在考试中,事实上大部分题目都可以从人和社会的角度来思考并寻找论证角度。
人的角度: 凡事以人为本,因此那些能为人们带来益处的事物总是我们所推崇的,而那些不利于人们的事物则应该为我们所摒弃。
●health
e.g. physical, mental & psychological health
●wealth
e.g. material & spiritual wealth
●improvement of living standard
e.g. clothing, food, housing transport & education
社会的角度: 人组成了社会,因此社会包含了人与人的关系以及其相关的内容。
●relationship between two people
e.g. understanding and confidence between people & friendships
●the development of social economy
e. g. the boom of trades, the development of social economy & the increase in revenue
●social civilization
e.g. language, custom, religion and belief & tradition
以下七项原则也是考生打开思路的途径之一。
女性就业:
●Women find that they must work to earn enough money to provide for their family.
●Once they get married, the majority of women continue working since the financial pressures of setting up a house and establishing a reasonable standard of living often require two incomes.
●Those professional childcare facilities come at a cost and often require two salaries coming into a family to be affordable.
●Indeed it could be argued that by giving mothers the opportunity to work and earn extra money, children can be better provided for than previously. There is more money for luxuries and holidays and a more secure family life is possible.
艺术:
●The arts can be an important attraction for tourists, bringing considerable revenue into the country.
●Government subsidy of the arts is unnecessary because if art is good enough, then people will pay for it. If art is not good enough to be popular, then government should not reward it for its failure.
●Art is not a commodity.
全球化:
●Globalisation has increased world prosperity.
英语作为国际语言:
●If everyone spoke the same language it would be much easier for people to move and work in different countries or to conduct trade with each other.
穿校服:
●Parents often find some uniform items, e.g. jackets, very expensive compared to the rest of their child’s wardrobe, and complain they can never be worn outside the school environment.
旅游:
●Tourism is the largest industry in the world. It surpasses the trade in oil, steel, and armaments in total dollar value and in employment created.
●Often large sums of money are needed to attract tourists, so significant capital investment may be wasted.
太空探索:
●Our dreams of exploring space are a luxury we cannot afford.
●Space exploration is a waste of resources.
禁烟:
●A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of pounds because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related problems.
●A further point is that governments throughout the world make huge profits from levying taxes on cigarettes. This provides funds which are used for building schools, hospitals and other public amenities.
女性就业:
●This also helps to create jobs in the childcare sector, generating employment for more people.
核能:
●The nuclear industry is a major employer.
父母共同照顾孩子:
●The economic and employment situation in many countries means that jobs are getting more, not less, stressful, requiring long hours and perhaps long journeys to work as well. Therefore, it may remain for many a desirable ideal rather than an achievable reality.
旅游:
●Tourism increases employment opportunities. Additional jobs, ranging from low-wage, entry level to high-paying professional positions in management and technical fields, generate income and raise standards of living. As tourism increases in importance, tourism-related employment needs will also increase.
●Many hotels are parts of large international chains, choosing to exploit local labour purely because it is cheap.
禁烟:
●The tobacco industry also employs tens of thousands of people throughout the world.
电视:
●Nowadays many people spend the biggest part of their free time watching television.
兼职工作:
●After-school jobs are bad for teenagers because they take time away from studying.
运动:
●Sport is a waste of school time and resources.
体育课:
●Encouraging physical activity in the young through compulsory PE fights child obesity and contributes to forming life-long habits of exercise.
体罚:
●The actual physical damage inflicted via corporal punishment on children can be horrifying.
●Some parents lose control and can injure children—even breaking bones or causing bruises.
禁烟:
●There is little doubt that smoking tobacco is extremely harmful to the smoker’s health.
电视:
●Depression is a well-known psychological problem of modern society. The popularity of TV watching is among the reasons of this phenomenon. Violence, aggression, crimes and wars are broadcast through the daily news as well as in movies, showing dark pictures that encourage psychological tension, pessimism and negative emotions.
●TV and movies shouldn’t be a way to hide from life. Sometimes it can help us to cope with real problems.
压力:
●Some students have mental breakdowns and, in extreme cases, attempt suicide because they cannot handle the pressure.
体罚:
●They learn that force is an acceptable factor in human interaction; they feel humiliated and lose self-respect.
●A physical punishment is likely to provoke resentment and further misbehaviour.
课外活动:
●Without the opportunity to do this, they could grow up immature and unformed.
●It is also important to remember that children need to relax as well as work. If everything they do must have educational or academic relevance, they will soon get tired of studying altogether, which is the last thing parents would want.
抽烟:
●First, smoking undoubtedly helps many people to relax.
●Indeed, the more of a “forbidden fruit” cigarettes become, the more attractive they will be to adolescents.(逆反心理)
媒体:
●Excessive and violence in the media can lead to similar behaviour in viewers.(模仿心理)
●Psychologists claim that television does not have a simple, direct stimulus-response effect on its audiences.
动物:
●It is a breach of their natural rights to take them by force into captivity for our own purposes.
●Animals have the right to be treated as beings of value in themselves, not as the means to human ends.
极限运动:
●People should be free to participate in activities with others as long as it does not affect the safety of non-participants.
监控:
●They feel that being watched constantly is like being in a jail, and that ordinary people are losing their freedom because of these devices.
强迫老年人退休:
●Compulsorily retiring old employees can affect the older individual’s freedom—and right—to work and can deprive society of valuable experience and insights.
禁酒:
●Banning alcohol infringes people’s civil liberties to an unacceptable degree.
禁烟:
●While a government has a responsibility to protect its population, it also has a responsibility to defend their freedom of choice.
新闻审查:
●We have accepted that freedom of expression should have limits.
●The risks of stifling free expression far outweigh the potential for unacceptable material.
●An individual’s rights end when they impinge on the safety and rights of others.
媒体报道名人:
●Famous people deserve privacy and respect.
●Although, generally speaking, the media should not interfere in people’s private lives, there are times when it is correct to do so.
母亲照顾孩子:
●Mothers should have as much freedom as anyone else in society to decide what is best for them and their children.
家庭教育:
●If they feel that the child would be best educated at home, by them or by another, that is their right.
控制人口:
●They feel that this is one area of life where they have the right to make decisions for themselves.
资助艺术:
●So-called “elite culture” should be available for all to enjoy, and not just confined to the rich.
建筑:
●Architecture is part of a country’s cultural heritage.
语言:
●Language is a type of cultural heritage.
●Language is often seen as a badge of identity and more conflict may be created if the global community is seen to prefer one language to another.
电视:
●Television is mostly directed to films and shows that have commercial purposes but little cultural value.
电视:
●It changes our society for the worse, making us all conform to a bland “Hollywood” model of entertainment in which regional traditions and diversity are lost.
语言:
●The diversity of languages is endlessly fascinating.
政府资助艺术:
●Subsidised companies can afford to take more risks and to experiment, enabling new styles and forms of art to emerge and to become popular.
旅游:
●Tourism demands that an area conforms to a certain stereotyped image, requiring the local inhabitants to make a caricature of their own culture.
寄宿学校(多样性):
●Spending all your time in school restricts the circle of people you come into contact with.
●Interaction with other pupils is a crucial element of a child’s development.
体育:
●PE is an aspect of school being about more than just book learning—it is about educating the whole person, a holistic education that betters us in an all-round sense, rather than a merely academic experience.
捕猎:
●Traditional hunting methods are often particularly cruel.
●Overall, however, the essential point is that it is morally wrong to kill animals for pleasure and no amount of economic benefits can make that right.
动物实验:
●We need to make sure that millions of animals who are used for testing new products are treated with the minimum of suffering. Although some animal testing may be unavoidable at present, treating our fellow creatures as mercifully as possible will demonstrate our humanity.
●Those against the use of animal testing claim that it is inhumane to use animals in experiments. I disagree completely. It would be much more inhumane to test new drugs on children or adults.
电视:
●Many scientific and cultural programs are shown on television, which gives new educational opportunities for our society.
动物园:
●Zoos nowadays are not marketed as places of entertainment—they are places of education.
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●Free and cheap access to the arts is crucial for education.
课外活动:
●If they cannot play make-believe games, how can they develop their imagination? How can they learn physical coordination or learn important social lessons about winning and losing if they do not practice any sports?