2011年3月5日雅思作文解析（A类&G类）

A 类大作文

Some people say that governments should spend money on measures to save languages that are used by few speakers, while others believe it's a waste of financial resources. Discuss both views and give your opinion.一些人认为政府应该采取措施保护即将灭绝的语言,一些人认为这样会浪费钱。

解题思路：

最好写五段，3个主体段落(也可以把结论段融入第三个主体段落)

Body 1: Discuss the idea that governments should spend money on measures to save languages that are used by few speakers.

Body 2: Discuss the idea that it's a waste of financial resources.

Body 3: Express your own ideas.

在我准备的词汇手册里面有这方面的一些核心词汇，学员们应该记得滚瓜烂熟了：

【题目翻译】

一些人认为政府应该采取措施保护即将灭绝的语言,一些人认为这样会浪费钱。

【作文分析】

本篇作文是很明显的等分型的议论文，即给出两种观点让大家分析。按照等分型议论文的内容布局，本文可以写成四段：

Para.1: 引出话题，并简单提出不同观点。

Para.2: 对第一种观点进行详细分析，提出论据。要求材料相关、充分，逻辑清晰；句子不要出问题，尽可能写出strong and effective的句子，还要注意词汇和句子的variety. 注意选择合适的段落展开方式！

Para.3: 对第二种观点进行详细分析，提出论据。要求材料相关、充分，逻辑清晰；句子不要出问题，尽可能写出strong and effective的句子，还要注意词汇和句子的variety. 注意选择合适的段落展开方式！

Para.4: 通过分析比较，给出自己的观点立场。注意一定要跟前面的分析结合起来，不能干巴巴地一句话写出自己的观点。

【相关词汇】

濒危语言：extinct language, language facing extinction, language verging on extinction;

拯救语言：save a language;

保护语言：preserve a language;

文化遗产：cultural heritage；

多样性：diversity；

听天由命： be abandoned to one’s fate

【核心内容】

1. 语言承载着文化，保护语言就是保护文化；

2. 世界需要多样性；扶贫、科学研究等都需要资金投入。

【高分范文】

Of the thousands of languages in use now, some are used by a huge number of people, like English and Chinese, while some others only have very few speakers. With the increasing efforts of the international community to save those languages used by few speakers, there has arisen a debate as to whether governments should take measures to save them.

Supporters of governments’ efforts to save the languages verging on extinction hold that any effort made to preserve a language is well worthwhile. As is known to all, each language is loaded with an enormous cultural heritage, reflecting the knowledge, thought and faith of its speakers. When we preserve a language which is dying out, we preserve the cultural diversity; when we lose a language, we lose a cultural heritage. Rare animals cannot be wiped out just because they are few in number, and old buildings of historical value cannot be pulled down owing to its bad condition. In the same vein, languages with few speakers cannot be abandoned to their fate.

Opponents to governments’ measures to save the languages from the brink, however, claim that the efforts are nothing but a waste of money. First, preserving such languages from extinction, which needs a considerable sum of money, let alone substantial human resources, does not bring real benefits. The money spent in unrewarding activities, if invested in more significant undertakings such as poverty alleviation, AIDS combating, scientific researching, etc., will be greatly beneficial to man. Moreover, preserving a language is not conducive to the world peace. After all, when people are marooned in their own world, they become less receptive to and tolerant of things and values different from theirs, a situation which can easily rub salt against wounds and thus gives rise to antagonism and even hatred.

In my opinion, it is worthwhile for governments to spend money to save languages with few speakers, or languages facing extinction. A language is a cultural heritage, which is invaluable and certainly merits preservation at any cost; what our world needs is diversity, not monotony. 

A类小作文

两个柱状图

比较欧洲国家拿驾照人数的比例

图1,  The total population holding a driving license,分为males，females;

图2,  17-20 year old的相应数据，同样分males，females。跟剑桥5 TEST 2 很象。

G类小作文

One of your colleagues will leave your company shortly; therefore, you are going to organize a farewell party for that colleague. Write a letter to your manager. In your letter, you have to say

1. When this party will be held

2. Where this party will take place

3. What kind of food and entertainment you are going to prepare

G类大作文

Increasing level of noise pollution has affected people’s life significantly. 

What factors caused this problem? (写作素材可参考新概念第3册第47课 Too high a price?)

How to solve this problem?

Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over industrialized planet. When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish: dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it. We keep trying all four methods, but the sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.

 

Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. The need to produce ever-increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution. Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken. The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables. The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high: Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs, and wisteria in dairy products. And if you think you'll abandon meat and become a vegetarian, you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables, or just having an innocent glass of water!

However, there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise. Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or nightserve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle. Car alarms constantly scream at us in the street and are a source of profound irritation. A recent survey of the effects of noise revealed (surprisingly?) that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7. The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike. Lawn mowers whining on a summer's day, late-night parties in apartment blocks, noisy neighbors, vehicles of al kinds, especially large container trucks thundering through quiet village, planes and helicopters flying overhead, large radios carried round in public places and played at maximum volume. New technology has also made its own contribution to noise. A lot of people object to mobile phones, especially when they are used in public places like restaurants or on public transport. Loud conversations on mobile phones invade our thoughts or interrupt the pleasure of meeting friends for a quiet chat. The noise pollution survey revealed a rather surprising and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise. It turned out to be snoring! Men were found to be the worst offenders. It was revealed that 20% of men in their mid-thirties snore. This figure rises to a staggering 60% of men in their sixties. Against these figures, it was found that only 5% of women snore regularly, while the rest are constantly woken or kept awake by their trumpeting partners. Whatever the source of noise, one thing is certain: silence, it seems, has become a golden memory.