2013高考英语复习必备技巧：作文举例赏析

　　高考只有1个月了。为了帮助考生进一步体会写作风格的要素，提升写作能力，我特意撰写了今年某区的作文，仅供参考。

　　题目：请针对孩子被父母送出国留学反映的社会现象，谈谈你对此事的看法。

　　范文：

　　The picture shows a boy riding on a planeto an unspecified place. With a teddy bearclutched in one hand, he is crying and at thesame timewaving goodbyewith hisotherhand.A speech bubble beside him says,“Mom anddad, I’m gonna buckle down and hit thebooks.”Clearly, the picture captures the youngboy’s reluctance to leave his hometown andstudy in a faraway country.

　　Recentyearshave seen a growing trend ofchildren being sentoverseas for education.Thischoice of education, if not based on goodjudgment,would be a cause for concern.First,children tend to lack self-discipline; withoutparents’ supervision, they aremore likely toslack off and end upwith poor grades.Second,children are impressionable and thus aremoresubjected to social ills—for example, alcoholismand drug abuse.Further, itmay be too early todecidewhere these young studentswillpursuecareers after graduation; suppose they choose towork inChina, theywillnotbe then familiarwith the norms here, orworse still, theymaybe perplexed by their cultural identities; thisthen raises the question of their competitivenessinChina’s ever-changing jobmarket.Havingsaid that, a short-termvisitor an exchange pro-gram is sensible for thosewhowant their chil-dren to have a taste of foreign cultures.

　　Generally speaking, it isnot advisable thatchildren be sent abroad to study, because theyare too young to exercise self-discipline, aresusceptible to bad influences, and are not in theslightest sure about their future career choices.