必备：英语四六级作文常见类型--原因型作文

we often hear our children groaning under the pressure of an ever-increasing burden of their studies. (2)The schoolbags on their back are getting heavier and heavier, and the hours spent on their assignments longer and longer
(3)Why can’t their burden be relieved in spite of social protest? (4)For one thing, parents have a strong desire for the early intellectual achievement of their children. (5)They believe that if you don’t force them to read more, a golden opportunity for success will be lost and the chances of their being admitted to key schools, and then to colleges will be slim. (6)So children are under constant pressure to score high, test well, aim first. (7)For another, our teachers ally themselves with parents in applying pressure. (8)Since scores are not only the mark of success or failure for a particular students, but also a measurement of a teacher’s performance, it is natural for a teacher to assign more homework for his own sake as well as for his students. (9)Failure to produce students who win first place in school academic examinations is often seen as evidence of bad teaching.
(10)To lighten children’s academic burden is not easy, but is worth trying, for after all parents and teachers don’t want the heavy schoolbags to crush their children.
Teenager Smoking Soars
1. 描述近些年来青少年吸烟人数的变化
2. 分析造成这种情况的主要原因
3. 提出一些建议

(1)In the past 20 years China has experienced an alarming increase in teenage smoking: the number of boys who smoked rose from 6 percent in 1980 to 23 percent in 2000, and during the same years, the number of girls who smoked increased as much as 15 times. (2)The statistics look quite disturbing and cause people to ask why.
(3)The factors for a great rise in teenage smoking are complex. (4)Some attribute it to the increased standard of living which enables kids to have more pocket money, and others place the blame on cigarette advertising and the import of cigarettes, which give them easy access to Marlboros. (5)Whatever the causes, only particular external circumstances have been examined. (6)The factors, actually, are psychological as well as social. (7)Most young people begin to smoke just out of curiosity: they have a strong desire to experience the pleasure of smoking which is forbidden to them. (8)They also have a subconscious feeling that smoking will make them mature and tough and sophisticated. (9)When they light up a cigarette, and produce puffs of smoke carelessly, they are under the illusion that they are growns-up instead of kids and that they are admired rather than rejected by society.
(10)To help them get rid of such foolish ideas is the first step towards the effort to prevent children from starting to smoke, and then we may conduct a more extensive campaign to make them aware of the dreadful consequences of taking up the habit.

责任编辑:yechenglu