2012年2月4日雅思大真题范文
IELTS Writing Topic+Essay
海外大学教师谢振礼
Jeenn Lee Hsieh
Some people think that young people should follow traditions of their society, and others think that young people should be free to behave as individuals.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
龙年第一次雅思A类大作文真题：到底年轻人（1）是应该遵守传统，（2）还是可以被允许有自由的行为？
谢振礼老师倾向选择（2）作为立场，让年轻人自由地检验传统，这样子吹起牛来也比较有进展，又留退路，而却在逻辑思维上更能够自圆其说。按真题指示，不要忘记分头讨论（1）保留优良传统的社会价值。有立场就能针对试题来申论主题，这是开头第一句。因为：知识与经验有限，范文中或许缺乏支持主题的内容。所以：运用抽象的比喻提出【理由，例子，细节】。借以证明作者的立场。
回答这个试题不容易，主要是因为跑题的风险很大。细看真题，必须记住把关键字或其同义字重复出现在字里行间：tradition, society, individuals, free, behave.
隐形模板：起3承6转6合3
起--允许年轻人自由取舍传统，视传统为历史的导师，而不是未来的狱警。
承--（舍其劣）年轻人自由抗拒不好的传统束缚，如此社会才能进化。
转--（取其优）全力保卫优良的传统价值，如此相传社会的文化遗产。
合--年轻人在行为上分辨理性的活传统与非理性的死传统。
IELTS Example Essay
by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
Every generation, young and old, should be allowed freedom to deal with the breaking down of certain patterns and standards being handed down from the past. As individuals, young people are particularly keen to the need to end whatever tradition they think is unreasonable for the society. All rebellious minds think alike--tradition is a guide for the past but not a jailer for the future.
Too often young men and women are enthusiastic about the evolution of beliefs and practices of their society, and their behaviors tend to challenge a number of elements of tradition. For that matter, mental independence is required because without an amount of freedom, tradition would be only an explanation for acting in conformity without thinking independently. Accordingly, young people ought not to be forced to express their new feelings in a mummified form, otherwise the evolution in tradition could not happen. The point is that not just because something is traditional, so there is reason enough to do it. It is good, however, for young people to continue a worthwhile tradition, and it is also good not to be captive of an unreasonable tradition which is not worth having. Although social bondage persists, it makes a difference if young people are permitted to think and act in such a way as different from that of a conservative mind in which the word 'tradition' means a shortcut to thinking or an excuse for acting.
Probably a society can only successfully function with traditional values--diverse customs, thoughts, lifestyles, religion, music, dance, arts and languages, among other things of culture. Young people had better learn that modern traditions are built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. Traditions bring continuity to one's existence in a society, even though this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost through modernity. Thus, it behooves young individuals to preserve their traditions of value by safeguarding against the negative influence from various factors such as industrialization, globalization, and assimilation or marginalization of special cultural groups. It certainly makes patriotic sense that young people's love for traditions worth continuing always strengthens the well-being of the society and never weakens all that is meant to identify themselves with their country. Good tradition being a good guide, young people, however rebellious, should not be entirely negative about the past with all its enduring heritages and necessary evils.
In conclusion, since a modern society is not supposed to be a dead community, young people may behave freely in treating tradition as the living faith of the dead and not as the dead faith of the living. They should not believe in traditions simply because many beliefs and practices have been handed down for many generations, but should instead observe and analyze anything that agrees with reason and is conductive to the good and benefit of the society. It takes a lot of history to make a tradition, so the best of which must be accepted and lived up to, from generation to generation.
IELTS Writing Task2 Topic
UAE, January 2012
兔年尾UAE雅思写作试题
年轻人崇拜明星
Nowadays young people are admiring media and sports stars, even though they do not set a good example. Do you
think this is a positive or negative development?
Example Essay
回答雅思或托福独立作文试题不要忘记适当的运用抽象比喻来支持你的立场。为了弥补知识与经验的不足，除了应用抽象的比喻则无法提出理由，例子，细节。经过破题，发现连试题都有抽象的用语，如关键字--明星stars就是抽象比喻。试题：当今的年轻人特别崇拜影剧，音乐与体育界的明星。此现象造成的发展是正面的还是负面的？
凭个人的想法做抽象比喻。崇拜遥远不可及的明星犹若盲目的单恋。年轻人避免不了恋爱的盲目，自然也无需避免盲目的崇拜明星。媒体报导明星的专业成就，也报导明星的花边新闻。年轻人自能取舍榜样，社会各界大可不必操心负面的发展。全文如此这般，都是吹牛，但不跑题。
读者是看你的英文使用的程度和学术作文的纪律，并不在乎你答题的立场是同意或不同意。不过一旦你确定立场，考官就看你如何能够创造内容来支持你既定的立场。主题的焦点在于赞美明星的才华，还是寻找道德的示范。
考生被逼迫选择二者之一：（1）是好的现象。（2）是坏的现象。作者选择（1）的立场。 （注意：不是标准答案, 只是千百可行的回答之一）。
大纲：逻辑心图，四段定位，18句装配。
起--好现象，因为对年轻人来说，既是心态正常又是反应社会发展，与道德考虑无关。
承--理由例子细节。年轻人崇拜明星是极其正常的心里历程，无关道德榜样。
转--理由例子细节。年轻人崇拜明星是反应媒体社会的影响，无关道德榜样。
合--整体而言是好现象，到底青年人免不了崇拜明星，所以道德的联想应该摆在一边。
There is no need to be overly preoccupied with the fantasy images of stars standing out from the rest on the screen, the stage and the playing field because celebrity worship is part of everyday life, particularly among adolescents. That young people are admiring media and sports celebrities is socially normal outside the academic and behavioral context. Accepting that it is good and natural to be young, then it is inevitable for young people to be obsessed with certain personalities as their ideal examples.
Psychologically speaking, a certain amount of star admiration is normal. When young, becoming fans of favorite stars is a form of escapism and a way to dull emotional pain and stress; so, emulating celebrities is a natural part of development to identify themselves with their icons. Even in adulthood, people rank successful individuals highly and model themselves after them. In a global media culture, the lifestyle promoted by stars is often unattainable to the average person, regardless of whether it is realistic or ideal. Hence, the point is that young people choose their models for reasons based on renowned excellence in a specific field rather than on scandals that happen sometimes. That is, it is to admire what is shining in famous people's career successes and not what happen to shadow their real lives.
Not unlike fashion, "star worship syndrome" is simply a social development, although there could be an unhealthy interest in the private lives of actors, actresses, pop singers, and sports players. Admiring celebrities may be as blind as falling in love, and just as normal. When it comes to immature and confused minds, love cannot be avoided, nor can admiration for heroes and heroines. Such star obsession has proliferated since the creation of the mass media and therefore it had better not be regarded as a moral issue. To believe that celebrity worship is a negative development only makes out-of-date moral sense, leading to nowhere. In this gossip world, to criticize celebrities for failing to deliver good examples all the time beyond their specialized fields calls for the need to stop, in the first place, the media outlets from reporting what gossip is made of.
Admiration for favorite stars does no harm to people, young or old; besides, star admiration cannot be avoided in this information age. Fortunately, most fans are able to learn to tell a realistic world from an ideal world during this period between no-longer children and not-yet adults, without having to refer to moral examples. Indeed, there is nothing wrong about young people seeking their idols by looking up at the shining stars in the fantasy world to which many young people naturally belong.
