[老雅範文]2018年5月24日真題範文-孩子們面臨更多壓力的原因及解決辦法

題目

Children are facing more pressures nowadays from academic (educational), social and commercial perspectives. What are the causes of these pressures and what measures should be taken to reduce these pressures?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

解析&審題

本題是一個典型的「報道型」（report）作文題目，要求考生對某個現象或問題進行原因分析，並給出解決辦法。本題是一個比較新的題目。

我們需要找到題目中的關鍵詞。首先，children很關鍵，本題要求我們討論的主人公是「孩子」，因此本題最好不要過多討論大學生，更不可討論更寬泛意義上的「人」。其次，題目中已經給定了「學業」（academic）、「社會」（social）、「金錢」（commercial）三個層次的壓力，因此討論原因的時候最好都要涉及（雖然可以根據情況進行詳略選擇）。

以下是本題高分範文。

7分範文

What do you think makes children unhappy today? Researchers are pointing at the pressures from various perspectives—academic, social and commercial. While the causes of these pressures seem clear enough, there are no simple measures to reduce them.

It is easy to explain why children are facing academic, social and commercial pressures. Firstly, although as parents there are few pleasures greater than their children succeeding at school, sometimes the pressure is way too much. Parents』 unrealistically high expectations can backfire severely and end up causing their children to be unhappy. Secondly, all children have to face peer pressure in school, which is generally beneficial to kids』 growth, yet the ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its highest intensity at just the age when children tend to be so insensitive, unkind, even cruel as to purposefully make others unhappy. Thirdly, children are easily affected by advertising that attracts them to buy things they cannot possibly afford, and as a result, they may feel unhappy.

Though it is never easy to fix these feelings of unhappiness, there are possible measures to be taken to enhance the wellbeing of children who are under constant pressures. To begin with, parents have to draw a line on the expectations of their children and find out their true potentials, rather than pushing them to unrealistic limits. Meanwhile, with patience and guidance, parents should keep an eye on their children who fall victims to online pressure through social networking. Simultaneously, the authorities should do more to regulate advertising that are intended for children who are anxious to buy unnecessary things.

In conclusion, there are no easy solutions to the increasing academic, social, and commercial pressures children face today. Frankly, I am quite pessimistic because those factors that bring pressures to children are not likely to go away, at least in the foreseeable future.

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