Question

假設你是李明，你們的外教Jerry布置了一個話題為“Pets in Our life”的家庭作業，要求寫一篇120詞左右的英語文章與老師及同學們交流。請參考以下要點提示，可以適當發揮。
1．養寵物的現象；
2．養寵物的優、缺點；
3．其它……
注意：1．可以適當展開聯想；
2．詞數120左右。

Answer 1

Today our foreign teacher Jerry asked us to write a short passage about “Pets in Our Life”. I think everyone has a deep and profound feeling about pets in our life. In addition, I think different people hold different opinions. I want to share my views with you.
We all can notice that more and more people, including many young people, love raising and have begun raising pets. To tell the truth, I think pets are very lovely. And staying with them brings us happiness and comfort, especially for the old. So I think in many aspects , raising pets has many advantages on the whole.
Meanwhile, some people point out some disadvantages of pets. I also agree with them because I also often realize some problems that raising pets causes. For example, too many pets in the public places may pollute the environment and make the public places very dirty.
So I think, every coin has two sides, which we can’t forget. And we should seek reasonable solutions to this phenomenon.

試題分析：本文的話題是“Pets in Our life”，要求描述出寵物的優缺點，優點在于可以培養人的愛心，陪伴老人，減少他們的孤獨感等；缺點太多的寵物可能污染環境。在于要求考生在保證內容要點全部概括的基礎上可以充分發揮自己的想象，進而用自己的語言來表達某種觀點或看法，增添了寫作的靈活性，同時能較好地考查考生的想象能力和英語語言表達能力。
點評：半開放性作文給出了一個話題，并有部分的文字提示。給考生自由發揮的余地較大。對于考生的綜合能力要求較高，要求考生有很強的謀篇布局的能力和組織要點的能力。在完成開放性作文時，首先要選擇自己熟悉的短語或者句型，在你的能力范圍之內，選擇句式時要賦予變化，因為這樣你才可以更好的駕馭。同時也要選擇合適的連接詞，把各個要點組織成一個完整的整體，如besides, further, last but not least等。在發表個人觀點的時候，可以使用諺語來提升整個文章的檔次和文采，也能增加得高分的可能性。