GRE作文題庫:行為類

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    下面是出國留學網整理的GRE作文題庫:行為類,歡迎參考。
    1. Although many people think that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life are entirely harmless, they in fact, prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.
    2. Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people to be interested in their private lives. When they seek a public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy.
    3. Creating an appealing image has become more important in contemporary society than is the reality or truth behind that image.
    4. The concept of ‘individual responsibility’ is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people’s behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.
    5. People work more productively in teams than individually. Teamwork requires cooperation, which motivates people much more than individual competition does.
    6. In any realm of life-whether academic, social, business, or political—the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of vies. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superceded by simpler, more immediate options.
    7. It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.
    8. Only through mistakes can there be discovery or progress.
    9. Most people recognize the benefits of individuality, but the fact is that personal economic success requires conformity.
    10. People who are the most deeply committed to an idea or policy are the most critical of it.
    11. No amount of information can eliminate prejudice because prejudice is rooted in emotion, not reason.
    12. The most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed in particular principles and objectives. Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little.
    13. Sometimes imagination is a more valuable asset than experience. People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible and thus can approach a task without constraints of established habits and attitudes.
    14. In any given field, the leading voices come from people who are motivated not by conviction but by the desire to present opinions and ideas that differ from those held by the majority.
    15. It is always an individual who is the impetus for innovation; the details may be worked out by a team, but true innovation results from the enterprise and unique perception of an individual.
    16. Success, whether academic or professional, involves an ability to survive in a new environment and--, eventually, --to change it.
    17. Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerations as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make. Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work.
    18. If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable.
    19. People often look for similarities, even between very different things, and even when it is unhelpful or harmful to do so. Instead, a thing should be considered on its own terms, we should avoid the tendency to compare it to something else.
    20. People are mistaken when they assume that the problems they confront are more complex and challenging than the problems, faced by their predecessors. Thus illusion is eventually dispelled with increased knowledge and experience.
    21. Moderation in all things is ill-considered advice. Rather, one should say, ‘Moderations is most things,’ since many areas of human concern require or at least profit from intense focus.
    22. Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty—whether to one’s friends, to one’s school or place of employment, or to any institution—is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force.
    延伸閱讀GRE寫作審題及思路解析
    新GRE考試的兩篇作文難度不小,考生需要分別在三十分鐘內完成兩篇文章:一篇Argue一篇Issue,其中Argue的字數(shù)在450左右,Issue的字數(shù)在550-650之間。除了字數(shù)以外,還有審題也是比較考驗考G人的。
    接下來出國留學網小編來舉個例子說說如何審題:
    "The concept of ’individual responsibility’ is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people’s behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making."
    題目字面意思是:“個人責任的概念是一種有必要的虛構。盡管必須讓個人對其行為負責,但是人們的行為很大程度上是由外力而不是自己決定的。”
    我們可以通過拆句子來分析審題
    論述個人責任的,采取了反對的觀點。這個題目重點放在了對于行為的責任上面。題目分為兩句,后句對于前句基本上是起到支持的作用。
    第一句:關鍵詞:responsibility,necessary,fiction. Responsibility,而necessary fiction是什么意思呢?
    Necessary:adj.
    of an inevitable nature : INESCAPABLE b (1) : logically unavoidable (2) : that cannot be denied without contradiction c : determined or produced by the previous condition of things d : COMPULSORY.
    Fiction:n.
    1: something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically: an invented story.
    2: an assumption of a possibility as a fact irrespective of the question of its truth.
    3: the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination.
    歸納起來可以理解為:“由想象創(chuàng)造的或假的”;或者“真相的對于可能性的假設,都是可以的。”
    那么必要的虛構為什么有必要,又為什么是虛構呢?我們可以在文章開頭做出解釋。
    第二句:關鍵詞:actions,behavior,determine,forces從前半句的must看出了對于necessary的解釋,論述了讓個人對自己行為負責對于社會是一種必要,那么是否是一種必要呢?題目這里用了Although,顯然對于這種想法是不支持的,但是一個絕對的must還是肯定了這種現(xiàn)象的存在。我們如果論述necessary的時候要注意到這幾點。而且要注意對于actions或者是后半句的behavior的定義,個人的行為是什么樣的行為?把這個問題具體化。
    后半句論述了fiction的問題,因為人們的行為并不是自己決定的,而是由外力決定的,那么,顯然個人對于行為的責任就沒有責任了,而個人責任的概念就是一種fiction了。這里還是有三個問題:①怎么算是determine,如果定義為心理精神的角度是不是就可以被個人自己控制,如果說是一種方向范圍的限制的話,是否就很可能是外界的環(huán)境壓力等來控制的呢?②forces是什么?是外界的社會?是政府的控制?是法規(guī)的限定?還是別的因素呢?③還有就是largely的問題,同樣給我們留出了余地,很大程度就是不是全部,那么個人在一些情況下還是可以負責的,那么是否個人責任就不是fiction了呢?論述的時候同樣要注意到這幾點。
    說完審題,我們來聊聊寫作思路:
    相對來說,這篇比較好寫一點。明確兩個問題就可以,一個是,個人責任(對于自己行為的責任)存在不存在(是不是fiction)?另一個是,對于個人責任的要求是否必要(necessary)?
    如果選擇贊同的觀點,可以否定necessary,說明個人責任不是必要的,而支持fiction,個人責任不存在(個人不能決定自己的行為,不能對自己的行為負責)。后面可以接讓步,對于largely論述,個人某些時候是可以決定自己行為的,但是主要是由社會等外力決定的。
    如果選擇反對的觀點,可以贊同necessary,說明個人責任對于社會是必要的,而反對fiction,個人責任是存在的(個人能夠決定自己的行為,能夠對自己的行為負責)。后面可以接讓步,社會對于個人行為也是有影響的,但是個人可以自己來決定自己的行為。