2022年英语四级写作美文赏析（汇总）

　　Modern American University

　　Before the 1850s, the United States had a number of small colleges,most of them dating from colonial days.They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.Meanwhile, throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed.In German university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals.Between mid-century and the end of the 1800s,more than nine thousand young Americans,dissatisfied with their training at home,went to Germany for advanced study.Some of them return to become presidents of venerable colleges —Harvard, Yale, Columbia — and transform them into modern universities.

　　The new presidents broke all ties with the churches and brought in a new kind of faculty.Professors were hired for their knowledge of a subject,not because they were of the proper faith and had a strong arm for disciplining students.Drilling and memorizing were replaced by the German method of lecturing,in which the professors own research was presented in class.With the establishment of the seminar system,graduate student learned to question, analyze, and conduct their own research.At the same time,the new university greatly expanded in size and course offerings,breaking completely out of the old,constricted curriculum of mathematics, classics, rhetoric, and music.

　　The president of Harvard pioneered the selective system,by which students were able to choose their own course of study.The notion of major fields of study emerged.The new goal was to make the university relevant to the real pursuits of the world.Paying close attention to the practical needs of society,the new universities trained men and women to work at its tasks,with engineering students being the most characteristic of the new system.Students were also trained as economists, architects,agriculturalists, social welfare workers, and teachers.

2022年英语四级写作美文赏析（汇总）

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作文地带知识拓展:

• 英语（English）属于印欧语系日耳曼语族西日耳曼语支，最早被中世纪的英国使用，并因其广阔的殖民地而成为世界使用面积最广的语言。英国人的祖先盎格鲁部落是后来迁移到大不列颠岛地区的日耳曼部落之一，称为英格兰。这两个名字都来自波罗地海半岛的Anglia。该语言与弗里斯兰语和下撒克森语密切相关，其词汇受到其他日耳曼语族语言的影响，尤其是北欧语（北日耳曼语），并在很大程度上由拉丁文和法文撰写。

  英语的英文释义：

  English 名词 uk  /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ us  /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/

  the language that is spoken in the UK, the US, and in many other countries

  英语

  American/British English

  美式／英式英语

  Do you speak English?

  你会说英语吗？

  English   形容词 adjective   uk  /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ us  /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/

  in or relating to the English language

  英语的

  an English teacher

  英语老师

  relating to or from England

  英格兰的;英国的

  English films/food/people

  英国电影／食品／人

  English law

  英格兰法律