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第一题：2013年10月
Prompt: Everything a public figure or celebrity says or does is likely to turn up on an Internet site or a television show. The great appeal of these sites and shows is that they help us learn as much as possible about public figures. The more we know about political candidates, for example, the more informed we are as voters.Much of the information, however, is irrelevant and actually prevents us from focusing on the issues that matter.
Assignment: Does having too much information about public figures distract us from the important issues?
第二题：2013年10月
Prompt: Privacy was once valued and protected. Diaries came with locks to keep the writer’s privately recorded thoughts from being read by others. Public telephones were enclosed in booths so that conversations would not be overheard. But now people feel free to post information about themselves on social networking web sites and carry on cell phone conversations in public places. We would be much better off if we valued privacy—our own and that of others—far more highly than we do.
Assignment: Do we place too little value on privacy?
第三题：2013年6月
Prompt: Thanks to the Internet, people have more access to more information than at any other time in history. People can instantly find information on almost any topic in the time it takes to type a couple of words and click a mouse. But we often know so little about the source of this information, including its reliability and the qualifications of the person who wrote it. If we do not know its source, information is not much good to us.
Assignment: Do people need to know the source of any information before they use it?
第四题：2011年10月
Prompt: The making of illusions–misleading images or ideas that appear to be authentic or true–has become the primary business of our society. Included in this category are not only the false promises made by advertisers and politicians but all of the activities which supposedly inform, comfort, and improve us, such as the work of our best writers and our most influential leaders. These promises and activities only encourage people to have unrealistic expectations and to ignore facts.
Adapted from Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image
Assignment: Are people overly influenced by unrealistic claims and misleading images?
第五题：2011年3月
Prompt: Photographs are very much a part of our daily lives. They show us faraway places, things tobuy, important people and happenings, and sometimes just the ordinary. These pictures seem like frozen moments of real life. Cameras do copy what is infront of the lens, and so, in that sense, photographs show us what is real.They are at the same time, however, creations of the artist's intentions and unconscious mind.
Adapted from Leslie Sills,In Real Life: Six Women Photographers
Assignment:Are photographs straightforward representations of real life, or are they artistic creations reflecting the photographer's point of view?
第六题：2010年10月
Prompt: I spent some part of every year at the farm until I was twelve or thirteen years old. The life that I led there was full of charm and so is the memory of it yet. I can call back the faint odors of wild flowers, the sheen of rain-washed foliage, the clatter of raindrops when the wind shook the trees,and the far-off hammering of woodpeckers. I can call back the prairie—and its loneliness and peace.
Adapted from Mark Twain, My Autobilography
Assignment: Is it important for people to spend time outdoors and to learn to appreciate the natural environment?
第七题 ：2010年1月
Prompt: There are books that try to show the world as it is and books that try to show the world as it should or could be. Which sort of books should webe offering children and reading ourselves? One answer is the argument for the value of truth, for “telling it like it is.” Writers could promote certain positiveideals by being less realistic, but all of us—especially children—have a right to be told the truth.
Adapted from Claudia Mills, The Ethics of Representation: Realism and Idealism in Children’s Fiction.
Assignment: Should books portray the world as it is or as it should be?
第八题：2009年10月
Prompt: Good news is,for the most part, no news. It is not sufficiently compelling or important to make leading stories and front pages in the media, certainly not as often as bad news. Bad news sells, or so it seems from the books, newspapers, and television reports that fill our lives. But in this endless focus on the bad,the media present a distorted view of th
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e world.Adapted from Richard B. McKenzie, The Paradox of Progress: Can Americans Regain Their Confidence in a Prosperous Future?
Assignment: Do books, newspapers, and other media focus too much on bad news?
第九题：2009年10月
Prompt: Both in society and in our own lives, today's problems are serious and require serious solutions. Increasingly, however, people are taught to laugh at things that aren't usually funny and to cope with difficult situations by using humor. They are even advised to surround themselves with funny people. There is strong evidence that laughter can actually improve health and help fight disease.
Adapted from Marshall Brain, How Laughter Works
Assignment:Is using humor the best way to approach difficult situations and problems?
第十题：2007年1月
Prompt: The education people receive does not occur primarily in school. Young people are formed by their experiences with parents, teachers, peers, and even strangers on the street, and by the sports teams they play for, the shopping malls they frequent, the songs they hear, and the shows they watch. Schools, while certainly important, constitute only a relatively small part of education.
Adapted from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “Education for the Twenty-First Century”
Assignment: Is education primarily the result of influences other than school?