2013硕士研究生考研讲义英语强化班3.docVIP

第二节 图画类作文部分 （1）2010年考研英语短文写作真题 52. Directions: Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should describe the drawing briefly, explain its intended meaning, and give your comments. You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points) 文化“火锅”，既美味又营养 参考范文 What an interesting drawing in front of us! A hot pot is symbolically depicted in it by the painter. More interestingly, this hot pot has been given a beautiful name: “Culture hot pot”. As is shown in the picture, there are many delicious and nutritious cultural elements in this “Culture hot pot”, such as Confucianism, Peking Opera, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Swan Lake ballet. With the help of the Chinese description below the drawing, we know that, while experiencing the inevitable cultural exchanges as well as cultural clashes, people from diversified cultural backgrounds are seeking to exist in harmony. Thanks to the means of modern transportation and communication, the world is getting smaller and smaller. Nowadays, the whole world community appears to be no more than a large globe village where the residents with different cultural backgrounds and values come together. It is an obvious fact that, in this modern world, the cultural progress has never been an isolated phenomenon of any one culture but the product of the frequent exchanges with other cultures. Of course, some people are worried that culture fusion will result in the loss of our own culture. Different cultures, in fact, can absorb and influence from one another through cultural exchange. It has become an undeniable fact that cultural exchange is by no means a process of losing our own culture, but one of enriching a nations own culture. Therefore, it enables us to bear our own national features wile exchanging with other cultures. All in all, we can come to the conclusion that cultural exchange has become an indispensable part of the modern society. For one thing, the cultural exchange offers us a rare