《3第三章习作点评.》.pdf

第三章习作点评.371037 页码，1/29 Powered By Gisun   第三章 习作点评 一、是非问题例文分析 Present your perspective on the issue below, using relevant reasons and/or examples to support your views. Sample One In our time, specialists of all kinds are highly over-rated. We need more generalists —people who can provide broad perspectives. Benchmark 6—Outstanding In this era of rapid social and technological change leading to increasing life complexity and psychological displacement, both positive and negative effects among persons in Western society call for a balance in which there are both specialists and generalists. Specialists are necessary in order to allow society as a whole to properly and usefully assimilate the masses of new information and knowledge that have come out of research and have been widely disseminated through mass global media. As the head of Pharmacology at my university once said (and I paraphrase): I can only research what I do because there are so many who have come before me to whom I can turn for basic knowledge. It is only because of each of the narrowly focussed individuals at each step that a full and true understanding of the complexities of life can be had. Each person can only hold enough knowledge to add one small rung to the ladder, but together we can climb to the moon. This illustrates the point that our societies level of knowledge and technology is at a stage in which there simply must be specialists in order for our society to take advantage of the information available to us. Simply put, without specialists, our society would find itself bogged down in the Sargasso sea of information overload. While it was fine for earl