TOEFL 作文题目 来源于朗播用户:梁家昕
【IBT机经-13】Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: If you need to discuss upsetting or controversial problems with others, using e-mail or text messaging is better than using telephone or voice-messaging.
题目分析
翻译
你是否同意下述观点:如果你需要和他人讨论令人讨厌的或者有争议的问题,使用电子邮件或发送短信要比通电话和发送语音信息更合适。
指导
题目非常贴近人们的日常生活,因而和题目相关的例子不在少数。题目的前提条件是讨论有争议的问题,所以要围绕这件事情的特点来展开,破题的关键在于将题目拆分成三个小单元“upsetting or controversial problems(令人讨厌的或有争议的问题)”、“e-mail or text messaging(发送电子邮件或发短信)”“telephone or voice messaging(打电话或发送语音信息)”,讨论每个小单元的典型特点,加以联系即可。
1. 一般情况下,人们进行讨论会采取哪些方式,请结合具体事例分别说明?如果是你,你会采用题目中涉及到的一些方式来进行讨论吗,为什么?
回答: 人们进行讨论会使用面对面讨论,邮件,短信,电话以及利用即时聊天工具例如skype,QQ;如果是我,我会采用邮件的形式进行讨论。因为邮件是硬生生的文字形式,是始终呈现在信息传递双发的眼前,不会造成沟通当中信息点的遗漏,因为不是即时性,所以有助于讨论的思考,让问题更加深入
2. 令人讨厌的和有争议的问题有什么特点?请结合实际简述。
回答: 令人讨厌的和由争议的问题的特点在于 1.它很容易使认得情绪波动,不利于人的理性思考,阻碍问题的解决进程。比如我在学生工作当中曾经遇到过一个令所有人都讨厌谈论却又不得不谈论的问题:就是阶段性总结不足的问题,我会让我的团队互相指出团队中某些事情做的不足的地方,因为每个人的意见都不同,例如A觉得他的活动办的很好,但是B认为没有传达正确的组织形象,不符合组织文化,越是希望下个阶段停止,当他们两在一起面对面谈论这个问题的时候很容易陷入由于对方不恰当的言语激起自己的愤怒,使得恶语相向,最终无法得到很好的解决。
3. 人们一般讨论上述问题的时候会出现哪些情况?请结合实际简述,如果是你在讨论这种问题,你会选择哪种方式?你会选择上述之外的方式吗,请具体说明?
回答: 一般会出现情绪波动,不理性,把注意力从事情合理性上转移到争辩双方的人的问题上,往往让事情恶化。当采取电话等语音形式讨论的时候,情绪的起伏容易不经意的体现在语速,语气及用词上,很容易让对方曲解你的意思,正如上述例子中,B因为一个语气使A认为B对此活动不屑一顾,导致了A直接恶语相向,B原本没想表达轻蔑,听到A如是说,B也失控了。这里面给双方的思考及反应时间都太短了,双方对话就陷入了以对方服气为目的的争吵而非解决问题为目的的理性辩论。
4. 电子邮件和发短信有哪些特点?我们一般用它来解决什么问题?请结合具体事例简述。
回答: 电信邮件和短信都是以文字为载体的媒介,最大的特点是信息易于查阅且方便传播。一般它用来解决重要信息的传达的问题:例如老师向学生传达下周的某天要交论文这个信息,邮件和短信就会是很好的方式,因为学生可以事后查看时间这个重要信息; 他的缺点在于即时性比较差,无法及时获得对方的反馈,对于内容的一些观点可能会引起偏差,而这种偏差存留时间比较长,容易产生新的问题。比方说同学和老师在邮件中讨论死亡的问题,当老师在阐述为何自杀是理性的这个问题的时候没有及时说明死亡的定义,那学生在阅读邮件的时候会按照自己对死亡的定义去理解,可能他就不会认同老师的观点,而后两者会在非同一范畴内讨论一个命题,无果而终。
5. 打电话和发语音信息有哪些特点?这种方式用来讨论题目中的问题合适吗?请结合具体事例简述。
回答: 打电脑和发语音信息的特点是即时性比较强,可以获知对方短时间内的反应,对于观点和概念可以快速达成共识,有利于讨论的进行。 其次,声音的语音语调及语速暗含了很多情感信息,这些信息是文字无法表达的:如要表达“我赞成你的观点”,在文字中他就表示赞成,但如果是语音,用比较拖沓的语速就会暗示发出者并不是完全或心理情缘赞同这个观点,如果是着重发音赞成然后在句尾把音调提上去则会表达出一种轻蔑的语气,表示观点无足轻重。如果这些暗含的感情信息是需要的,那语音就显得尤为重要。但是用来讨论题目中的问题就显得不太合适。
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作文
   In our daily life, we always face a problem that what kind of communication way is more proper for the discussion. When it comes to some upsetting or controversial problems, in my opinion, using email and text messaging would be more appropriated than utilizing ways relied on voice. First of all, considering the characteristic of this kind of problem, which would easily lead to emotional expression of the conversation that is not pointed to the problem but the person, we won't have the additional choice rather than using text. Because if someone is giving a response to the things that he dislikes or is not comfortable with, he will be more probably not rational any more and turn to fight back against the debater. Here is an easy example to illustrate this. When I was the leader of a student organization in the campus, I once held a online-meeting via Skype to discuss about whether we should hold a business forum next month. When teammate A said he agrees with the idea and talked about the blueprint as well as its meaning to our organization, B totally disagreed with that claiming that it doesn't meet our purpose and value. Then the discussion turned out to be a quarrel when A feel awkward that he was not accepted by others so that he pointed out how he was unsatisfied with what B did in the last month. As we can imagine, the problem was not solved at all. However, I mark this problem in the email after the meeting and let them demonstrated their idea via e-mail. One day later, B told me that now he could understand the meaning of holding this forum and he apologized to A for his impoliteness. In this case, I think the e-mail plays a crucial role in solving this controversial problem because they can see a whole picture of each other's idea and have a lucid understanding without being pissed off by just one perspective or word. Secondly, I consider the form of texting can give both of us time in response to each other but not to waste time in thinking between the two sides when holding the phone. For an instant, once my classmates and I were have a discussion about whether suicide is rational and moral via the phone, we spent like 80% of the time on thinking and keeping silent because it takes time to come up an convincing example to demonstrate our idea especially we were just having some introductory courses of Death. If we can discuss in e-mail, we can focus more on doing research in the library and collecting idea and opinion which would make a better result. The last but not least, the text-form is easier to be recorded and communicated to others. When a teacher try to remind their student to hand on the paper next Monday, I think he will choose e-mail and message because this message which will be regarded as annoyed one by students would not be forget if students can check it in the form of text and the student can forward the mail to inform everybody who did not attend the class as well. We cannot conceal the fact that the un-instance of the message e-mail will lead to disagreement with a specific point in the discussion which can not be solved instantly so that it may be an obstacle of the discussion. However, taking all the aspect into consideration, it's still a good way to communicate with e-mail or text messaging rather than voice message especially when voice would lead to misunderstanding when people are discussing upsetting and controversial problems.
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