2012年MBA英語系統復習連載：寫作技巧篇

　　寫作技巧：句型變換

　　MBA英語寫作經常是困擾MBA考生的一個障礙，且是他們容易丟分的一個項目。在MBA聯考英文考試中，作文的分數為20分， 占總分的20％。上海華宏MBA培訓中心周老師從歷年英文考試的實際情況看，MBA考生的英語作文相對于英語考試的其他幾個部分，得分一直偏低。經過觀察、分析和研究，我們認為廣大考生在這一方面的困擾主要源于他們在英文寫作的認知上存在明顯的誤區以及由此帶來的心理障礙，這種認識上的偏差和心理上的障礙嚴重地妨礙了他們寫作水平的提高。在不少人看來，寫作是一種深不可測的智力活動，他們認為寫作一定就是靈感的產物，或是將要說的話變成書面的東西。華宏MBA周老師說基于這種認識，再加上對英語語言無把握，考生在時間和心理壓力很大的情況下進行英文寫作時，經常會顯得手足無措。

　　評判作文的二個初級標準：

　　1.詞匯：用詞面的寬

　　2.結構：復雜句的量

　　3.道地：how much Chinglish

　　【Sample 1】

　　a. Reading makes us happy.

　　b. Reading is a major source of human happiness.

　　c. There is no doubt that reading is a major source of human happiness.

　　【Sample 2】

　　a. The Internet is very important in our lives and work.

　　b. The Internet is playing an increasingly important role in practically every aspect of our lives and work.

　　c. It is obvious that the Internet is playing an increasingly important role in practically every aspect of our lives and work.

　　Improved:

　　1. Many rivers are so seriously polluted that there is no fish nor clean water can be found.

　　2. Teachers play such an important role in education that their social status should be improved.

　　3. She spent much less time studying than before, which is quite typical of senior students.

　　4. In many IT companies where people work mainly with their brains, more attention must be given to sports

　　5. One essential difference between those who succeed and those who fail is the extent to which they take advantage of opportunities rather than the number of opportunities.

　　6. Teenagers, pressured by school] work and encouraged by their peers, often resort to smoking like adults, though they feel a little guilty at times.

　　7. Nuclear plants are a clean and economical way of producing vast amounts of much-needed energy, though people, especially local residents, who are very concerned about safety, hold a strong negative attitude toward them.

　　8. Despite soaring tuition fees and room-and-board charges, getting their children into college continues to be the goal of millions of Chinese people who think higher education will bring them a good job.

　　9. The US fast-food business, one of the most advanced in the world, has brought China benefits that go beyond providing consumers with more choice.

　　10-a. The pressure of land is forcing more homes to be built on the land once covered with trees and farmland.

　　10-b. Natural vegetation and even farmland is removed to make room for more houses due to the scarcity of land.

　　Directions: Learn to develop.

　　Living in city center is becoming is becoming not attractive. The first reason is that the house price keeps increasing, so more and more people can’t buy apartment house in the city center and have to move to the suburbs. The second reason is that the city is full of traffic, it is noisy and dirty.

　　Improved:

　　It is obvious that living in the city center is becoming less attractive. For one thing, the soaring prices of housing in the city centers force more and more people to move to the suburbs, as they cannot afford to live in downtown. For another, the city centers – now full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, and torn by the roar of buses and lorries – are increasingly perceived as undesirable in the eyes of working people.