GRE Issue作文题目：教育目的

　　Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.

　　教育机构应该积极鼓励学生选择那些为将来高收入工作铺路的研究领域。

　　The arguer asserts that most people choose a career not on the basis of his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work but only on pragmatic considerations. As far as I am concerned, I concede that there are quite a few of people choose a career on pragmatic considerations in this pragmatic world. However, there are still so many individuals choose a career based on their natural talents and interest. In addition, natural talents and interest not always conflict with pragmatic considerations.

　　1. Admittedly, many people choose a career on the basis of pragmatic considerations such as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make, which is reasonable in today’s society:

　　1) To earn a living

　　2) To get fortune, fame, and promotion.

　　3) To further develop the interest: Only when one’s living is under security could one have the freedom to choose what he likes or interest in.

　　2. However, the author has made an over-generalization in regards to factors determining career seeking when he or she claims that people choose their jobs only based on such pragmatic concerns as expected salary rather than their talents or interests. If this was generally true, why so many people work in the unprofitable occupations. We can see that there are certainly someone is free to choose a career based on their natural talents or interest regardless of pragmatic considerations.

　　1) Many scholars are living a poor life

　　2) Many scientists dedicate themselves to the improvement for the better conditions of human being, caring little about the feedback

　　3) Many artists, such as musicians and painters.

　　3. Furthermore, these two aspects are actually not contradictory: one might be able to choose a career based on individual interest or natural talents, as well as the decent pay.

　　1) Take NBA players as an instance. Getting pragmatic rewards such as money, is not an end, but rather a means of obtaining mental content and of attaining important goals.

　　Conclusion:

　　The most reasonable way of decision making concerning career seeking is to best fulfill one's pragmatic concerns without violating one's value, talent and interests. If we cannot fulfill both, we must choose the one which we concern much more than the other.

 

GRE Issue作文题目：教育目的的延伸阅读——gre写作取得高分的三大技巧

 

　　1.必须研究范文

　　他们真的非常重要，因为那是最权威的辅导资料!不是简单的熟读和背诵，而是逐字逐句的体会作者的意思及修辞。还有提醒一点，ETS对范文的评论也都非常精彩，建议大家参考!这会非常有利于理解考试所考的重点。

　　2.必须要熟练

    重要的是形成惯性思维，考试时间真的是太紧张了，要想现场思考每句话的调理性真的是太难了，反正我没做到，写得时候手指不停的运转，远远超过了大脑运转的速度，只有有充分思维准备的人，才能驾轻就熟，运用自如。题目中提到politics，大脑中就应当出现Franklin Roosevelt， Lincoln， Gerhard Shroeder， Gandhi……; 提到ART，就该想到Rembrandt， Van Gogh， Starry night， night watch， Henmingway， the old man and the sea……; 提到Scandal，就该想到Nixon，watergate，bill clinton，sex sandal，Enran……总之，熟练是非常非常重要的!

    3.必须多修改

如果不勤修改自己的文章，就不知道自己原来的漏洞和不足在哪，闷头写，只能导致lose the stake! 当认真学习一段时间写作之后，再回头改第一篇习作，肯定会发现自己很多毛病，这说明： 我们在进步!