Question

阅读下面的文字，用英语写一篇120—150词的短文。

北京大学儿童青少年卫生研究所的一项调查显示，中学生17.4%想过自杀，20.2%情绪抑郁；还有中学生超过70%睡眠不足，近视率逐年攀升……青少年的身心健康和创新精神，在某些学校教育者看来，早已让位于升学率。

基于以上材料，谈谈你对省教育厅推进素质教育“把时间还给学生，把健康还给学生，把能力还给学生”的看法。

注意：

1．不能逐句翻译所给材料内容。

2．参考词汇：素质教育quality – oriented education/essential – qualities – oriented schooling

Answer 1

    According to the statistics above, we can obviously see that many high school students are now suffering from serious mental and physical problems owing to examination-oriented education.

As a student, I’m all in favor of the timely decision made by our responsible government. The promotion of essential – qualities – oriented schooling can do a lot of good to us students. In the influence of examination – oriented education, we didn’t even have enough time to sleep, let alone physical training, which is particularly useful in developing our character. Now, however, we can benefit a lot from “returning time, health as well as competence to the students.”

It goes without saying that only by practicing the national educational principle, can we young generation have the innovative spirit and practical ability to meet future challenges. People usually say “Knowledge is power.” But in my viewpoint, the ability to properly use knowledge is real power.