GRE写作部分将重点考察考生有针对性地对具体考题做出反应的能力，而非要求考生堆砌泛泛的文字。具体说来，这些重点关注的能力包括：1、 清楚有效地阐明复杂观点；2、 用贴切的事理和事例支撑观点；3、考察/验证他人论点及其相关论证；4、支撑一个有针对性的连贯的讨论；5、控制标准书面英语的各个要素。写作部分将联合考察逻辑推理和分析写作两种技能，并且将加大力度引进那些需要考生做出有针对性的回应的考题，降低考生依赖事前准备（如背诵）的材料的可能性。
Although the speaker's assertion has some merit when it comes to the education of young
people, I find it erroneous when it comes to higher education. The mission of our colleges and
universities is to afford students cultural perspective and a capacity for understanding
opposing viewpoints, and to encourage and nurture the skills of critical analysis and
skepticism--not to indoctrinate students with certain ideas while quashing others. Admittedly,
colleges and universities are bureaucracies and therefore not immune to political influence
over what is taught and what is not. Thus to some extent a college's curriculum is vulnerable to
wealthy and otherwise influential benefactors, trustees, and government agencies who by
advancing the prevailing cultural agenda serve to diminish a college's effectiveness in carrying
out its true mission. Yet, my intuition is that that such influences are minor ones, especially in
public university systems.
The speaker's assertion is also problematic in that it ignores two significant other means by
which our culture perpetuates ideas it favors and discredits ideas it fears. One such means is
our system of laws, by which legislators and jurists formulate and then impose so-called
"public policy." Legislation and judicial decisions carry the weight of law and the threat of
punishment for those who deviate from that law. As a result, they are highly effective means of
forcing on us official notions of what is good for society and for quashing ideas that are
deemed threatening to the social fabric, and to the safety and security of the government and
the governed. A second such means is the mainstream media. By mirroring the culture's
prevailing ideas and values, broadcast and print media serve to perpetuate them. It is
important to distinguish here between mainstream media-such as broadcast television--and
alternative media such as documentary films and non-commercial websites, whose typical
aims are to call into question the status quo, expose the hypocrisy and unfair bias behind
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mainstream ideas, and bring to light ideas that the powers-that-be most fear. Yet, the influence
of alternative media pales in comparison to that of mainstream media.
In sum, the speaker's assertion is not without merit when it comes to the role of grade
schools and high schools. However, the speaker over-generalizes about what students are
taught--especially at colleges and universities. Moreover, the speaker's assertion ignores other
effective ways in which mainstream culture perpetuates its agenda.
Issue 40
"In many countries it is now possible to turn on the television and view government at work.
Watching these proceedings can help people understand the issues that affect their lives. The
more kinds of government proceedings---trials, debates, meetings, etc.---that are televised,
the more society will benefit."
I strongly agree that the more government proceedings--debates, meeting, and so
forth---that are televised, the more society will benefit overall. Nevertheless, undue emphasis
on this means of informing a constituency has the potential for harm--which any society must
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