四級作文話題閱讀與范例

1、四級作文話題與范例一2. College Grads Craze for Sitting Civil Service ExamIt's job-hunting season right now. Each year college graduates will have to decide on taking postgraduate Admission Examination or finding a job. This year, they have another choice, that is to take the civil servant examination.Ren

2、Qian, a senior of Biomedical major of Zhe Da Ningbo Science & Engineering Institute, who was pretty confident about the employment prospect of his major, felt strongly about the scarcity of job opportunities after attending the job market. "I didn't expect it at all”, he exclaimed.Ren Q

3、ian, a senior Zhe-Da Ningbo Science & Engineering Institute, said, “There are more college graduates this year. Whats more, we are having the global financial crisis. So, its quite difficult for us to get a right job.”Nevertheless, Ren had anticipated it a little bit. Ren had another card to pla

4、y, that is, to take national civil servant examination. Though he knew it was no sense an easy thing, it offers an optional choice.Ren Qian aslo said, “Though the chances are slim, with admission rate of only one or two percent, Ill do my best all the same.”Many grads share the similar mentality wit

5、h Ren. They found the salaries offered by the enterprises mostly couldn't meet their bottom-line, and all kinds of internship andprobation bothered them too. They usually had two strings for their bows, hunting jobs and preparing for examinations of civil servant and government institutions.3 Cr

6、aze for Civil Service ExaminationsEvery year hundreds of thousands of people in China take civil service examsconducted at various levels in the hope of becoming government employees. Among them, college graduates are a fast-growing force that cant be ignored. The craze for being a civil servant is

7、not limited to liberal arts majors, as its also gaining popularity among science and engineering students.In the final analysis, this growing trend among the youngsters is mainly attributable to two factors ambitions and comforts. On the one hand, many ambitious collegegraduates view these exams as

8、a springboard to a higher social status, greater power and prestige, on which many of their other wishes rest. On the other, as being a civil servant generally means a stable income, enviable healthcare and pension programmes, as well as other comforts of life, its quite an appealing career option t

9、o many people, especially in this age of sluggish world economy.Personally, the desire to be a government official is beyond reproach, as the nation and the people do need an injection of new blood into the civil service sectors. Thefresh-faced college graduates, armed with lofty ideals, new vision,

10、 and strong drive, are undoubtedly among the best candidates.Useful expressions:1. college graduates , liberal arts majors, science and engineering students., 2.job-hunting season / job market 3. take the civil servant examination 4. a stable income, good health care and pension 5. take postgraduate

11、 Admission Examination 6. confident about the employment prospect of his major 7.feel strongly about the scarcity of job opportunities 8. after attending the job market 9. have the global financial crisis 10. have another card to play 11. offer an optional choice 12.; have two strings for their bows

12、 13. hunting jobs 14. preparing for examinations of civil servant and government institutions. 16. a civil servant post plus the job offers a monthly salary of 17. take civil service exams conducted at various levels in the hope of becoming governmentemployees.22. a fast-growing force 18. gain popul

13、arity among 19. view these exams as a springboard to a higher social status, greater power and prestige, on which many of their other wishes rest.20. an appealing career option to sb. 21. in this age of sluggish world economy 23. an injection of new blood into the civil service sectors23. The craze

14、in civil servant test has attracted widespread attention. 24. The following reasons can account for this kind of craze. 25. this growing trend among the youngsters is mainly attributable to two factors ambitions and comforts. 26. the acceptance rate is as low as 1.72% 27. the chances are slim, with

15、admission rate of only one or two percent.28. the salaries offered by the enterprises mostly couldn't meet their bottom-line29. all kinds of internship and probation bothered them30. being a civil servant generally means a stable income, enviable healthcare and pension programmes, as well as oth

16、er comforts of life31. Personally, the desire to be a government official is beyond reproach32. The fresh-faced college graduates, armed with lofty ideals, new vision, and strong drive, are undoubtedly among the best candidates.Free Admission to museums越來越多的博物館免費對外開放的目的是什么？也會帶來一些問題；你的看法？1. Free Admi

17、ssion to Museums（滿分版）Nowadays, an increasing number of museums are admission-free to visitors home and abroad. The hidden reason behind this is not hard to analyze as theres a growing awareness for the authorities regarding the urgency of popularization of culture,knowledge and history with every av

18、erage person in our society. Only with free access to this live database, can most people fully enjoy what museums could offer to them.However, free admission to museums might lead to some social problems as well. The most obvious problem is that it might give museums a very heavy economic burden 2w

19、hich directly impedes the sustainable development of these organizations. As a result, our government has to work out other ways to collect funds from different channels, which might be difficult to operate or control. On the other hand, free admission attracts too many visitors, some of which might

20、 not be well-purposed and do some conscious or unconscious damage to the valuable treasures which used to be well-preserved in the museums.As a university student, I am in favor of the free-admission conduct. Yet it isproposed that some measures should be taken to solve the potential problems caused

21、 by it. For example, museums can make some regulations to guide the behavior of visitors or set some closed days for museums for regular maintenance. Only in this way canfree-admission to museums become a long-lasting phenomenon and have sustainable development.2.Free Admission to Museums?Nowadays,

22、a lot of museums open to the public for free, and a lot of people are attracted to go there. However, it also brought some unexpected problems.At present, people can get knowledge from many ways like libraries, internet, and other sources. However, there is also much information that people cannot g

23、et from the above ways. Free admission museums supply more chances for the public to get knowledge that cannot be easily accessed. People can learn more things about history, art, science and so on. Although, this kind of policy brought much convenience to the public, it also caused some problems. F

24、or example, beggars and shabby-dressed people may enter themuseums and cause bad reputation among the public; along with the increasing number of people getting into museums, there will be no enough service establishments to meet the requirements; besides, under the policy of free admission, the cul

25、tural relics displayed there may be inevitably broken or damaged by the crowds. Moreover, the crowds in the museums may also cause security problems.In my opinion, free admission is a good policy for the public, and it brings the public much convenience. But, we should also take possible measures to

26、 protect the cultural relics and maintain the order of spot. Besides, we can also take the policy of giving free admission first to children, then to the retired person, and last to the public. I think, this may help to solve the problems.3. Free admission to museumWith the development of modern civ

27、ilization, an increasing number of museums are open to the public for free. According to a national survey, over half of the museums in China have carried out this free-admission policy or are going to do so.What is the aim of such policy? The goal is crystal clear. For one thing, more citizens can

28、have access to museums and appreciate the history and culture. In addition, poor people have the opportunities to receive such free education and the whole quality of Chinese people can thus be improved. For another, free museum tours help cities draw more visitors from the world and also publicize

29、the city image nicely.However, everything can be divided into two. The negative aspects are also apparent. One of the important disadvantages is that some people may litter and spit in the museum and their bad behaviors affect the environment and museum management Through the above analysis, I belie

30、ve that the favorable sides far outweigh its negative effects. I hope all the people can share the same national treasure in more free museums.33 museums in Beijing to start free admissionBEIJING, - Starting from this coming Friday, 33 museums in Beijing will be open to visitors free of charge, with

31、 some taking new measures to prevent chaos during the expected visitor boom. In the Capital Museum, visitors have to book tickets using their real names beforehand, said Han Yong, deputy curator. "The designed daily receiving capacity of the museum is 3,000,"he said. "Visitors should

32、bring their ID cards to get the free tickets." The Chinese government has planned to realize free admission at state-run museums in March, but the problems at the Fujian Provincial Museum, which was among the first batch to offer free admission, has shown that the museum was ill-prepared for su

33、ch volume of visitors. Quite a few exhibits, including an elephant specimen, were damaged. The museums to start free admission in Beijing include public museums and memorial halls belonging to municipal or district cultural and heritage protection departments, as well as patriotic educational bases

34、at municipal level. Most of the 33 museums in Beijing will impose an upper limit for visitors every day by distributing a certain number of tickets, said Kong Fanzhi, head of the Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage. Historical architecture and sites like the Forbidden City are not

35、on the list of free admission venues, he added. China has more than 2,300 museums, which received 150 million people last year. Before April 1 free admission will be extended to 600 museums, while the number is expected to grow to 1,400 next year, according to Zhang Bai, deputy director of the State

36、 Administration of Cultural Heritage.Museums adapting to change after one year of free admissionShe had high praise for the museum. The facility, officially opened on Feb. 10, 2007, used to charge 20 yuan (about 2.90 U.S. dollars) before it adopted a free admission policy in 4March, 2008.The CNFM is

37、 among one of the 1,000-strong museums in China to become free in 2008. Admission fees were abolished at national and provincial museums, except for a few world-famous cultural relics such as the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, both in Beijing.“The free entry policy was intended to bring more peop

38、le to share the cultural treasures in museums”; said Zhang Bai, deputy head of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.But the CNFM's visitor numbers did not soar as expected. About 1,000 people visit the facility daily on average, said Song Lichen,an official with the CNFM. The figure for

39、 2007 was 500.Things are very different at the Capital Museum, in downtown Beijing. The museum issues 4,000 admission tickets a day, but usually visitors have to reserve tickets three days in advance.During the Olympics, there was a day when 14,700 people showed up, some hundreds of them lining up h

40、ours ahead of opening time.While location might be the main factor in the property market,in the museum world, there are other things to consider.Through Dec. 13, the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, capital of the central province, had more than 1.4 million visitors since it went to a free admissi

41、on system in November 2007. That was almost six times the usual annual figure.Wan Qun, a teacher at Huazhong Normal University, visited the museum 10 times. He told Xinhua on Dec. 13, “Free entry brought the seemingly lofty museums down to earth. ”In sharp contrast with the provincial museum is the

42、nearby Hubei Arts Museum. About 21,130 people entered the museum in the first month of free entry; for the provincial museum, the figure reached 200,000.“We were ready to handle the worst crowding, but the visitor numbers did not surprise us,” said Wang Xiaohong, an official with the museum.Shen Wei

43、, deputy director of the department of fine arts at the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, recalled overhearing something that might explain the low visitor numbers for the art museum. A child told his parents that he wanted to visit the art museum after the provincial one and the parents replied, “The ite

44、ms there are beyond your understanding.”Dull exhibits with boring explanations won't win visitors in the long run, said Wang Hongxing, head of the Hubei Provincial Museum.SOME UNWELCOME GUESTSThe visitors themselves are not all perfect.“Due to the lack of arts education in the museum, free admis

45、sion only means another form of scenic spot to most of the visitors,”said Ding Chen, a volunteer guide at the Shanghai Museum. “Some are playing games, other are text messaging with children buzzing everywhere.”However mixed the picture, there is no turning back. By the end of 2009, the museums 5on

46、the free entry list will increase to 1,400.“We have to constantly invent new ways to keep visitors coming, like new exhibitions and lectures,” said Wang Hongxing.Free admission to museums can decline the expenses of the visitors who often visit museums and encourage them to learn more about the hist

47、ory. To do this, it will promote scientific and cultural construction and it can show oue country more powerful than before .Some people litter and spit in the museum .some of them take phones without closing the flash and touch the statues which is prohibited to touch, or some even take pictures of

48、 some antiquites ,which may damage them.1,200 museums in all 50 states will be providing free admission to the general public.It is a wonderful opportunity for those who otherwise could not afford the entry fee/ offer free entry.There are also plenty of other museums with free admission.Not only can

49、 you explore national history, art and sculptures. It is also completely free. Free entrance to State-run museumsState-run museums like The National Museum, The Museum of Danish Resistance, The Open Air Museum and The National Gallery offer free entry all week. Other museums with free admission .The

50、 Rush to Graduate SchoolEveryone's applying. Should you, too?The bonuses have disappeared. So have the multiple job offers, the offers made longbefore college graduation, the offers that promised 21-year-olds salaries higher than their parents' combined income. Now job seekers, not corporate

51、 recruiters, are the onesaccosting people at career fairs. Now employers pick and choose among applicants-and applicants take what they can get.Although the economy is slowly brightening, the job market has yet to bounce back. The unemployment rate is almost 2 percentage points higher than it was du

52、ring the heady days of the late 1990s, and more than half of the senior executives surveyed recently by the Business Council, an association representing large companies, said theirorganizations would cut their workforces this year or, at least, not create and fill new jobs. 6everywhere-by 27 percen

53、t over last year at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and 22 percent at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C. The Monterey Institute of International Studies in California received close to one-third more applications this year, while the School of Management at Boston U

54、niversity staggered under a whopping 153 percent increase.Companies that cater to people weighing grad school also are reporting a jump in business. Kaplan Inc., for instance, raked in 24 percent more revenue from its prepcourses for the LSAT, the law school admissions test, in 2001 than in 2000 and

55、 26 percent more from its GMAT courses. Only medical school admissions test courses haven't seen a boom in enrollment.Seeking refuge in grad school in a lackluster labor market is a time-tested strategy. When jobs were scarce in the mid-1980s, graduate applications rose about 7 percent a year. &

56、quot;It's a respectable thing to do," says Susan Krinsky, dean of admissions at the Tulane School of Law in New Orleans, where the number of applicants also is soaring. "It's even a productive thing to do."But before you sign up for the GMAT or GRE, before you send away for ap

57、plications, even before you start fantasizing about grassy quads, Gothic libraries, and avuncularprofessors, it pays to ask yourself whether you should be going to graduate school at all. Too often, people pursue an advanced degree to escape an unsatisfying job instead of figuring out which career b

58、est suits them and whether graduate study will help them succeed in the field, says Linda Wiener, who runs a workplace consulting firm inVancouver, Wash. After graduation they find themselves just as dissatisfied as before-but carrying more debt.Page 2 of 5Goal oriented. If you are still casting abo

59、ut for your life's goals, graduate school probably isn't the right place for you. "A graduate degree should be a means to a professionalend," says Trent Anderson, the vice president of graduate programs at Kaplan. Degrees in 7medieval history, nursing, or engineering prepare you for the same thing-a career,whether it's as a history professor, a nurse, or an engineer. Of course, exploring a specific intellectual passion-say, for philosophy or comparative literature-also is a worthym