GRE作文官方题库公开在很多人眼里可算是个不小的福利。但考生假如想着把所有题目都看上一遍甚至练上一遍，那可能就中了ETS的陷阱了。下面小编就和大家分享GRE作文官方题库是什么，来欣赏一下吧。
GRE作文官方题库是什么?
GRE考生常用的备考利器就是题库了。题库是指ETS官方提供的作文题目的汇总。不同于其他出国留学考试，GRE的作文题库都是公开透明的，所有考试中可能会出现的作文题目，都选自官方题库。而所谓的高频题库，则是中国考生自己根据历次GRE考试整理出来的在考试中出现几率比较高的一些题目汇总。换句话说，GRE作文题目其实有比较高的重复率，不少题目会通过题干不变换种问法的方式在考试中反复出现，而GRE作文机经，其实很多时候展现出来的也就是这些反复出现的作文题目。
虽然题库公开，但考虑到每个题库中都有超过200道的作文题目，考生实际上想要全部练习一遍并不现实，所花费的时间和精力都会十分惊人。因此，对于题库的使用也要讲究技巧。大家可以先按照题库内的题目内容和涉及主题进行分类，上文提到的同一道题目不同问法的都可以归到一起，这样就可以缩小题目的数量，之后再按照分类进行练习，就能大幅度提升复习效率。
当然，题库的使用也有需要注意的地方。考生在使用题库时最容易出现的问题就是过于依赖题库导致考试时审题偏差，没有读完题目看到个熟悉的开头就自以为理解了题意，没发现后面的写作要求和提问方式并不同于复习时记得的题库题目。比如下面这两个题目要求：
1. Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented above.
2. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim AND the reason on which that claim is based.
同样的一个写作素材，题目的问法和写作要求却完全不一样，前者需要考生对题目中的两个观点都进行分析，而后者只需要给出自己的观点即可。如果考生没有仔细阅读题目要求就盲目开始写作，那么审题不清导致的扣分可能就难以避免了。因此，即使有了题库，考生在考试中也需要谨慎行事，切忌轻敌大意。
Practicality is now our great idol, which all powers and talents must serve.Anything that is not obviously practical has little value in today's world.
In today’s society idealism seems to become an ideology that is marginalized and practicality is our great idol, thus, the speaker asserts that anything that is not practical bears little value. I admit that being practical is the wide-accepted dogma in order to survive in this world, but by going too far to claim that anything that is not practical has little value is against the empirical observation as well as the general stimulus that push the human society forward.
Admittedly, practicality has become a cult in today’s society. Too often do we hear people talk about being practical whenever they come to make important decisions or choose between several alternatives. The deep-rooted cause underlying this phenomenon is that with the development of modern society, the emphasis is placed more on financial gaining, quick fame, sensible choice and so forth. Our society is rather stable compared with that of the last century when war, violence, human right movements has become the symbol of that period. People are enjoying this peaceful environment with less crucial missions rested upon them and as a result, they shift from idealism to struggle for the common well being of mankind to the practical concept of individual achievement.
This ideology has its merits since after all the disaster and upheaval that our human race has undergone, it is judicious to focus on the economic aspect of things in order to tackle the most important social problems such as poverty, hunger and environmental problems which all deserve us to sit down and work out practical solutions. On the personal level, being practical is how a person would possibly succeed in his career or personal life. One is likely to make sensible decisions for his education and job choice on the basis of practical consideration of his own strength and weakness and careful analysis of the prospect of research direction and job market. Even those in power and intellects need to consider practically since hasty decision built upon pure ideal meditation would hardly find its way in the modern society and is doom to failure.
Agreeing with the speaker that practicality has become the great idol in our society, I am strongly against his point that anything that is not practical has little value. Even in today’s society, idealism is by no means relegated to the place of total neglect and disregard. For one thing, in history, so much achievement is the outcome of several generations’ struggle such as fighting for equality for women, human rights movement,etc. In today’s society, practicality is the way we can obtain our goal but idealism offers the philosophical explanation of why we should set this as our goal and the clear the ultimate value of our pursuing. What is more, by totally fixed one's eyes upon the practical aspect of things, we face the danger of neglecting one important part of our pursuit, that is the mental enjoyment brought out by idealism. If we have a clear goal set in mind and put practical endeavor at the same time, the result would be more satisfactory and valuable.
To sum up, I agree with the speaker insofar as the wide acceptance of practicality is considered. Being practical is the tenet of modern society and it does shed light on the wise way of doing things and obtaining goals, no matter in the personal or social level.But the speaker goes too far by claiming that it is the only valuable ideology in society.I am strongly against this idea since in history or at present, we human beings still need the philosophical explanation to clear our goal and to provide motivation. In this aspect, idealism would never be replaced with pure practical consideration. Otherwise,human society will be replete with insensible people directed by economic profit and quick fame and recognition.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious.
当我们获得越来越多的知识，事情并没有变的更加透彻，相反是变的更复杂更神秘。
With the development of the society, natural science and social science help people learn more about the world and the things seems to be clear, actually, under some circumstance, in-depth researches on things cause three consequences at the some time: comprehensible, complex and mysterious rather than merely understand.
Accumulated knowledge helps problems or theories to be expressed clearly and lucidly so that people feel easy to understand the issues. For example, Galileo, who was a famous Italian astronomer who despise the prejudices and book learning of the Aristotelians, who put his question to the nature instead of the ancient, and who drew his conclusion fearlessly. Eventually, his experiment and observation established a new theory and overthrew the old one from Aristotle. Because of his success and theories,people learn how to observe the sky with telescope and begin to understand another space, which is far from the earth. Obviously, without knowledge from Galileo’s theory, universe might also be a inspiration and even a vacancy. Take another scientist for example, Edison, who invented electric bulb by making thousand experiment and brought the society into a brilliant century. Recently, people live in a society which full of light and help them to learn what they can see and observe. With the revolution of human beings, knowledge solves various problems and creates a more comprehensible and comfortable life to the people.
However, those knowledge makes us to considered the reason and origin for human nature of curiosity, as a result, the world become increasingly complex. Take the same instance what have pointed above, although people learn to use telescope to observe the sky, people unsatisfied with such a "observation" and desire to touch with the outer space and understand other planets. In this case, scientists invented the spacecraft which have successfully landed on the Moon and Mars, after these experiments, people know that there are no water and few gravitation in Moon, and the Mas might have the similar condition of the earth. however, the complex problems come out, because people feel difficulty to explain the phenomena in the outer space.
Therefore, the research on astronomy becomes complex and involved. Not only this field, but also all scientific area becomes complicate. When people understand a surface of things, they will feel anxious to learn the core of them, however, the deeper people do researches, the more complications exist.
Additionally, in-depth learning causes desire of researching for mystery, which follows the existence of complication. Indeed, there are many uncanny problems in process of doing research when people hope to point out the reason of complex issue. For example, the construction of pyramid has been an enigma for a long time, because people fail to imagine that the ancient people can construct such a palatial with old and traditional method. Moreover, "black hole" would be a mysterious place that astronomers desire to touch and understand because no one know a little about this untouched field. Faced with these things, human nature motivates and stimulates people to purchase the reason and the secret.
In sum, people learn more about things by accumulating knowledge and then establish new theory and system, and at the same time, complex and mysterious problems exist simultaneously for the desire of exploring secret and untouched field-all of these constitute a process of learning and researching.
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