英语专八作文范文

专八范文背诵：拥有私人汽车的利与弊

编辑点评：近年来，随着国民经济的持续快速发展，人们的生活水平日益提高，中国汽车保有量持续高速猛增，中国汽车业能否健康发展已经成为事关国计民生的热门话题。汽车带来的自主开发、能源、环保、交通、经济可持续发展实际上都与和谐社会、节约型社会息息相关。汽车与人们生活的联系越来越紧密。当我们探讨如何构建和谐社会、节约型社会的时候，已经不能将我们的社会与汽车割裂开。

With the fantastic spur both in industry and in economy in China, the number of people who own private cars is on the rise. Some people have bought cars of their own, and others are planning to buy cars. But there have been two quite different views on this phenomenon.

Some claim that there are many advantages brought about by cars. First, the automobile industry provides jobs for countless workers and strong support for other industries. Second, if conditions permit, owning a car can make us work more efficiently. Finally, life will become more convenient. A car allows one to move freely and with a car there is no need to wait for the bus in the cold or under the burning sun.

However, others strongly object to the increase in developing private cars. They hold that automobiles will give rise to a series of problems. In the first place, as more and more cars are produced and run in the street, a large volume of poisonous gas will be given off, polluting the atmosphere and causing actual harm to the health of people. Next, private cars contribute to traffic congestion so greatly that the advantages gained in comfort and freedom are often cancelled out by the frustration caused by traffic jams. The last problem is the increasing number of car accidents that have killed and will kill a lot of people in a friction of a second.

In my opinion, although automobiles have been playing a vital part in the daily activities of our society, they also bring us numerous troubles such as more serious environmental pollution, more traffic accidents and more angry consumption. They drink up huge amounts of fuel and throw out huge amounts of pollutants. Traffic accidents kill thousands and thousands of people each year and cripple more. Jams waste our precious time. Therefore I am against developing private cars.

专八美文背诵：青春的真谛

编辑点评：青春不仅存在于人的外表，内心年轻的话，青春就还在；人之所以会变老也不单单是因为时光流逝，也因为我们在不断地抛弃理想。

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.

专八范文背诵：重大决定是否可以一个人单独决定

编辑点评：人的一辈子要做很多决定。有些比较重要的决定是不是适合一个人单独做出呢？你是如何看待这个问题的？

A person should never make an important decision alone, important decisions should be well thought out. People, who know you well, know what is best for you, and close to you can give you good advice, give you a different perspective, or share their own experience.

When I had difficulty deciding which classes to take in college, I talked to my teachers and advisors; they had the knowledge and expertise to help me determine which classes were the best ones to take for my future career. Without their advice, I might have chosen unsuitable courses. In collage, I had convinced myself that I was not good enough to act in the school play. Therefore, I decided not to audition even though drama had always been my passion. The day of the audition, a friend of mine asked me why I was not auditioning. When I told her I did not feel I was good enough, she was shocked. She was able to provide me with another perspective on myself and my talents. I rethought my decision and tried out….and got a lead in the play.

Last year when I was trying to decide whether or not I should study overseas, I talked to my friend. This was the best thing I could have done. This was a big decision for me because I had never been overseas on my own and I was not sure if I could do it. She had studied overseas the previous year. She told me about the challenges and opportunities I might encounter and helped me make the right decision. I went and it was amazing.

Whenever I am faced with an important decision, I seek advice from others so that I am well-informed and have the benefit of their perspective and experience.

“微博作业”： 好还是不好？

The freshmen of Media Department in Nanjing University recently received a rather alternative assignment: They are each to open a Twitter account, and are to be graded at the end of the semester according to the number of followers they get. This unique task has aroused wide public concerns as well as split opinions. What is your view on this? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic:

The Twitter Assignment: Good or Bad?

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题目要求考生就南京大学传媒专业新生所接到的一项与众不同的“微博作业”展开议论。从题目中我们发现，这项“微博作业”主要是以粉丝数量来计算成绩的。文章可以由此入手：首先，分别陈述正反双方的不同观点及各自的理由；在此基础上，提出自己的看法并进行论证。可以想到，支持的人会认为“微博作业”有创意，能够很好地锻炼学生的宣传能力；反对的人则会认为以粉丝数来评分不太科学，可能引发学生花钱买粉丝、为求关注率而迎合受众等不良后果。我们可以从大学课程的创新，以及理论教学和社会接轨的角度出发，提出自己的观点：开通微博这项作业是符合传媒专业的特点、顺应当前媒体传播形势的，这种思路值得提倡；同时，这项试验性设计需要更合理的评分系统来引导和规范学生。

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The Twitter Assignment: Good or Bad?

The freshmen of Media Department in Nanjing University were assigned with a quite unique task: the students are each to open a Twitter account, and by the end of the semester, they will be graded according to the number of “followers”, i.e. fans they get. If a student wants to pass this course, he or she needs at least 500 followers; to get a “Good”, one needs 2,000 followers; and to squeeze in the “Outstanding” league, one must earn 3,000 followers and more. This “Twitter Assignment”

was soon tweet around, and has since turned into a public debate. On the purposes of this experiment and its outcomes, people have different views. Some netizens praised it was “brilliant”, and commented “Twitter is a great personal media for students to practice their ability to promote.”

However, there are also a lot of skeptics of the assignment. The idea that students are graded by how many followers they get on Twitter is particularly challenged. It is generally believed that the number of fans is nothing but one simple indicator of the overall quality, and not a scientific approach to assess. Since there is already an overload of useless information on the Internet, some worry that it might usher another platform for gossiping, or boring detailed personal information, thus breeding a group of narcissists who think that they need to share every bit of their life to the grain. What's more, in order to attract the eyeballs, students may tweet exaggerated or even false information, blurring the lines between what is real news and what are convincing untruths. Since fact-checking is integral to the integrity of news sources, when the media starts relying on Twitter, however, those who factcheck will be left behind and feel it a disadvantage.

Seen from my point of view, the Twitter assignment is a revolutionary teaching experiment. Twitter uses new resources to provide fast information. Students get an alternative approach for acquiring information, as they could get touch with many celebrities on Twitter, and tweeting is a best way to dig deep and get scoops. Students also become familiar with basic editing procedures by tweeting. There are endless possibilities to use Twitter in creating and publishing. However, it needs more guidance for students and more regulation on their posting behaviors, for instance, adopting a more appropriate and reasonable grading system taking account of factors including popularity, subject and originality of content, time-sensitiveness, response rate and forwarding rate.

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