在剛剛過(guò)去的2012年12月四六級(jí)考試中，估計(jì)許多同學(xué)一拿到考卷的section I作文單項(xiàng)，一看到題目和那個(gè)詭異的圖表，許多人的腦子立刻blank了，心都碎了——只因?yàn)椋鴰缀螘r(shí)，他們過(guò)于相信某些人類(lèi)的相關(guān)“押題”，導(dǎo)致的是自己根本沒(méi)有實(shí)際的動(dòng)腦，也沒(méi)有動(dòng)手去做一些作文練習(xí)，掌握些句子，運(yùn)用些段落。但此次作文單項(xiàng)并非傳說(shuō)中的喪心病狂，下面就此次作文題目進(jìn)行一些具體分析：
　　第一步肯定是審題。題目中涉及的“education pays”容易被理解為“教育支出”，但我們不妨回想一下，2003年六級(jí)真題為it pays to be honest也考察了pay這個(gè)單詞做動(dòng)詞的用法，因此此處可以理解為接受教育得到的回報(bào)，是值得的。
　　接下來(lái)就是動(dòng)手寫(xiě)，這次考試作文材料來(lái)源于美國(guó)勞工部網(wǎng)站的一份統(tǒng)計(jì)表，本次作文截取了其中一部分?jǐn)?shù)據(jù)，并對(duì)時(shí)間做了修改。四級(jí)作文歸納為社會(huì)熱點(diǎn)、觀點(diǎn)對(duì)比、圖表、諺語(yǔ)、書(shū)信五大類(lèi)，雖然重點(diǎn)講解了前兩大類(lèi)，但是對(duì)于后三類(lèi)話(huà)題也沒(méi)有忽視，對(duì)同學(xué)們的要求是：掌握段落結(jié)構(gòu)。在近年來(lái)的英語(yǔ)四、六級(jí)考試中，圖表作文已經(jīng)成為非常“難得一見(jiàn)”的題型。但據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì)，1991年和2002年的英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試中考過(guò)圖表作文，加上這次考試，幾乎是10年才會(huì)考到一次。所以拿到新題型，切莫慌張，深吸一口氣，仔細(xì)回憶上課所講圖表題寫(xiě)作結(jié)構(gòu)和思路，相信凡是上課認(rèn)真聽(tīng)講的同學(xué)，應(yīng)該可以輕松hold住作文。
　　根據(jù)上課筆記，圖表題第一段應(yīng)該包含三個(gè)部分“現(xiàn)象概述+總體描述+細(xì)節(jié)描述”，分三句話(huà)來(lái)描述就好，因?yàn)檫@是圖片題，所以先上句“應(yīng)景”的廢話(huà)“as is impressively demonstrated in the bar chart above”總體描述需要總體把握學(xué)歷和失業(yè)率的總體關(guān)系，而細(xì)節(jié)描述需要選取幾個(gè)有代表性的特殊值。圖表題最難的部分在第一段、第二段和反復(fù)強(qiáng)調(diào)的社會(huì)熱點(diǎn)話(huà)題一樣，要寫(xiě)成總分結(jié)構(gòu)，要從原因結(jié)果來(lái)談，要分層來(lái)談，要用第一第二連接詞。這些都是課堂上的老生常談，這里就不再贅言了。在寫(xiě)作文的時(shí)候，我們要用正確的語(yǔ)言來(lái)表達(dá)清晰的思路，所以先想清楚到底是什么導(dǎo)致了這個(gè)現(xiàn)象。
　　寫(xiě)完后一定要檢查一下自己的作文確保自己沒(méi)有犯一些低級(jí)錯(cuò)誤，保證創(chuàng)作的正確性。
　　除此之外，值得關(guān)注的是，這次四級(jí)考題和考研英語(yǔ)二作文是幾乎如出一轍，而回憶2012年6月份的六級(jí)考題，和2009年考研英語(yǔ)一作文也是異曲同工。這冥冥之中似乎在暗示著我們，國(guó)內(nèi)四六級(jí)和考研考試正趨于一體化，四六級(jí)正往考研考試類(lèi)型上靠攏，建議各位同學(xué)在以后的復(fù)習(xí)過(guò)程中，如果學(xué)有余力，可以用一些高端考試的真題來(lái)訓(xùn)練自己，這樣有利于提高自己的英語(yǔ)應(yīng)試水平。
　　最后，附上筆者原創(chuàng)范文一篇，還望能對(duì)大家起到一點(diǎn)借鑒作用：
　　The past few years has witnessed the phenomenon that numerous individuals are in the blind pursuit of diplomas or vocational credentials. According to the statistics impressively demonstrated in the bar chart above, education degree does have a relationship with earnings, contrary to the recent theory of useless education. Those who possess a doctoral degree earn 1,551dollars median weekly, ranking first among people of other education level. The median weekly earnings of people with associate degree and below can not reach the average of 797 dollars, ranking from 768 dollars to 451 dollars.
　　Ample reasons can account for the issue of Education Pays，while the following one might be the most critical. To begin with, compared with those with comparatively lower education degree, people who have received higher education possess considerably wider knowledge, more remarkable learning and research ability, greater innovation and most of all, resourceful social network, all of which can ensure a distinctive handsome-income work. Apart from that, with the advancement of technology and the adjustment of industrial structure, quite a few high-tech industries emerge overnight, which leads to a soaring demand of workforces with high educational degree, thus, it is natural that graduates with bachelor’ and higher degree get a high pay-packet and enjoy a stable and ideal job. Without a systematic and scientific acquiring of knowledge, students can hardly enjoy a competitive edge in the employment market.
　　To my way of thinking, the issue mentioned above will bound to generate more consequences if we keep turning a blind eye and deaf ear to it. Therefore, we should appeal to the relevant administration departments to strengthen substantial education investment. And，it is high time that all of us ,parents，educators，and the authorities, make combined efforts to tell the young the fact about the Education Pays. Only when we mesh with the social needs can we fulfill our dreams, and correspondingly build an ideal paradise where life can be enjoyed to the uttermost.