新gre写作题库2012：GRE作文范文大全（66）

GRE写作成为横在中国学生的理想和现实之间的一大障碍，因此，如何攻克写作这道屏障，成为摆在我们面前的首要任务。

In sum, the speaker over-generalizes when it comes to the function and value of art and

science both of which serve in some cases to reassure and in other cases to upset. In any

event, the speaker misstates the true function and value of science, which is to discover truths,

whether reassuring or upsetting.

Issue 88

"Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system because

moral behavior cannot be legislated."

I strongly agree that by studying any particular academic discipline we alter the way we

perceive the world. As intellectual neophytes we tend to polarize what we see as either right or

wrong, or as either good or bad. We also tend to interpret what we see by way of our emotions.

Once educated, we gain the capacity to see a broader spectrum of opinion and perspective,

and to see our own culture and even ourselves as a tapestry-like product of history.

Through the earnest pursuit of knowledge--particularly in history and literature--we reveal to

ourselves the flaws and foibles of other humans whose lives we study and read about. History

teaches us, for example, that demagogues whom society places on pedestals often fall under

the weight of their own prejudices, jealousies, and other character flaws. And, any serious

student of Shakespeare comes away from reading King Lear and Hamlet with a heightened

awareness of the tragically flawed ironic hero, and of the arbitrariness by which we distinguish

our heroes from our villains.

Through education we begin to see flaws not only in people but also in ideologies that we

had previously embraced on pure faith. A student of government and public policy learns that

many of the so-called "solutions" which our legislatures and jurists hand down to us from atop

their pedestals are actually Band-Aid comprises designed to appease opponents and pander

to the electorate. A philosophy student learns to recognize logical fallacies of popular ideas

and the rhetoric of our political parties, religious denominations, and social extremists. And, a

law student learns that our system of laws is not a monolithic set of truths but rather an

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ever-changing reflection of whatever the society's current mores, values, and attitudes happen

to be. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（66） 》一文，查字典出国留学网()编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。GRE写作成为横在中国学生的理想和现实之间的一大障碍，因此，如何攻克写作这道屏障，成为摆在我们面前的首要任务。

While education helps us see the flawed nature of our previously cherished ideas,

paradoxically it also helps us see ideas we previously rejected out of hand in a different

light--as having some merit after all. Through education in public policy and law,

once-oppressive rules, regulations, and restrictions appear reasonable constraints on freedom

in light of legitimate competing interests. Through the objective study of different religious

institutions, customs, and faiths, a student learns to see the merits of different belief systems,

and to see the cultural and philosophical traditions in which they are rooted.

Education also helps us see our own culture through different eyes. As cultural neophytes

we participate unwittingly in our culture's own customs, rituals, and ceremonies--because we

see them as somehow sacrosanct. A student of sociology or cultural anthropology comes to

see those same customs, rituals, and ceremonies as tools which serve our psychological need

to belong to a distinct social group, and to reinforce that sense of belonging by honoring the

group's traditions. And, by reading the literary works of writers from bygone eras, a literature

student comes to see his or her own culture as a potential treasure trove of fodder for the

creative literary mind. For example, by studying Twain's works a student learns that Twain saw

19th-Century life along the Mississippi not as a mundane existence but as a framework for the

quintessential adventure story, and that we can similarly transform the way we see our own

culture.

Finally, education in the arts alters forever the way we perceive the aesthetic world around

us. Prior to education we respond instinctively, emotionally, and viscerally to the forms, colors,

and sounds of art. Post education we respond intellectually. We seek to appreciate what art

reveals about our culture and about humanity. We also seek to understand the aesthetic

principles upon which true art is founded. For instance, an earnest art student learns to see not

just pigments and shapes but also historical influences and aesthetic principles. An informed

listener of popular music hears not just the same pleasing sounds and pulsating rhythms as

their naive counterparts, but also the rhythmic meters, harmonic structure, and compositional

forms used by the great classical composers of previous centuries, and which provided the

foundation of modern music. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（66） 》一文，查字典出国留学网()编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。GRE写作成为横在中国学生的理想和现实之间的一大障碍，因此，如何攻克写作这道屏障，成为摆在我们面前的首要任务。

To sum up, through education we no longer see our heroes, leaders, and idols through the

same credulous eyes, nor do we see other humans and their ideas through the

black-and-white lens of our own point of view. In the final analysis, through education we come

not only to perceive the world differently but also to understand the subjective, and therefore

changeable, nature of our own perceptions.

Issue 89

"The way students and scholars interpret the materials they work with in their academic fields

is more a matter of personality than of training. Different interpretations come about when

people with different personalities look at exactly the same objects, facts, data, or events and

see different things."

The speaker asserts that many laws are ineffective in solving society's problems because

moral behavior cannot be legislated. I agree with this assertion insofar as it relates to

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constraints on certain personal freedoms. However, when it comes to the conduct of

businesses, I think that moral behavior not only can but must be legislated for the purpose of

alleviating societal problems.

Morality laws that impinge upon freedom of choice about our personal lives--to control what

we do with and to ourselves--simply do not work in a democratic society. People always find

ways to circumvent such laws, which ultimately give way to more lenient laws that

acknowledge personal freedom of choice. The failed Prohibition experiment of the 1930s is

perhaps the paradigmatic example of this. And we are slowly learning history's lesson, as aptly

demonstrated by the recognition of equal rights for same-sex partners, and current trends

toward legalization of physician-assisted suicide and the medicinal use of marijuana. In short,

history informs us that legislating morality merely for morality's sake simply does not work. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（66） 》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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