· My father is a laid-off worker and cannot people and so am I. find a job. But I don’t think the same thing · A person with very low IQ can never will happen to me because I’m more become a scientist no matter how hard talented than my father. study for tests? he/she tries. why I lack imagination. · If heredity is more important, why do we · Both my parents are practical, and that’s · The son of a thief is not necessarily a thief. · A person without a ―music gene‖ can never · A scientist is not born to be a scientist and be a musician. their children aren’t necessarily curious and · My parents are taciturn and so am I. creative.
Part Four Writing and Translation
1. Translation Practice
在全球范围内实行计划生育的困难之一在于各国政府对人口控制的态度各不相同，取决于一个国家的工业发展水平以及可利用的食物和原材料。在一个发展中国家，急剧增加的人口对食物、空间以及自然资源造成极大的压力，那么政府会不计后果，首先关心的就是限制人口。在一个高度工业化的国家，问题可能会更加复杂。出生率降低会导致失业，因为降低了的出生率会使制造品市场萎缩。当人口对住房的压力减小时，房价会降低，建筑业就会因此疲软。面临这样一些考虑，发展中国家的政府可能会希望本国的人口呈渐长趋势，而不是保持稳定或下降。
2. Writing Sample 1
I both benefit and suffer much from heredity. A short stout figure, an introverted personality, and unimaginative but rational mind: all of these traits come from the genes passed on to me. But family, schools, and society work together to shape what I am today.
My parents are both sport lovers, which makes me fond of physical exercises and turns my big frame into a strong body. My honest parents punish me severely whenever I lie or make empty promises, thus I’ve learned the importance of personal integrity. At school I’ve learned to help others, to care for others and also to improve my reasoning and understanding skills. Learning about various positive and negative examples of behavior from the media and other sources of information, I have set my own moral standards regarding what to do and what not to do, what to like and what to hate.
Environment can change a person completely no matter where he was born and what he inherited from his parents. I always believe that a person can succeed in doing anything he feels interested in. Your environment provides all sorts of opportunities and the things necessary for your personal pursuit and achievement. (199 words)
· My mother doesn’t like fish, nor do I. Sample 2
Which has had more influence on you, heredity or environment? This is a difficult question to answer.
First, let us examine the influence of heredity. All my classmates call me ―Fat Yu‖ because I am fat. My father is also fat, so I can’t help connecting my fatness with his! Although I can’t be absolutely sure that it comes from my father, I do think that I probably have a gene which he passed on to me and which determines my body build or shape. I have studied genetics for a long time and more and more facts prove that there is a gene which controls the accumulation of fat in your body. So now I am convinced that I got a ―fat‖ gene from my father.
Aside from that gene, my father gave me many excellent qualities. For example, I think I am good at abstract thinking. My father is an engineer and he often tells me that he was very good at Math and Physics at middle school and college. So thanks to these genes of his I got into this university.
However, I have many other characteristics, which may come from the environment I grew up in. For example, my father and mother are conservative and traditional. They lack a spirit of adventure and they have a hard time understanding many of the new things in China today. I, on the contrary, have the desire to explore and I hope I can become a pioneer of reform. I often have many original thoughts and ideas and I live in an era full of great changes. All these changes in my environment whet my appetite for exploration.
In conclusion, I think both heredity and environment have influenced me greatly. Heredity created me, but my environment has improved me. (300 words)