考生要想在
1. Young people should be encouraged to pursue long-term, realistic goals rather than seek immediate fame and recognition.
年轻人应该被鼓励去寻求长期的可行目标而不是追求眼前的名声。
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2. Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.
政府不应该资助任何结果不明确的科学研究。
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3. Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach.
大学应该要求所有教职员工花时间研究和所教课程相关的学术界之外的东西。
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
4. Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
了解过去并不能帮助人们做出当下的重要决定。
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5. In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
在今天这个媒体铺天盖地的社会中，社会已经不可能把任何一个现存的人视为英雄了。
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6. We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
通常，我们从与我们意见相同的人身上学到的要比从那些与我们意见相悖的人身上学的东西要多得多。
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
7. The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.
了解当代文化最有效的方法是分析年轻人的时尚潮流。
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8. People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by society as a whole.
人们的态度观点更多的是由当前的情况或者环境所决定，而非社会整体环境。
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
9. Claim: The best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
命题：判断一个论述好坏的最好方法是看它是否能说服持相反观点的人。
Reason: Only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea.
理由：只有通过反驳相反的观点来捍卫一个理念，才能找到该理念的价值所在。
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
10. Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
当相当数量的市民处于饥饿和失业状态时，政府应该延缓对艺术的资助。
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