2009年考研英語40篇大作文演練與名師點評

　　19 Study the following drawing carefully and write an essay in which you should:

　　1. describe the drawing,

　　2. interpret its meaning, and

　　3. make your comment.

　　You should write 160~200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　該文可分四段來寫。第一段描述圖畫。第二段對“賣書買書架”的行為進行定性。第三段將該行為類比到當前社會中一些年輕人的做法。最后一段是結(jié)語。The two pictures depict a dialogue between a father and a son. In the first picture, the son says: “Dad, this is a beautiful bookshelf, but there are no books on it.” In the second picture, the father replies: “I used to have a lot of books, but I sold all of them to buy this bookshelf.”

　　Nothing can be more ridiculous than selling books for the sake of buying a bookshelf. The function of a bookshelf is to store books—if there are no books, the bookshelf will lose its value.

　　The thought�瞤rovoking pictures make me think about many young people in today�餾 society. They work day and night to get money and fame at the price of their own life. On the one hand, they do not care about their own family—they always refuse to communicate with other family members in the name of their work. On the other hand, they do not care about their own health—they burn the night oil to accomplish tasks and attend various banquets to establish and consolidate relationships. When they finally succeed in getting what they have been dreaming of, they have lost the most precious things in life—family life and health.

　　Isn�餿 this process just like selling books to buy a bookshelf? When we lose our own life, what�餾 the meaning of getting titles, houses and money? To understand the true meaning of happiness, we don�餿 have to wait until we have lost everything. 第一段對兩幅圖畫中父子的對話進行了描述。

　　第二段的首句對上述行為定性——沒有什么比這樣做更可笑了。沒有了書，書架也就失去了存在的價值。

　　第三段首句的拓展性很強，作用是將上述行為和當前社會的一個群體作類比。而后講這些年輕人為了聲名和財富犧牲家庭生活和健康。

　　末段首句又將第三段所述做法聯(lián)系到圖畫，與前面的呼應性很強。而后說失去了自己的生活，頭銜、房子和錢還有什么意義呢？這句再次呼應了上一段。最后一句哲理性很強，發(fā)人深省。要想寫好大作文，掌握類比的能力是很重要的。圖畫一般是用簡潔的筆觸揭示深刻的道理，所以有時比較極端、比較凝練、比較有代表性。有時它直接反映某個社會現(xiàn)象，有時它需要我們?nèi)フ页龌蚪�立某種圖畫與現(xiàn)實生活的聯(lián)系——后者一般較難，但是比較有意義。實際上我們所做的與孟子正好相反——他是要找到極端的例子來證明當時君王或平民錯誤的做法，所以他的難度更大。