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考研英语短文写作命题规律分析
在研究生英语入学考试中，英语写作历来是考生的一个难点。英语写作主要考查考生运用英语的综合能力，其中包括用英语组织篇章段落的能力、英语的语句表达能力以及语法的综合运用能力。要做好写作部分的试题，要求考生不仅具有较扎实的语言基础，而且还要掌握一些写作的基本技能，如：信息的分析和综合能力以及丰富的想像力。英文写作是一个最能体现考生书面英语水平和技能的测试项目。
一、写作B部分命题的基本指导思想
考试大纲对写作的评价目标
根据《大纲》规定：考生应根据题目以及写作提纲或规定的情境、图表、图画等写出大约200个词的短文。具体要求概括如下：
（1）内容切题，包含提纲或图画的全部要点和信息。所谓内容切题是指所写的短文切合题意，即正确理解题目的意思。误解题目或曲解题意，写出来的短文答非所问就是跑题。另外，也要注意不漏掉提纲或图画中的要点和信息，如果提纲中给出了三个要点，考生却只写了两个要点，显然从内容上就不切题了。因此，审题是短文写作成败的关键。考生一定要认真阅读写作要求，仔细琢磨题意，弄清题目以及写作提纲或规定情境、图表的内容范围，依此表达题目限定的中心思想，做到内容切题。
（2）表达清楚，意思连贯。表达清楚是指清楚地表达思想，而不是含糊其考研辅导班辞，使人不得要领。在写作过程中，考生应思路清晰，运用恰当的语句表达意思。此外，还要根据题目要求，围绕中心提出论点，摆出论据，使短文层次分明，合乎逻辑。意思连贯是指句子与句子、段落与段落之间衔接自然，整体性强。考生应熟练运用连接词语来正确表达一个观点与另一观点之间的关系。
（3）用词正确，句式有变化，语言比较规范。语言比较规范是指在遣词造句中应符合英语语法和习惯用法。首先在词语运用上能够选用恰当的、能够准确表达意义的词，并能显示出一定的词汇量(用词面较宽)；其次，写出的句子符合语法规范，没有重大语法错误，句式上多变，不要只用简单句或陈述句，应适当增加句子形式的多样性，不仅有短句，也有长句，不仅有简单句，也有并列句、复合句等等。
（4）文章的长度符合要求。长度是指短文的字数。符合要求的字数应是160至200个词左右。
现将大纲对写作部分的评分标准摘录如下：
（1）20～17分。内容切题，包括题中所列三个方面的内容；清楚表达其内涵，文字连贯；句式有变化，句子结构和用词正确。文章长度符合要求。
（2）16～13分。内容切题，包括题中所列三个方面的内容；比较清楚地表达其内涵，文字基本连贯；句式有一定变化，句子结构和用词无重大错误；文章长度符合要求。
（3）12～9分。内容切题，基本包含题中所列三个方面的内容；基本清楚地表达其内涵，句子结构和用词无重大错误。文章长度符合要求。
（4）8～5分。内容基本切题，基本包含题中所列三个方面的内容；语句可以理解，但有较多的句子结构和用词错误。文章长度基本符合要求。
（5）4～1分。基本按照要求写作，但只有少数句子可以教育学考研辅 导理解。
（6）0分。文不切题，语句混乱，无法理解。
二、写作B部分材料的选择
（一）选择材料的特点
纵观历年试卷，写作的题目多集中在社会伦理、人生哲理、学校教育、人际关系交往、娱乐方式、健康和生活方式等方面。最近几年的命题多与当前的社会现实和热点问题有关，要求考生对社会现象和社会的经济、文化生活有所关注和思考，并形成自己的见解。
从命题内容来看，其材料特点有：
1. 普遍性：发生在身边的事情，各种考生都有一定的体验，可以有感而发。比如2003年的温室里的花和2002年的中国与国际的交流。不管你身处何处，这些现象和变化都是中国人共同体验的。考题不会考查一部分考生熟悉，而另一部分考生不了解的内容。对于社会生活中的敏感问题，一般不会涉及。
2. 教育性：论题有警示作用的，可让考生作深层思考。比如，有关人生哲理的2008年 “合作的重要性”，2007年的“乐观心态是成功的关键”，2004年的“终点又是新的起点”。
3. 社会性：社会关心的、典型的事。如2009年的题目是网络的“近”与“远”，2006年的题目是偶像崇拜，2005年则对赡养老人问题展开讨论，2003年的试题既可以讨论加入世界贸易组织后的中国经济发展的现实问题，也可以谈孩子的教育问题，2002年的题目是中外文化交流问题。因此考生平时应关注社会性的问题，加深思考深度，并且阅读英文报纸，积累相关词汇。在近10年的考题中三分之一是正面现象的分析论证，如2004年的终点又是起点，2002年的“国际化交流”，2001年的“希望工程或爱心工程”。而其余的考题关注的是社会中存在的一些问题，也就是说三分之二的题目是有关负面问题的分析解决。
（二）作文的体裁
从体裁上看，近14年的作文都为论说文。论说文的特点是说议结合，一部分为对论教育学考研题的说明，一部分为议论，或者夹叙夹议。这种写作的难点在于将说明或描写与议论有机地结合起来，形成一个衔接自然的文章。
下表为近十年考题特点的小结。
时间 主题 题材 类型
2013年 作出选择 人生哲理 图画式作文
2012年 乐观面对生活 人生哲理 图画式作文
2011年 旅途之“余” 社会生活 图画式作文
2010年 文化融合 文化与交流 图画式作文
2009年 网络的“近”与“远” 社会生活 图画式作文
2008年 合作的重要性 人生哲理 图画式作文
2007年 乐观心态是成功的关键 人生哲理 图画式作文
2006年 偶像崇拜 社会生活 图画式作文
2005年 年轻人应该赡养父母 社会伦理 图画式作文
2004年 终点又是新的起点 人生哲理 图画式作文
2003年 温室里的花经不起风雨 教育或经济问题 图画式作文
2002年 中国与世界的文化交流 文化与交流 图画式作文
2001年 困难的时候，人人都应该献爱心 社会伦理 图画式作文
2000年 自然生态平衡遭破坏 环境保护 图画式作文
01 The Language of Music
A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor.
02 Schooling and Education
Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist.
03 The Definition of “Price”
Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices.
04 Electricity
The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.
05 The Beginning of Drama
There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural forces of the world-even the seasonal changes-as unpredictable, and they sought through various means to control these unknown and feared powers.
06 Television
Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies.
07 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.
08 American Revolution
The American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.
09 Suburbanization
If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment.
10 Types of Speech
Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and expressions are well defined and listed in standard dictionaries. Colloquialisms, on the other hand, are familiar words and idioms that are understood by almost all speakers of a language and used in informal speech or writing, but not considered appropriate for more formal situations.
11 Archaeology
Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as any other historian, an archaeologist studies and tries to reconstitute the process that has created the human world in which we live - and us ourselves in so far as we are each creatures of our age and social environment. Archaeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of human
behavior. The sum total of these constitutes what may be called the archaeological record.
This record exhibits certain peculiarities and deficiencies the consequences of which produce a rather superficial contrast between archaeological history and the more familiar kind based upon written records.
12 Museums
From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future.
In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.
The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere - space.
13 Skyscrapers and Environment
In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.
Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120, 000 kilowatts-enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.
Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain)through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board.
14 A Rare Fossil Record
The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized. Ichthyosaurs had a higher chance of being preserved than did terrestrial creatures because, as marine animals, they tended to live in environments less subject to erosion. Still, their fossilization required a suite of factors: a slow rate of decay of soft tissues, little scavenging by other animals, a lack of swift currents and waves to jumble and carry away small bones, and fairly rapid burial.
15 The Nobel Academy
For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within. Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar internal politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself.
16. the war between Britain and France
In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one major war during this time, the war between Britain and France. All other battles were ancillary to this larger conflict, and were often at least partially related to its antagonist’ goals and strategies.
France sought total domination of Europe . this goal was obstructed by British independence and Britain’s efforts throughout the continent to thwart Napoleon; through treaties.
17.Evolution of sleep
Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles.
There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and dreamless, depend on the life-style of the animal, and that predators are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized and remarkably unresponsive to external stimuli.
18.Modern American Universities
Before the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.
Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. In German university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. Between mid-century and the end of the 1800’s, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study.
2014考研英语：应用文写作全面指导
考研英语的应用文写作，要求考生根据所给情景写出约100词的应用性短文，包括私人和公务信函、备忘录、报告等。因此同学们在复习过程中应加强对应用文写作特点的了解和针对格式要求的记忆，有意识的掌握各类应用文的写作方法。
在应用文的写作过程中要注意四性：信息覆盖的全面性、结构组织的条理性与逻辑性、语言使用的准确性、文体格式的正确性。要想写作得高分，这四性缺一不可。应用文写作不单单只是针对格式的复习，格式只是最起码的要求，信息是否完全关系到文章是否完整，结构的合理安排才能让文章层次鲜明，而语言使用的准确性也关系到考生的写作水平和得分情况。希望同学们用较高的标准来要求自己，实现应用文写作中质的突破。
下面，我们简单地介绍一下这几种应用文的写作技巧：
首先是私人和公务信函。私人和公务信函是用以交涉事宜、传达信息、交流思想、联络感情、增进了解的重要工具，与同学们的生活、学习比较密切，也是以后工作中用的最多的一种沟通方式。信函是很重要的一种应用文。
所谓私人信函就是给家人、朋友或者同学等写信，谈事情的同时又交流感情;所谓公务信函就是给亲朋好友之外的人写信，主要是为了办事，比方说给老板或是客户写信都属于公务信函。
信函一般都是由写信时间，信内地址，称呼，信的主要内容和信尾几个主要部分组成。收信人地址要写在左上角，寄信人地址要写在右上角，寄信人地址也可以不写。姓名写在地址上面。地址排列顺序依次为门牌号、街区名、城市和国名。在信的开头人名前一定要加Mr., Mrs., Dear等比较尊敬的称呼。信的结尾注意使用常用的客套话如: sincerely yours, faithfully yours或者yours sincerely, yours faithfully。英文书信写作要遵循五个原则，即正确、清晰、简洁、礼貌和体贴。
正确是指信中所谈的事情要准确、具体，不用含糊抽象的词如：本月、明天等。清晰要求的是主题要明确，层次要清楚，让读者看后了然于心。简洁是现代英语发展的一大趋势。书信写作要做到行文简洁流畅，避免迂回冗长的长句，使书信尽可能写得明白清晰。书信交往，同样需要以礼待人。因而在写信过程中，要避免伤害对方感情，措辞上多多使用would, could, may, please等词，要自然得体，彬彬有礼。体谅对方也是写书信时要注意的一个原则。不能以自己为中心，要尊重对方的习俗爱好，即便是拒绝，也要委婉而不失去友谊。书信的写作也要注意格式，避免语法、拼写、标点错误，信中所引用的史料、数据等也应准确无误。
备忘录是一种录以备忘的公文，主要用来提醒、督促对方，或就某个问题提出自己的意见或看法。包括书端、收文人的姓名、头衔、地址，称呼，事因，正文，结束语和署名。备忘录上一定要说明什么时间，谁写的?写给谁?什么事?并且正文、结束语和署名等项与一般信件的格式相同。
报告分为两种，第一种是读书报告。比如读一本书或者看一本小说写一个读书报告。读书报告中首先要交代背景知识，比如作者生平，时代简介等，接下来对书的内容做一个简单的概括，最后一段可以发表评论，要注意时态。另一种报告就是书面报告，书面报告考试的可行性和可能性更大一些。书面报告与备忘录的写法很类似，所不同的就是书面报告一般是下级写给上级，它也需要交代清楚四件事：什么时间?谁写的?写给谁?什么事?
考生们首先要熟悉不同类型的应用文写作格式，注意事项，写作特点等。其次要背诵大量的优秀范文，要整段整段的背，不仅是背会，而且要脱口而出，并且转换成自己的语言，写作时可以随心所欲支配。再次，是要多动手写作，要写出属于自己的文章。多动手写作才能快速写出好文章来。写好的文章要注意检查，看有无语法错误，有无用词不当，能否用其他的句式表达相同的意思。
希望同学们认真复习，取得良好的复习效果!
王江涛2019考研英语一必背10篇，大小作文各五篇，是哪10篇啊，视频不全~
在研究生英语入学考试中，英语写作历来是考生的一个难点。英语写作主要考查考生运用英语的综合能力，其中包括用英语组织篇章段落的能力、英语的语句表达能力以及语法的综合运用能力。要做好写作部分的试题，要求考生不仅具有较扎实的语言基础，而且还要掌握一些写作的基本技能，如：信息的分析和综合能力以及丰富的想像力。英文写作是一个最能体现考生书面英语水平和技能的测试项目。
一、写作B部分命题的基本指导思想
考试大纲对写作的评价目标
根据《大纲》规定：考生应根据题目以及写作提纲或规定的情境、图表、图画等写出大约200个词的短文。具体要求概括如下：
（1）内容切题，包含提纲或图画的全部要点和信息。所谓内容切题是指所写的短文切合题意，即正确理解题目的意思。误解题目或曲解题意，写出来的短文答非所问就是跑题。另外，也要注意不漏掉提纲或图画中的要点和信息，如果提纲中给出了三个要点，考生却只写了两个要点，显然从内容上就不切题了。因此，审题是短文写作成败的关键。考生一定要认真阅读写作要求，仔细琢磨题意，弄清题目以及写作提纲或规定情境、图表的内容范围，依此表达题目限定的中心思想，做到内容切题。
（2）表达清楚，意思连贯。表达清楚是指清楚地表达思想，而不是含糊其考研辅导班辞，使人不得要领。在写作过程中，考生应思路清晰，运用恰当的语句表达意思。此外，还要根据题目要求，围绕中心提出论点，摆出论据，使短文层次分明，合乎逻辑。意思连贯是指句子与句子、段落与段落之间衔接自然，整体性强。考生应熟练运用连接词语来正确表达一个观点与另一观点之间的关系。
（3）用词正确，句式有变化，语言比较规范。语言比较规范是指在遣词造句中应符合英语语法和习惯用法。首先在词语运用上能够选用恰当的、能够准确表达意义的词，并能显示出一定的词汇量(用词面较宽)；其次，写出的句子符合语法规范，没有重大语法错误，句式上多变，不要只用简单句或陈述句，应适当增加句子形式的多样性，不仅有短句，也有长句，不仅有简单句，也有并列句、复合句等等。
（4）文章的长度符合要求。长度是指短文的字数。符合要求的字数应是160至200个词左右。
现将大纲对写作部分的评分标准摘录如下：
（1）20～17分。内容切题，包括题中所列三个方面的内容；清楚表达其内涵，文字连贯；句式有变化，句子结构和用词正确。文章长度符合要求。
（2）16～13分。内容切题，包括题中所列三个方面的内容；比较清楚地表达其内涵，文字基本连贯；句式有一定变化，句子结构和用词无重大错误；文章长度符合要求。
（3）12～9分。内容切题，基本包含题中所列三个方面的内容；基本清楚地表达其内涵，句子结构和用词无重大错误。文章长度符合要求。
（4）8～5分。内容基本切题，基本包含题中所列三个方面的内容；语句可以理解，但有较多的句子结构和用词错误。文章长度基本符合要求。
（5）4～1分。基本按照要求写作，但只有少数句子可以教育学考研辅 导理解。
（6）0分。文不切题，语句混乱，无法理解。
二、写作B部分材料的选择
（一）选择材料的特点
纵观历年试卷，写作的题目多集中在社会伦理、人生哲理、学校教育、人际关系交往、娱乐方式、健康和生活方式等方面。最近几年的命题多与当前的社会现实和热点问题有关，要求考生对社会现象和社会的经济、文化生活有所关注和思考，并形成自己的见解。
从命题内容来看，其材料特点有：
1. 普遍性：发生在身边的事情，各种考生都有一定的体验，可以有感而发。比如2003年的温室里的花和2002年的中国与国际的交流。不管你身处何处，这些现象和变化都是中国人共同体验的。考题不会考查一部分考生熟悉，而另一部分考生不了解的内容。对于社会生活中的敏感问题，一般不会涉及。
2. 教育性：论题有警示作用的，可让考生作深层思考。比如，有关人生哲理的2008年 “合作的重要性”，2007年的“乐观心态是成功的关键”，2004年的“终点又是新的起点”。
3. 社会性：社会关心的、典型的事。如2009年的题目是网络的“近”与“远”，2006年的题目是偶像崇拜，2005年则对赡养老人问题展开讨论，2003年的试题既可以讨论加入世界贸易组织后的中国经济发展的现实问题，也可以谈孩子的教育问题，2002年的题目是中外文化交流问题。因此考生平时应关注社会性的问题，加深思考深度，并且阅读英文报纸，积累相关词汇。在近10年的考题中三分之一是正面现象的分析论证，如2004年的终点又是起点，2002年的“国际化交流”，2001年的“希望工程或爱心工程”。而其余的考题关注的是社会中存在的一些问题，也就是说三分之二的题目是有关负面问题的分析解决。
（二）作文的体裁
从体裁上看，近14年的作文都为论说文。论说文的特点是说议结合，一部分为对论教育学考研题的说明，一部分为议论，或者夹叙夹议。这种写作的难点在于将说明或描写与议论有机地结合起来，形成一个衔接自然的文章。
下表为近十年考题特点的小结。
时间 主题 题材 类型
2013年 作出选择 人生哲理 图画式作文
2012年 乐观面对生活 人生哲理 图画式作文
2011年 旅途之“余” 社会生活 图画式作文
2010年 文化融合 文化与交流 图画式作文
2009年 网络的“近”与“远” 社会生活 图画式作文
2008年 合作的重要性 人生哲理 图画式作文
2007年 乐观心态是成功的关键 人生哲理 图画式作文
2006年 偶像崇拜 社会生活 图画式作文
2005年 年轻人应该赡养父母 社会伦理 图画式作文
2004年 终点又是新的起点 人生哲理 图画式作文
2003年 温室里的花经不起风雨 教育或经济问题 图画式作文
2002年 中国与世界的文化交流 文化与交流 图画式作文
2001年 困难的时候，人人都应该献爱心 社会伦理 图画式作文
2000年 自然生态平衡遭破坏 环境保护 图画式作文
01 The Language of Music
A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor.
02 Schooling and Education
Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist.
03 The Definition of “Price”
Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices.
04 Electricity
The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.
05 The Beginning of Drama
There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural forces of the world-even the seasonal changes-as unpredictable, and they sought through various means to control these unknown and feared powers.
06 Television
Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies.
07 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.
08 American Revolution
The American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.
09 Suburbanization
If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment.
10 Types of Speech
Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and expressions are well defined and listed in standard dictionaries. Colloquialisms, on the other hand, are familiar words and idioms that are understood by almost all speakers of a language and used in informal speech or writing, but not considered appropriate for more formal situations.
11 Archaeology
Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as any other historian, an archaeologist studies and tries to reconstitute the process that has created the human world in which we live - and us ourselves in so far as we are each creatures of our age and social environment. Archaeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of human
behavior. The sum total of these constitutes what may be called the archaeological record.
This record exhibits certain peculiarities and deficiencies the consequences of which produce a rather superficial contrast between archaeological history and the more familiar kind based upon written records.
12 Museums
From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future.
In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.
The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere - space.
13 Skyscrapers and Environment
In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.
Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120, 000 kilowatts-enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.
Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain)through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board.
14 A Rare Fossil Record
The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized. Ichthyosaurs had a higher chance of being preserved than did terrestrial creatures because, as marine animals, they tended to live in environments less subject to erosion. Still, their fossilization required a suite of factors: a slow rate of decay of soft tissues, little scavenging by other animals, a lack of swift currents and waves to jumble and carry away small bones, and fairly rapid burial.
15 The Nobel Academy
For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within. Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar internal politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself.
16. the war between Britain and France
In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one major war during this time, the war between Britain and France. All other battles were ancillary to this larger conflict, and were often at least partially related to its antagonist’ goals and strategies.
France sought total domination of Europe . this goal was obstructed by British independence and Britain’s efforts throughout the continent to thwart Napoleon; through treaties.
17.Evolution of sleep
Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles.
There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and dreamless, depend on the life-style of the animal, and that predators are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized and remarkably unresponsive to external stimuli.
18.Modern American Universities
Before the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.
Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. In German university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. Between mid-century and the end of the 1800’s, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study.
2014考研英语：应用文写作全面指导
考研英语的应用文写作，要求考生根据所给情景写出约100词的应用性短文，包括私人和公务信函、备忘录、报告等。因此同学们在复习过程中应加强对应用文写作特点的了解和针对格式要求的记忆，有意识的掌握各类应用文的写作方法。
在应用文的写作过程中要注意四性：信息覆盖的全面性、结构组织的条理性与逻辑性、语言使用的准确性、文体格式的正确性。要想写作得高分，这四性缺一不可。应用文写作不单单只是针对格式的复习，格式只是最起码的要求，信息是否完全关系到文章是否完整，结构的合理安排才能让文章层次鲜明，而语言使用的准确性也关系到考生的写作水平和得分情况。希望同学们用较高的标准来要求自己，实现应用文写作中质的突破。
下面，我们简单地介绍一下这几种应用文的写作技巧：
首先是私人和公务信函。私人和公务信函是用以交涉事宜、传达信息、交流思想、联络感情、增进了解的重要工具，与同学们的生活、学习比较密切，也是以后工作中用的最多的一种沟通方式。信函是很重要的一种应用文。
所谓私人信函就是给家人、朋友或者同学等写信，谈事情的同时又交流感情;所谓公务信函就是给亲朋好友之外的人写信，主要是为了办事，比方说给老板或是客户写信都属于公务信函。
信函一般都是由写信时间，信内地址，称呼，信的主要内容和信尾几个主要部分组成。收信人地址要写在左上角，寄信人地址要写在右上角，寄信人地址也可以不写。姓名写在地址上面。地址排列顺序依次为门牌号、街区名、城市和国名。在信的开头人名前一定要加Mr., Mrs., Dear等比较尊敬的称呼。信的结尾注意使用常用的客套话如: sincerely yours, faithfully yours或者yours sincerely, yours faithfully。英文书信写作要遵循五个原则，即正确、清晰、简洁、礼貌和体贴。
正确是指信中所谈的事情要准确、具体，不用含糊抽象的词如：本月、明天等。清晰要求的是主题要明确，层次要清楚，让读者看后了然于心。简洁是现代英语发展的一大趋势。书信写作要做到行文简洁流畅，避免迂回冗长的长句，使书信尽可能写得明白清晰。书信交往，同样需要以礼待人。因而在写信过程中，要避免伤害对方感情，措辞上多多使用would, could, may, please等词，要自然得体，彬彬有礼。体谅对方也是写书信时要注意的一个原则。不能以自己为中心，要尊重对方的习俗爱好，即便是拒绝，也要委婉而不失去友谊。书信的写作也要注意格式，避免语法、拼写、标点错误，信中所引用的史料、数据等也应准确无误。
备忘录是一种录以备忘的公文，主要用来提醒、督促对方，或就某个问题提出自己的意见或看法。包括书端、收文人的姓名、头衔、地址，称呼，事因，正文，结束语和署名。备忘录上一定要说明什么时间，谁写的?写给谁?什么事?并且正文、结束语和署名等项与一般信件的格式相同。
报告分为两种，第一种是读书报告。比如读一本书或者看一本小说写一个读书报告。读书报告中首先要交代背景知识，比如作者生平，时代简介等，接下来对书的内容做一个简单的概括，最后一段可以发表评论，要注意时态。另一种报告就是书面报告，书面报告考试的可行性和可能性更大一些。书面报告与备忘录的写法很类似，所不同的就是书面报告一般是下级写给上级，它也需要交代清楚四件事：什么时间?谁写的?写给谁?什么事?
考生们首先要熟悉不同类型的应用文写作格式，注意事项，写作特点等。其次要背诵大量的优秀范文，要整段整段的背，不仅是背会，而且要脱口而出，并且转换成自己的语言，写作时可以随心所欲支配。再次，是要多动手写作，要写出属于自己的文章。多动手写作才能快速写出好文章来。写好的文章要注意检查，看有无语法错误，有无用词不当，能否用其他的句式表达相同的意思。
希望同学们认真复习，取得良好的复习效果!
王江涛2019考研英语一必背10篇，大小作文各五篇，是哪10篇啊，视频不全~
不行。
单词还要继续背，找一本自己比较喜欢的单词书坚持背，一遍肯定不够，如果前期时间充足的话，可以背背作文，试着写写，练练手，参考清北启航的作文模板，有意识地积累和训练，等你拥有一定词汇量和语法知识后再开始进行，平时练习写作的时候注意开拓思维，先自己构思，然后对照范文进行对比学习，同时积累词汇和有用的句型。不要心急一点一点的复习，争取学一点通一点，学扎实。从现在开始，抓紧时间做，慢慢把速度提上去，应该没问题的，要有信心，加油！
