GMAT新黄金80题及范文(十六)

　　115. Technology ultimately separates and alienates people more than it serves to bring them together.

　　Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

　　从根本上说，科技使人们疏远远甚于使人们聚合在一起。

　　1. 不能交流的可以交流了，不容易交流的变得容易拉

　　2. 增进交流也就加强了理解使得交流有更深的层次

　　3. 当然有些工具的产生确实也使得交流变得肤浅但是综合来看不支持作者的观点

　　I believe there is some truth to the speakers claim that technology separates and alienates people. However, there is certainly at least as much evidence that technology serves best to bring people together.

　　The most obvious way that technology separates and alienates people from one another is symbolized by the computer nerd sitting glazed-eyed before his computer screen in a basement, attic, bedroom, or office cubicle. While this scene is a caricature, of course, its true that practically everybody who uses email or surfs the Internet does so alone, with only his or her computer for company . And, to the extent that computer use increases the amount of time we collectively spend in solitary activities, it increases the amount of time we spend separated from our fellow humans.

　　On the other hand, technology has been a wonderful aid in bringing people together, or, in many cases, back together. Speaking for myself, I can say that I have become connected with quite a number of people via email with whom I might never have spoken otherwise. These include old friends with whom I had fallen out of the habit of writing regular letters but with whom I now correspond regularly because of the ease with which email can be sent and delivered.

　　A second way in which the new technology has brought people together is by allowing individuals who have common interests to make contact with one another. It is possible to find people who share ones interest in nearly anything, from aardvarks to zippers. Such contacts may be ephemeral, but they can be a great source of information and amusement as well. I would hazard a guess that for each person who sits neurotically at home, eschewing personal contacts with others in favor of an exclusive relationship with his computer, there are hundreds of others who have parleyed their email capacity and their access to the Web into a continuous succession of new acquaintances.

　　In sum, it seems clear to me that technology has done more to bring people together than to isolate them.

　　117. A government should provide funding for the arts, but only for those artistic works that reflect the values and attitudes of the majority of the population.

　　Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

　　一个政府应该提供艺术基金，但只是针对那些作品反映了主流人群的价值和观念的艺术家。

　　1. If let the market operates solely can let the efficiency be achieved, it is meaningless for the government to exist. The reason that the government should be established is that there are externalities, either positive or negative. For those phenomena that can cause negative externalities such as the pollution from the chemical factories, the government should do something to eliminate or at least reduce them. For the positive counterparts such as art, the government should do its best to support them, no matter provide funding or something else.

　　2. However, I can not agree with the second half of the authors idea. As far as I am concerned, the government should support all kinds of art. The function of the government is to best serve the publics interest. Each kind of art has its own appreciators who will get pleasure from it.

　　3. Moreover, the diversity of culture is also a reason that the government should consider that will be in favor of the support of all kinds of art rather than the support of the ones represent the values and attitudes of the majority population.

　　129. Instead of relying on the advice of outside experts, organizations should place greater value on the advice that can come only from their own highly experienced employees.

　　Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

　　与其依赖外部专家的建议，一个组织更应该看重那些只能来自它的内部的资深员工的建议。

　　1. 公司内部员工的意见非常重要：首先，公司内部员工更有动力关心公司的情况，从而更加主动积极地思考。第二，公司内部员工更加了解公司的情况，从而可能找到问题所在。比如说生产力下降可能有很多原因，比如技术、比如员工morale，比如组织的管理。这些由外部的专家来研究可能没有那么直接。

　　2. 但是，外部的专家也有不能忽视的优势。首先，更加专业,可以提供professional advice。第二，外部的人可以更加客观地衡量一个企业的经营情况operating condition。from a more objective sight. 第三，外部的人可以看到全面的公司，从而给出综合的意见integrated opinion about the whole company.

　　3. 需要结合在一起。比如外部的人员充分地听取内部的意见，作为判断的根据base their judgment on information from the experienced employees.

　　1. Admittedly, the insiders are more familiar with the detailed routine of the of the company. They are experts of their own field and they are in charge of the daily activities of the company. All the above-mentioned factors contribute to their competence to make decisions for the company.

　　2. However, the outsiders also have their advantages. They can judge the performance of a company from an objective angle.

　　3. Moreover, they can overlook a company, thus providing a perspective to analyze the overall situation.

　　View1: advices from inner highly experienced employees are good resources to improve the performance of the company.

　　Evidence: they are familiar with the circumstance therefore can develop exact perception of the problems.

　　View2: However outside experts have their own advantages in dealing with organizational problems.

　　But outside experts add a wide spectrum of judgment, outlook, and state-of-the-art experience to problems confronting organizations.

　　Conclusion: they are not mutually exclusive alternatives, which one to adopt depend on the specific situations.

　　130. When judging the qualifications of potential employees, business employers should rely primarily on objective information, such as a candidates rsum and education. Personal interviews are much too subjective and are therefore not a valid basis on which to judge a persons qualifications for a job.

　　Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

　　当评价一个潜在雇员的条件的时候，企业雇主应该主要依赖诸如推荐信和教育程度之类的客观信息。个人鉴定太过主观因此不是评判一个人是否对一份工作称职的有效依靠。

　　1. objective information such as candidates resume and education is really very important for judging the potential employees. This kind of information can serve as the solid evidence to testify a potential employees quality.

　　2. Personal interview is too short a period of time to comprehensively reflect a potential employees overall qualities. Therefore, personal interview can not be a valid basis on which to judge a persons qualification. What is more, just as the author points out, the personal interviews to which the interviewees favor can be added are much too subjective.

　　3. However, it is also too imprudent to eliminate the personal interview. In my opinion, personal interview can supplement the objecive information in judging a potential employee.

　　1. 客观信息很有用：首先，有很多候选人的情况，客观信息可以很大地帮助企业作出最初的筛选。the initial filtration of candidates. 第二，有时客观信息比interview更加可信solid resource of information.

　　2. 但是客观信息也不能完全取代interview的作用。首先, 面试时面对面可以看出一个人的性格character，公司可以挑选中适合企业要求的character。比如广告advertising公司，要求创新creative and originality能力，大胆，又有些auditing company，需要严谨preciseness。这些特点显然在简历中看不出来。第二，面试时可以通过具体的task来让面试中perform――这样可以直观地看出他们是否有能力胜任have enough skill to handle the specific job and then to take over the job.

　　3. 应该结合使用，比如用基本资料先choose candidates to attend the interview，之后用interview中反映出的信息来决定是否录用.

　　View1: there are much more information comes from personal interviews other than form objective judgments.

　　Resume and education background can not demonstrate the capability and character of the candidates thoroughly.

　　Social ability: cooperate with others

　　Attitude toward life and work: optimistic or passive, passionate or lazy

　　Characters: loyalty, honest

　　View2: employment is a two way choice, interviews give candidates the opportunity to get more information about the employer and the job requirements.