2006年考研英语真题及答案

2006年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

Section I: Use of English

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C]

or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

The homeless make up a growing percentage of America’s population. __1__ homelessness has

reached such proportions that local government can’t possibly __2__. To help homeless people

__3__ independence, the federal government must support job training programs, __4__ the

minimum wage, and fund more low-cost housing.

__5__ everyone agrees on the numbers of Americans who are homeless. Estimates __6__ anywhere

from 600,000 to 3 million. __7__ the figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the

number of the homeless is __8__. One of the federal government’s studies __9__ that the number

of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade.

Finding ways to __10__ this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult.

__11__ when homeless individuals manage to find a __12__ that will give them three meals a day

and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day __13__ the street. Part

of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significant

number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Many others, __14__ not addicted or

mentally ill, simply lack the everyday __15__ skills need to turn their lives __16__. Boston Globe

reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are __17__ programs that

address the many needs of the homeless. __18__ Edward Blotkowsk, director of community service

at Bentley College in Massachusetts, __19__ it, “There has to be __20__ of programs. What we

need is a package deal.”

1. [A] Indeed

[B] Likewise

[C] Therefore

[D] Furthermore

2. [A] stand

[B] cope

[C] approve

[D] retain

3. [A] in

[B] for

[C] with

[D] toward

4. [A] raise

[B] add

[C] take

[D] keep

5. [A] generally

[B] almost

[C] hardly

[D] not

6. [A] cover

[B] change

[C] range

[D] differ

7. [A] Now that

[B] Although

[C] Provided

[D] Except that

8. [A] inflating

[B] expanding

[C] increasing

[D] extending

9. [A] predicts

[B] displays

[C] proves

[D] discovers

10. [A] assist

[B] track

[C] sustain

[D] dismiss

11. [A] Hence

[B] But

[C] Even

[D] Only

12. [A] lodging

[B] shelter

[C] dwelling

[D] house

13. [A] searching

[B] strolling

[C] crowding

[D] wandering

14. [A] when

[B] once

[C] while

[D] whereas

15. [A] life

[B] existence

[C] survival

[D] maintenance

16. [A] around

[B] over

[C] on

[D] up

17. [A] complex

[B] comprehensive

[C] complementary

[D] compensating

18. [A] So

[B] Since

[C] As

[D] Thus

19. [A] puts

[B] interprets

[C] assumes

[D] makes

20. [A] supervision

[B] manipulation

[C] regulation

[D] coordination

Section II: Reading Comprehension

Part A

Directions:

Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B], [C], or

[D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)

Text 1

In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing

people. This is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence

of deference” characteristic of popular culture. People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption”

launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant

atmosphere.” Instead of intimate shops catering to “a knowledgeable elite,” these were stores

“anyone could enter, regardless of class or background.” This turned shopping into a public and

democratic act. The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.

Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but

is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that

today’s immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998

immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1

immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. Now,

consider three indices of assimilation -- language, home ownership and intermarriage.

The 1990 Census revealed that “a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common

countries of origin spoke English ‘well’ or ‘very well’ after ten years of residence.” The children of

immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. “By the third generation, the original

language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.” Hence the description of America as a

“graveyard” for language. By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrive before 1970 had a home

ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born Americans.

Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics “have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S.-born whites

and blacks.” By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics,

and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.

Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around world are fans of superstars like Amold

Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet “some Americans fear that immigrant living within the

United States remain somehow immune to the nation’s assimilative power.”

Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething in America? Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit

of everything. But particularly when viewed against America’s turbulent past, today’s social indices

hardly suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.

21. The word “homogenizing” (Line 2, Paragraph 1) most probably means ________.

[A] identifying

[B] associating

[C] assimilating

[D] monopolizing

22. According to the author, the department stores of the 19th century ________.

[A] played a role in the spread of popular culture

[B] became intimate shops for common consumers

[C] satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite

[D] owed its emergence to the culture of consumption

23. The text suggests that immigrants now in the U.S. ________.

[A] are resistant to homogenization

[B] exert a great influence on American culture

[C] are hardly a threat to the common culture

[D] constitute the majority of the population

24. Why are Amold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks mentioned in Paragraph 5?

[A] To prove their popularity around the world.

[B] To reveal the public’s fear of immigrants.

[C] To give examples of successful immigrants.

[D] To show the powerful influence of American culture.

25. In the author’s opinion, the absorption of immigrants into American society is ________.

[A] rewarding

[B] successful

[C] fruitless

[D] harmful

Text 2

Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry -- William Shakespeare -- but there are

two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company

(ASC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the

Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays,

but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.

The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly

dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. The tourist

streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus -- and often take in Warwick

Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side -- don’t usually see the plays, and some of them are even

surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along

with their playgoing. It is the playgoers, the ESC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue

because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and

restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.

The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of

the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town

seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you

may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo

Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.

Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy.

(The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were

94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs

have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.

It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who

are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all

seem to look alike (though they come from all over) -- lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans

and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre

to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the

box office opens at 10:

26. From the first two Paragraphs, we learn that ________.

[A] the townsfolk deny the RSC’s contribution to the town’s revenue

[B] the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage

[C] the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms

[D] the townsfolk earn little from tourism

27. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that ________.

[A] the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately

[B] the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers

[C] the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers

[D] the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater

28. By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally” (Line 2-3, Paragraph 4), the author implies that

________.

[A] Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects

[B] Stratford has long been in financial difficulties

[C] the town is not really short of money

[D] the townsfolk used to be poorly paid

29. According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because ________.

[A] ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending

[B] the company is financially ill-managed

[C] the behavior of the actors is not socially acceptable

[D] the theatre attendance is on the rise

30. From the text we can conclude that the author ________.

[A] is supportive of both sides

[B] favors the townsfolk’s view

[C] takes a detached attitude

[D] is sympathetic

Text 3

When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large

animals. They suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals

were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening

in the oceans.

That the seas are being overfished has been known for years. What researchers such as Ransom

Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half

a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods do not attempt to estimate the

actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean,

but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature,

the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced

on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some long-fished areas, it has

halved again since then.

Dr. Worm acknowledges that the figures are conservative. One reason for this is that fishing

technology has improved. Today’s vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were

not available 50 years ago. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so

the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes

in catch sizes. In the early days, too, longlines would have been more saturated with fish. Some

individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available

to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past. Furthermore, in the early days

of longline fishing, a lot of fish were lost to sharks after they had been hooked. That is no longer a

problem, because there are fewer sharks around now.

Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management

efforts must take into account. They believe the data support an idea current among marine

biologists, that of the “shifting baseline.” The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive

changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively

short time into the past. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield

that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its

original levels. Most fisheries are well below that, which is a bad way to do business.

31. The extinction of large prehistoric animals is noted to suggest that ________.

[A] large animal were vulnerable to the changing environment

[B] small species survived as large animals disappeared

[C] large sea animals may face the same threat today

[D] slow-growing fish outlive fast-growing ones

32. We can infer from Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm’s paper that ________.

[A] the stock of large predators in some old fisheries has reduced by 90%

[B] there are only half as many fisheries as there were 15 years ago

[C] the catch sizes in new fisheries are only 20% of the original amount

[D] the number of larger predators dropped faster in new fisheries than in the old

33. By saying these figures are conservative (Line 1, paragraph 3), Dr. Worm means that ________.

[A] fishing technology has improved rapidly

[B] then catch-sizes are actually smaller then recorded

[C] the marine biomass has suffered a greater loss

[D] the data collected so far are out of date

34. Dr. Myers and other researchers hold that ________.

[A] people should look for a baseline that can’t work for a longer time

[B] fisheries should keep the yield below 50% of the biomass

[C] the ocean biomass should restored its original level

[D] people should adjust the fishing baseline to changing situation

35. The author seems to be mainly concerned with most fisheries’ ________.

[A] management efficiency

[B] biomass level

[C] catch-size limits

[D] technological application

Text 4

Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to

explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.

This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for

expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid,

phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of

evil.

You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such

misery. But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of

innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the

world today.

After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting

happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass

media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.

People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived

with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most

powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril

and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art

to be a bummer too.

Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are not religious but commercial, and

forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling, smiling. Our

magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these

messages have an agenda -- to lure us to open our wallets -- they make the very idea of happiness

seem unreliable. “Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found

out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.

But what we forget -- what our economy depends on us forgetting -- is that happiness is more than

pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and

disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as

religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that

happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than a

clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.

36. By citing the example of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that

________.

[A] poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music

[B] art grow out of both positive and negative feeling

[C] poets today are less skeptical of happiness

[D] artists have changed their focus of interest

37. The word “bummer” (Line 5. paragraph 5) most probably means something ________.

[A] religious

[B] unpleasant

[C] entertaining

[D] commercial

38. In the author’s opinion, advertising ________.

[A] emerges in the wake of the anti-happy part

[B] is a cause of disappointment for the general public

[C] replace the church as a major source of information

[D] creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself

39. We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes ________.

[A] happiness more often than not ends in sadness

[B] the anti-happy art is distasteful but refreshing

[C] misery should be enjoyed rather than denied

[D] the anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms

40. Which of the following is true of the text?

[A] Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.

[B] Art provides a balance between expectation and reality.

[C] People feel disappointed at the realities of morality.

[D] Mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.

Part B

Directions:

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most

suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices,

which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

On the north bank of the Ohio River sits Evansville, Ind., home of David Williams, 52, and of a

riverboat casino where gambling games are played. During several years of gambling in that casino,

Williams, a state auditor earning $35,000 a year, lost approximately $175,000. He had never

gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $20 worth of gambling.

He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left. On his second visit he lost $800. The casino issued to

him, as a good customer, a Fun Card, which when used in the casino earns points for meals and

drinks, and enables the casino to track the user’s gambling activities. For Williams, these activities

become what he calls electronic morphine.

(41)________. In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days. In March 1997 he lost

$72,186. He sometimes played two slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat locked at ,

then went back aboard when the casino opened at Now he is suing the casino, charging that

it should have refused his patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had a problem.

In March 1998, a friend of Williams’s got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for

addictions, and wrote to inform the casino of Williams’s gambling problems. The casino included a

photo of Williams among those of banned gamblers, and wrote to him a “cease admissions” letter.

Noting the medical/psychological nature of problem gambling behaviors, the letter said that before

being readmitted to the casino he would have to present medical/psychological information

demonstrating that patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety or well-being.

(42) ________.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the casino has 20 signs warning: “Enjoy and always

bet with your head, not over it.” Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from

the Indiana Department of Mental Health. Nevertheless, Williams’s suit charges that the casino,

knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambling,” intentionally worked to “lure” him to “engage

in conduct against his will.” Well.

(43) ________.

The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) says

“pathological gambling” involves persistent, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit less of money

than of thrill of taking risks in quest of a windfall.

(44) ________. Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once

were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical

disabilities.

(45) ________.

Forty-four states have lotteries, 29 have casinos, and most of these states are to varying degrees

dependent on -- you might say addicted to -- revenues from wagering. And since the first Internet

gambling site was created in 1995, competition for gamblers’ dollars has become intense. The Oct.

28 issue of Newsweek reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,800 virtual casinos every week.

With $3.5 billion being lost on Internet wagers this year, gambling has passed pornography as the

Web’s most profitable business.

[A] Although no such evidence was presented, the casino’s marketing department continued to

pepper him with mailings. And he entered the casino and used his Fun Card without being detected.

[B] It is unclear what luring was required, given his compulsive behavior. And in what sense was

his will operative?

[C] By the time he had lost $5,000 he said to himself that if he could get back to even, he would

quit. One night he won $5,500, but he did not quit.

[D] Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly

considered a sin, or a social disease. Now it is a social policy: the most important and aggressive

promoter of gambling in America is government.

[E] David Williams’s suit should trouble this gambling nation. But don’t bet on it.

[F] It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems, often defining

as addictions what earlier, sterner generations explained as weakness of will.

[G] The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially conductive to

compulsive behavior. But even if the government knew how to move against Internet gambling,

what would be its grounds for doing so?

Part C

Directions:

Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Our

translation should be written neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)

Is it true that the American intellectual is rejected and considered of no account in his society? I am

going to suggest that it is not true. Father Bruckberger told part of the story when he observed that

it is the intellectuals who have rejected Americans. But they have done more than that. They have

grown dissatisfied with the role of intellectual. It is they, not Americans, who have become anti-

intellectual.

First, the object of our study pleads for definition. What is an intellectual? 46) I shall define him as

an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in

Socratic (苏格拉底) way about moral problems. He explores such problem consciously, articulately,

and frankly, first by asking factual questions, then by asking moral questions, finally by suggesting

action which seems appropriate in the light of the factual and moral information which he has

obtained. 47) His function is analogous to that of a judge, who must accept the obligation of

revealing in as obvious a matter as possible the course of reasoning which led him to his decision.

This definition excludes many individuals usually referred to as intellectuals -- the average scientist,

for one. 48) I have excluded him because, while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution

of moral problems, he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects

of those problems. Like other human beings, he encounters moral issues even in everyday

performance of his routine duties -- he is not supposed to cook his experiments, manufacture

evidence, or doctor his reports. 49) But his primary task is not to think about the moral code, which

governs his activity, any more than a businessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an

exploration of rules of conduct in business. During most of his waking life he will take his code for

granted, as the businessman takes his ethics.

The definition also excludes the majority of teachers, despite the fact that teaching has traditionally

been the method whereby many intellectuals earn their living. 50) They may teach very well and

more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human

problems which involve moral judgment. This description even fits the majority of eminent scholars.

“Being learned in some branch of human knowledge is one thing, living in public and illustrious

thoughts,” as Emerson would say, “is something else.”

Section III: Writing

Part A

51. Directions

You want to contribute to Project Hope by offering financial aid to a child in a remote area. Write a

letter to the department concerned, asking them to help find a candidate. You should specify what

kind of child you want to help and how you will carry out your plan.

Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Write it on ANSWER SHEET 2.

Do not sign your name at the end of the letter; use “Li Ming” instead.

You do not need to write the address. (10 points)

Part B

52. Directions:

Study the following photos carefully and write an essay of 160~200 words in which you should

1. describe the photos briefly,

2. interpret the social phenomenon reflected by them, and

3. give your point of view.

You should write 160-200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)

有两幅图片，图1 把崇拜写在脸上；图2 花300元做“小贝头”

注：Beckham是英国足球明星

有两张照片，一张照片上有一位男士脸上写着足球明星的名字，另一张照片上有一个男子在

理发，他要求理发师为他设计一个小贝克汉姆的发型。

2006年参考答案

Section I: Use of English (10 points)

1. [A] 2. [B] 3. [D] 4. [A] 5. [D]

6. [C] 7. [B] 8. [C] 9. [A] 10. [A]

11. [C] 12. [B] 13. [D] 14. [C] 15. [C]

16. [A] 17. [B] 18. [C] 19. [A] 20. [D]

Section II: Reading Comprehension (60 points)

Part A (40 points)

21. [C] 22. [A] 23. [C] 24. [D] 25. [B]

26. [A] 27. [B] 28. [C] 29. [D] 30. [D]

31. [C] 32. [A] 33. [C] 34. [D] 35. [B]

36. [D] 37. [B] 38. [D] 39. [B] 40. [A]

Part B (10 points)

41. [C] 42. [A] 43. [B] 44. [F] 45. [D]

Part C (10 points)

46．我将他定义为一个对道德问题进行苏格拉底式思考并将此作为自己人生首要责任和快乐

的人。

47．他的职责与法官相似，必须承担这样的责任：用尽可能明了的方式来展示自己做出决定

的推理过程。

48．我之所以把他（普通科学家）排除在外，是因为尽管他的成果可能会有助于解决道德问

题，但他承担的任务只不过是研究这些问题的事实方面。

49．但是，他的首要任务并不是考虑支配自己行为的道德规范，就如同不能指望商人专注于

探索行业规范一样。

50．他们可以教得很好，而且不仅仅是为了挣薪水，但他们大多数人却很少或没有对需要进

行道德判断的、人的问题进行独立思考。

Section III: Writing (30 points)

Part A (10 points)

51. 参考范文

Dear Sir or Madam,

As a college student who is studying and living in a good environment, I wish to contribute to

Project Hope by offering financial assistance to a child in a remote area. Having conceived such a

plan for a long time, I write this letter to request your help to recommend a proper candidate.

I wonder if it is convenient for you if three things concerning the child are taken into consideration.

First, the child should come from Gansu Province, for I intend to help a child from my hometown.

Second, it will be better if the child is a primary school student. I hope I will help him/her from the

very beginning. In addition, he/she must be willing to return to his hometown to help built it after

graduation from university.

My plan will be carried out as follows. On one hand, I will remit at least 2,000 Yuan in cash every

year until he/she finishes his/her education before entering college. On the other hand, I decide to

teach the child math and English in person during my summer vacation, which will surely be more

beneficial to the child.

Your prompt help would be highly appreciated. And I am looking forward to your reply very soon.

Yours sincerely,

Li Ming

Part B (20 points)

52. 参考范文

How ironic the two pictures are in describing one of the most widespread social phenomena

concerning idol adoration! In the first picture, a young man writes the name of Beckham on his face.

In the second picture, another young man spends 300 Yuan in dealing with his hair to make himself

look like Beckham.

The meaning conveyed in the two pictures reveals that in current China some young people are

losing themselves. I am greatly shocked by the enthusiasm for this British football superstar shown

by these two young men. Frankly speaking, things of this kind really happen among us. Some people,

especially college students, do nothing but concentrate on imitating superstars. This does great harm

to their study and growth. If we can’t stop the worsening of this tendency, our own culture will be

damaged, and we ourselves will be the ultimate victims.

From my point of view, a lot of measures should be taken to save our losing culture and re-find

ourselves. In fact, some measures have already been taken. In my university, campaigns have been

launched to educate people to pay more attention to our traditional culture and read more books

instead of focusing on our appearances. As a result, we have witnessed some improvements but still

there is a long way to go.