2016年10月1日新
本次考试最难的依然是建国纲要类文章，虽然这次没有考察双篇，但是题目出的仍然是相对来说较为抽象。这部分选段，潘恩逐一驳斥了一些人的说法，可谓是将这些人的旧有的观念驳斥成了“渣”。全文的论述相当精彩，比方说开头，一些人说我们过去与Great Britain的联系让我们富裕，所以这种联系就要保存。潘恩上来就骂道，一个小孩儿小时候喝牛奶，以后就不吃别的了么?过去不能预测未来。这是潘恩在逻辑上驳斥了第一类人的说法。
Thomas Panie的Common sense 节选。
文章部分节选：
I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert, that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat; or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.