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1、GRE 作文 issue 素材：Education：（英国夏山学校）freedom individual interests and needsSummerhill, a school founded in 1921 by A.S. Neill who is a famed educator of England, holds the education idea of freedom. In this school, students are not enforced to attend classes; children make rules by themselves and no on
2、e will restrict them; the tests are not compulsory and students have never been worried about their marks. Each teacher teaches only one student, so when students graduate at their 16, they will be confident, tolerant and more talented. 现代社会发展快，科技迅速Ours is a time of problems, of gigantic problems. E
3、verything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve. -Pope Pius VI, May 18,1969现代科技的危害：Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau has warned:” Mankind has probably done more damage to the Ear
4、th in the twenties century than in all previous human history.” Likewise the environmental organization Worldwatch Institute concluded in 1989. By the end of the next decade the die will pretty well be cast. As the world enters the twenty-first century, the community of nations either will have reli
5、ed and turned back the threatening trends, or environmental deterioration and social disintegration will be feeding on each other.Homo sapiens, by contrast, being endowed with superior intelligence, was able to adapt environment to its needs by mastering fire, fashioning clothes, constructing shelte
6、rs, and so forth.个人 VS 集体：Responsibility lies with the institutions of society, not in the virtues of the individual.Norways former prime minister Gro Harlen Brundtland notes, however, the Western Europeans who initiated the industrial revolution and the ensuing atmospheric pollution, cannot now con
7、demn “have-nots” to the status of “never-will-haves”.Francis Bacon confronted his head-on when he urged that the newly emerging discipline of science be employed for the “benefit and use of life” and not for “inferior things” such as “profit, or fame, or power.”现代发展快，文明出现后Geologic time is measured i
8、n billions of years, and human prehistory in thousands, but since the advent of civilization, the time unit has shrunk progressively to centuries and to decades, until fateful events now daily crowd us, uncreasingly and inexorable.历史重要性Thucydides, the most objective of Greek historians, began his st
9、udy of the Peloponnesian War by stating that nothing of great importance had happened before his time. His ignorance of history prevented his from recognizing the unique glory and contribution of Athens.科技的作用：A spectacular recent example of technology enabling us to recover lost chapters of our huma
10、n past is the discovery of the Great Wall of China.Segments of the Great Wall have been lost for centuries under layers of shifting desert sand, Thus long segments deteriorated and disappeared from view until the recent uncovering by the wizardry of modern technology.合作 communityAfter observing the
11、daily life of food gatherers in various parts of the world, anthropologist R.B. Lee concludes:” A truly communal life is often dismissed as a utopian ideal, to be endorsed in theory but unattainable in practice. But the evidence for foraging peoples tells us otherwise. A sharing way of life is not o
12、nly possible but has actually existed in many parts of the world and over long periods long periods of time.”十一、法律的公正性免费留学评估表 免费移民评估表司法公正 Juristic Justice客观公正 Objective JusticeAgnewism 要求社会每个公民极力维护法律的尊严，he requires that everyone should maintenance the juristic dignity of that society.Law Commission
13、英国立法委员会an England independent, government-founded organization that reviews laws which need updating, reforming or developing.十二、社会类社会大恐慌 great social panic分配机制 distribution mechanism、经济制度 economic system、政治制度political system、外交政策 foreign policy十三、教育 W. Artheer Lewis, an America most famous economis
14、t who receives Nobel Prize in 1979, had once said: I have never dreamed to be an economist, but it is my mothers effects that lead me the way to be economist.儒家文化 Confucianism在社会中立足 establish oneself firmly in the society如果没有社会整体价值观的影响，我们就像生活在孤岛之上；同样，如果没有其他个人、家庭、小团体的影响，我们就像漂泊在大海之中。Without the effect
15、s of the value of that society as a whole, we will truly be isolated from the rest; similarly, without the effect of other individuals, our own family members and small groups, we will just likely to drift in the sea.十四、历史自由女神像 Statue of liberty雅典庙 Athenian Temple建筑是刻在石头上的历史书 Architecture is a histo
16、ry textbook recorded in stone；是一段或化了的历史证据 one of the most cogent living testimonies of history；他揭示了我们本土文化的精华 they convey the essence of our native culture；是一个国家或城市的路标 they serves as landmarks for a city or nation.十五、科学研究瓦特 watt 发明蒸汽机 steam engine、第一次工业革命 The First Industrial Revolution、Pasteur 对消毒法 antisepsis 的研究发明 Pasteurization阿波罗计划 Apollo Project、人类基因组测试工程 Human Genome Project、外太空探索 exploration of outer space、核研究 nuclear research 会导致 atomic weapon、生物化学研究 biochemica
