GRE作文题目：教育目的

 　　Educational institutions should actively¹ encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative² careers. 　　教育机构应该积极鼓励学生选择那些为将来高收入工作铺路的研究领域。 　　The arguer asserts that most people choose a career not on the basis of his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work but only on pragmatic considerations. As far as I am concerned, I concede that there are quite a few of people choose a career on pragmatic considerations in this pragmatic world. However, there are still so many individuals choose a career based on their natural talents and interest. In addition, natural talents and interest not always conflict with pragmatic considerations. 　　1. Admittedly, many people choose a career on the basis of pragmatic considerations such as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make, which is reasonable in today’s society: 　　1) To earn a living 　　2) To get fortune, fame, and promotion³. 　　3) To further develop the interest: Only when one’s living is under security could one have the freedom to choose what he likes or interest in. 　　2. However, the author has made an over-generalization in regards to factors determining career seeking when he or she claims that people choose their jobs only based on such pragmatic concerns as expected salary rather than their talents or interests. If this was generally true, why so many people work in the unprofitable occupations. We can see that there are certainly someone is free to choose a career based on their natural talents or interest regardless of pragmatic considerations. 　　1) Many scholars are living a poor life 　　2) Many scientists dedicate themselves to the improvement for the better conditions of human being, caring little about the feedback 　　3) Many artists, such as musicians and painters. 　　3. Furthermore, these two aspects are actually not contradictory⁴: one might be able to choose a care

　　eer based on individual interest or natural talents, as well as the decent pay. 　　1) Take NBA players as an instance. Getting pragmatic rewards such as money, is not an end, but rather a means of obtaining mental content and of attaining⁵ important goals. 　　Conclusion: 　　The most reasonable way of decision making concerning career seeking is to best fulfill⁶ one's pragmatic concerns without violating one's value, talent and interests. If we cannot fulfill both, we must choose the one which we concern much more than the other.

1 actively   

adv.积极地，勤奋地

参考例句：

• During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
• We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。

2 lucrative   

adj.赚钱的，可获利的

参考例句：

• He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
• It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。

3 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

4 contradictory   

adj.反驳的，反对的，抗辩的；n.正反对，矛盾对立

参考例句：

• The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。
• What he said was self-contradictory.他讲话前后不符。

5 attaining   

（通常经过努力）实现( attain的现在分词 )； 达到； 获得； 达到（某年龄、水平、状况）

参考例句：

• Jim is halfway to attaining his pilot's licence. 吉姆就快要拿到飞行员执照了。
• By that time she was attaining to fifty. 那时她已快到五十岁了。

6 fulfill   

vt.履行，实现，完成；满足，使满意

参考例句：

• If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了，你就要履行你的诺言。
• This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。