Section IV Writing(40 points)

Part A

66. For this part, you are required to write a letter to the president of your university. You should write at least 100 words according to the outline given below in Chinese. Do not sign your name at the end of your letter. Use “Wang Lin” instead. You do not need to write the address. （本题分值：20分）

假设你是一个大学二年级学生，学校向学生征求建议，你向校长写信提出两点建议：
1. 学校教学应该注重学生学习方法的培养。
2. 学校应该丰富学生的校园生活。

【参考答案】
Some Suggestions to the President of Our University
Dear Sir:
I’ve been here for two years. I am very satisfied with my university, but it does not follow that there is no room for improvement.
First, I believe a better job can be done with respect to the guidance of our study methods. Although university students have the ability to study independently, sometimes when we try to choose good books to read and appropriate topics for our research we still feel at a loss. We need someone to give us some advice. If you could arrange more lectures on “how to learn by yourself” for us, especially for the freshmen, it will do much good to our study. Second, more activities should be arranged to make our campus life more interesting. I’m sorry to say that at present life on campus is quite boring. Everyday we have classes, read in the library, or stay in the dormitory. Life becomes a routine. We need more meaningful activities organized to cheer us up and make our study more efficient. I hope you can consider my suggestions.
Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Wang Lin

Part B

67. Read the following material and write a short essay of about 120 words under the title “Should Men Be Forced by Law to Do Half the Housework?” （本题分值：20分）

The Austrian parliament will shortly be considering a draft law designed to compensate women after a divorce if their former husbands never helped them with the housework.
Last week the German Green Party went even further, demanding a new law to make couples share the chores fifty if both partners were at work. The German paper Bild said a third of German women did all the housework on their own.
Academics here in Britain talked of reversing what they called the “Allerednic effect”—that’s “Cinderella” backwards—in which a prince marries a princess and turns her into a scullery maid.
So is it time for men to clean up their act? Or should the lawmakers leave it all well alone?

【参考答案】
Should Men Be Forced by Law to Do Half the Housework?

It is really ridiculous that the Australian parliament was to lay down a law to force human being to do the housework. I can’t reason out anything to explain that a government should meddle in the family life. In my opinion, nobody can divide equally the housework into two parts and tell what a man or a woman should do in a family.
Husband and Wife, enjoying the same right in a family, give their deep-seated love to each other. On the one hand, Wife has no obligation to shoulder the heavy burden of all the housework. Neither does Husband. On the other hand, if they deal with the housework as the businessman does in a market, the family will come to its end. When one is at home, the other is still working outside, why doesn’t he or she prepare everything for him or her and give him or her a sense of having a family? Why not comfort him or her if he or she comes back exhaustedly? Why do you just force Husband to do half? Why not the whole if he is free? If he loves his wife, is it necessary to force him? Therefore, it is not reasonable for any institution to interfere in a private life. It is not necessary to force husband to do half of housework.