12年gre作文要求：GRE作文范文大全（19）
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。
groups then bring to fruition. Perhaps the speaker's claim will have more merit at the close of
the next millennium since politics and science are being conducted increasingly by
consortiums and committees. Yet, today it behooves us to continue draw ing inspiration from
"the famous few," and to continue understanding history chiefly in terms of their influence.
Issue 29
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"Imaginative works such as novels, plays, films, fairy tales, and legends present a more
accurate and meaningful picture of human experience than do factual accounts. Because the
creators of fiction shape and focus reality rather than report on it literally, their creations have a
more lasting significance."
Do imaginative works hold more lasting significance than factual accounts, for the reasons
the speaker cites? To some extent the speaker overstates fiction's comparative significance.
On balance, however, I tend to agree with the speaker. By recounting various dimensions of
the human experience, a fictional work can add meaning to and appreciation of the times in
which the work is set. Even where a fictional work amounts to pure fantasy, with no historical
context, it can still hold more lasting significance than a factual account. Examples from
literature and film serve to illustrate these points.
I concede that most fictional works rely on historical settings for plot, thematic, and character
development. By informing us about underlying political, economic, and social conditions,
factual accounts provide a frame of reference needed to understand and appredate
imaginative works. Fact is the basis for fiction, and fiction is no substitute for fact. I would also
concede that factual accounts are more "accurate" than fictional ones--insofar as they are
more objective. But this does not mean that factual accounts provide a "more meaningful
picture of the human experience." To the contrary, only imaginative works can bring an
historical period alive by way of creative tools such as imagery and point of view. And, only
imaginative works can provide meaning to historical events--through the use of devices such
as symbolism and metaphor.
Several examples from literature serve to illustrate this point. Twain's novels afford us a
sense of how 19th-Century Missouri would have appeared through the eyes of 10-year old
boys. Melville's "Billy Budd" gives the reader certain insights into what travel on the high seas
might have been like in earlier centuries, through the eyes of a crewman. And the epic poems 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（19） 》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。
"Beowulf" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" provide glimpses of the relationships
between warriors and their kings in medieval times. Bare facts about these historical eras are
easily forgettable, whereas creative stories and portrayals such as the ones mentioned above
can be quite memorable indeed. In other words, what truly lasts are our impressions of what
life must have been like in certain places, at certain times, and under certain conditions. Only
imaginative works can provide such lasting impressions.
Examples of important films underscore the point that creative accounts of the human
experience hold more lasting significance than bare factual accounts. Consider four of our
most memorable and influential films: Citizen Kane, Schindkr5 LaSt, The Wizard of O~ and
Star Wars. Did Welles' fictional portrayal of publisher William Randolph Hearst or Spielberg's
fictional portrayal of a Jewish sympathizer during the holocaust provide a more "meaningful
picture of human experience" than a history textbook? Did these accounts help give "shape
and focus" to reality more so than newsreels alone could? If so, will these works hold more
"lasting significance" than bare factual accounts of the same persons and events? I think
anyone who has seen these films would answer all three questions affirmatively. Or consider
The Wizard of O~ and Star Wars. Both films, and the novels from which they were adapted,
are pure fantasy. Yet both teem with symbolism and metaphor relating to life's journey, the
human spirit, and our hopes, dreams and ambitions--in short, the human experience. Therein
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lies the reason for their lasting significance.
In sum, without prior factual accounts fictional works set in historical periods lose much of
their meaning. Yet only through the exercise of artistic license can we convey human
experience in all its dimensions, and thereby fully understand and appreciate life in other times
and places. And it is human experience, and not bare facts and figures, that endures in our
minds and souls.
Issue 30
"In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty
should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant
to the courses they teach."
Whether college faculty should also work outside academia, in professional work related to
their academic fields, depends primarily on the specific academic area. With respect to fields
in which outside work is appropriate, I strongly agree with the statement; students and faculty
all stand to gain in a variety of respects when a professor complements academic duties with
real-world experience.
As a threshold matter, the statement requires qualification in two respects. First, in certain
academic areas there is no profession to speak of outside academia. This is especially true in
the humanities; after all, what work outside academia is there for professors of literature or
philosophy? Secondly, the statement fails to consider that in certain other academic areas a 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（19） 》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。
professor's academic duties typically involve practical work of the sort that occurs outside
academia. This is especially true in the fine and performing arts, where faculty actively engage
in the craft by demonstrating techniques and styles for their students.
Aside from these two qualifications, I strongly agree that it is worthwhile for college faculty to
work outside academia in professional positions related to their field. There are three dear
benefits of doing so. First, in my experience as a student, faculty who are actively engaged in
their fields come to class with fresh insights and a contagious excitement about the subject at
hand. Moreover, they bring to their students practical, real-world examples of the principles
and theories discussed in textbooks, thereby sparking interest, and even motivating some
students to pursue the field as a career.
Secondly, by keeping abreast with the changing demands of work as a professional,
professors can help students who are serious about pursuing a career in that field to make
more informed career decisions. The professor with field experience is better able to impart
useful, up-to-date information about what work in the field entails, and even about the current
job market. After all, college career-planning staff are neither equipped nor sufficiently
experienced to provide such specific advice to students.
A third benefit has to do with faculty research and publication in their areas of specialty.
Experience in the field can help a professor ferret out cutting-edge and controversial
issues--which might be appropriate subjects for research and publication. Moreover, practical
experience can boost a professor's credibility as an expert in the field. For example, each year
a certain sociology professor at my college combined teaching with undercover work
investigating various cults. Not only did the students benefit from the many interesting stories
this professor had to tell about his experiences, the professor's publications about cults
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catapulted him to international prominence as an expert on the subject, and justifiably so.
In sum, aside from certain academic areas in which outside work is either unavailable or
unnecessary, students and faculty alike stand everything to gain when faculty enrich their
careers by interspersing field work with academic work.
Issue 31
"In any academic area or professional field, it is just as important to recognize the limits of our
knowledge and understanding as it is to acquire new facts and information."
Does recognizing the limits of our knowledge and understanding serve us equally well as 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（19） 》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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