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智课网GRE 备考资料 GRE 官方写作题库 ISSUE 4 Scandals are useful because they act as a catalyst, focusing public attention on problems and motivating social change in ways that speakers or reformers rarely can. 范文 Wherever there are people, there are scandals. Once the public recognizes that the figure they adored is a fraud, reactions may be anger, sorrow and depression. After these initial reactions, rational consideration and remediation can take place. Following a scandal, greater progress than any other catalyst for change can sometimes be achieved. 内容 详细条目 段落 此段结构 文章首段。第一句点明了本文围绕的中心——scandals ；接下来的两句 简述了人们对丑闻的通常反应过程，以及丑闻发生后出现的思考和补 救，引出了本段尾句，同时亦是本文论点——丑闻有时可以带来比其 他任何催化剂更大的进步。 此段功能 首段，简单陈述背景后提出本文论点。 Scandals can illuminate hidden unreasonable and unjust regulations. Once identified, administrators or the public can adjust or even correct those errors. After the political debacle following Watergate, not only did President Nixon lose his job, but also further political reform was ushered in by the public. The public realized that abuse of power, which was unchecked in the past, needed to be checked. As a result, the public more carefully scrutinized government officials preventing them from abusing their power as easily as they had in the past. 内容 详细条目 段落 此段结构 第二段采用总分结构论述了第一个论点，即本段首句。作者认为丑闻可 以揭露隐藏的不合理不公正管理，可见作者是支持题干观点的。支持此 论点的例子选取了很典型的水门事件，告诉读者该丑闻不仅令尼克松总 统落马，并且检讨了权力滥用的现象，推进了政治改革，使得政府的官 员及其工作置于公众监督之下。 此段功能 论点一。作者表达了对题干观点前半部分的看法，即丑闻可以“focusing public attention on problems and motivating social changes”。 Recently, it was discovered that the Juventus football Club and several refe