三、流行文化类:信息爆炸

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay about the impact of the information explosion by referring to the saying “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” You can give examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you can do to avoid being distracted by irrelevant information. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

预测范文

It is apparent that we are living in an era of information explosion. There is a famous remark that “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention”. People in mounting
   numbers complain that they are lost in the information age.
It is true that the new information age has brought us so much convenience that we are

allowed to get plenty of information just with a simple click sitting in front of the computers. Unfortunately, we are also distracted, confused and annoyed by an incredibly large quantity of information. A case in point is that there are so many advertisements on the Internet that we are easily distracted by the irrelevant information of the target website. Again, when searching for something online, people are easily misguided by irrelevant information and forget their original plan.

Briefly speaking, it is imperative for us to use the Internet in a reasonable way and restrain from overindulgence. After all, the Internet is invented to connect you and me, to bring conveniences to our life rather than set a barrier to keep people misguided and distracted.

参考译文

显而易见，我们生活在一个信息爆炸的时代。有句话说“信息过于丰富会分散注意力”。 越来越多的人抱怨说他们在信息时代迷失了自己。

新的信息时代确实给我们带来了很多方便，以至于我们只是坐在电脑前轻轻点击一下， 就可以获得大量信息。不幸的是，我们也被难以置信的大量信息所分散注意力，变得困惑烦 恼。一个恰当的例子就是互联网上有这么多广告，以至于我们很容易就被目标网站上的无关 信息分散了注意力。又如，当我们在线搜索时，人们总是很容易地被无关信息误导，忘记了原来的计划。

简单地说，我们必须以合理的方式使用互联网，避免过度沉迷。毕竟，人们发明互联 网是为了联系你和我，给我们的生活带来方便而非设置障碍使人们被误导并分散注意力。

道长点评

本文首段应该通过名言引出主题，表达自己的观点。第二段应该通过举例论证阐明信息 过于丰富会分散注意力。第三段应为建议措施段，关于如何避免被无关信息分散注意力提出 具体的建议。值得注意的是，国内写作考试曾经考察过类似话题。2009 年，考研写作曾经 考察“网络的近与远”;2009 年 MBA 写作考试考察“手机短信”。两篇文章中诸多表达均可使用。

亮点词汇

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句型拓展

1. A good many people admit that they are too much addicted to Internet to maintain wholesome and regular lifestyle. 许多人承认他们太沉迷于网络而无法保持健康和有规律的生活方式。2. Once indulged in the fictitious world, people feel reluctant to approach others and to concentrate on real life. 一旦沉迷于这种虚幻世界，人们不愿接近他人并关注现实生活。

3. That's why some people have lost the skill of direct contact and get alienated from others.

这就是一些人丧失了直接沟通技能并与他人疏远的原因。