GRE作文范文：GRE作文范文大全（21）
GRE写作部分将重点考察考生有针对性地对具体考题做出反应的能力，而非要求考生堆砌泛泛的文字。具体说来，这些重点关注的能力包括：1、 清楚有效地阐明复杂观点；2、 用贴切的事理和事例支撑观点；3、考察/验证他人论点及其相关论证；4、支撑一个有针对性的连贯的讨论；5、控制标准书面英语的各个要素。写作部分将联合考察逻辑推理和分析写作两种技能，并且将加大力度引进那些需要考生做出有针对性的回应的考题，降低考生依赖事前准备（如背诵）的材料的可能性。
Nevertheless, the call for a broad educational experience as the path to becoming truly
educated comes with one important caveat. A student who merely dabbles in a hodgepodge of
academic offerings, without special emphasis on any one, becomes a dilettante lacking
enough knowledge or experience in any single area to come away with anything valuable to
offer. Thus in the pursuit of true education students must be careful not to overextend
themselves----or risk defeating an important objective of education.
In the final analysis, to become truly educated one must strike a proper balance in one's
educational pursuits. Certainly, students should strive to excel in the specific requirements of
their major course of study. However, they should complement those efforts by pursuing
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course work in a variety of other areas as well. By earnestly pursuing a broad education one
gains the capacity not only to succeed in a career, but also to find purpose and meaning in that
career as well as to understand and appreciate the world and its peoples. To gain these
capacities is to become "truly educated."
Issue 34
"People work more productively in teams than individually. Teamwork requires cooperation,
which motivates people much more than individual competition does."
The speaker asserts that because teamwork requires cooperative effort, people are more
motivated and therefore more productive working in teams than working individually as
competitors. My view is that this assertion is true only in some cases. If one examines the
business world, for example, it becomes clear that which approach is more effective in
motivating people and in achieving productivity depends on the specific job.
In some jobs productivity dearly depends on the ability of coworkers to cooperate as
members of a team. For businesses involved in the production of products through complex
processes, all departments and divisions must work in lock-step fashion toward product
roll-out. Cooperative interaction is even essential in jobs performed in relative isolation and in
jobs in which technical knowledge or ability, not the ability to work with others, would seem to
be most important. For example, scientists, researchers, and even computer programmers
must collaborate to establish common goals, coordinate efforts, and meet time lines. Moreover,
the kinds of people attracted to these jobs in the first place are likely to be motivated by a
sense of common purpose rather than by individual ambition.
In other types of jobs individual competition, tenacity, and ambition are the keys to
productivity. For example, a commissioned salesperson's compensation, and sometimes
tenure and potential for promotion as well, is based on comparative sales performance of
coworkers. Working as competitors a firm's individual salespeople maximize productivity-in
terms of profit--both for themselves and for their finn. Key leadership positions also call, above
all, for a certain tenacity and competitive spirit. A finn's founding entrepreneur must maintain
this spirit in order for the firm to survive, let alone to maximize productivity. Moreover, in my
observation the kinds of people inclined toward entrepreneurship and sales in the first place
are those who are competitive by nature, not those who are motivated primarily by a sense of
common purpose. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（21） 》一文，查字典出国留学网()编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。GRE写作部分将重点考察考生有针对性地对具体考题做出反应的能力，而非要求考生堆砌泛泛的文字。具体说来，这些重点关注的能力包括：1、 清楚有效地阐明复杂观点；2、 用贴切的事理和事例支撑观点；3、考察/验证他人论点及其相关论证；4、支撑一个有针对性的连贯的讨论；5、控制标准书面英语的各个要素。写作部分将联合考察逻辑推理和分析写作两种技能，并且将加大力度引进那些需要考生做出有针对性的回应的考题，降低考生依赖事前准备（如背诵）的材料的可能性。
On balance, however, my view is that cooperation is more crucial for an organization's
long-term productivity than individual competition. Even in jobs where individual
competitiveness is part-and-parcel of the job, the importance of cooperation should not be
underestimated. Competition among sales people can quickly grow into jealousy, back
stabbing, and unethical behavior all of which are counterproductive. And even the most
successful entrepreneurs would no doubt admit that without the cooperative efforts of their
subordinates, partners, and colleagues, their personal visions would never become reality.
In sum, individual competitiveness and ambition are essential motivating forces for certain
types of jobs, while in other jobs it is a common sense of mission that motivates workers to
achieve maximum productivity. In the final analysis, however, the overall productivity of almost
every organization depends ultimately on the ability of its members to cooperate as a team.
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Issue 35
"Colleges and universities should offer more courses on popular music, film, advertising, and
television because contemporary culture has much greater relevance for students than do arts
and literature of the past."
The speaker asserts that the curriculum of colleges and universities should emphasize popular
culture--music, media, literature, and so forth rather than literature and art of the past, for the
reason that the former is more relevant to students. I strongly disagree. Although courses in
popular culture do play a legitimate role in higher education, formal study of the present culture
at the expense of studying past cultures can undermine the function of higher education, and
ultimately provide a disservice to students and to society.
Admittedly, course work in popular culture is legitimate and valuable for three reasons. First,
popular culture is a mirror of society's impulses and values. Thus, any serious student of the
social sciences, as well as students of media and communications, should take seriously the
literature and art of the present. Secondly, in every age and culture some worthwhile art and
literature emerges from the mediocrity. Few would disagree, for example, that the great
modem-jazz pioneers such as Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk, and more recently Lennon
and McCarmey, and Stevie Wonder, have made just as lasting a contribution to music as some
of the great classical musicians of previous centuries. Thirdly, knowledge of popular films,
music, and art enables a person to find common ground to relate to other people. This leads to
better communication between different subcultures. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（21） 》一文，查字典出国留学网()编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。GRE写作部分将重点考察考生有针对性地对具体考题做出反应的能力，而非要求考生堆砌泛泛的文字。具体说来，这些重点关注的能力包括：1、 清楚有效地阐明复杂观点；2、 用贴切的事理和事例支撑观点；3、考察/验证他人论点及其相关论证；4、支撑一个有针对性的连贯的讨论；5、控制标准书面英语的各个要素。写作部分将联合考察逻辑推理和分析写作两种技能，并且将加大力度引进那些需要考生做出有针对性的回应的考题，降低考生依赖事前准备（如背诵）的材料的可能性。
Nevertheless, emphasizing the study of popular culture at the expense of studying classical
art and literature can carry harmful consequences for students, as well as for society. Without
the benefit of historical perspective gamed through the earnest study of the art and literature of
the past, it is impossible to fully understand, appreciate, and critique literature and art of the
present. Moreover, by approaching popular culture without any yardstick for quality it is
impossible to distinguish mediocre art from worthwhile art. Only by studying the classics can
an individual develop fair standards for judging popular works. Besides, emphasis on the
formal study of popular culture is unnecessary. Education in popular culture is readily available
outside the classroom---on the Internet, through educational television programming, and
through the sorts of everyday conversations and cross-talk that occur at water coolers and in
the coffee houses of any college campus.
In sum, while the study of popular literature and art can be worthwhile, it has to be
undertaken in conjunction with an even greater effort to learn about the literature and art of the
past. In the absence of the latter, our universities will produce a society of people with no
cultural perspective, and without any standards for determining what merits our attention and
nurtures society.
Issue 36
"A person's own habits and attitudes often limit that person's freedom more than do restrictions
imposed by others."
I strongly agree with the contention that we often limit our own freedom through our habits
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and attitudes. By limiting our own freedom, we often serve our own interests. And as we learn
this lesson, we cultivate certain attitudes and habits--particularly in our relationships with
others--by which we apply that lesson, and which continue throughout life.
To appreciate that from an early age we ingrain in ourselves habits that serve to constrain
our freedom, one need look no further than the neighborhood playground. Even without adult
supervision, a group of youngsters at play invariably establish mutually agreed-upon rules of
conduct--whether or not a sport or game is involved. Children learn that without any rules for
behavior the playground bully usually prevails. Thus our habit of making choices that constrain
our own freedom stems from our desire to protect our own interests, and it begins at an early
age.
This habit of making choices that constrain our own freedom continues into our adult lives.
As we mature, most of us develop the attitude that monogamous relationships are preferable
to polygamous ones--thus our habit of entering into exclusive pair-bonding relationships.
During our teens we agree to "go steady," then as adults we voluntarily enter into marriage
contracts. As we enter the working world, we carry these attitudes and habits with us. We
eagerly engage in exclusive employment relationships---with the attitude that the security of
steady income is preferable to the "freedom" of not knowing where our next paycheck will
come from. Even people who prefer self-employment to job security quickly develop the
attitude that the only way to preserve their autonomy is to constrain themselves in terms of
their agreements with clients and customers, and especially in terms of how they use their me. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（21） 》一文，查字典出国留学网()编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。
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