题目内容
【题目】假定你是李华，你校将举办太极拳（Tai Chi）比赛。请写封邮件邀请你的英国朋友James参加，内容包括：
1. 比赛时间；
2. 活动安排；
3. 表达期待。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当添加细节，以使行文连贯。
【答案】Dear James,
How is everything going? Learning that you are interested in Chinese Kongfu, I am writing to invite you to enjoy a Tai Chi competition organized by our school.
The competition, scheduled to be held at the stadium at 9:00 next Saturday, is a must-see for any enthusiast of Chinese Kongfu. As planned, there will be an opening ceremony when a short video about the history and development of Tai Chi will be introduced. Later on, the exciting competition will be conducted, when we can watch the Tai Chi players fighting with each other. As far as I know, the members of the Tai Chi club in our school will be part of the competition. I cannot wait to enjoy it.
Should you be available, I strongly suggest you come to learn more about Tai Chi and enjoy the competition. Looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
【解析】
本文书面表达为应用文，要求李华写邮件邀请James参加太极比赛。
第一步：审题
1.体裁：邀请涵
2.人称：第一人称
3.时态：一般将来时，一般现在时
4.要点：
①写作背景和写作目的
②比赛时间，活动安排
③表示期待
第二步：列要点 写提纲
Para. 1 be interested in...; invite sb to do sth;
Para. 2 be scheduled to be held …; a must; will be introduced; conduct a competition; watch sb doing sth; can’t wait to do sth
Para. 3 be available; learn more about sth
第三步：连词成句
1. You are interested in Chinese Kongfu.
2. I am writing to invite you to enjoy a Tai Chi competition organized by our school.
3. The competition is scheduled to be held at the stadium at 9:00 next Saturday and it is a must-see for any enthusiast of Chinese Kongfu.
4. There will be an opening ceremony when a short video about the history and development of Tai Chi will be introduced.
5. The exciting competition will be conducted, and we can watch the Tai Chi players fighting with each other.
6. The members of the Tai Chi club in our school will be part of the competition.
7. I suggest you come to learn more about Tai Chi and enjoy the competition.
第四步：润色提高
1.添加交际表达
开头添加寒暄用语：How is everything going?
结尾添加期待回复：Looking forward to your reply.
2.增加句子之间的连贯性
As planned, there will be an opening ceremony when a short video about the history and development of Tai Chi will be introduced.
Later on, the exciting competition will be conducted, when we can watch the Tai Chi players fighting with each other.
As far as I know, the members of the Tai Chi club in our school will be part of the competition. I cannot wait to enjoy it.
3. 使用高级表达
Learning that you are interested in Chinese Kongfu, I am writing to invite you to enjoy a Tai Chi competition organized by our school.
The competition, scheduled to be held at the stadium at 9:00 next Saturday, is a must-see for any enthusiast of Chinese Kongfu.
Should you be available, I strongly suggest you come to learn more about Tai Chi and enjoy the competition.
第五步：漂亮书写
【题目】请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意:每个空格只填一个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。
To keep the creative juices flowing, employees should be receptive to criticism
Researchers have been curious about whether negative feedback really makes people perform better, particularly when it comes to completing creative tasks. The literature has been mixed about this. In a recent investigation, Kim, who in May will join the Cambridge Judge Business School as an assistant professor, observed –– through a field experiment and a lab experiment –– and reported on how receiving negative feedback might impact the creativity of the recipients(接受者).
In both studies, Kim found that negative feedback can inspire or prevent creative thinking. What is most important is where the criticism comes from. When creative professionals or participants received criticism from a boss or a peer, they tended to be less creative in their subsequent work. Interestingly, if an individual received negative feedback from an employee of lower rank, they benefited from it and became more creative.
Some aspects of these findings seem intuitive(凭直觉的). “It makes sense that employees might feel threatened by criticism from their managers,” says Kim. “Supervisors have a lot of influence in deciding promotions or pay raises. So negative feedback from a boss might cause career anxieties.” It also stands to reason that feedback from a co-worker might also be received as threatening because we often compete with our peers for the same promotions and opportunities.
When we feel that pressure from above or from our peers, we tend to fixate on the stressful aspects of it and end up being less creative in our future work, says Kim.
What Kim found most surprising was how negative feedback from their followers (employees that they manage) made supervisors more creative.
“It’s a bit counterintuitive(反直觉的) because we tend to believe we shouldn’t criticize the boss,” says Kim. “In reality, most supervisors are willing to receive negative feedback and learn from it. It’s not that they enjoy criticism –– rather, they are in a natural power position and can cope with the discomfort of negative feedback better.”
The key takeaways: bosses and coworkers need to be more careful when they offer negative feedback to someone they manage or to their peers. And feedback recipients need to worry less when it comes to receiving criticism, says Kim.
“The tough part of being a manager is pointing out a follower’s poor performance or weak points. But it’s a necessary part of the job,” says Kim. “If you’re a supervisor, just be aware that your negative feedback can hurt your followers’ creativity. Followers tend to receive negative feedback personally. Therefore, keep your feedback specific to tasks. Explain how the point you’re discussing relates to only their task behavior, not to aspects of the person.”
In short, anyone who wants to offer negative feedback on the job should do so attentively and sensitively and to promote creativity at work, we should all be receptive to criticism from supervisors, peers and followers.
To keep the creative juices flowing, employees should be receptive to criticism | |
Introduction to the topic | Experiments are conducted to find out whether negative feedback 【1】 people’s performance or not. |
Negative feedback can inspire or hold back creativity, 【2】 on where the criticism comes from. | |
【3】 of the study | Criticism from a boss or a peer 【4】 creativity, while negative feedback from lower rank employees will be 【5】. |
Our work is greatly influenced by our supervisors, so their criticism might bring about anxieties. | |
【6】 for the phenomena | We compete with our peers for the same opportunities, thus feeling 【7】 by their negative feedback. |
Supervisors are in a favourable 【8】 and can learn from their followers’ negative feedback. | |
Enlightenment from the study | When offering criticism to followers or peers, bosses and coworkers need to keep it 【9】 to their tasks. |
Recipients should adopt a positive 【10】 towards others’ criticism. | |