2014届高考英语备战特训：回扣作文与完形填空 21（含答案）.docVIP

高考英语：]英语写作引导句型30.1 In recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the necessary to improve our criminal justice system. A young thief who spends time in jail often receives there a thorough education in crime from his fellow prisoners, or perhaps tough criminals who drag him into more serious offenses and more prison terms a vicious cycle that will do greater harm to the society.近几年来人们越来越意识到改进我们刑法制度的必要性。一 个初犯的小偷被关在监狱里，往往会从其他囚犯，甚至犯罪老手那 至判更长的徒刑，如此恶性循环将对社会造成更大的危害。30.2 Now people become increasingly aware of the importance of acquiring a mastery of a foreign language. To them, the knowledge of a foreign language, say, English, often means a good opportunity for ones career, even a passport to a prosperous future. Many of them equate success in life with the ability of speaking a foreign language.现在许多人日益意识到掌握一门外语的重要性，对他们来说，外语知识，如英语往往意味着给他的职业带来好的机会，甚至给他带来光辉灿烂的前途。许多人把人生的成功与能讲外语相提并论。31 we might marvel atIn spite of / Despite the greatgiantextraordinarytremendous progressstrideadvance made in31 science and technologynearly every field , (but) ... remain basically unchanged.the same as it was.as ... as ever they were.31.1 We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a persons knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to devise anything mere efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they mere often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, but they can tell you nothing about a persons true ability and aptitude.对各个学科所取得的进步我们或许会感到吃惊，但是测试人们知识和能力的方法仍像过去一样原始。经过这么多年，教育家们仍未能设计出比考试更可靠，更行之有效的方法，这真使人为之惊讶。尽管教育家们虔诚地宣称，考试能测验你懂得多少知识。但众所周知，它们通常是适得其反。用来测试记忆力，考试也许是种好方法，但它不能测出一个人的真正能力。31.2 This is a skeptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers deeply believed has weake