2016专八真题写作范文

环球时代【2016英语专八】真题写作范文

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PART V WRITING[45MIN] The following two excerpts are about Ice Bucket Challenge,an activity initiated to raise money and awareness for the disease ALS(渐冻症). From the excerpts,you can find that the activity seems to

have achieved much success,but there have also been doubt can criticism.

Write an article of NO LESS THAN300words,in which you should: Summarize the development if the ice bucket challenge activity,and then Express your opinion towards the activity,especially whether the problems found with this kind of activity will finally undermine its original purpose.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance,content sufficiency, organization and language quality.Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your article on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

Excerpt1

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Takes U.S.By Storm

In the last two weeks,the Ice Bucket ChallengeTM has quite literally “soaked”the nation.Everyone from Ethel Kennedy to Justin Timberlake has poured a bucket of ice water over his or her head and challenged others to do the same or make a donation to fight ALS within twenty-four hours.

Between July29and today,August12,the ALS Association and its38 chapters have received an astonishing$4million in donations compared

with$1.12million during the same time period last year.The ALS Association is incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from those people who have been doused,made a donation,or both.“We have never seen anything like this in the history of the disease,”said Barbara Newhouse,President and CEO of the ALS Association. With only about half of the general public knowledgeable about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS),the Ice Bucket Challenge is making a profound difference,since July29,the Association has welcome more than70,000new donors to the cause.

“While the monetary donations are absolutely incredible,”said Newhouse,“”the visibility that this disease is getting as a result of the challenge is truly invaluable.People who have never before heard of ALS are now engaged in the fight to find treatments and a cure for ALS.”

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Ice bucket challenge:who’s pouring cold water on the idea?

The ice bucket challenge has certainly raised awareness.Whether that’s primarily of the disease for which it is raising funds or the speed at which images of swimsuit-clad celebrities will go viral is a long-term question.More pertinent right now is whether or not the craze has reached a tipping point.

As it lived by social media,so the ice bucket challenge could die by it.The state of California is currently experiencing one of the worst drought on record.So gestures such as companies dousing their staff en mass in hundreds of gallons of ice water,come across more as wasteful PR exercises than charitable gestures-and are being called out as such on Twitter.

There has been a similar reaction in https://www.360docs.net/doc/ba10429160.html,st week,people in drought-stricken Henan province raised empty red buckets over their heads,accompanied by the slogan“Henan,please say no to the ice bucket challenge”.

China’s ministry for civil affairs,while broadly supportive,has warned citizens against the practice’s“entertainment and commercial tendencies”.

But the real dampener could be the risk of bodily harm.Doctors around the world have warmed of risks to elderly people,expectant mothers

and people with heart conditions.

2016专八真题写作范文（吴老师推荐）

"Soaking”the World

Means sometimes determines the destiny of ends.Ice Bucket Challenge is the latest best example of this.In order to direct the world's attention to and raise funds to cure an extremely rare,lethal disease,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),some quirks came up with a unique,dramatic and self-abusive method of pouring oneself from a buck of ice water. The result is unprecedented and https://www.360docs.net/doc/ba10429160.html,st year,with the help of the eminent victims like Hawkins,the ALS Association advanced an avenue of only$1.12million,but this year’s bucket gains$4million!

Sound and furry always come along with good things.Most opponents to the idea are from drought-stricken regions like California of United States and Henan of China.Most understandably,California is currently experiencing one of the worst droughts on record and people in Henan have been suffering from severe lack of water for perhaps over thousands of years.In some innermost areas of the province water is even treasured over oil.Another source of furry is medical personnels who have made a bulk of fuss.For them a mere bucket of water might kill elderly people,cause miscarriage for

would-be mothers and bring about heart attacks.In all these buzzes,this campaign has achieved a miracle of the result. Justine Timberlake`soaked'himself,Taylor Swift poured herself and Bruno Mars iced himself.World leaders like George W.Bush,Russian president Putin and vice president of Germany Gabriel are not idle.They waited no minute to catch the eyes of the world and posed before cameras to show their love.Accordingly,they attracted the greatest number of donors.Business celebrities are doing even more.Apart from wetting themselves to the bone,they gave money.Their contributions are remarkable making up two thirds of total $4million.

For hundreds of years,“Ends Justify Means”has been held as a creed by which people behave themselves.But today this credo can hardly apply to the Ice Bucket Challenge.Just Imagine. If we had insisted on continuing using celebrities who suffer from the disease as a token for publicity,however much efforts had been put to publicity,such a four-out-of-a hundred -thousand-probability disease can never become known throughout the world over night.So my conclusion:ends do hang upon means.《和吴中东教授学英文写作》预约热线010-********