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SAT写作满分范文之better world
日期:2012-12-30 16:30

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  下面为大家整理的是一篇SAT写作高分范文的详细内容,这篇SAT写作范文的主要内容是讨论了这个世界是不是变得更好了。大家可以根据自己掌握的例子和自己的生活经历来总结出是还是不是这样的观点来进行更加详细的论述。

  Is the world changing for the better?

  There is, of course, no legitimate branch of science that enables us to predict the future accurately. Yet the degree of change in the world is so overwhelming and so promising that the future, I believe, is far brighter than anyone has contemplated since the end of the Second World War.

  Adapted from Allan E. Goodman, A Brief History of the Future: The United States in a Changing World Order

  Assignment: Is the world changing for the better? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

  World is changing, but not necessarily better, particularly from the perspective of the critical views and the non-symmetrical psychological effects of the many lingering negatice effects brought about by the changes.

  Reactions to World Wars one and two in expressed by the artistic and literary community historically do not support the idea that the world is changing for the better, as evidenced by numerous modernism and postmodernism works throughout the world. One example of the negative effects of World War two psychologically may be taken from Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony. The novel’s protagonist, Tayo, a young native american veteran living on a reservation, returns from his war experience severely men-tally damaged, referring to himself at one point as “white smoke”. The novel expresses several times that Tayo is only one case of many damaged young native americans who return from this war. Elders of the Laguna native american tribe express distress at the fact that they will not be able to heal their returning World War two warriors with traditional war healing ceremonies, and Tayo believes this is because warfare has changed dramatically.

  The tribe, losing many members to the war physically and psychologically, suffers weakening blows. It is clear that the difference between old warfare in which warriors could face their enemies and new warfare in which soldiers shoot blindly across distances is great. The destruction of modern warfare witnessed by the new veterans was devastating in a ruinous way as it never had been. The resulting threat of the disintegration of the tribe as old healing techniques fail weakens the tribe in ways it had never been weakened before.

  A similar mental disintegration, tied in with a lack of optimism was seen a great deal following World War one. Before the war, old Enlightenment ideas of rational thought, progress, and the goodness of mankind abounded. The incredible and unprecedented destruction seen in World War one, however, combined with the psychological effect of the use of the newest mass-destruction and chemical weapons proved to quash the pre-war sentiment of optimism and post-Enlightenment zeal. New weapons such as mustard gas and machine guns could kill thousands in unspeakably brutal ways, and the casualties of the war, greater than any in history, showed the weapons to be very effective. The loss of human life in hundreds of thousands, combined with the destruction of European land at the end of World War one proved to crush the morale of the European populace and to discourage optimism with regard to scientific progress; scientific progress had only served to cause destruction and horror in war.

  The negative psychological repercussions of World War one and two served to give people, particularly Europeans, a less optimistic view of the world and of mankind. The change in weaponry and style of warfare, visible in the example of Silko’s Ceremony, contribute to the the idea that the world was not changing for the better; the new warriors of Ceremony could not be healed, and the optimistic, naive vision of pre-world war two Europe could not be restored. If man could cause such immense physical and psychological destruction with the products of scientific change, the world could not have changed for the better.

  以上就是这篇SAT写作高分范文的全部内容,非常全面,包括了assignment 和prompt两个部分,对于文章部分也是例证丰富,结构完整。大家可以在备考相关的题目的时候对此加以适当的总结和借鉴。

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重点单词
  • optimisticadj. 乐观的,乐观主义的
  • branchn. 分支,树枝,分店,分部 v. 分支,分岔
  • incredibleadj. 难以置信的,惊人的
  • rationaladj. 合理的,理性的,能推理的 n. 有理数
  • brutaladj. 野蛮的,残暴的
  • predictv. 预知,预言,预报,预测
  • accuratelyadj. 准确地 adv. 精确地,准确地
  • immenseadj. 巨大的,广大的,非常好的
  • assignmentn. 分配,功课,任务,被指定的(课外)作业;(分派的)
  • promptadj. 迅速的,敏捷的,立刻的 vt. 激起,促进,推