四、社会热点类:职业道德
Directions:
Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should
1)describe the drawing briefly.
2)explain its intended meaning, and
3)give you comments.
预测范文
Plagiarizing the work of others and cheating on exams are two unfair tactics used by students in an attempt to attain higher grades. As is revealed in the portrayal, instead of writing by themselves, four college students are plagiarizing others’ term papers respectively.
Plagiarism and cheating are wrong because they adversely affect other students, the university, and even the perpetrators themselves. Firstly, Students who plagiarize on essays or cheat on exams have an unfair advantage over other students. For instance, it would be extremely unjust for a student who cheats on an exam to obtain a perfect score of 100, while a bright and hard-working student studies for a week to receive a score of 95. Secondly, plagiarism and cheating on tests are not only unfair to students who do their own work, but are also detrimental to a university’s reputation and the worth of its diploma.
In short, students who plagiarize others’ work or cheat on exams end up hurting themselves. Deceitful academic practices may form habitual dishonesty that affects students long after they leave the university, and could have adverse effects in every facet of their life.
参考译文
抄袭其他人的作品或考试作弊是学生尝试取得高分时采用的两种不公平手段。如图所示,四名大学生并未自己写作,而是分别抄袭他人的论文。
抄袭和欺诈负面影响其他学生、整个大学甚至犯错者自身,因此是错误的。首先,抄袭论文或考试作弊的学生对其他人而言拥有不公平的优势。例如,一名考试作弊的学生获得了100分的完美分数,而一名聪明刻苦的学生学习了一周,只获得95分,这非常不公平。其次,抄袭和考试作弊不仅对自己学习的学生不公平,也不利于大学的声誉以及文凭的含金量。
总之,抄袭别人作品或考试作弊的学生最终将伤害自己。学术欺诈可能形成习惯性欺诈,在学生大学毕业之后也将长期影响学生,并对他们生活的各个方面都有负面影响。
亮点词汇
plagiarize抄袭
work作品
cheat欺骗
exam考试
unfair不公平的
tactic策略 in
an attempt to为了
attain获得
higher grade高分
action行为 factor因素
reveal揭示
portrayal漫画
instead of并非
term学期
respectively分别
plagiarism抄袭
adversely负面地
affect影响
perpetrator违犯者
essay文章
unfair不公平的
advantage优势
over比
for instance例如
extremely非常
unjust不公平的
obtain获得
perfect完美的
score分数
while然而
bright聪明的
hard-working努力的
receive获得
test考试
detrimental有害的
reputation声誉
worth值得
diploma文凭
in short总之
end up最终
hurt伤害
deceitful欺骗的
form形成
habitual习惯性的
dishonesty欺诈
affect影响
facet方面
道长点评
国内写作考试已经多次考察“学术造假”这一话题,如中山大学及浙江师范大学2011翻译硕士写作真题、陕西师范大学2012年翻译硕士写作真题、2012年12月四级写作真题。
经典句型
1.The university’s credibility would become diminished, and repairing this credibility would be a slow process.大学的信誉将不断下降,而恢复信誉将是一个缓慢的过程。
2.In addition, alumni of a university where cheating and plagiarism are prevalent would see the value of their degree weakened in the job marketplace.此外,作弊抄袭盛行的大学的毕业生将会看到他们学位的价值在就业市场中削弱了。
3.As they seek employment upon their graduation, a potential employer might discover through the interview process that they lack required skills or knowledge and, instead, award the job to an honest student able to demonstrate the requisite abilities.在他们毕业找工作时,一名潜在的雇主可能通过面试过程发现他们缺乏必学的知识和技能,从而不工作给予一名能够展现其必备技能的诚实学生。