专业英语八级模拟试卷510(题后含答案及解析)

专业英语八级模拟试卷510(题后含答案及解析)
题型有： 1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION 2. READING COMPREHENSION 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 4. PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION 5. TRANSLATION 6. WRITING
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)
SECTION A MINI-LECTUREDirections: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.
听力原文：When you see a clever advertisement in a newspaper, do you say to yourself, “Ah, that’s good. I’d like to have one of those”? Or do you say, “What lies are they telling this time? It can’t be very good or they wouldn’t have to advertise it so cleverly?”Both types of people exist: the first are optimists; the second pessimists and realists. Then, how should one deal with advertisements? An intelligent person will try to get as much help as he can from advertisements without allowing himself to be influenced against his own interests by them. To do this, he will find out something about the laws regulating advertising in the country in which he lives. Secondly, he will try to learn, from experience and from books, what one can believe in advertisements. When an article claims to be “the best in the world”, or to offer “the best value for money in the country”, is there any way of proving, or disproving, these claims? If there is not, they can simply be ignored. Advertising can be extremely useful if they are honest. If the advertisements are true and accurate, the customers will be satisfied and will probably buy from the same firm next time and advise their friends and acquaintances to do the same. They save a lot of time and trouble by putting sellers in touch with buyers in a quick and simple way. The dishonest advertiser hopes to sell his goods quickly and to make a large profit on them before the customers’ reactions begin. He knows that no customers will buy from him a second time, that none will recommend his products to their friends. But there are also semi-dishonest advertisers who make claims for their products which they know perfectly well to be incapable of verification. If there was no advertising, fewer goods would be sold, so the cost of each article would be higher. The more you advertise, the more cheaply you can afford to sell your products. Advertising also encourages makers to improve their goods continually. As advertisers become more and more expert at their work, they appeal to all the human emotions in the effort to increase sales: greed, jealousy, love of a bargain, fear of the disapproval of other people, fear of ill health, the desire to catch a husband, the desire to show off, and many others. But more and more customers are also becoming suspicious of and
resistant to high-powered advertising. This is producing, in highly sophisticated countries, a deliberately modest type of advertisements that is intended to disarm the suspicions of sophisticates by giving an impression of absolute sincerity, or even of deliberate understatement.
Advertisements An intelligent person will not allow himself to be influencedby advertisements. Instead, he will try to get to know about the【1】______ regulating them. Secondly, he will try 【1】______to make sure whether he can believe in advertisements.Honest advertisements can be extremely useful because theysave a lot of time and【2】______ by putting sellers in touch 【2】______with buyers in a quick and simple way.The dishonest advertiser hopes to sell his goods quicklyto make a large profit before【3】______ begin. 【3】______There are also semi-dishonest advertisers who make【4】______ for their products which they know perfectly well 【4】______to be incapable of【5】______ 【5】______With no advertising,【6】______ would be sold, so 【6】______the cost of each article would be higher. The more you advertise,the more 【7】______ you can afford to sell your products. 【7】______As advertisers become more and more expert at their work,they appeal to all【8】______ to increase sales: greed, 【8】______【9】______ , love of a bargain, fear of the disapproval of other 【9】______people, etc.However, more and more customers are also becomingsuspicious of and【10】______ to high-powered advertising. 【10】______This is producing a deliberately modest type of advertisement. Please move on to Section B.
1．【1】
正确答案：laws
解析：本空格后的单词regulating对答题有提示。

2．【2】
正确答案：trouble
解析：广告为人们节约时间和省掉麻烦。

3．【3】
正确答案：(the)customers’ reactions
解析：关键在于理解reactions所在的整个一句话：不诚实的广告商的希望是在人们还未反应过来就已经赚了大钱。

同时，应该用该词的复数形式填空。

4．【4】
正确答案：claims
解析：在理解的基础上考查词组make claims for。

5．【5】
正确答案：verification verification
解析：作“证实”解。

6．【6】
正确答案：fewer goods
解析：没有广告的后果是商品卖得少，因为中心词是goods，所以只能用few 的比较级fewer。

7．【7】
正确答案：cheaply
解析：广告的直接目的在于利润，即广告越多，买方市场越大，商品价格就越低。

8．【8】
正确答案：(the)human emotions
解析：本题与下面一题有一个整体和部分的关系。

9．【9】
正确答案：jealousy
解析：因为所填的词不能超过三个，所以只有这个答案。

10．【10】
正确答案：resistant
解析：在理解的基础上，空格后的介词to对答题有提示。

SECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.
听力原文：Interviewer: Mrs. Sutter, is there a need to control population only in countries like India, Africa, Brazil, those countries that we call the underdeveloped countries or is there a case for limiting population in Europe, for instance?Interviewee: The reason One would have to limit population is because you are running out of food and you are running out of resources. The people in Europe and America consume a
far greater proportion of the world’s resources and the world’s food than they do in India. So, population is directly related to consumption and your general impact on the environment.Interviewer: Do you mean that if as an individual your impact is far greater than anybody else’s, then that is the factor that is important, rather than how many people there are, or how many people can the world support?Interviewee: Exactly. Now obviously in that sense, it is possible to increase population if everybody is willing to use less material or eat less food, but this doesn’t seem to be the trend at the moment.Interviewer: But the world can produce more to meet the needs.Interviewee: The problem is that the underdeveloped areas try and develop more material benefits, but as soon as they do this, the population increase has wiped out any benefit they may have achieved.Interviewer: But do you feel that this battle with a rapidly expanding population can be won?Interviewee: The most sensible thing is to realize that you can’t go on expanding human populations forever and countries and individuals must decide to have a policy which would limit population.Interviewer: What section of the population do you think free birth control techniques should be available to?Interviewee: They should be available to all sections of the community. Since things are getting to such a pitch that I personally think that not only should birth control methods be available to all sections of the community, but indeed should be compulsory. There should be acme kind of law which says that a family should not have more than three children, a complete maximum of three children, If they have three children then they must be obliged by law to use birth control.Interviewer: But surely this is very explosive in social terms.Interviewee: It’s a very totalitarian motion. But if we look around us in the world we can see millions of people are starving to death in places like India, and people suffering from malnutrition in other parts of the underdeveloped world and indeed even in parts of the so-called developed world.
11．According to the interviewee Mrs, Sutter, the mason for limiting population is that ______.
A．population is directly related to consuming food and other resources which are being run out
B．underdeveloped countries have great problems in increasing productivity to produce more materials
C．people are destroying living environment
D．there is less space for people to live in
正确答案：A
解析：考察信息辨别能力。

被采访者提到限制人口的原因是因为人口的增长和食物及资源的消耗量成正比，而食物和资源越来越缺乏。

12．Why is it necessary to limit population even in Europe and America?
A．They can save more to meet the needs of underdeveloped world.
B．Europe and America shouldn’t shirk the responsibility of the whole world.
C．The number of people in Europe and America is no less than that in underdeveloped world.
D．Europe and America consume a far greater proportion of the world’s resources and food.
正确答案：D
解析：考察重要细节理解。

被采访者说发达国家同样需要限制人口是因为发达国家消耗更多的食物和资源。

13．Under what circumstances is it possible to increase population?
A．We increase productivity and produce more food.
B．We eat less food and use less material.
C．We find another planet to live on.
D．The developed world is willing to help the underdeveloped world.
正确答案：B
解析：考察反向思维能力。

14．Free birth control technique should be compulsory for all the people EXCEPT ______.
A．upper-middle class people
B．high IQ intelligentsia
C．those who have less than 3 children
D．those who have more than 3 children
正确答案：D
解析：细节记忆题。

15．What is this interview mainly about?
A．The need to control population both in underdeveloped and developed world.
B．How to control population in Europe.
C．Scarcity of food in the world.
D．Population and Environment.
正确答案：A
解析：考察对中心思想的把握。

也可运用排除法答题。

SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
听力原文：More than One hundred people have gathered to mourn the death of twenty people killed in bombings last year in Bali Indonesia. Friends and relatives of the victims gathered at Jimbaran Bay in Bali to mark the anniversary of the attacks.
Hundreds of mourners also mark the anniversary in the Australian city of Newcastle, the home of three of the victims. Four Islamist fighters have been found guilty of involvement in the bombings. They said the attacks answered the deaths of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
16．Why were there hundreds of mourners in the Australian city of Newcastle who gathered to mourn the death of twenty people killed in bombings last year?
A．Because Newcastle is the home of three of the victims.
B．Because these people died in Newcastle last year.
C．Because four Islamist fighters have been found guilty of involvement in the bombings in Newcastle.
D．Because Newcastle is the city where there are many friends and relatives of the victims.
正确答案：A
PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)Directions: In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Roger Rosenblatt’s book Black Fiction, in attempting to apply literary rather than sociopolitical criteria to its subject, successfully alters the approach taken by most previous studies. As Rosenblatt notes, criticism of Black writing has often served as a pretext for expounding on Black history. Addison Gayle’s recent work, for example, judges the value of Black Fiction by overtly political standards, rating each work according to the notions of Black identity which it introduces. Although fiction assuredly springs from political circumstances, its authors react to those circumstances in ways other than ideological, and talking about novels and stories primarily as instruments of ideology outwits much of the fictional enterprise. Rosenblatt’s literary analysis discloses affinities and connections among works of Black fiction which solely political studies have overlooked or ignored. Writing acceptable criticism of Black fiction, however, presupposes giving satisfactory answers to a number of questions. First of all, is there a sufficient reason, other than the racial identity to the authors, to group together works by Black authors? Second, how does Black fiction make itself distinct from other modern fiction with which it is largely contemporaneous? Rosenblatt shows that Black fiction constitutes a distinct body of writing that has an identifiable, coherent literary tradition. Looking at novels written by Blacks over the last eighty years, he discovers recurring concerns and designs independent of chronology. These structures are related to the themes, and they spring, not surprisingly, from the central fact that the Black characters in these novels exist in a predominantly White culture, whether they try to conform to that culture or rebel against it. Black Fiction does leave some aesthetic questions open. Rosenblatt’s theme-based analysis permits considerable objectivity, he even explicitly
states that it is not his intention to judge the merit of the various works, yet his reluctance seems misplaced, especially since an attempt to appraise might have led to interesting results. For instance, some of the novels appear to be structurally diffuse. Is this a defect, or are the authors working out of, or trying to forge, a different kind of aesthetic? In addition, the style of some Black novels, like Jean Tommer’s Cane, verges on expressionism or surrealism; does this technique provide a counterpoint to the prevalent theme that portrays the fate against which Black heroes are pitted, a theme usually conveyed by more naturalistic modes of expression? In spite of such omissions, what Rosenblatt does include in his discussion makes for an astute and worthwhile study. Black Fiction surveys a wide variety of novels, bringing to our attention in the process some fascinating and little-known works like James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man. Its argument is tightly constructed, and its forthright, lucid style exemplifies levelheaded and penetrating criticism.
17．The author objects to criticism of Black fiction like that by Addison Gayle because it______.
A．emphasizes purely literary aspects of such fiction
B．misinterprets the ideological content of such fiction
C．misunderstands the notions of Black identity contained in such fiction
D．substitutes political for literary criteria in evaluating such fiction
正确答案：D
解析：细节题。

原文第一段最后一句表明作者反对Addison Gayle的文学评论，因为他用明显的政治标准来评判黑人小说的价值(Judges the value of Black fiction by overtly political standards)。

这与选择项D“Because it substitutes political for literary criteria in evaluating such fiction”是同义表述。

18．The author of the passage is primarily concerned with _____.
A．evaluating the soundness of a work of criticism
B．comparing various critical approaches to a subject
C．discussing the limitations of a particular kind of criticism
D．summarizing the major points made in a work of criticism
正确答案：A
解析：主旨题。

因为原文第～句，开门见山地说出作者的观点，认为罗森布拉特的《黑人小说》运用文学的标准而不是社会政治的标准研究这个课题，成功地改变了以前大多数研究所采取的方法(Successfully alters the approach)。

选择项A说作者主要关心的是评论作品的正确性(the soundness of a work)，与原文完全一致，这正是文章的主题。

选择项D说总结一部文学评论作品的要点(summarizing the major points)。

原文第二段、第三段的确综述了《黑人小说》的主要论点：揭示各种黑人小说中的共鸣和联系(discloses affinities and connections)，并且发现黑人作家独特的关怀和构思(concerns and designs)，其主题结构是黑人人物生存在自人占优势的文化环境(exist in a predominantly White culture)中，不论他们企图适
应那种文化，还是企图与之对抗。

但综述主要论点是为了证明该书的成就，这才是文章的主题。

这就要求分清主次。

19．The author believes that Black Fiction would have been improved, had Resenblatt______.
A．evaluated more carefully the ideological and historical aspects of Black fiction
B．attempted to be more objective in his approach to novels and stories by Black authors
C．explored in greater detail the recurrent thematic concerns of Black fiction throughout its history
D．assessed the relative literary merit of the novels he analyzes thematically
正确答案：D
解析：推理题。

用虚拟假设来提问也是推理题的一种出题方式：如果……的话，《黑人小说》的成就就更大了(improved)。

这个问题的答案要从原文第四段第一、二句批评《黑人小说》的缺点中去找。

原文批评《黑人小说》没有研究各种作品的艺术价值(the merit of the various works)，并说这也许是失误(misplaced)。

由此可以推断，如果弥补这个缺点，对黑人小说的文学价值(literary merit)进行比较评价(assessed)，那么《黑人小说》的成就当然就更大了，因此D是正确答案。

20．The author’s discussion of Black Fiction can be best described as______.
A．pedantic and contentious
B．critical but admiring
C．ironic and deprecating
D．argumentative but unfocused
正确答案：B
解析：观点态度题。

因为作者讨论《黑人小说》的态度基本上是赞赏的(admiring)，用了许多赞美的形容词如原文第一句的Successfully，原文倒数第二句中的fascinating以及最后一句的tightly—constructed(结构紧凑)，forthright，lucid(明快清晰)levelheaded(冷静稳健)以及penetrating(深刻透彻)；但对缺点在第四段用形容词misplaced(失误)来加以批评(critical)。

21．It can be inferred that the author would be LEAST likely to approve of which of the following?
A．An analysis of the influence of political events on the personal ideology of Black writers.
B．A critical study that applies sociopolitical criteria to autobiographies by Black authors.
C．A literary study of Black poetry that appraises the merits of poems according to the political acceptability of their themes.
D．An examination of the growth of a distinct Black literary tradition within the context of Black history.
正确答案：C
解析：推理题。

因为根据原文第一段作者赞赏罗森布拉特运用文学的标准研究黑人小说，而旗帜鲜明地反对盖尔单纯用政治标准评判黑人小说的做法。

原文第二段第一句，作者明确指出：虽然小说确定无疑(assuredly)是从政治环境中产生的，然而作者对政治环境的反应，除了采用意识形态以外，还可以采用其他种种方式(in ways other than ideological)。

把小说主要看作意识形态的工具大大伤害了(outwits)小说创作事业的发展(much of the fictional enterprise)。

由此可以推论他当然会反对(least likely to approve)按主题的政治可接受性(the political acceptability of their themes)来评价艺术性更强的黑人诗歌。

22．The author refers to James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man most probably in order to______.
A．point out affinities between Rosenblatt’s method of thematic analysis and earlier criticism
B．clarify the point about expressionistic style made earlier in the passage
C．qualify the assessment of Rosenblatt’s book made in the first paragraph of the passage
D．give a specific example of one of the accomplishments of Rosenbaltts?work
正确答案：D
解析：推理题。

因为作者为了证明Rosenblatt的书对黑人小说的讨论有助于精明而有价值的研究(最后一段第一句；makes for an astute and worthwhile study)使我们注意到某些引人入胜而鲜为人知的(fascinating and little-known)作品，并举出Johnson的作品为具体例证(specific examples)。

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)Directions: There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.
23．The Church of England is not free to change its form of worship, as laid down in______ without the consent of Parliament.
A．the Bill of Rights
B．the Provisions of Oxford
C．the Constitutions of Clarendon
D．the Book of Common Prayer
正确答案：D
解析：the Book of Common Prayer(《公祷书》)为英国教会克蓝玛大主教于1549年所出版的崇拜礼仪书，给所有教会使用，要全国教会遵守。

里面规定，没有议会的同意，英格兰教会不可以随便更改朝拜形式。

知识模块：英国宗教
24．Saussure distinguishes the linguistic competence of the speaker as
A．parole.
B．language.
C．system.
D．langue.
正确答案：D
解析：索绪尔将说话者的语言能力和语言的实际现象或语料区分为语言(lan —gue)和言语(parole)。

langue指语言系统的整体，这个整体相对是比较稳定的；parole则指代某个个体在实际语言使用环境中说出的具体话语。

知识模块：人文知识
25．The famous trial scene between Portia and Shylock comes from_________.
A．A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B．Twelfth Night
C．The Merchant of Venice
D．As You lake It
正确答案：C
26．The general election in Britain is held every______years.
A．four
B．three
C．six
D．five
正确答案：D
解析：英国大选每5年举行一次。

英国大选(General elections of the United Kingdom)是指英国选举最高立法机构英国国会议员的选举，英国的国会议员(Members of Parliament，MP)通常指下议院议员。

国会议员最长任期为5年，但可因为解散国会而提前结束。

27．Which of the following is NOT an English noble title?
A．Duke
B．Baron
C．Earl
D．Count
正确答案：D
28．Gender is mostly a category of the noun and pronoun. In English, the gender distinctions are determined ______; in French, they are ______.
A．grammatically; arbitrary
B．free; determined by the biological gender
C．arbitrarily; fixed
D．by the biological gender; grammatical
正确答案：D
解析：在英语里，名词和代词性的划分是由词所代表的事物本身所决定的，而在法语、德语等语言中，除人、动物等按性别划分，其余的词的性是规定了的，即语法性质的。

29．______ control most of the wealth and the politics of the United States of America.
A．The WASPS
B．The Blacks
C．The Indians
D．The Hispanics
正确答案：A
30．Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by ______.
A．Nathaniel Hawthorne
B．Harriet Beecher Stowe
C．Stephen Crane
D．Eugene O’Neil
正确答案：B
解析：美国文学之作家作品。

Uncle Tom’s Cabin(《汤姆叔叔的小屋》)是一部以反抗奴隶制为主题的小说，是女作家Harriet Beecher Stowe的成名作。

林肯曾经高度评价过这部小说。

31．Dr. Martin Luther King, ______, was assassinated in March 196
A．a white clergyman
B．a black clergyman
C．a black senator
D．a white senator
正确答案：B
32．In July 1789, ten amendments added to the American constitution limiting the powers of federal government and protecting the rights of all citizens were called A．Bill of Rights.
B．Civil Rights.
C．Declaration of Independence.
D．Bill of Confederation.
正确答案：A
解析：本题考查美国历史知识。

B Civil Rights指的是在当时是否废除黑奴制的历史背景下，北部有些州迫于人民反奴隶制的革命运动的压力通过的“人身自由法”(Civil Rights Act)。

D提到的是林肯当选总统后，南部各州组成了“南
部同盟(The Confederate State of America)成立了新政府。

A Bill of Rights(权利法案)是对美国宪法的补充，补充后的修订条款明文规定了美国人民的福利。

法案中大部分是对政府施加限制。

所有美国人在全国各处都受此类权利法案的保护，不受任何地方、州、联邦政府的侵犯。

由此可见，答案为A。

PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)Directions: Proofread the given passage. The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:(1)For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.(2)For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write t
33．Confronted with such a shrinking job market, plenty of graduates are anxious about work, even part-time jobs.
正确答案：about—for
解析：be anxious about表示“担心，忧虑”。

be anxious for表示“渴望”。

根据下文“哪怕兼职也好”，可见毕业生是渴望工作，而不是担心工作。

知识模块：形容词+介词的搭配
PART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISHDirections: Translate the following text into English.
34．雨声渐渐的住了，窗帘后隐隐的透进清光来。

推开窗户一看，呀!凉云散了，树叶上的残滴，映着月儿，好似荧光千点，闪闪烁烁的动着。

——真没想到苦雨孤灯之后，会有这么一幅清美的图画! 凭窗站了一会儿，微微的觉得凉意侵人。

转过身来，忽然眼花缭乱，屋子里的别的东西，都隐在光云里；一片幽辉，只浸着墙上画中的安琪儿。

——这白衣的安琪儿，抱着花儿，扬着翅儿，向着我微微的笑。

正确答案：As the rain gradually ceased to patter ,a glimmer of light began to filter into the room through the window curtain. I opened the window and looked out. Ah, the rain clouds had vanished and the remaining raindrops on the tree leaves glistened tremulously under the moonlight like myriads of fireflies. To think that there should appear before my eyes such a beautiful sight after the miserable rain on a lonely evening! Standing at the window for a while, I felt a bit chilly. As I turned round, my eyes suddenly dazzled before the bright light and could not see things distinctly. Everything in the room was blurred by a haze of light except the angel in a picture on the wall. The angel in white was smiling at me with a bunch of flowers in his arms, his wings flapping.
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESEDirections: Translate the following text into Chinese.
35．“To be or not to be.” Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be —to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to Out to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore I am.”But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one written by another philosopher who said: “To be is to be in relations.” If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned —poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs —you are dead.
正确答案：……一位哲人一次曾想弄清他自己是否是在活着，这个问题我们每个人也大可不时地问问我们自己。

这位哲学家对此的答案是：“我思故我在。

”但是关于生存我所见过的一条最好的定义却是另一位哲学家下的：“生活即是联系。

”如果这话不假的话，那么一个有生命者的联系越多，它也就越有生气。

所谓要活得丰富充实也即是要扩大和加强我们的各种联系。

不幸的是，我们往往会因为天性而容易陷入自己的陈规旧套。

试问除去我们的日常工作，我们的真正生活又有多少?如果你只是对你的日常工作才有兴趣，那你的生趣也就很有限了。

至于在其他方面——比如诗歌、散文、音乐、荚术、体育、无私的友谊、政治与国际事务，等等——你只是死人一个。

PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)Directions: Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic.
36．Some people think that children should begin their formal education at a very early age and should spend most of their time on school studies. Others believe that young children should spend most of their time playing. Which view do you agree with? Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
正确答案：Young Children and Education There is no denying that a child’s education is very important. At this point some people think that children should begin their formal education at a very early age. They believe that this will give them some advantages over those who do not enter school until the traditional school age. In my opinion, however, young children should spend most of their time playing because it will offer them more advantages than will formal schooling at the age. To begin with, childhood is a precious time in that it is the only chance that children will be carefree and innocent. Seeing that children are facing up to sixteen years or more of education, there is really no rush to start them off early. The first years of a child’s life should be for fun and games, not books and homework. It is very important that children have the chance to know that enjoying life is also an important lesson to learn. The pure joy and fun of being a child are too quickly forgotten by most people as it is. so I do not think that it is good to deprive children of that wonderful period in their lives. Not only is it important to let a child have fun just for the sake of fun, but childhood is also a productive time in terms of child development. Playing is a major contributor to the physical, mental and social development of children, and therefore, children who begin their education too early will most likely be physically weaker and socially inept. When they are playing in the park with other kids, they are using and developing their bodies, which promotes healthy growth. By learning to compromise, share, cooperate and take responsibility in play, they are developing mental health and social skills that will benefit them during their entire lives. If they are buried under academics at an early age, they will not have the opportunity to develop these all-important skills. In conclusion, school is a normal part of life, and the early years of childhood spent playing is also normal. Early childhood is a period of fun and innocence everyone should experience. This time is also necessary for physical, mental and social development. Forcing children to skip this will only distort their views of life and cause them to be less developed in many aspects.
解析：本文作者首先在开头段提出自己的观点，即小孩子不宜过早开始接受正规的学校教育。

接着，作者分别从两个角度阐述原因：首先，孩提时代是一段宝贵的时光，因为这是人生中惟一一段无忧无虑、天真烂漫的日子；其次，孩提时代在孩子成长过程中也是多产的一个阶段，孩子在玩的过程中各方面都能得到发展。

这两个原因从两个角度强调了孩提时代的宝贵性和玩的重要性，由此作者得出结论：迫使小孩子跳过孩提时代这个阶段不仅会扭曲他们的人生观，也会使他们在许多方面得不到充分的发展，因此，小孩子不应过早开始正规的学校教育。

整篇文章结构工整，语言简洁流畅，逻辑性强。

知识模块：文化教育类。