GRE考试作文ISSUE部分124篇真题（六）

　　101、Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life.

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　　102、The material progress and well-being of one country are necessarily connected to the material progress and well-being of all other countries.

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　　103、The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas---not to prepare them for a specific job.

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　　104、The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines.

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　　105、Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are.

　　106、The way people look, dress, and act reveals their attitudes and interests. You can tell much about a societys ideas and values by observing the appearance and behavior of its people.

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　　107、Progress is best made through discussion among people who have contrasting points of view. ------------------------------

　　108、Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerations as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make. Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work.

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　　109、If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable.

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　　110、Society should identify those children who have special talents and abilities and begin training them at an early age so that they can eventually excel in their areas of ability. Otherwise, these talents are likely to remain undeveloped.

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　　111、Too much time, money, and energy are spent developing new and more elaborate technology. Society should instead focus on maximizing the use of existing technology for the immediate benefit of its citizens.

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　　112、Most important discoveries or creations are accidental: it is usually while seeking the answer to one question that we come across the answer to another.

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　　In order for any work of art---whether film, literature, sculpture, or a song---to have merit, it must be understandable to most people.

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　　113、The chief benefit of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history.

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　　114、Imprisonment for violent crimes should be made as unpleasant as possible in order to deter potential offenders from committing such crimes.

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　　115、People often look for similarities, even between very different things, and even when it is unhelpful or harmful to do so. Instead, a thing should be considered on its own terms; we should avoid the tendency to compare it to something else.

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　　116、People are mistaken when they assume that the problems they confront are more complex and challenging than the problems faced by their predecessors. This illusion is eventually dispelled with increased knowledge and experience.

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　　117、The best way to teach---whether as an educator, employer, or parent---is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

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　　118、 Moderation in all things is ill-considered advice. Rather, one should say, Moderation in most things, since many areas of human concern require or at least profit from intense focus.

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　　119、Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning. ------------------------------

　　120、Most people prefer restrictions and regulations to absolute freedom of choice, even though they might deny such a preference.

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　　121、Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty---whether to ones friends, to ones school or place of employment, or to any institution---is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force.

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　　122、Conformity almost always leads to a deadening of individual creativity and energy.

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　　123、Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate. Thus, any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted since it may well be proven false in the future.

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　　124、The true value of a civilization is reflected in its artistic creations rather than in its scientific accomplishments.