【正文】 ing jungle beast waiting to bite, NEET afflicts the young graduates most. It can cause serious problems to our society if not attended to. The plight of NEET may attribute to a host of reasons. Firstly, current university curriculum lacks guidance of career planning and development for its graduates. Many textbooks abound in theories but are poorly equipped with practical skills which are badly needed in jobs. Secondly, without a clear aim borne in mind, students themselves are somehow unwilling to make efforts to improve themselves for their future career. Thirdly, as the economy dwindles, there are fewer chances of getting a job pared with the past. To tackle this problem, a spectrum of suggestions has been offered. To begin with, graduates are encouraged to start their own businesses from scratch. Moreover, some can further their education home or abroad, which can be a useful springboard for their future jobs. Finally, volunteer jobs can 9 be taken to enrich experience or widen horizon. Whatever the solution, we should open up more avenues for these hungry jobhunting students or we would face the serious consequences of NEET as a whole. 押題 5 大眾傳媒對公眾的影響 題目要求 In the Information Age, the mass media have been playing an ever more important role in shaping our society. In the following excerpts, the author lists the benefits as well as the setbacks brought about by the mass media. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the author?s opinions about the mass media。 2. give your ment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, anization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. We are told the mass media are the greatest ans for enlightenment that the world has yet seen。 that in Britain, for instance, several million people see each issue of the current affairs programme, Panorama. It is true that never in human history were so many people so often and so much exposed to so many intimations about societies, forms of life attitudes other than those which obtain in their local societies. This kind of exposure may well be a point of departure for acquiring certain important intellectual and imaginative qualities, width of judgment, and a sense of the variety of possible attitudes. Yet in itself such exposure does not bring intellectual or imaginative development. It is no more than the masses of stone which lie around in a quarry and which may, conceivably, go to the making of a cathedral. The mass media cannot build the cathedral, and their way of showing the stones does not always prompt others to build. For the stones are presented within a selfcontained and selfsufficient world in which, it is implied, simply to look at them, to observe—fleetingly—individually interesting points of difference between them, is sufficient in itself. Life is indeed full of problems on which we have to—or feel we should try to—make decisions, as citizens or as private individuals. But neither the real difficulty of these decisions, nor their true and disturbing challenge to each individual, can often be municated through the mass media. The disinclination to suggest real choice, individual decision, which is to be found in the mass media, is not simply the product of a mercial desire to keep the customers happy. It is within the grain of mass munication. The ans of the Establishment, however wellintentioned they may be and whatever their form (the State, the Church, voluntary societies, political parties), have a vested interest in ensuring that the public boat is not violently rocked, and will so affect those who work within the mass media that they will be led insensibly towards forms of production which, though they go through the dispute and enquiry, do not break through the skin to where such enquiries might really hurt. They will tend to move, when exposing problems, well within the accepted clich233。 assumptions of the society and will tend neither radically to question these clich233。s nor to make a disturbing application of them to features of contemporary life. They will stress the “stimulation” the programs give, but this soon bees an agitation of problems for the sake of the interest of that 10 agitation itself。 they will therefore, again, assist a form of acceptance of the status quo. There are exceptions to this tendency, but they are uncharacteristic. The result can be seen in a hundred radio and television programs as plainly as in the normal treatment of public issues in the popular press. Different levels of background in the readers or viewers may be assumed, but what usually takes place is a substitute for the process of arriving at judgment. Programs such as this are noteworthy less for the “stimulation” they offer than for the fact that that stimulation (repeated at regular intervals) may bee a substitute for, and so a hindrance to, judgments arrived at and tested in the mind and on the pulses. Mass munications, then, do not ignore intellectual matters。 they tend to castrate them, to allow them to sit on the side of the fireplace, sleek and useless, a family plaything. Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 審題思路 本題探討的是大眾傳媒對公眾的影響 ， 屬于社會焦點類話題。要求簡要概括所給材料中作者的觀點，并發(fā)表自己的評論。在具體行文 方面，考生可以開篇點題，簡要概括作者 對 大眾傳媒的負面觀點。第二部分可以提出自己對這一問題的 看法 ，并闡明理由。最后一段總結(jié)全文，重述論點，提出倡議。 高分范文 My Views on the Mass Media Undeniably, the mass media have been greatly influencing our lives. However, in essence, they don?t prompt intellectual development for the sake of their poor power of offering solutions to our real troubles in real life. This inability lies in the grain of munication which has been invented to pacify rather than agitate the masses. So with few exceptions, the mass media, instead of stirring i