实基础提升水平为作文高分做好准备。

关于GRE写作不同于托福作文的特点以及应对方法小编就为大家分享到这里。希望各位托福写作高分的同学也能通过更有针对性的备考方式拿到GRE作文4分以上的好成绩。

新GRE写作：教育的目的

题目：

The purpose of education should be to create an academic environment that is separate from the outside world. This kind of environment is ideal because it allows students to focus on important ideas without being held back by practical concerns.

教育的目的应该是要创造出一个隔离于外界的学术环境。这样的环境最理想因为这样可以使学生们不受功利的干扰而专注于重要的理念。

范文：

Many people have the opinion that the purpose of education should be to create an academic environment isolated from the outside world, which would be conducive for the students to focus on their studies without being disturbed by the practical concerns. However, as far as I am concerned, it is near sighted to set the students into an isolated academic environment, and such opinion is a misconception regarding the purpose of the education.

It cannot be denied that some kind of academic fields need a peaceful and quite atmosphere indeed, which help the students to give their most attention to their studies to some extent. To pay more attention on their studies, students have to avoid involving themselves into some practical concerns, such as mean ambitions, love of comfort, devotion to material things, all of which would cost them lots of time, and influence their studies consequently. In this sense, it is a good will to create an ideal environment for students to pursue their studies. Many universities, colleges and institutions have laboratories with advanced equipment, libraries that allow students access for free, and often offer the scholarship for those potential students. The measures foregoing all indicate that the education make its effort to establish an environment in which students could focus on their academic studies and reduce the disturbance from the outside campus to greatest degree.

However, people should have to realize that that each coin has two sides. To create an ideal academic environment is a method to guarantee students’ attention on their studies rather than the ultimate purpose of education. When totally being set in an academic environment isolated from the outside world, naturally the students cannot be disturbed by the practical concerns, but they have little opportunity to contact many useful social knowledge either. Therefore a separated academic environment is a two edged weapon, the students have to deal the relationship well between the environment and personal development well, otherwise they would suffer from the separated environment rather than benefit from it and the disadvantage of the environment would emerge gradually.

One of the disadvantages worthy to notice is that the students in an isolated academic world have difficulties in melting them into the general group of society. The ultimate purpose of education bases on the social needs, that is, to cultivate workers and trainers that adapt society, and make contribution to society. Actually, most of those students so called high mark low ability have little awareness of social responsibility, and do not know how to communicate or cooperate with the partners in their future career, even if they performed well in the laboratories, scored high marks in the final exams, and get doctoral degrees with the excellent dissertations. Once the students leave their familiar academic environment, it is hard for them to live happily in a new field. The absence of such social ability attributes to the separation from the outside world, and few opportunities to contact the society.

Another fact is that the students’ knowledge from the outside world could contribute to their academic studies. Some social science as economics, law, management is on the basis of current affairs or practical experience. Without knowledge accumulated from the actual experience, it is hard for the students to attain any achievement in these academic fields. The outside knowledge also contributes to the natural science. If the students just engage themselves in the laboratories without little idea of the urgent needs of the human beings, their research will have little value. In this view, although an quite academic environment can protect the students against the disturbance from the outside world to some extent, too much indulging oneself into such an environment will generate many negative effects.

To sum up, a separated academic environment is a two edged weapon, which keep the outside disturbance away from the students, but isolate the students from the useful practical things equally. Therefore, in order to realize the terminal purpose of education, the students should increase their knowledge from the outside world when making use of the academic environment.

新GRE写作范文：思想家

题目：

Most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously, even when they claim to admire them.

大多数社会都没把最伟大的思想家当回事,虽然有时候这些社会自称是求才若渴的。

范文：

In this busy, packed and dull world, people's most important concerning is how to make a living. They work assiduously to make money, to support their family, to purchase houses and cars. Hardly one common individual knows who their greatest thinkers are, not mention to take them seriously. Admittedly, in some cases, people claim that they admire the greatest thinkers; however, they actually know little about what the greatest thinkers' thoughts are. The fact is, in history of human civilizations, most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously, even when the greatest thinkers are seemed to be respected.

Generally, whatever societies the greatest thinkers are in, they have similar characteristics, such as high intelligence, eccentric temperament, wide range of knowledge, and the most essential one： the deeply and often predicted thoughts, which is the product of real wisdom. On one hand, it is the thoughts that distinguish the greatest thinkers from the mass. On the other hand, it is also the thoughts, however correct and predicted, which cause these elites out of the mass' sights and put them into an embarrassment in which few can understand them and their thoughts. A proper example is the passional German philosopher and poet Nietzche. Nietzche is a pioneer, whose profound exploration in philosophy influenced the descendants deeply. Yet his life is miserable and full of tragedies. Without money and job, Nietzche lived an impoverished life, which along with loneliness defeated him at last： he became insane when 45,and died 10 years later. Until that time, almost no one knew him or his thoughts. Even today, many people including some scholars call him mad philosopher.

In some worse cases, the greatest thinkers are even persecuted by their societies since the greatest thinkers always tend to have skeptical and critical thoughts, which the manipulators fear mostly and manipulated reluctant to accept. The reason is that once the advanced ideas, which are against the old ones, are accepted by mass, the domination or the present social system will in the danger of collapse. And at the same times, most people are reluctant to admit that what they believe in or cherish, however, always prejudice and rigid ideas set in people's minds beforehand, are not the truth but falsehood or illusions. A case in point is the great astronomer Copernicus, who developed the theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun. Although the theory was the most advanced astronomy theory in that time, it hadn't come out of press until the year before Copernicus' death because of mass being strongly against it especially the powerful churches, which were afraid that such a theory would shake authority of theology.

In some specific period, for political reasons, thinker and intellectuals as a whole undergo ruthless treatment, such as the Culture Revolution from 1966 to 1976 in China. During those ten years, many great thinkers and intellectuals are forbidden to think and express their thoughts freely. Some of them even encountered physical torture. A crueler example is Qin Dynasty in China 2000 years ago. Yingzheng, the first emperor of China, sentenced the thinkers who held different political or social ideas from him to death. Moreover, he buried their writings.

It is the greatest thinkers' tragedy not to be understood or even be persecuted. It is also the fact that human beings are always shortsighted, sometimes even foolish. Nevertheless, what is truth will never change itself or disappear along with the elapsing of time however strong the falsehood seems to be. Hence, though almost all the greatest thinkers are hermits, some of them may be even the prisoners in their societies; they would gain their perpetual lives through their glaring.