介绍:
What are the main tasks of universities: to offer students knowledge and skills essential for their future career, or to provide students with access to knowledge itself? What do you think university education should contain?
大学的主要功能是什么：为学生提供职场必备的知识和技术，还是为学生提供获取知识的途径？你认为大学教育必须包括什么？
Universities around the world are now facing the problem of how to efficiently use their resources to serve a larger population of students that are more culturally and socially diversified.ro solve the problem, universities should be perfectly aware of their main tasks: providing students with easy access to knowledge and, at the same time, encouraging them to make active contribution to the advancement of human knowledge.
如今大学的在校学生人数远胜从前，而且学生的社会、文化背景也比过去更多样化。世界各国的大学都面临着如何有效利用自己的资源来为这些学生提供服务的问题。为了解决这个问题，大学应该明确自身的主要任务：为学生提供接触到知识的便捷方式，同时鼓励他们为人类知识的进步做出贡献。
Universities should, first of all, be learning communities where knowledge is not only disseminated but also advanced. As full-fledged members of this community, students should not be information recipients who learn the knowledge in a passive way. Instead, they should be challenged to achieve their potential and, indeed, to excel Therefore, rather than focus merely on knowledge dissemination and transfer, universities should contrive to provide learning conditions that encourage students to remain curious, to value diversity in opinions and perspectives, and to think critically and communicate effectively. In this way, students can gain problem-solving experience and confidence.
首先，一所大学应该是一个学习社区。在这里，知识不仅得到传播，而且还被进一步发展。大学生作为这个社区完全合格的成员，他们不应该被动地接受知识。相反，他们应该不停地挑战自己的潜能甚至超越自己的潜能。大学不应该仅仅注重知识的传播，而应致力于为学生提供一个良好的学习环境，鼓励学生保持好奇心、重视不同的意见和观点、批判性地思考以及有效地沟通。遗过这种方式，学生可以积累解决问题的经验，并且获得自信。
Furthermore, universities will never attain their goals if they tailor all their courses or programs to meet the needs of specific employers or occupational sectors. Today’s social environment is more dynamic and turbulent than ever before. Only those graduates who possess certain personality traits and can do well in diversified situations can distinguish themselves from other job applicants.
此外，如果大学设计自己所有课程以满足某一个行业或是某一个雇主的招聘要求，大学将永远无法达成目标。今天的社会环境，风云变幻、难以预测。只有那些个人素质突出、能够在不同的不境下都表现良好的毕业生，才可能从应聘者中脱颖丽出。
In order to fulfill the main tasks of universities, university education should contain amply opportunities for independent learning which can cultivate students who are more likely to adapt to the changing society. Students can also learn to exercise their autonomy more effectively, and they may clarify their own professional interests while learning in an independent way.
为了完成自身的主要任务，大学应该为学生们提供充足的自主学习的机会。自主学习可以培学生更能够适应社会变化。自主学习让学生学会有效地行使自主权，而且让他们逐渐发现自己的职业兴趣所在。
写作点拨
这道雅思写作题目不仅要求考生给出大学的主要功能，还要求考生指出大学教育的必备内容。考生首先需要决定将写作重点放在“功能”还是“必备内容”上。范文分成四段：第一段引入话题；第二、三段介绍大学的各要决定将写作重点放在“功能”还是“必备内容”上。范文分成四段：第一段引入话题；第二、三段介绍大学的各种主要功能；第四段叙述大学教育的必备内容。考生也可以把文章写成三小段，分别为话题引入、主要功能和必备内容；当 然也可以写成四段，用两段来叙述大学教育的各类必备内容。
词汇升级
Knowledge的经典搭配
普通版Universities should, first of all, be learning communities where knowledge is not only spread but also advanced.
升级版 Universities should, first of all, be learning communities where knowledge is not only disseminated but also advanced.
Knowledge: disseminate（传播），acquire（获取），gain (获取), demonstrate（展现）Spread (something, especially information) widely;，parade（夸耀）A boastful or ostentatious display，flaunt（夸耀），apply (运用)
