新gre红宝书2012：GRE作文范文大全（79）
GRE，全称Graduate Record Examination，中文名称为美国研究生入学考试，适用于除法律与商业外的各专业。由美国教育考试服务处(Educational Testing Service，简称ETS)主办，GRE是美国、加拿大的大学各类研究生院（除管理类学院，法学院）要求申请者所必须具备的一个考试成绩，也是教授对申请者是否授予奖学金所依据的最重要的标准。 另有，Generic Routing Encapsulation（通用路由封装）也简称GRE。
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Or consider the goal of providing basic food and shelter for an innocent child. Anyone would
agree that this goal is highly worthy--considered apart from the means used to achieve it. But
what if those means involve stealing from others? Or what if they involve employing the child in
a sweatshop at the expense of educating the child? Clearly, determining the worthiness of
such goals requires that we confront moral dilemmas, which we each solve individually--based
on our own conscience, value system, and notions of fairness and equity.
On a societal level we determine the worthiness of our goals in much the same way--by
weighing competing interests. For instance, any thoughtful person would agree that reducing
air and water pollution is a worthy societal goal; dean air and water reduce the burden on our
health-care resources and improves the quality of life for everyone in society. Yet to attain this
goal would we be justified in forcing entire industries out of business, thereby running the risk
of economic paralysis and widespread unemployment?
Or consider America's intervention in Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Did our dual interest in a
continuing flow of oil to the West and in deterring a potential threat against the security of the
world justify our committing resources that could have been used instead for domestic
social-welfare programs--or a myriad of other productive purposes? Both issues underscore
the fact that the worthiness of a societal goal cannot be considered apart from the means and
adverse consequences of attaining that goal.
In sum, the speaker begs the question. The worthiness of any goal, whether it be personal
or societal, can be determined only by weighing the benefits of achieving the goal against its
costs--to us as well as others.
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"Society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities and begin training
them at an early age so that they can eventually excel in their areas of ability. Otherwise, these
talents are likely to remain undeveloped." 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（79） 》一文，查字典出国留学网()编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。GRE，全称Graduate Record Examination，中文名称为美国研究生入学考试，适用于除法律与商业外的各专业。由美国教育考试服务处(Educational Testing Service，简称ETS)主办，GRE是美国、加拿大的大学各类研究生院（除管理类学院，法学院）要求申请者所必须具备的一个考试成绩，也是教授对申请者是否授予奖学金所依据的最重要的标准。 另有，Generic Routing Encapsulation（通用路由封装）也简称GRE。
I agree that we should attempt to identify and cultivate our children's talents. However, in my
view the statement goes too far, by suggesting that selected children receive special attention.
If followed to the letter, this suggestion carries certain social, psychological, and human-rights
implications that might turn out to be more harmful than beneficial not just to children but to the
entire society.
At frrst blush the statement appears compelling. Although I am not a student of
developmental psychology, my understanding is that unless certain innate talents are nurtured
and cultivated during early childhood those talents can remain forever dormant; and both the
child and the society stand to lose as a result. After all, how can a child who is musically gifted
ever see those gifts come to fruition without access to a musical instrument? Or, how can a
child who has a gift for linguistics ever learn a foreign language without at least some exposure
to it? Thus I agree with the statement insofar as any society that values its own future
well-being must be attentive to its children's talents.
Beyond this concession, however, I disagree with the statement because it seems to
recommend that certain children receive special attention at the expense of other children--a
recommendation that I find troubling in three respects. First, this policy would require that a
society of parents make choices that they surely will never agree upon to begin with---for
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example, how and on what basis each child's talents should be deter mined, and what sorts of
talents are most worth society's time, attention, and resources. While society's parents would
never reach a reasonable consensus on these issues, it would be irresponsible to leave these
choices to a handful of legislators and bureaucrats. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（79） 》一文，查字典出国留学网()编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。GRE，全称Graduate Record Examination，中文名称为美国研究生入学考试，适用于除法律与商业外的各专业。由美国教育考试服务处(Educational Testing Service，简称ETS)主办，GRE是美国、加拿大的大学各类研究生院（除管理类学院，法学院）要求申请者所必须具备的一个考试成绩，也是教授对申请者是否授予奖学金所依据的最重要的标准。 另有，Generic Routing Encapsulation（通用路由封装）也简称GRE。
After all, they are unlikely to have the best interests of our children in mind, and their choices
would be tainted by their own quirky, biased, and otherwise wrongheaded notions of what
constitutes worthwhile talent. Thus the unanswerable question becomes: Who is to make
these choices to begin with?
Secondly, a public policy whereby some children receive preferential treatment carries
dangerous sociological implications. The sort of selectivity that the statement recommends
might tend to split society into two factions: talented elitists and all others. In my view any
democratic society should abhor a policy that breeds or exacerbates socioeco nomic
disparities.
Thirdly, in suggesting that it is in society's best interest to identify especially talented children,
the statement assumes that talented children are the ones who are most likely to contribute
greatly to the society as adults. I find this assumption somewhat dubious, for I see no reason
why a talented child, having received the benefit of special attention, might nevertheless be
unmotivated to ply those talents in useful ways as an adult. In fact, in my observation many
talented people who misuse their talents--in ways that harm the very society that helped
nurture those talents.
Finally, the statement ignores the psychological damage that a preferential policy might
inflict on all children. While children selected for special treatment grow to deem themselves
superior, those left out feel that they a worth less as a result. I think any astute child
psychologist would warn that both types of cases portend psychological trouble later in life. In
my view we should favor policies that affirm the self-worth of every child, regardless of his or
her talents---or lack thereof. Otherwise, we will quickly devolve into a society of people who
cheapen their own humanity. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（79） 》一文，查字典出国留学网()编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。