Students from rural areas often find it difficult to access university education. Some people think that universities should make higher education easier for them to access. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
农村来的学生常常感到难以获得大学教育。一些人认为大学应该让农村孩子更容易获得高等教育。多大程度上你同意或者不同意?
【 说明 】
中国的城乡差距给Pat留下了深刻印象,能够放下全部工作去希望小学当半年甚至一年的志愿者也是Pat的人生愿望之一。英美的农村与城市之间也存在着差距,但是差距明显要小很多。这也许就是为什么李克强先生一再地提出:“城镇化是扩大内需的最大潜力所在(Urbanisation has the greatest potential for boosting domestic demand.)。”
下面这篇范文从财务和教育背景两方面比较有力地论述了农村孩子在获得大学教育方面所面临的挑战以及大学的责任。近年来英美大学帮助农村孩子获得高等教育的另一个常用方法则是提供远程教育课程(provide a wide selection of distance learning courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels)。
这篇考生范文采用了只含有两个主体段的一边倒(完全支持)写法,但是因为本文里每个主体段里面的展开支持理由都写得很充实,因此仍然实现了比较强的论证说服力。
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Some people think that universities should try to make higher education more easily accessible to students from rural areas. I completely agree with their view.
Rural students are more likely to face financial challenges in pursuing higher education than urban students. The average income of rural families is significantly lower than that of urban families. This means that many rural parents are not able to provide their children with enough money to cover university tuition costs . Universities should therefore provide more money as need-based aid to students from rural areas to ease their financial burden and help them to concentrate on their studies .
Primary and secondary schools in rural areas are also at a disadvantage in terms of equipment and teaching staff. As the gap between the standards of living in urban and rural areas has been growing over the past few decades,it is now harder for rural schools to get enough funding for advanced teaching equipment or to recruit competent teachers. Students do not have the opportunities to achieve their academic potential at these schools. Thus,in the university admission process,universities should have admission requirements that take the rural-origin students' educational background into consideration to ensure that a fair number of rural-origin students can be admitted. Universities should also provide students from rural areas with special academic orientation programmes ,and help them to become familiar with the teaching technology and methods that urban students have been exposed to.
In conclusion,although all students should be treated as equals,I believe that universities should introduce special financial and academic policies to ensure that students from rural areas can have the opportunities to achieve their academic potential through higher education.
词汇和短语
(标★的是本类话题的高频词汇或短语)
★ more easily accessible to … (某种资源)更便于让某一类人使用的
financial challenges 财务方面的挑战
pursue vt. 追寻(某个目标),寻求
★ tuition costs (名词短语) 学费的开支
★ ease sb's burden (动宾短语) 减轻某人的负担
need-based aid 按需分配的财务帮助 (对比:merit based aid按照申请者的能力和成就来分配的财务帮助)
concentrate on their studies 集中精力在他们的学习上面
recruit vt. 雇佣
★ competent adj. 称职的,合格的
★ admission requirements (名词短语) 录取要求
take … into consideration 将某种因素纳入考虑
rural-origin students 来自农村的学生
★ orientation n. 本文里指新生对新环境的适应过程
【搭配】orientation programme 帮助学生适应校园学习与生活的项目
be exposed to 接触到(某种影响或媒体)
★ achieve their academic potential 充分发挥他们的学术潜力
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■译文
有人认为大学应该让那些来自于农村地区的孩子更容易获得高等教育。我完全同意这一观点。
农村地区的学生在寻求获得高等教育方面要比城市学生面临着更大的挑战。农村家庭的平均收入要比城市家庭低得多。这就意味着许多农村父母没有足够的钱去支付孩子的大学学费。因此,大学应该提供更多的资金向来自农村地区而且有资助需要的学生们发放,以减轻他们的财政负担并帮他们将精力集中到学习上来。
农村地区的中小学同样在教学设备和师资力量上处于劣势。由于城市和农村在生活水平上的差距在过去的几十年中不断加大,农村学校就更难获得足够的资金来购买先进的教学仪器和招募合格的教师。许多农村学生在这些学校中不能发挥他们的学术潜力。所以在大学录取阶段,大学应在设定录取要求时将来自农村的学生的教育背景计入考虑,由此来保证一个公平的农村学生录取人数。大学 还 应该向来自农村的学生提供特殊的学术适应指导项目,来使他们了解那些一直在影响着城市学生们的教学技术和方法。
总之,尽管对所有的学生都应该一视同仁,但我认为大学应引入特殊的财务和学术政策来保证农村学生有机会通过高等教育真正发挥自己的潜力。