2.26 IBT 98 - 英檢

我貼上一篇我當時練習的文章，題目是「是否應擁有廣泛知識或專一知識」，
全文約570字，和我考試時文章長度和架構差不多。

People have diverse perspectives when it comes to the topic of whether
we should possess broad knowledge or specific knowledge. Owing to the
controversial characteristic of this issue, we usually have to treat it in
a highly prudent attitude. On one hand, some people maintain that we should
have broad knowledge in order to deal with all kinds of problems in our
life; on the other hand, other people believe that we should focus on one
specific subject because we don't have much time to know everything. After
weighing carefully the pros and cons of these two views, I have an
inclination to accept the statement that we should specialize in one
specific professional field. In this essay, I plan to clarify my position
by presenting several major reasons and relating appropriate examples.

There are numerous reasons why we should pay our attention on one
single subject, and I will illustrate in here a few of the obvious and
crucial ones. As a saying goes, "A jack of all trades is the master of
none." We are living in a society dominated by competition; it is critical
to be an expert in one specific field so that we will be able to show our
advantage over other people in the competition of employment. If we try to
learn everything, we will learn nothing and end up with failure in the
end of our life. Apparently, there is no better example than this to
demonstrate this stand.

In addition, another argument to strengthen my position is that
we do not have much time to learn everything. If our life is infinite,
we always have time to learn all sorts of knowledge in different fields.
However, contrary to our expectation, we are all mortal. We have to learn
how to efficiently exploit our precious time in our limited life. And the
only way to achieve this goal is to focus on one single field and try our
level best to become professional. Then we will enter this professional
field and have the best performance since we do what we are good at. And
this is also the reason why I advocate this position.

Of course, it may be true that broad knowledge is also important under
certain circumstances. For instance, some people may think in our life, we
may have to face all types of problems, probably in the field of medicine,
law, and business. If we possess broad knowledge in these fields, we will be
able to deal with these problems by ourselves. Nevertheless, this alone is
not substantial enough to justify this viewpoint because we are not experts
in every field. If we rely on a little learning to deal with these problems,
we may easily put ourselves in unpredictable danger. Therefore, if the
advantage and disadvantage of these two views I mentioned in the beginning
are fully contemplated and compared, scales still come down heavily on the
side of my position.

All in all, after taking into consideration the reasons mentioned above,
which sometimes integrate into an organic whole and therefore become more
convincing, I find that the benefits of specializing in one specific field
carry more weight than those of having extensive knowledge of many areas,
and it would therefore not be too great an exaggeration to say that we should
focus on one single subject rather than try to grasp at broad knowledge in
many different fields.

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至於平常準備寫作的技巧，我認為首先需要的是一個好的模版，可以讓你在考
場30分鐘內先擬出文章的架構，架構出來了，心裡有個底自然會比較放心，這
個模版要符合你自己的風格，最重要的是要適合自己，試著去擬定一個架構完
整的模版，不必和別人的模版一樣，但可以進行修改來成為你自己的模版，我
文中的架構就是個例子，可以參考看看。

然後再去想三個理由，第一個是舉例，第二個是你個人的意見，第三個是提一
個反面的理由，然後自己再去反駁，就像我文章中寫的方式。以上都做到，文
章的基本內容就完成了。這些理由平常就最好有所準備，以免考場上想不出來
，平常練習時，不用每篇文章都寫完，但可試著將185篇官方題目的理由都自己
先想好，考試時就比較容易想到。

其實我在寫作的時候也不常用什麼複雜的用字，大部分都是常用字，考試時也
不必刻意用難字，但是句型要有變化，太單調的句型很難受青睞。練寫作的基
本原則就是多背好句子，背多了自然就會寫了，平常寫信、寫PAPER的時候常常
用上，久而久之就成了習慣，不用特別準備就能表現出來。

平常的時候可以看看一些英文文章，比如TPO閱讀的文章有些就不錯，看別人怎
麼寫，看到不錯的句子和例子就記下來，考前複習一下，考試時想辦法用上場
，表現自然不會太差。

簡單的說，準備寫作的原則就是：準備一個好模版、平常就要準備好文章理由
、平常就要多看文章多記多用佳句例子，久了自然會有成效。


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