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  3. This section measures your ability to use writing to communicate in an academic environment. There will be two writing tasks.

This section measures your ability to use writing to communicate in an academic environment. There will be two writing tasks.

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问题     This section measures your ability to use writing to communicate in an academic environment. There will be two writing tasks.
    For the first writing task, you will read a passage and listen to a lecture and then answer a question based on what you have read and heard. For the second writing task, you will answer a question based on your own knowledge and experience.
    Now listen to the directions for the first writing task.
Integrated Writing Directions
    For this task, you will first have three minutes to read a passage about an academic topic. You may take notes on the passage if you wish. The passage will then be removed and you will listen to a lecture about the same topic. While you listen, you may also take notes.
    Then you will have 20 minutes to write a response to a question that asks you about the relationship between the lecture you heard and the reading passage. Try to answer the question as completely as possible using information from the reading passage and the lecture. The question does not ask you to express your personal opinion. You will be able to see the reading passage again when it is time for you to write. You may use your notes to help you answer the question.
    Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words long. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on the completeness and accuracy of the content. If you finish your response before time is up, you may Clink on Next to go on to the second writing task.
    Now you will see the reading passage for three minutes. Remember it will be available to you again when you write immediately after the reading time ends. The lecture will begin, so keep your headset on until the lecture is over.
    This figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savory, purifying, preservative. It is one of those superfluities which the great French wit defined as "things that are very necessary". A bag of salt, among the barbaric tribes, was worth more than a man. The Jews prized it especially, because their religion laid particular emphasis on cleanliness, and because salt was largely used in their sacrifices.
    Christ chose an image which was familiar, when He said to His disciples, "Ye are the salt of the earth. " This was His conception of their mission, their influence. They were to cleanse and sweeten the world in which they lived, to keep it from decay, to give a new and more wholesome flavor to human existence. Their function was not to be passive, but active. The sphere of its action was to be this present life.
    Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture, who are not active forces for good in society, are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. If they pass for Christians, they are guilty of obtaining respect under false pretenses. They were meant to be the salt of the earth. And the first duty of salt is to be salty.
    The saltiness of salt is the symbol of a noble, powerful, truly religious life. College students are men of privilege. It costs ten times as much, in labor and care and money, to bring them out where they are today, as it costs to educate the average man, and a hundred times as much as it costs to raise a boy without any education. This fact brings them face to face with a question. Are you going to be worth your salt?
    Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.
    Question: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to specifically explain how they strengthen specific points made in the reading passage.
Well, you, uh...as educated persons, have had mental training and plenty of instruction in various branches of learning. You ought to be full of intelligence. You have had moral discipline, and the influences of good examples have been steadily brought to bear upon you. You ought to be full of principles. You have had religious advantages and abundant inducements to choose the better part. You ought to be full of faith.
    Think of the influence for good which men of intelligence may exercise in the world, if they will only put their culture to the right use. Half the troubles of mankind come from ignorance—ignorance which is systematically organized with societies for its support and newspapers for its dissemination—ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in willfully ignoring the things that are already known. There are certain physical diseases which would go out of existence in ten years if people would only remember what has been learned. There are certain political and social plagues which are propagated only in the atmosphere of shallow self-confidence and vulgar thoughtlessness.
    Now the men of thought, of cultivation, of reason, in the community ought to be an antidote to these dangerous influences. Having been instructed in the lessons of history and science and philosophy they are bound to contribute their knowledge to the service of society. As a rule, they are willing enough to do this for pay, in the professions of law and medicine and teaching and divinity. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping other men to think.
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答案The focus of the lecture is the word "salt". Besides its physical function, salt is rendered necessary character men should bear on themselves. People should use what they have received to do good to society and other people. A noble, powerful, and religious life can be considered as the saltiness of salt to human beings. And as for college students, they ought not to waste their favorable education. This should be going to be worth their saltiness of salt in their life. While in the passage we read, as has been educated, every man should take advantage of their knowledge. It is necessary to form their own intelligence, principle and faith so as to make contributions to the society they are living in. These are considered the salt of a person. Men should be aware of news spread by the media, however, they are supposed to distinguish news from knowledge. They should be thoughtful of themselves and helpful to other people in thinking.
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