大学生如何了解社会

Getting to Know the World outside the Campus

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Getting to Know the World Outside the Campus. You should write at least 100 words and you should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:

1．大学生了解社会的必要性；

2．了解社会的途径(大众媒体、社会服务等)；

3．我打算怎么做。

It is necessary for college students to know the world outside the campus. This is because the society is developing so fast that if we don＇t keep an eye on what is happening outside the campus, we will have no idea what to learn to keep pace with the development. As a result, it will be difficult for us to secure an ideal job after graduation; it will be impossible for us to contribute to the development of the society.

There are many ways for us to get to know the world outside the campus. First of all, we should be well informed about the happenings both at home and abroad with the help of mass media such as radio, television, newspapers, and the Internet. Moreover, we should do more practical social services so as to cultivate our social skills, widen our insight and enrich our social experience.

As for me, I intend to participate in as many social practices as possible and at the same time, hold a part time job in my spare time to get to know more about the world outside the campus.

More Striving Spirit Is Needed

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled More Striving Spirit Needed. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below:

1.社会上不少人认为，现在的青年学生拼搏精神不够

2.对此你的看法是….

It is now said that the young generation is lacking of striving spirit. As I see it, this phenomenon is truly footed in fact. They are easy to give up and always turn a pessimistic attitude to failure. But why does it happen?

First of all, I have a sense that it is the living condition that matters. Born in the 1980s, most of us are the only child in the family living in the green house, we receive endless care like flowers. It is the love from our parents that set us away from the real world. As this goes on, when we step into the society one day, we cannot get accustomed to the fierce and competitive social life.

What’s more, with a negative attitude, many young people are easy to b e tired with everything.

When coming across with a sticky problem, they are willing to stay behind rather than have a crack. Perhaps the so-called sloth has claimed them for its own. The last but not the least, nowadays, the competition in the society is fiercer than we could imagine. In order to survive, the young people have to struggle under burden of study and work. Be adapted to the press and failure, the young people lose their self-confidence and self-esteem little by little, not to mention about the striving spirit.

Love Without Bounds

At 2:28 p.m., May 12th, 2008, a severe earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter scale struck Wenchuan, an area of Sichuan, leaving the place with ruins everywhere. As an immediate result of that, around 69,000 people died, with another 18,000 missing, over 370,000 injured, and 5,000,000 survivors homeless. Accompanying the arrival of disaster was a sheer paralysis of electricity, water works, telecommunications and transportation. Usually accessible to tourism for its scenic beauty, the area was now completely secluded from the outside world. (Problem)

Faced with such a devastating disaster, the Chinese Communists held China together with their role models, and called upon the whole nation to go in for relief work. PLA men responded to the call in no time. Army troops raced against the clock to the rescue of the victims buried in ruins, no matter how difficult the epicenter was of access; the engineering troops rushed to repair the ruined highways, ignoring the fact that they were at high risk of their lives amid aftershocks; and the air forces landed from the air despite poor visibility, and dropped relief supplies for the victims. Besides, medical workers from different parts of the country and the world flocked to the epicenter in good time to offer first aid to the injured and the sick. Unable to go there in person, most of us were in charge of rear services, for which some made tents, medicine, food, etc. day and night, and every one of us vied with one another to donate money and blood. In fact, effecting the rescue of the victims who remain as firm and appreciate our efforts as much as those in Sichuan do has refined our love more than anything else ever could have. (Response)

With the disaster relief drive being in full swing and with the live reports on it dominating the headlines of all mass media, we were reminded that sweeping across the entire China was an ever-greater flow of love that could get our nation through whatever life could present. There would be no bounds to what such love could accomplish. (Evaluation)