2015.5.2 亚太区作文题解析：Should people think before they speak?

　　第一眼看到这个题，不知道为啥脑海中浮现的居然是前段闹得沸沸扬扬的 “毕福剑调侃事件”，不禁感叹这道题应景之妙。我们已经进入“互联网+” 时代，科技信息无孔不入，我们的一言一行都很容易被传播甚至放大和扭曲，所以也许“三思而后言”是必要的。

　　单就这道题目本身而言：

　　思路1

　　观点：People should think before they speak.

　　理由：Thinking more (Caution) 可以保证言语的理智，避免造成麻烦

　　论据：演讲前认真准备(Hillary竞选, Steve jobs)，谨言慎行(杨修);网络谣言，名人不当言论的负面影响, 吵架的言语暴力等

　　范文：乔布斯认真准备演讲

　　思路2

　　观点2：People shouldn't think too much before they speak

　　理由：过度思考造成游移不定，错过表达感受和想法的时机

　　论据：课堂被动发言，面对权威的过虑(乔治奥维尔1984)，小泽征尔当场指出乐曲错误等

　　类似题目：

　　Assignment： Are decisions made quickly just as good as decisions madeslowly and carefully? (2008.10)

　　6月份备考的同学要认真梳理思路和素材，扎实准备，预祝大家考出好的成绩!

　　外教范文示例: By 龚励治 (Ian Gong)

　　素材：Barack Obama; SteveJobs

　　There is value in being able to think quickly on your feet and to express authentically what’s on your mind without much forethought or filter. Reality television has capitalized on such human behavior for years and has brought much entertainment to viewers worldwide. But at significant turning points, when what people say hold so much weight that it can change the course of history, the speakers have spent a considerable amount of time revising and polishing their speeches prior to their delivery. Examples of how it is absolutely imperative to think before one speaks include the 2012United States Presidential Debates and Apple’s keynote addresses.

　　In modern-day politics, the advent of televised speeches and debates has made careful planning ever more important for politicians, whose every move is scrutinized by the public. The first 2012 Presidential Debate alone between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was watched by 67 million Americans. In preparation for these debates, the candidates met with their aides and participated in a series of mock sessions. They invited someone from their own party as a sparring partner, someone who has spent months studying up on their opponent and can faithfully mimic the role. The candidates also formed debate prep teams who helped outline for them a briefing of their positions on policies versus those of their opponents. All of the arguments were carefully crafted and refined. Every candidate recognizes the significance of presidential debates as key moments during his campaign; opportunities to either shine or burn in front of the public eye. Even so, not every debate turns out to be successful, as was seen in Romney’s comment on “binders full of women” in response to a question about equal pay for women that quickly backfired and became an Internet meme. Nevertheless, a ton of thought went into the processof planning what the candidates will say prior to these debates.

　　Many will remember the great excitement and anticipation that accompanied every keynote address given by Steve Jobs at the launch of Apple’s new products and services. In the commercial arena, Jobs’s speeches have become the standard by which companies captivated the imagination of the press and the user communities and drew attention to their products. In the biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson described how Jobs would spend hours during the night prior to the launches to revise and rehearse his speech.He would comb through every slide he was to present, test every prototype hewas to demonstrate, and perfect the cues and lighting changes. For Jobs, the keynote addresses have always been, from as early as that he gave of the AppleII 8-bit home computer back in the 1970s, a performance that could make orbreak the launch of a new product. Jobs himself was a perfectionist with areputation of being aggressive, to the degree of being belligerent, to his employees. He pushed his engineers to pursue the same level of perfection as himself and was known to berate them for not producing the desired specifications by the unrealistic deadlines that he had set. But at the keynote, where Jobs represented the face of the company, he was articulate, atease, and even charismatic. Jobs utilized the skills he has honed in his early days at start-up companies like NeXT and Pixar to bring to live a vision where various electronic gadgetries are inter connected and become one’s lifestyle. At the keynote speeches, he was meticulous with both the planning and the execution.

　　As seen in both political and commercial examples, a lot of emphasis has been placed on perfecting a speech and thinking carefully about what to say. When the words that will be uttered affect the lives of thousands, even millions, it is without a doubt necessary for presenters to have carefully thought through what they will say. There is beauty in a perfectly crafted speech that makes it memorable for decades tocome. The great orators of the past and present will be remembered for not having just delivered great speeches, but also for the time they spent planning them.

　　本文作者：

　　张卉：北京新东方美本本地项目 写作名师。

　　龚励治 (Ian Gong)：北京新东方研发中心外教，毕业于杜克大学，曾考SAT 2300分。

编辑：张雨

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