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【教育类】

People are now easier to become educated than in the past. Do you agree or disagree 现代人比过去更加容易接受教育，是否认同? (2016年11月26日= 2010年10月30日)

【写作立场】

我认为：现代人接受教育的方式更加多元化，父母更加重视子女的教育，国家也加大了对于教育的支持力度，因此，现代人比过去更加容易接受教育。

【思路拓展】

为何现在人更加容易接受教育

网络教育的出现和流行，使人们接受教育的选择更加多元化，网络教育适应了特殊的学习群体，例如生病的学生，残疾的学习者，繁忙的企业职员。

对比过去，政府加大了对于教育的扶持力度。例如，更多的国家开始推广免费的基础教育，大学教育，这就使愈来愈多人有机会接受良好的教育，尤其是贫困家庭的孩子，或者是来自偏远地区的孩子。

对比过去，很多父母更加重视孩子的教育，他们认为教育是一种投资，可以改变孩子的人生命运。例如，很多工薪阶层的家庭，父母可能没有接受大学， 一定要供孩子们读完大学。

【原创语料】

【背景介绍】

1. Education is one of the key concepts of our time，a man without education, many of us believe, is the victim of adversity. 教育是我们时代的理念之一，一个没有受过教育的人，我们很多人认为，是逆境的牺牲者。

2. Education has a key role to play in one's personal growth and a nation's further development. 教育在个人成长和国家的发展中发挥了重要的重要。托福算分

〖解析〗 has a key role to play in  … 在……方面可以发挥重要的重要

3. It seems easier for people to get well-educated in the present day society. 当今社会，似乎人们更加容易接受良好的教育。

【争议焦点】

1. People differ greatly in their views over whether people are easier to get educated than before. 关于是否人们比过去更加容易接受教育，人们的观点差异很大。

〖拓展〗get well-educated = receive fine education 接受良好的教育

【写作立场】

1. As I see it, it is much easier for modern people to receive education in comparison with the past. 我认为，对比过去，现在人更加容易接受教育。

2. In conclusion, it is indeed easier for modern people to receive good education because of the availability of diverse mode of education, the assistance from governments and the increase of family income. 总之，现在人接受良好的教育确实是更加容易，因为人们可以利用各种教育的模式，因为政府支持教育，因为家庭收入的增加。

【论据语料】

1. The Internet greatly diversifies people's option of receiving education. 互联网使得人们接受教育的选择更加多元化。

〖拓展〗diversify = enrich v. 使多样化

2. With the popularity of online education, people could acquire and update knowledge via drawing on rich on-line educational resource. 由于网络教育的流行，人们可以通过利用丰富的在线教育资源，学习知识，不断充电。

〖解析〗update knowledge  充电(学习)

3. Distance education is highly convenient, because learners can be free to take any suitable courses through an online course selection system. 远程教育高度便利，因为学习者可以通过在线的选课系统，自由选择适合自己的课程。

4. It can effectively surmount geographical barrier and improve the flexibility of learning, thereby, many learners in remote areas have access to fine teaching resources. 网络教育有效地克服了地域的障碍，提高了学习的灵活性，因此，很多偏远地区的学习者也有机会获得良好的教育资源。

〖解析〗effectively surmount geographical barrier 有效地克服地域的障碍

5. In this sense, distance learning provide people with more opportunities to receive adequate education, some special learning group, such as disabled learners, ill students or busy employees, could serve as perfect examples. 因此，远程学习给人们提供了更多的机会去接受良好的教育，一些特殊的学习群体，例如残疾学习者，生病的学生，忙碌的企业职员都是很好接受网络教育的例证。

6. In addition to the availability of various cyber educational resources, the state support in education is another stimulating factor that facilitates various educations. 除了各种在线网络教育资源，国家在教育方面的支持是另外一个因素，对于各种教育提供便利。

〖解析〗facilitate v. 使容易；有助于……

7. Education is the driving force of productivity, in this sense, governments of many developed and developing country attach great importance to the instruction. 教育是生产力的驱动力，因此，很多发达国家和发展中国家的政府高度重视教育。

〖拓展〗attach great importance to = lay more stress on = give priority to  更加重视……

8. Thanks to the support from the government such as popularizing free elementary education or promoting the salary of teachers, more and more people have access to fine education, especially for those who coming from poverty-stricken families or remote rural areas. 因为政府支持，例如普及免费的基础教育或者是提高教育者的薪水，很多人有机会接受良好的教育，尤其是对于那些来自贫困的家庭或者是遥远的乡村地区。

〖解析〗thanks to 多亏了

9. Past several decades witnessed obvious multiplication of family income, which enables those who cannot afford high tuition fees of university to receive higher education. 过去很多年，人们的家庭收入增加，这使得很多不能支付大学教育的人有机会接受高等教育。

10. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of people begin to recognize the significance of education and the pleasure of life-long learning that is why so many training organizations has sprung up overnight. 同时，很多人认识到教育的意义和终身学习的乐趣，这就是为何很多的培训机构一夜之间涌现出来。

〖解析〗increasing numbers of 越来越多的

11. Even those retired old men now have more opportunities to develop their personal interest by means of selecting their favorite training courses. 即使是退休的老人现在也有更多的机会通过选择自己喜爱的培训课程发展自己的个人兴趣。

〖拓展〗indeed adv. 确实

【作者简介】

薛鹏：(新浪微博：雅思小鹏哥)，吉林大学英语硕士，前新东方功勋教师，长春作家协会会员，新东方网雅思频道、托福频道专栏作家。著有 《小鹏哥雅思写作高分语料库》（清华大学出版社），现独创小鹏哥英语工作室。