第三六篇

　　36 Study the following pictures carefully and write an essay in which you should:

　　1. describe the picture;

　　2. interpret the meaning of the picture;

　　3. make your comment.

　　You should write 160~200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　本文可以分為三段來寫。第一段對圖畫進行描述，引入談論的問題。第二段對該現象進行分析。第三段作總結。I believe that nobody will ever forget the two pictures once he sees them: the first one depicts four students who come to a school with different ideas and opinions, and the second one shows that upon graduation, they have exactly the same pattern of thinking after training and education. The pictures are the manifestation of real happenings in many schools home and aboard. What brings about this disheartening result as we are investing more and more on education at different levels? My own answer to this question can be boiled down to only one word: standard.

　　Let me explain it for you from two perspectives. On the one hand, many school teachers and administrators are under that great pressure of examinations with uniform criteria, such as the college entrance examination and the college English test. Educators, instead of concentrating on inspiring creativity, devoted themselves to finding out the hidden patterns of examinations. On the other hand, many other examinations are issued by teachers themselves, and they are far too random, and cross�瞔omparison has been made impossible in many cases. When tuition and fees are soaring year after year, many schools establish the system of students choosing their teachers. If a teacher is strict with their students, he will not be chosen by any student later and he may even lose his job afterwards. The most possible outcome is that every time he looses the standard a little bit, and after several years, students only learn the most fundamental facts of a subject.

　　German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in The Dawn, “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” The school is not a big factory with an assembly line called “pattern education”, and students should not be products of this kind of education who think and act as taught.第一段先描述圖畫。之后說這是國內外許多學校的真實寫照。而后提出問題：在各層次教育投資力度加大的今天，為何還會導致這種令人沮喪的結果呢？該段最后一句直接作答：可歸結為一個詞——標準。

　　第二段分為兩點來說。第一點說許多老師和行政管理人員處在具有統一標準的考試的重壓之下，所以他們致力于尋找考試的規律，而非投入精力注重如何激發學生的創造性。第二點說，除此之外的許多考試是教師自己出題，太過隨意，各種橫向比較也就不可能了。隨著學雜費的猛增，許多學校建立了學生挑選老師的制度。如果老師對學生要求太嚴格，可能就沒有學生選他，他甚至會因此失去工作。最可能的結果就是他每次降低一點標準，而幾年后，學生就只學最基本的知識了。大家想想，沒有推衍，沒有討論，不經實地調查寫成的論文，只有一次關于基礎知識的考試，那學生們的思想能不趨同嗎？

　　最后一段是結語，共三句話。第一句話引用德國哲學家尼采的話：“毀掉一個年輕人最好的方法是教導他們尊重想法相同的而不是想法不同的人。”學校不是擁有“模式教育”流水線的大工廠，而學生也不應該成為這種教育的產品，像被教的那樣去思考和行動。 這篇文章談論的是一個很重要的問題——模式化教育。該文第二段對這種現象進行了剖析。如果篇幅允許，可以增加第三段，寫改善或解決該問題的辦法，而將結論放在第四段。