刘文勇GRE写作百日题库 Day 140

Day 140 Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study

Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Others believe that universities should not force students to take any courses other than those that will help prepare them for jobs in their chosen fields.

Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.

【本题与Day 13、Day 46、Day 70、Day 102、Day 112相似】

五问：

可参考Day 13的思考路径

翻译练习：

没人比你自己更了解自己：最大化地利用你的优势，找到方法弥补你的缺点。因此，每个人都应该被给予自己做选择的自由。当比尔·盖茨年轻时，他被期望成为像他父亲那样的律师，且事实上他也进入了哈佛大学，成为一名法律专业的学生。但是，如果他的父母在他最终选择辍学的时候没有尊重他的决定，他可能最终只会成为一名普通的律师。

参考答案：

No one can know you better than do you yourself: making best use of your strengths, finding ways to make up for your weaknesses. Therefore, everyone should be given the freedom to make his/her own choices. When he was young, Bill Gates was expected to become a lawyer like his father, and he actually went into Harvard as a law student. Yet if his parents had not respected his decision when he finally chose to drop out of the university, he may have ended up as a mediocre lawyer.