美国GRE考试作文ISSUE部分124篇真题（六）(2)

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　　114、"Imprisonment for violent crimes should be made as unpleasant as possible in order to deter potential offenders from committing such crimes."

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　　115、"People often look for similarities, even between very different things, and even when it is unhelpful or harmful to do so. Instead, a thing should be considered on its own terms; we should avoid the tendency to compare it to something else."

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　　116、"People are mistaken when they assume that the problems they confront are more complex and challenging than the problems faced by their predecessors. This illusion is eventually dispelled with increased knowledge and experience."

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　　117、"The best way to teach---whether as an educator, employer, or parent---is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones."

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　　118、" ’Moderation in all things’ is ill-considered advice. Rather, one should say, ’Moderation in most things,’ since many areas of human concern require or at least profit from intense focus."

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　　119、"Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning." ------------------------------

　　120、"Most people prefer restrictions and regulations to absolute freedom of choice, even though they might deny such a preference."

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　　121、"Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty---whether to one’s friends, to one’s school or place of employment, or to any institution---is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force."

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　　122、"Conformity almost always leads to a deadening of individual creativity and energy."

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　　123、"Much of the information that people assume is ’factual’ actually turns out to be inaccurate. Thus, any piece of information referred to as a ’fact’ should be mistrusted since it may well be proven false in the future."

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　　124、"The true value of a civilization is reflected in its artistic creations rather than in its scientific accomplishments."

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