【大四党最后一站作文28，感谢CDer】卡门的作文帖，求狠批！11.24大四党最后一战

carmensh

11.11 TPO7综合

In the reading material, the author holds the opinion that it is unlikely that wood companies in the United States will adopt new, ecologically friendly practices in order to receive ecocertification. While the professor reputes this view by presenting three reasons.

Firstly, the author thinks that American consumers do not trust much the products labeled "new" or" improved". However, the professor disagrees with this pointview by aguring that American consumers do not treat different product in the same way. They would be confident in the ecocertification label and if the wood products have that, they would react favorably due to the international reputation.

Secondly, the author holds the view that American consumers would not buy the ecocertified wood products due to higher price. While the professor points out that consumers will choose the lower priced products if the price difference is huge, but if the difference is small, like less than five percent, they would make their decisions balancing the value and the price. Since the ecoceitified wood products protect the environment and thus have huge value, American consumers are likely to buy them.

Thirdly, the author claims that pursuing certification would make sense for American wood companies only if they marketed most of their products abroad, while in contrast they sell their products in the United States. On the contrary, the professor presents the fact that American consumers care a lot the global trend, so if they find they slow capture the trend, they are prone to choose foreign wood products with certification. In that case American companies would face huge foreigh competition, resulting from foreign companies crowding into the American market.

carmensh

11.11独立
The rule is a necessary part in all public affairs in modern society. Significant as it looks at first sight, nowadays the rules that young people have been brought to follow and obey are too strict for them. Several factors, such as the feasibility and rationality, contribute to the consequence. Therefore, I note that the rules the whole society today expect young people to follow and obey are too strict. The reasons will be illustrated as followings.

To begin with, our society requires young people to satisfy the demand of job as soon as they graduate from school. Young people are expected to master various skills, be equipped with social experience and even be familiar enough with the operations at work. However, this requirement is pretty unreasonable since the education young people have received do not provide them with all these things. For example, my elder brother, Lee, who majored in international business and graduated last year, was an outstanding student during the university. However, when he entered a internatinal trade company, he found that he could not reach the requirement of job since what he learned from textbooks in school were too theorical to apply in his job. He could not learn those practical experience needed at work from the class. Hence, the modern society rules young people too strictly.

Moreoever, young people live in a society that puts too much emphasis on the goal to be the top one, thus ignore the young people's own interests in studying, violating the essence of education. China, in particular, put young people in such an environment since very child. Kindergarden children go so far as to learn english, and take classes learning painting, piano and so on. They have to follow and obey such a social rule because their parents have great ambitions for them----not being dropped by others and even being top one. Under this society value, young people have been brought to learn what could give them an edge instead of what they are really interested in. Therefore, this kind of rule is too strict and totally dispensable.

Admittedly, so necessary are rules as a part in all public affairs that without it, nothing could be brought into a conlusion; everything would be in a state of chaos. However, some rules are too strict for young people due to the unfeasibility and unrationality.

To sum up, I reaffirm that the rules the whole society today expect young people to follow and obey are too strict, thus the modern society is supposed to bear some tolerance of young people.

carmensh

11.12 TPO8综合
Some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of Chevalier's memoir, while in the lecture the professor proves the accuracy by presenting three reasons.

Firstly, critics claim that the Chevalier was not as wealthy in Switzerlan as what he claimed in his memoir by showing evidence that he borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. While the professor holds a contradict view that Chevalier borrowed money not because he was poor, but because the money needed to be converted to pay for the gambling, so he borrowed money from others while waiting for the arrival of the money.

Secondly, critics are skeptical about the accuract of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. The professor refutes this view by arguing that the Chevalier talked to the famous writer Voltaire each night and wrote down whatever he could remembered. And these exact phrases were confirmed by the speakers.

Thirdly, critics do not believe that the Chevalier escaped from a notorious prison on his own, instead he must have been aided by his politically well-connected friends and the jailers were bribed to free him. However, the professor claims that at that time there were many prisoners in that prison who had more politically well-connected friends, but they all were not freed by the jailers. Moreover, according to an old government document, the ceilling of the prison needed to be repaired after the Chevalier escaped, which also proved that he did make a hole in the ceiling and then escaped by himself.

carmensh

11.10独立

blackjack201303

小伙伴，光棍节礼物改好鸟！不好意思哈！
还有，那个red rape是指繁文缛节，我是在词典里查到的！是不是没这个用法呀？

carmensh

11.12 独立

Art has played an indispensible role in all societies since ancient time, which has added color to the dull routine of daily life. Positive and effective as it looks at first sight, the funding sustained by the government in reality presents several potential problems. Several factors, such as the pureness of art and the creativity of artists, contribute to the issue. Therefore, I note that the government should curtail the budget on the funding to the artists.

To begin with, the incentive of art is expected to be the desire to express rather than money; otherwise, it is entirely possible that artists would grow strong dependence on the government if the major financial patron of fee spent during the producing of art is the government. Consequently, the artists would totally become a tool and spokesperson of government. They may be used by the government to lead the public opinion since generally the artists have great impact on public citizens. This kind of thing has happened in many countries, and China is quite exemplary. In the 1960s, almost all the Chinese artists were sponsored by the government. They were afraid of losing the source of finance, so they created their art works on the basis of the government’s guidance and all the artworks seen those days were to advocate the positive side of society.

In addition, the creativity and inspiration are the soul of artists, which they would lose once they live their life as normal people. As we all know, what makes the artists masters is that they could observe and depict the things that most people fail to notice, and the experience of a harsh life is a kind of fountain of inspiration and creativity, distinguishing them from all others. For instance, Vincent Van Gogh, who lived through harsh poverty in his late years, collected his understanding in his pieces of painting; Beethoven, one of the most musicians, had taken the burden of life since child, and later created “Symphony No. 5”, which exactly reflected his destiny. Hence, a well supported artist given a comfortable and peaceful life would lose the ingenuity.

Admittedly, the government has the obligation to spur the boom of the art industry so that more fine art works could be created. However, the kind of support from the government is expected to be in terms of policy instead of just in terms of money. Only in this way, can the artists be stimulated to produce the really valuable master pieces.

To sum up, I reaffirm that the government are not supposed to simply give out the money to the artists in case that they would be gulled by some mercenary distributors and their inspirations would be dried up.

carmensh

blackjack201303 发表于 2013-11-13 11:55
小伙伴，光棍节礼物改好鸟！不好意思哈！
还有，那个red rape是指繁文缛节，我是在词典里查到的！是不是没 ...

red tape是繁文缛节的意思~~还有谢谢亲改的这么仔细！！受益匪浅！

笨笨熊vanilla

大神大神。。你的作文其实没有改的必要啊。。。。。

carmensh

笨笨熊vanilla 发表于 2013-11-13 22:19
大神大神。。你的作文其实没有改的必要啊。。。。。

谢谢亲的批改~其实这个不是我在规定时间写出来的，写完一遍之后因为没人帮我改所以自己先改了一遍了~~我觉得这题有点儿写不出来，想了很久的~~

carmensh

11.13 综合
In the listening material, the professor admits the problems of the internal-combustion engine pointed out by the author, while she claims that the author is too optimistic about the hydrogen-based fuel-cell engine by refuting the advantages presented by the author.

First, the professor claims that hydrogen needed for fuel-cell engines is not as easily available as the author has imagined, because the substance as sources of hydrogen, such as water, cannot be used directly to the fuel-cell engines. The pure liquid hydrogen is artificial, and its requirements are very high. For example, the tempurature needs to be as low as three hundred centigrades menus zero. Therefore, it is not a very practical way to replace the internal-combustion engine.

Second, hydrogen-based fuel cells cannot solve the pollution problems as the author claims. Because even though the byproduct of fuel-cell engines is water, the process of generate the pure hydrogen will produce pollutants, resulting from burning coal or oil. Hence, using ydrogen-based fuel cell engines is not an environment-friendly way as it seems at first sight.

Third, the professor also contradicts the view held by the author that fuel-cell engines are cost-saving, because a kind of rare and expensive metal involves in the chemical reaction to operate the automobile. However, any efforts to make it cheaper have so far been unsuccessful. In a word, people may not spend less money to operate a fuel-cell engine than they operate an internal-combustion engine.