2012年01月 SAT欧洲考区作文题目重新选题

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Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

Learning and doing are their own rewards. No external rewards are required. Yet when external rewards are introduced—whether attention and praise from parents or prizes from teachers—these rewards exert a substantial influence. Instead of reading books to find out about the world, kids will read to win prizes. Kids will produce for rewards, but the quality of their activity and their interest in it will be dramatically altered.
Adapted from Barry Schwartz, The costs of living

Is it wrong or harmful to motivate people to learn or achieve something by offering them rewards?
Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

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1. 题目翻译：

学习和行动本身就是学习和行动的奖励，不需要任何的外部奖励。然而当有了外部奖励的时候，不论是家长的注意和鼓励还是老师的奖励，都会带来实际的影响。孩子们读书不是为了了解世界，而是获得奖励。他们会为了奖励而工作，但是质量和兴趣都会显著变化。

题目：通过奖励来激励人们学习和成就事业是错误的吗？

2. 审题关键词：past, present

3. 论证分析-各段核心提纲：

正：People will only work for the prize. In time, we have to give more prizes to maintain the motivation.

反：Prize is an effective way to motivate people to start to work. They may be more interested in it and do not need prize in the future.

补：It is interest, not prize, that motivates people to actually achieve things.