有孙远老师所著的《GRE作文》的人会发现,其中范文的段首句或者模板句为了概括全段总显得硬梆梆的.不论是Issue还是Argument,大家为了套作文提纲文章也总好像在喊口号(e.g. in the first place,in the second place....),牵强地扣住主体或题目.然而,这种注重形式而忽略内涵的写法与ETS发布的范文完全不同,也让11月份的考兄们吃尽苦头.

　　倘若看看6分5分作文的remark or comment,我不禁发觉有些尽管明显没有写完,缺少conclution的作文也能得6分,因为批卷者对他的complexity也就是内涵给于很高的评价,并且那些作文也并非都把中心句放在段首,也并非一定像托福作文那一开头就表明立场,而是采取一种推理的手段,让读者自然而然就了解作者的意图和构思.

　　想想也是.其实我们的高考作文也很抽象吧与GRE作文有类似,那些形式漂亮,内容空洞的文章觉得不了空洞,我们这些人在高考作文中不也是驾权得当,游刃有余吗?怎么换作英语,就变得谨慎,小儿科了呢?

　　以下我根据ETS的要求写了一篇ISSUE188....不知效果如何....我们完全可以用我们中国这几年发生的事作为例证,而不必舍近求远写一些我们不熟悉的美国文化,例如：democratic, struggle against racism等.

　　(最近看了张艺谋的《英雄》和陈凯歌的《跟你在一起》,形式和内容,署者者更为重,我有了进一步领悟。)

　　188"Success, whether academic or professional, involves an ability to survive in a new environment and, eventually, to change it."

　　Many wonder the intrinsic impact of industrial revolution over the last century. Is it a blessing or a curse? Ever since the invention of steam engine, mass production enabled factories to make out products in a madly efficient manner, while machines also supplanted innumerous traditionally skilled artisan, forcing them out of work. Gone are the days when they boasted of their craftsmanship that they assumed to be able support their family all their life. Consumers became more aspiring to novel design instead of durability as goods were made to be discarded.

　　Hundreds years later, with the first installation of integrated circuit on the chip, another profound turnover took place. Now the computer pervades our life so much that one may find himself half illiterate in absence of input skill. This time, thousands of jobs were created in Silicon Valley, transforming some of the few into billionaire over one night. Nevertheless, the original inventor might not expect that the ensuing slow down and thus recession in IT sector would approach so soon in less than 10 years, which is obviously less than a presumable 15 years time normal for a periodical change.

　　Positive or negative, one mark that characterizes the technological bombardment indicates a constant fact: changes exist ubiquitously and operating at an ever-increasing tempo; those who fail to catch up with the torrent of change would ineluctably engulfed by billows, floating no where and eventually dissolve as negligible bubbles.

　　Favors as well as opportunities goes to who adapt to the contemporary trend. Fully recognizing this axiom, long before the scientists announced accomplishment of sketches of human genes or earlier successful cloning of Doris, candidates preparing for university admission have smelt the sense. Today, in the U.S., biology and its branch disciplines become the first choice for top students of senior high, determining that this subject, foretold as the third wave in technology, could bring them brilliant future as“Bill Gates”dreamt the same in the previous wave.

　　In addition to academic realm, respect would be paid to people who though deprived of their past secure professions, choose not to be a loser in the whimsical society. Like the artisans who lost jobs, a vast number of skilled laborer in China’s city of Wengzhou have undergone darkness and depression in those old days. However, after years of endeavor and refinement, they prove their value again. By accurately posit the economic trend and market demand, they play an active role in almost all economic sectors, garments, catering and lodging, hi-tech industry, you name it.

　　While ability honed in surviving the fickleness of the world makes the path through success shorter, it is essential for the more ambitious to acquire the pith of reformist and lead the trend. In this way, it could help him distinguish from the mediocracy and platitude. This is absolutely not an easy task. Inborn insight and foresight are needed to tell uncommon out of the commonplace; extraordinary perseverance and encouragement is a must to face the coming challenges against his iconoclasm. Very few people crowned with triumph possess this quality, whether the Nobel Prize winner or those who makes coverage on the Times.

　　In sum, as shown in the course of history, success, whether academic or professional, involves an ability to surviving in a new environment and---, eventually, ---to change it. Now some elite persons have again forecast that another social change is impending. Are you ready for that?