2010年12月六級寫作快速提高精講(35)
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★ 名師團在線指導12月四六級聽力備考:付思遙
★ 名師團在線指導12月四六級詞匯備考:劉一男
★ 名師團在線指導12月四六級全項備考:趙建昆
沖刺備考
★ 四級考試最后沖刺備考:做練習 記單詞
★ 2010年12月六級考試作文話題預測
★ 2010年12月四級考試復習資料大全:聽力
★ 英語六級考試閱讀備考:新東方課堂講義
★ 2010年12月四級考試完形填空模擬練習
2011四六級VIP全程班:早準備 早通關
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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of no less than 120 words under the title of "What will money bring us, fortune or misfortune?" Your composition should be based on the following story given in Chinese. Give at least two reasons to support your choice.
奪命之物
一棟住宅樓發生了大火,一個中年男子在大火中喪生。奇怪的是,他5歲的兒子明明卻逃了出來。有人問明明:“你是怎么逃出來的?”明明說:“我拿了一塊濕毛巾捂住鼻子,貼在地上爬……”,這是科學有效的逃生方法。
人們不解:“你爸爸不會這么做嗎?”
明明說:“會,是爸爸教我這么做的。爸爸和我一起爬到了門口,他說忘了一件東西,就又爬回去了。”
參加救火的消防員說,他們發現那具男尸時,他的手里緊緊地攥著一沓百元大鈔。
于是,人們明白了:有一種東西殺人奪命,比大火還厲害。(摘自《深圳青年》第3期上半月刊,作者廖鈞)
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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a summary of the following passage. You should write about 150 words and remember to write clearly on the COMPOSITION SHEET.
To Lie or not to Lie — the Doctor’s Dilemma
Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patients — to speed recovery or to conceal the approach of death? Doctors confront such choices often and urgently. At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patient’s own sake; in their eyes, such lies differ sharply from self-serving ones.
Studies show that most doctors sincerely believe that the seriously ill do not want to know the truth about their condition, and that informing them risks destroying their hope, so that they may recover more slowly, or deteriorate faster, perhaps even commit suicide. As one physician wrote, “Ours is a profession which traditionally has been guided by a precept that transcends the virtue of uttering the truth for truth’s sake, and that is as far as possible, do no harm.”
Armed with such a precept, a number of doctors may slip into deceptive practices that they assume will “do no harm” and may well help their patients. They may prescribe innumerable placebos, sound more encouraging than the facts warrant, and distort grave news, especially to the incurably ill and the dying.
But the illusory nature of the benefits such deception is meant to produce is now coming to be documents. Studies show that, contrary to the beliefs of many physicians, an overwhelming majority of patients do want to be told the truth, even about grave illness, and feel betrayed when they learn that they have been misled. We are also learning that truthful information, humanely conveyed, helps patients cope with illness: helps them tolerate pain better, need less medicine, and even recover faster after surgery.
Not only do lies not provide the “help” hoped for by advocates of benevolent deception; they invade the autonomy of patients and render them unable to make informed choices concerning their own health, including the choice of whether to be a patient in the first place. We are becoming increasingly aware of all that can befall patients in the course of their illness when information is denied or distorted.
Dying patients especially — who are easiest to mislead and most often kept in the dark — can then not make decisions about the end of life: about whether or not they should enter a hospital, or have surgery; about where and with whom they should spend their remaining time; about how they should bring their affairs to a close and take leave.
Lies also do harm to those who tell them: harm to their integrity and, in the long run, to their credibility. Lies hurt their colleagues as well. The suspicion of deceit undercuts the work of the many doctors who are honest with their patients; it contributes to the spiral of lawsuits and of “defensive medicine”, and thus it injures, in turn, the entire medical profession.
There is urgent need to debate this issue openly. Not only in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception. Yet the public has every reason to be wary of professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply rooted, to spread, and to erode trust. Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”
最后沖刺:名師團在線指導12月四六級備考
四級歷年真題(2001-2009)
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六級歷年真題(2001-2009)
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