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  3. Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: . summariz

Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: . summariz

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问题     Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:
    . summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then
    . comment on whether English should be changed into an elective course. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt.
    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
                                More than Half Surveyed Say English Should Be an Optional Course
    More than one in two people support English becoming an elective subject for national university entrance exams, known as gaokao, China Youth Daily reported.
    An online survey of 2 001 participants found 54.4％ supported the suggestion. However, 50.3％ said strengthening Chinese language education in schools should not be at the cost of English language studies.
    An English teacher at a high school in Jinan City, Shandong Province, said students learn English only to pass the written gaokao test, so they generally perform poorly when it comes to oral and listening skills.
    The survey also found 45. 2％ believed making English an elective subject would help reduce study stress while 27.2％ thought it could make students more self-motivated.
    As for purposes of studying English, the survey found the top three reasons are to help gain work opportunities in foreign companies (40.9％), to travel abroad (36.9％) and to prepare for exams (31％). Other motivations included studying abroad and watching English movies.
    Wei Yuhao, who works for an Internet company in Beijing, said English can play a very important role in a career and must not be ignored. Wei also believed the core problem is how English is being studied rather than whether to study the subject or not.
    Cao Yun, whose child is in middle school, said she was worried that making English an elective subject would lead to complete neglect of the language in today’s test-centered education system. In the survey, 54.7％ shared Cao’s concern that an elective course essentially means giving up.
    A deputy to the National People’s Congress, the top legislature, recently called for the English test to be dropped from gaokao and made optional for high school students.
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答案 English Shouldn’t Be Turned into an Optional Course Owing to the study pressure and the unsatisfactory result of English learning fostered by the rote-based pedagogy in China, more than half of those surveyed suggest that English be an optional subject. A different voice, however, is also heard about the justification of English as a compulsory course with reasons listed below. Personally, I think English study should not be weakened. Firstly, the de-emphasis on English learning might limit both our national access to the international stage and our personal performance. From a grander view, globalization demands talent with international horizons of which the core is a bilingual education. From a personal point of view, the chance to work in a foreign company, the likelihood to enroll in an overseas university and the travel on an alien land or just the pure enjoyment of international resources all justify English not as an elective but a compulsory course. Furthermore, despite the much lamented fact that many English learners are learning "dumb English", herein lies the real problem of how to learn English rather than whether it should be sharply curtailed. We should steer the present one-size-fits-all test to a beacon which can guide today’s too standardized and somehow unwise teaching into an effective one. All in all, the defects of today’s flawed bilingual education should not water down the importance of English which, as the sole global language, is used by most countries in the world. Therefore, it is only logical that English should be studied in an improved way instead of degrading it into an elective course.
解析     本题讨论的是英语是否应该变成选修课。在针对此话题的一次采访中，有超过一半的被采访者表示英语应改成一门选修课。本文讨论的重点是为什么英语不能变成选修课。具体行文方面，考生可以在第一段简单概述所给材料的内容；第二段提出自己的观点并展开论述，论证有理有据即可；第三段再次强调自己的观点，总结全文。
    开头部分首句开宗明义地总结材料中人们赞同英语变成选修课的两点原因，其次总结材料中与之不同的观点。最后一句表明本篇作文的观点，即英语学习不应该被削弱。
    中间部分第二段阐述英语不应该变成选修课的原因。首先，在国际化的大环境下，英语变成选修课会削弱个人和国家的竞争力。之后从宏观和个人两个角度阐述学习英语的重要性。其次，批驳材料中学不好英语的人群对英语的指责，并指出英语本身的重要性不容置疑，我们应该改进的是英语的教学方法以及学习方法。进一步阐述此观点时，应该具体指出现有的英语教学法的漏洞，即“dumb English”的由来——以高考定乾坤的学习制度。
    结尾部分首先进行总结，如今对英语教学法的指责不应该转变成对英语重要性的质疑。然后再次强调英语作为唯一的全球性语言的不可替代性。最后提出倡议，同时再次点题——改进英语教学法而非把英语变成选修课程。
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