2016电大_大学英语B统考_大学英语B网考_写作

写作B

9、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

1．你最喜欢哪本书；

2．你喜欢的理由。

The Book I Like Best

10、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

1．你特别喜欢的食物；

2．你喜欢的理由。

My Favourite Food

11、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

1.你在英语学习中遇到什么困难；

2.你如何克服这些困难。

How to Overcome Difficulties in My English Studies

12、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

1.介绍家庭主要成员；

2.描述令你难忘的家庭活动。

My Family

13、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

1.自学的优点；

2.自学中遇到的主要困难。

Self-study

14、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

1.介绍你的一位好朋友；

2.描述你们的友谊。

My Best Friend

15、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

Which is more important, Health or Wealth?

1.介绍你对健康与财富之间关系的看法；

2.简述你持有以上看法的理由。

16、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

1.介绍你的一位中学老师；

2.说明为什么这位老师受学生欢迎。

My Teacher in High School

17、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

Which Means of Transportation do You Prefer?

内容需包括以下方面：

1. 哪一种是你最喜欢的交通方式；

2. 阐述你的理由。

18、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

My Favorite Season

内容需包括以下方面：

1．说明自己最喜欢的季节；

2．陈述喜欢这一季节的原因，可以描写这一季节的景色，或是记述在这一季节最让人难忘的经历。

19、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

Parents Are the Best Teachers

内容需包括以下方面：

1.你对”父母是最好的老师”的看法；

2.举例说明你的观点。

20、写作

Instructions:建议你在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

1.你生活中有哪些变化；

2.你对此的感受。

Changes in My Life

Why do we like music? Like most good questions, this one works on many levels. We have answers on some levels, but not all.

We like music because it makes us feel good. Why does it make us feel good? In 2001, neuroscientists Anne Blood and Robert Zatorre at McGill University in Montreal provided an answer. Using magnetic resonance imaging they showed that people listening to pleasurable music had activated brain regions called the limbic and paralimbic areas, which are connected to euphoric reward responses, like those we experience from sex, good food and addictive drugs. Those rewards come from a gush of a neurotransmitter called dopamine. As DJ Lee Haslam told us, music is the drug. But why? It’s easy enough to understand why sex and food are rewarded with a dopamine rush: this makes us want more, and so contributes to our survival and propagation. (Some drugs subvert that survival instinct by stimulating dopamine release on false pretences.) But why would a sequence of sounds with no obvious survival value do the same thing?

The truth is no one knows. However, we now have many clues to why music provokes intense emotions. The current favourite theory among scientists who study the cognition of music – how we process it mentally – dates back to 1956, when the philosopher and composer Leonard Meyer suggested that emotion in music is all about what we expect, and whether or not we get it. Meyer drew on earlier psychological theories of emotion, which proposed that it arises when we’re unable to satisfy some desire. That, as you might imagine, creates frustration or anger – but if we then find what we’re lo oking for, be it love or a cigarette, the payoff is all the sweeter.

This, Meyer argued, is what music does too. It sets up sonic patterns and regularities that tempt us to make unconscious predictions about what’s coming next. If we’re right, the brain gives itself a little reward –as we’d now see it, a surge of dopamine. The constant dance between expectation and outcome thus enlivens the brain with a pleasurable play of emotions.

Why should we care, though, whether our musical expectations are right o r not? It’s not as if our life depended on them. Ah, says musicologist David Huron of Ohio State University, but perhaps once it did. Making predictions about our environment –interpreting what we see and hear, say, on the basis of only partial information – could once have been essential to our survival, and indeed still often is, for example when crossing the road. And involving the emotions in these anticipations could have been a smart idea. On the African savannah, our ancestors did not have the luxury of mulling over whether that screech was made by a harmless monkey or a predatory lion. By bypassing the “logical brain” and taking a shortcut to the primitive limbic circuits that control our emotions, the mental processing of sound could prompt a rush of adrenalin – a gut reaction – that prepares us to get out of there anyway.