Topic(题目)：
Do you agree or disagree with the followingstatement? It is more important for students tostudy history and literature than it is for them tostudy science and mathematics. Use specificreasons and details to support your opinion.
Model Essay(范文)：
I think it’s more important for students to studyhistory and literature. these subjects help usunderstand the human race and feed our spirits and our imaginations. That’s more importantthan understanding how to split the atom or do algebra.
People talk about a crisis of spirit in our country. They mean we’ve forgotten how to believe inand understand our own better natures. I think part of this is because we’ve become tooexcited about facts and not enough about things we can’t see and measure. Reading booksfrom our own culture helps us understand our roots. Reading books from other cultures helpsus understand the way other people think and react to situations. It also teaches us thatwe’re not so very different from others, and that leads to better relations between cultures.
Reading literature also feeds our spirits. Even when the material we’re reading is about terriblesadness and hardship, it still brings us in touch with our inner selves. It makes us think aboutissues other than new car we want to drive or how much money we’re making.
Studying history gives us more information than just who died when or who won which war. Ittell us about how human beings have related to each other at different periods in ourdevelopment. It gives us the big picture. So often, when international crises occur, we only seethe problem of the moment. We have no idea how something that happened twenty years agowas the beginning of this current problem. Without that information, we can have only ashallow understanding of ? going on in the world.
Both history and literature are necessary subjects for students to prepare for more than justcareers. These subjects prepare students for the way they want to live their lives.
重点单词 全部解释
disagree[.disə'gri:]v. 不一致，有分歧，不适应，不适宜
statement['steitmənt]n. 声明，陈述
shallow['ʃæləu]adj. 浅的，薄的
n. 浅滩，浅处
related[ri'leitid]adj. 相关的，有亲属关系的
specific[spi'sifik]adj. 特殊的，明确的，具有特效的
n. 特
hardship['hɑ:dʃip]n. 艰难，困苦
measure['meʒə]n. 措施，办法，量度，尺寸
v. 测量，量
split[split]n. 劈开，裂片，裂口
adj. 分散的
understand[.ʌndə'stænd]vt. 理解，懂，听说，获悉，将 ... 理解为，认为<
react[ri'ækt]vt. 作出反应
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