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考研英语短文写作命题规律分析在研究生英语入学考试中,英语写作历来是考生的一个难点。英语写作主要考查考生运用英语的综合能力,其中包括用英语组织篇章段落的能力、英语的语句表达能力以及语法的综合运用能力。要做好写作部分的试题,要求考生不仅具有较扎实的语言基础,而且还要掌握一些写作的基本技能,如:信息的分析和综合能力以及丰富的想像力。英文写作是一个最能体现考生书面英语水平和技能的测试项目。一、写作B部分命题的基本指导思想考试大纲对写作的评价目标根据《大纲》规定:考生应根据题目以及写作提纲或规定的情境、图表、图画等写出大约200个词的短文。具体要求概括如下:(1)内容切题,包含提纲或图画的全部要点和信息。所谓内容切题是指所写的短文切合题意,即正确理解题目的意思。误解题目或曲解题意,写出来的短文答非所问就是跑题。另外,也要注意不漏掉提纲或图画中的要点和信息,如果提纲中给出了三个要点,考生却只写了两个要点,显然从内容上就不切题了。因此,审题是短文写作成败的关键。考生一定要认真阅读写作要求,仔细琢磨题意,弄清题目以及写作提纲或规定情境、图表的内容范围,依此表达题目限定的中心思想,做到内容切题。(2)表达清楚,意思连贯。表达清楚是指清楚地表达思想,而不是含糊其考研辅导班辞,使人不得要领。在写作过程中,考生应思路清晰,运用恰当的语句表达意思。此外,还要根据题目要求,围绕中心提出论点,摆出论据,使短文层次分明,合乎逻辑。意思连贯是指句子与句子、段落与段落之间衔接自然,整体性强。考生应熟练运用连接词语来正确表达一个观点与另一观点之间的关系。(3)用词正确,句式有变化,语言比较规范。语言比较规范是指在遣词造句中应符合英语语法和习惯用法。首先在词语运用上能够选用恰当的、能够准确表达意义的词,并能显示出一定的词汇量(用词面较宽);其次,写出的句子符合语法规范,没有重大语法错误,句式上多变,不要只用简单句或陈述句,应适当增加句子形式的多样性,不仅有短句,也有长句,不仅有简单句,也有并列句、复合句等等。(4)文章的长度符合要求。长度是指短文的字数。符合要求的字数应是160至200个词左右。现将大纲对写作部分的评分标准摘录如下:(1)20~17分。内容切题,包括题中所列三个方面的内容;清楚表达其内涵,文字连贯;句式有变化,句子结构和用词正确。文章长度符合要求。(2)16~13分。内容切题,包括题中所列三个方面的内容;比较清楚地表达其内涵,文字基本连贯;句式有一定变化,句子结构和用词无重大错误;文章长度符合要求。(3)12~9分。内容切题,基本包含题中所列三个方面的内容;基本清楚地表达其内涵,句子结构和用词无重大错误。文章长度符合要求。(4)8~5分。内容基本切题,基本包含题中所列三个方面的内容;语句可以理解,但有较多的句子结构和用词错误。文章长度基本符合要求。(5)4~1分。基本按照要求写作,但只有少数句子可以教育学考研辅 导理解。(6)0分。文不切题,语句混乱,无法理解。二、写作B部分材料的选择(一)选择材料的特点纵观历年试卷,写作的题目多集中在社会伦理、人生哲理、学校教育、人际关系交往、娱乐方式、健康和生活方式等方面。最近几年的命题多与当前的社会现实和热点问题有关,要求考生对社会现象和社会的经济、文化生活有所关注和思考,并形成自己的见解。从命题内容来看,其材料特点有:1. 普遍性:发生在身边的事情,各种考生都有一定的体验,可以有感而发。比如2003年的温室里的花和2002年的中国与国际的交流。不管你身处何处,这些现象和变化都是中国人共同体验的。考题不会考查一部分考生熟悉,而另一部分考生不了解的内容。对于社会生活中的敏感问题,一般不会涉及。2. 教育性:论题有警示作用的,可让考生作深层思考。比如,有关人生哲理的2008年 “合作的重要性”,2007年的“乐观心态是成功的关键”,2004年的“终点又是新的起点”。3. 社会性:社会关心的、典型的事。如2009年的题目是网络的“近”与“远”,2006年的题目是偶像崇拜,2005年则对赡养老人问题展开讨论,2003年的试题既可以讨论加入世界贸易组织后的中国经济发展的现实问题,也可以谈孩子的教育问题,2002年的题目是中外文化交流问题。因此考生平时应关注社会性的问题,加深思考深度,并且阅读英文报纸,积累相关词汇。在近10年的考题中三分之一是正面现象的分析论证,如2004年的终点又是起点,2002年的“国际化交流”,2001年的“希望工程或爱心工程”。而其余的考题关注的是社会中存在的一些问题,也就是说三分之二的题目是有关负面问题的分析解决。(二)作文的体裁从体裁上看,近14年的作文都为论说文。论说文的特点是说议结合,一部分为对论教育学考研题的说明,一部分为议论,或者夹叙夹议。这种写作的难点在于将说明或描写与议论有机地结合起来,形成一个衔接自然的文章。下表为近十年考题特点的小结。时间 主题 题材 类型2013年 作出选择 人生哲理 图画式作文2012年 乐观面对生活 人生哲理 图画式作文2011年 旅途之“余” 社会生活 图画式作文2010年 文化融合 文化与交流 图画式作文2009年 网络的“近”与“远” 社会生活 图画式作文2008年 合作的重要性 人生哲理 图画式作文2007年 乐观心态是成功的关键 人生哲理 图画式作文2006年 偶像崇拜 社会生活 图画式作文2005年 年轻人应该赡养父母 社会伦理 图画式作文2004年 终点又是新的起点 人生哲理 图画式作文2003年 温室里的花经不起风雨 教育或经济问题 图画式作文2002年 中国与世界的文化交流 文化与交流 图画式作文2001年 困难的时候,人人都应该献爱心 社会伦理 图画式作文2000年 自然生态平衡遭破坏 环境保护 图画式作文01 The Language of Music A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. 02 Schooling and Ecation Ecation is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Ecation knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of ecation can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. 03 The Definition of “Price” Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which procts and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the procts bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. 04 Electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators. 05 The Beginning of Drama There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural forces of the world-even the seasonal changes-as unpredictable, and they sought through various means to control these unknown and feared powers. 06 Television Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies. 07 Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel instry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the proct and in part from his policy of expanding ring periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were recing their investments. 08 American Revolution The American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on. 09 Suburbanization If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began ring the emergence of the instrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. 10 Types of Speech Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and expressions are well defined and listed in standard dictionaries. Colloquialisms, on the other hand, are familiar words and idioms that are understood by almost all speakers of a language and used in informal speech or writing, but not considered appropriate for more formal situations. 11 Archaeology Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as any other historian, an archaeologist studies and tries to reconstitute the process that has created the human world in which we live - and us ourselves in so far as we are each creatures of our age and social environment. Archaeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of humanbehavior. The sum total of these constitutes what may be called the archaeological record. This record exhibits certain peculiarities and deficiencies the consequences of which proce a rather superficial contrast between archaeological history and the more familiar kind based upon written records. 12 Museums From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future. In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so. The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere - space.13 Skyscrapers and Environment In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities. Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120, 000 kilowatts-enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day. Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain)through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board. 14 A Rare Fossil Record The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized. Ichthyosaurs had a higher chance of being preserved than did terrestrial creatures because, as marine animals, they tended to live in environments less subject to erosion. Still, their fossilization required a suite of factors: a slow rate of decay of soft tissues, little scavenging by other animals, a lack of swift currents and waves to jumble and carry away small bones, and fairly rapid burial. 15 The Nobel Academy For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within. Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar internal politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself. 16. the war between Britain and France In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one major war ring this time, the war between Britain and France. All other battles were ancillary to this larger conflict, and were often at least partially related to its antagonist’ goals and strategies. France sought total domination of Europe . this goal was obstructed by British independence and Britain’s efforts throughout the continent to thwart Napoleon; through treaties. 17.Evolution of sleep Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles. There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and dreamless, depend on the life-style of the animal, and that predators are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized and remarkably unresponsive to external stimuli. 18.Modern American Universities Before the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students. Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. In German university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. Between mid-century and the end of the 1800’s, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study.