2003—2013年专四作文便条

作文：

2003年专四作文真题：The Importance of Keeping a Good Mood

保持好心情的重要性——关于身心健康

写作指南：

这是一篇属于给定明确观点型的作文。一般情况下，考题先提出一个话题，并给定了关于这个话题的一种明确的观点，要求考生以这个给定的观点作为文章的中心思想（论点）进行论证。写这类作文的关键在于是否能很好地论证这一明确的观点。

范文：

The Importance of Keeping a Good Mood

With the development of modernscience, technology and economics, our living standard has reached an everhigher level. But more and more people are living under greater pressure thanever before. As a consequence, people are increasingly suffering from variousdistortions both physically and mentally. To help out, it is important thateveryone keep a good mood today.

There are several reasons for myargument. First, a good mood can create high efficiency. When you work with agood mood, you will feel happy and be willing to do some work which used to beboring. On the contrary, a bad mood can make you passive and do things withreluctance. Second, a good mood is beneficial to your health. If you fail tokeep a good mood, you will be feeling depressed and fed up, which is apt tocause some psychological diseases. Third, when you have a good mood, otherpeople around you will be influenced. Thus more and more people will feel happyto communicate with you.

To sum up, keeping a good mood isvery important both for yourself and for the people around you. If you want tohave a happy and successful life, please keep a good mood every day.

2004年专四作文真题：Will Phones Kill Letter Writing?

电话和写信——关于社会文化

写作指南：

此作文题属于立场选择型模式。这类题目也可称为“For-Again st” 模式。在提出话题后，通常从相对的角度提出两种观点和立场，要求考生从中选出一个作为自己的立场，即二选一，然后论证其正确性。

本文要求考生就大学里的文化艺术节发表自己的看法。根据题目要求，文章结构如下：

第一部分：明确表达自己的观点（总论点）。

第二部分：用几个有说服力的分论点来支撑自己的总论点。

第三部分：对以上部分进行总结，并适当升华主题。

范文：

Will Phones Kill Letter Writing?

Telephone is said to be one of the greatest inventions of the world, which has revolutionized people's way of life. Although more and more people nowadays tend to phone more than write letters, I still don't believe phones will kill letter writing in people's daily communication.

People communicate for different purposes and in different ways. Letters, though traditional in a way, help people express their ideas in a more exact way，without the careless tongue slips of telephone conversations. More importantly, it is long held that “To see is to believe.” and communication in written form is considered to be more formal than that done orally. Therefore, letters are always the preferred way of communication when it comes to formal occasions like job application, nailing down a contract or traveling information confirmation. It is not entirely groundless to say that letters are still indispensable