gre issue写作优秀实例：思想家

　　以下是gre考试写作部分issue的优秀写作实例，通过这些优秀范文或是习作，考生可以借鉴里面的短语、句子或思路，给自己的写作找一些思路和灵感。

　　题目：

　　Most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously, even when they claim to admire them.

　　大多数社会都没把最伟大的思想家当回事，虽然有时候这些社会自称是求才若渴的。

　　正文：

　　In this busy, packed and dull world, people’s most important concerning is how to make a living. They work assiduously to make money, to support their family, to purchase houses and cars. Hardly one common individual knows who their greatest thinkers are，not mention to take them seriously. Admittedly, in some cases, people claim that they admire the greatest thinkers; however, they actually know little about what the greatest thinkers’ thoughts are. The fact is, in history of human civilizations,most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously, even when the greatest thinkers are seemed to be respected.

　　Generally, whatever societies the greatest thinkers are in, they have similar characteristics, such as high intelligence, eccentric temperament, wide range of knowledge, and the most essential one: the deeply and often predicted thoughts, which is the product of real wisdom. On one hand, it is the thoughts that distinguish the greatest thinkers from the mass. On the other hand, it is also the thoughts, however correct and predicted, which cause these elites out of the mass’ sights and put them into an embarrassment in which few can understand them and their thoughts. A proper example is the passional German philosopher and poet Nietzche. Nietzche is a pioneer, whose profound exploration in philosophy influenced the descendants deeply. Yet his life is miserable and full of tragedies. Without money and job, Nietzche lived an impoverished life, which along with loneliness defeated him at last: he became insane when 45, and died 10 years later. Until that time, almost no one knew him or his thoughts. Even today, many people including some scholars call him mad philosopher.

　　In some worse cases, the greatest thinkers are even persecuted by their societies since the greatest thinkers always tend to have skeptical and critical thoughts, which the manipulators fear mostly and manipulated reluctant to accept. The reason is that once the advanced ideas, which are against the old ones, are accepted by mass, the domination or the present social system will in the danger of collapse. And at the same times, most people are reluctant to admit that what they believe in or cherish, however,always prejudice and rigid ideas set in people’s minds beforehand, are not the truth but falsehood or illusions. A case in point is the great astronomer Copernicus, who developed the theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun. Although the theory was the most advanced astronomy theory in that time, it hadn’t come out of press until the year before Copernicus’ death because of mass being strongly against it especially the powerful churches, which were afraid that such a theory would shake authority of theology.

　　In some specific period, for political reasons, thinker and intellectuals as a whole undergo ruthless treatment, such as the Culture Revolution from 1966 to 1976 in China. During those ten years, many great thinkers and intellectuals are forbidden to think and express their thoughts freely. Some of them even encountered physical torture. A crueler example is Qin Dynasty in China 2000 years ago. Yingzheng, the first emperor of China, sentenced the thinkers who held different political or social ideas from him to death. Moreover, he buried their writings.

　　It is the greatest thinkers’ tragedy not to be understood or even be persecuted. It is also the fact that human beings are always shortsighted, sometimes even foolish. Nevertheless, what is truth will never change itself or disappear along with the elapsing of time however strong the falsehood seems to be. Hence, though almost all the greatest thinkers are hermits, some of them may be even the prisoners in their societies; they would gain their perpetual lives through their glaring

 

gre issue写作优秀实例：思想家的延伸阅读——GRE写作技巧详解

 

　　1. gre写作考试有题库：

　　为了达到公平，ETS公布了它考试的所有写作题库，那么为了达到能和native speaker一起竞争，考生应该在考前对所有题目都进行预习(节约考试时的审题时间)，并通过100-150个提纲的写作了解GRE写作的一般结构，通过30-50篇写作来练习自己的写作思路和表达。对题库中的题目越熟练，对考试越有利。

　　2. gre写作考试的评阅是计件工作制的：

　　每个评卷人对你文章的评阅非常快，不可能对每个细节都很仔细地去看。考生应该迎合评卷人的评卷思路，用最规范的结构和最清晰的表达来体现自己的思路：首段要鲜明地提出观点，中间段落层次要拉开，每段的开始应该就是该段的topic sentence。

　　3. gre写作的评分是整体评分(holistic scoring)：

　　首先，从ETS公布的各分数段评分标准看，其评分主要注重以下三个方面：①、逻辑分析能力(要求insightful);②、文章的组织(要求well-organized);③、语言能力(要求standard written English; concise; varied structure等)。

　　4. gre写作两个部分在总分中的权重是一样的：

由于AA的写作不牵涉自己观点的展开，只须指出作者逻辑上的漏洞，因此在经过训练以后，写起来并不困难;而AI的写作需要自己展开自己设立的观点，不但需要逻辑上的洞察能力，还需要论证观点的能力，语言组织的能力，因此对于中国考生来讲比较困难，难以短期内有较大提高。但是这两个部分在总分中的权重是一样的，因此考生的策略应该是尽量提高AI部分的写作能力而力保AA部分满分(或高分)。因为如果AA部分满分的话，AI部分只需争取在4分以上就可以保证整体作文分数在5分以上。