初练写作3篇，请指正

emeraldth · 发表于 2007-11-26 09:17:00

1. "It is essential that the nations of the world increase spending on the
building of space stations and on the exploration of other planets,
even if that means spending less on other government programs." Discuss
the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated
above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own
experience, observations, or reading.

Space exploration has recently come up again as a hot topic of business magazines since China and Japan launched their rockets to the Moon. Obviously the nations all over the world are spending more and more on the space race. Under this situation, the speaker is even proposing to spend more money, which should have been used on other government programs, on the building of space stations and on the exploration of other planets. In my view, this is a violation of the basic interest of human being.

First of all, space exploration is not on the top-5 list of any government's duties. Even in one of the most developed nations, the United States, there are still quite a few people living in poverty, suffering diseases, and looking for the lowest-paid jobs. Poverty, health care, security against terrorism, discrimination, illegal immigrants, ... any of them should take precedence over the exploration of the space. None of the President candidates will talk more about how to support NASA than how to change the health insurance system, because they all know what the priority should be.

Admittedly, all the space exploration actions assume some kind of research tasks and would potentially benefit the whole world (or at least said so). However, any government should think twice about the ratio of production and invest before spending the money coming from its taxpayers. At the same time we hear that NASA spends around $500 million for each spacecraft, we have noticed that the government has been become less supportive to our higher education. The magazine "Education Digest" said "it has become harder for the first-generation college students" because their parents did not get higher education and could not earn enough money to afford their higher education, due to the less support of the government. More and more genuine young people have been suffering the education loan, and some of them may have to go to Iraq in order to get the opportunity of higher education. It is hard to understand why the government cannot spend more money on the more controllable education program that has been and will be undoubtedly beneficial to the whole society and the future generations.

When we look further to the whole world, we have found a very unfortunate situation that the nations have been spending a lot of resources on space exploration, just as what they have been trying to do on developing nuclear weapons. Obviously, the fear of losing potential control of the space resources has been pushing the nations' governments to ignore the more compelling problems and needs in their nations and spend more on the game, or the race, of space exploration.

The space is full of potential opportunities for the human being. However, if the same amount of resource could be spent on food production, energy reservation, pollution prevention and fight with drug trafficking, I believe the whole world will benefit more than what we have been told from the space exploration.

emeraldth · 发表于 2007-11-26 09:17:00

2. "If a nation is to ensure its own economic success, it must maintain a
highly competitive educational system in which students compete among
themselves and against students from other countries." Discuss the
extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above.
Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own
experience, observations, or reading.

The 21st century has seen the emergence of global economy all over the world, in all the ways of information sharing, international cooperation and competition, undoubtedly tight connections among currencies, and etc.. Under this situation, it would be very unlikely that a nation with an educational system that limits the competition inside of its border and rejects the challenges from outside would train its young people to be competitive enough to succeed in the global economy.

This is an open market world and all the competition could be international. This is not only true in the production market, but also in the labor market. Students who have been trained to compete only inside the border are less likely to understand the advantages and disadvantages of their outside competitors. Nowadays, young graduates of the United States colleges and universities may find themselves fight for a job position against quite a few foreign candidates and some employees may find that their jobs are being outsourced to India. This is a natural choice for the employer to pursue the greatest interest. Without preparing the students for competition coming all over the world, we will finally become the loser.

In fact, an open educational system that welcomes competition from students of other countries not only prepares the native students for future job seeking, but also broadens the perspectives of all the students. As the business world has noticed, the conflicts between different cultures and different backgrounds spur new ideas and motivate innovations more than often. For example, engineering students can understand the needs and habits of people living in the other half of the world before they design a product, and business students may refine their speeches or toasts after considering the cultures of the audience.

Nobody can reverse the trend of globalization. We can not protect our children from the competition coming from our neighbors. The only thing we could do to help them is to introduce the competition to them as early as we can, before it becomes too compelling and dangerous.

emeraldth · 发表于 2007-11-26 09:18:00

3. "Employers should have no right to obtain information about their
employees' health or other aspects of their personal lives without the
employees' permission." Discuss the extent to which you agree or
disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons
and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

The speaker is concerned about the privacy of employees that might be obtained by the employers without their permission. This is a very reasonable concern that many employees may appreciate. However, as one of the millions of them, I cannot agree with the speaker.

Admittedly, preventing employers from obtaining any information about employees' personal lives not only makes the employees feel more comfortable and more respectable, but also eliminates any possible discrimination issues based on such information. This strategy is emphasized by the magazine "Forbes" recently, which warned hiring employers not to open video resumes before the first-round screening, in order to avoid possible discrimination based on looking, gender or age.

However, the right of privacy should not be unbridled. At least one of the health aspects of employees should be shared with their employers, illegal drug usage. Many of traditional employers require random drug tests couple of times each year, which although turn to consume quite a lot of resource, does ensure a more secure workplace and make most of the employees more comfortable. In fact, any personal information that is related to laws should be shared with the employers, because it may have essential impact on the safety and productivity of other employees, and even the survival of the whole company. This is especially true to prevent corruption of employees.

It is not easy to make a mutually agreeable standard to decide which aspects of employees' personal information should be shared with their employers, and it is possible that employers might abuse such information and get into discrimination troubles, the effort is worthy. Check-and-balance is always the solution for such conflicting situation. Neither employees nor employers should have unlimited rights.

emeraldth · 发表于 2007-11-27 09:21:00

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