Question

閱讀下面的文字，用英語寫一篇120—150詞的短文。

北京大學兒童青少年衛生研究所的一項調查顯示，中學生17.4%想過自殺，20.2%情緒抑郁；還有中學生超過70%睡眠不足，近視率逐年攀升……青少年的身心健康和創新精神，在某些學校教育者看來，早已讓位于升學率。

基于以上材料，談談你對省教育廳推進素質教育“把時間還給學生，把健康還給學生，把能力還給學生”的看法。

注意：

1．不能逐句翻譯所給材料內容。

2．參考詞匯：素質教育quality – oriented education/essential – qualities – oriented schooling

Answer 1

    According to the statistics above, we can obviously see that many high school students are now suffering from serious mental and physical problems owing to examination-oriented education.

As a student, I’m all in favor of the timely decision made by our responsible government. The promotion of essential – qualities – oriented schooling can do a lot of good to us students. In the influence of examination – oriented education, we didn’t even have enough time to sleep, let alone physical training, which is particularly useful in developing our character. Now, however, we can benefit a lot from “returning time, health as well as competence to the students.”

It goes without saying that only by practicing the national educational principle, can we young generation have the innovative spirit and practical ability to meet future challenges. People usually say “Knowledge is power.” But in my viewpoint, the ability to properly use knowledge is real power.