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It is not rare to find some employers do not pay the intern graduates or students. What is your opinion? Should they get paid? R

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问题     It is not rare to find some employers do not pay the intern graduates or students. What is your opinion? Should they get paid? Read the following excerpts from different sides carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:
    1. summarize briefly the different opinions about this issue;
    2. give your comment.
    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.
Micky Franklin
    Ads for unpaid internships can be found on billboards and listservs across the country. Every posting uses a different euphemism to justify offering full-time work for no pay, but there’s something they all forget to write: "Poor people need not apply."
    Every single time you see a posting for an unpaid internship, you’re seeing a posting that’s only open to people who can afford to work for free. In countless industries, from film-making to public policy, entry-level jobs have disappeared, replaced by unpaid internships. These unpaid and unregulated positions drive down wages across the whole economy, and prevent anyone without economic privilege from getting ahead.
    This strikes at the heart of a fundamental promise that we make to each other: that economic opportunity is for everyone; that no matter who you are, or where you come from, if you work hard, you deserve the chance to pursue your dreams. But unpaid internships guarantee that people lucky enough not to pay their own bills to get their foot in the door, while everybody else gets it slammed in their face.
Ross Eisenbrey
    The federal minimum wage is not zero. Yet that is what thousands of employers around the country are paying hundreds of thousands of employees each year. The minimum wage is $7. 25 an hour, and the law requires employers to pay at least that much to any adult who works for them. The youngest workers may be paid a $4. 25 per hour subminimum wage for 90 days, an amount so small as to be almost a joke. But a for-profit employer who has a young person, or any person, work for nothing violates federal law and often state law as well.
    This is as it should be. Labor should be rewarded and employers must not be allowed to drive wages down to a level that is too low for workers to live on them. It’s simple: If you benefit financially from someone’s work you have to pay them, you have to share with them some of the benefits from their work.
Walter Olson
    Internships were never for everyone. They’re especially common in prestige workplaces where many job aspirants are keen to network and seek mentors. Given a suitable match, however, as many counselors and senior business people will tell you, the right internship can make a powerful boost for a budding career in entertainment, fashion or communications. The point doesn’t have to be direct acquisition of hands-on skills so much as a chance to observe the style and psychology of an industry: How do successful people in it present themselves? Interact? Manage work rhythms? Yes, your family needs to be able to afford it, but it might work out a lot more cheaply than if you asked them to foot one more semester’s tuition bill.
Daniel Rothschild
    Most interns are actually quite costly to their sponsoring organizations. No matter how bright and well educated an intern may be, supervising him or her takes time and effort, and by nature of their lack of experience and their short-term stints, interns typically cannot produce much value. Mentorship, instruction and education are all expensive investments relative to the value most interns provide.
    It’s also hard to tell whether an internship primarily benefits the intern or the employing organization. This is a decision best made by interns and their sponsoring organizations.
    Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
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答案 My Views on Unpaid Interns As to the issue of whether interns should get paid or not, some believe that they ought to, because interns are also workforce who benefit the enterprise employing them and at the same time, their position as a "worker" is protected by law to get a minimum wage. What is more, free internship means only those who can afford their lives have the opportunity to get internship, which is not fair to others. There are also some others who argue that inexperienced interns are costly because they produce little value to the employer as the latter has to train and help them, and consequently, no pay for them is also acceptable. Although many interns claim that unpaid internships really devalue their work, to me, the whole point of an internship is that it is an opportunity. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that there is no pay packet at the end of the week. Interning is always harder work for the people overseeing the interns than it is for the interns themselves. Furthermore, making all internships paid will have a bad effect on young people’s battered sense of voluntarism. The requirement that internships become paid positions is an extension of modern youth’s corrosive belief that all things that they do should be immediately rewarded. That will be pernicious to the value construction of a society. Especially, the benefits of internship are obvious: students gaining practical experience, building their resumes and networking contacts, and getting to explore prospective career paths before investing years of study. Actually, not all employers are so exploitative just as to make use of the cheap labor. If the employers would like to pay the interns, that does good to the interns quite a lot. However, there is no doubt that for young people trying to get a foot on the career ladder, internships offer valuable experience. Hence, no matter what the employers’ initial points are, no matter whether the interns get paid, no matter what others voice their views towards this issue, the interns should remember that they should possess self-drive and cherish their opportunities.
解析 本题讨论实习是否应该获得报酬这一社会现象，与大学生的学习生活息息相关。题目要求简要概括材料中的观点并发表自己的评论。在具体行文方面，首段的总结要求全面。点题时，应明确个人观点是支持还是反对，这样才能把握文章的方向。分析原因时，应注意连接词等连贯方式的使用，最后重申观点。
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