Question

假设你是李明，你们的外教Jerry布置了一个话题为“Pets in Our life”的家庭作业，要求写一篇120词左右的英语文章与老师及同学们交流。请参考以下要点提示，可以适当发挥。
1．养宠物的现象；
2．养宠物的优、缺点；
3．其它……
注意：1．可以适当展开联想；
2．词数120左右。

Answer 1

Today our foreign teacher Jerry asked us to write a short passage about “Pets in Our Life”. I think everyone has a deep and profound feeling about pets in our life. In addition, I think different people hold different opinions. I want to share my views with you.
We all can notice that more and more people, including many young people, love raising and have begun raising pets. To tell the truth, I think pets are very lovely. And staying with them brings us happiness and comfort, especially for the old. So I think in many aspects , raising pets has many advantages on the whole.
Meanwhile, some people point out some disadvantages of pets. I also agree with them because I also often realize some problems that raising pets causes. For example, too many pets in the public places may pollute the environment and make the public places very dirty.
So I think, every coin has two sides, which we can’t forget. And we should seek reasonable solutions to this phenomenon.

试题分析：本文的话题是“Pets in Our life”，要求描述出宠物的优缺点，优点在于可以培养人的爱心，陪伴老人，减少他们的孤独感等；缺点太多的宠物可能污染环境。在于要求考生在保证内容要点全部概括的基础上可以充分发挥自己的想象，进而用自己的语言来表达某种观点或看法，增添了写作的灵活性，同时能较好地考查考生的想象能力和英语语言表达能力。
点评：半开放性作文给出了一个话题，并有部分的文字提示。给考生自由发挥的余地较大。对于考生的综合能力要求较高，要求考生有很强的谋篇布局的能力和组织要点的能力。在完成开放性作文时，首先要选择自己熟悉的短语或者句型，在你的能力范围之内，选择句式时要赋予变化，因为这样你才可以更好的驾驭。同时也要选择合适的连接词，把各个要点组织成一个完整的整体，如besides, further, last but not least等。在发表个人观点的时候，可以使用谚语来提升整个文章的档次和文采，也能增加得高分的可能性。