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Today, the outbreak of AIDS has given a new sense of urgency to sex education

游客2023-11-26  7
问题    Today, the outbreak of AIDS has given a new sense of urgency to sex education. However, whether to perform sex education in schools for students at a younger age has aroused heated debate among people. In the following excerpt, the journalist reports the current situation about sex education in the United States. Read the report carefully and write your response in NO LESS THAN 300 WORDS, in which you should:
   1.   summarize briefly the author’s opinion;
   2.   give your comment.
   Marks will be awarded for content relevance,  content sufficiency,  organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
   Write your article on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
   Excerpt
   The debate over whether to have sex education in American schools is over. A new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government finds that only 7 percent of Americans say sex education should not be taught in schools. Moreover, in most places there is even little debate about what kind of sex education should be taught, although there are still pockets of controversy. Parents are generally content with whatever sex education is offered by their children’s school, and public school principals, in a parallel NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School survey, report little serious conflict over sex education in their communities nowadays. Nearly three-quarters of the principals (74 percent) say there have been no recent discussions or debate in PTA, school board or other public meetings about what to teach in sex education. Likewise, few principals report being contacted by elected officials, religious leaders or other people in their communities about sex education.
   However, this does not mean that all Americans agree on what kind of sex education is best. There are major differences over the issue of abstinence. Fifteen percent of Americans believe that schools should teach only about abstinence from sexual intercourse and should not provide information on how to obtain and use condoms and other contraception. A plurality (46 percent) believes that the most appropriate approach is one that might be called "abstinence-plus"—that while abstinence is best, some teens do not abstain, so schools also should teach about condoms and contraception. Thirty-six percent believe that abstinence is not the most important thing, and that sex education should focus on teaching teens how to make responsible decisions about sex.
   Advocates of abstinence have had some success. Federal funds are now being made available for abstinence programs; in his State of the Union address President Bush called for an increase in the funding. And in spite of the fact that only 15 percent of Americans say they want abstinence-only sex education in the schools, 30 percent of the principals of public middle schools and high schools where sex education is taught report that their schools teach abstinence-only. Forty-seven percent of their schools taught abstinence-plus, while 20 percent taught that making responsible decisions about sex was more important than abstinence. (Middle schools were more likely to teach abstinence-only than high schools. High schools were more likely than middle schools to teach abstinence-plus. High schools and middle schools were equally likely to teach that abstinence is not the most important thing. )
   In many ways, abstinence-only education contrasts with the broad sex education curriculum that most Americans want—from the basics of how babies are made to how to put on a condom to how to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Some people thought that some topics were better suited for high school students than middle school students, or vice versa, but few thought any of the topics suggested were inappropriate at all.
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答案    My View on Sex Education in China
   Whether to have sex education in schools seems to be mostly agreed upon by Americans and even what should be taught causes no much controversy among parents, principals, elected officials, religious leaders and others. Nonetheless, those (15%) who favor abstinence-only (which got funded from the government) think sex education should restrain children from learning how to use condoms and contraception, while 46% believe abstinence-plus about condom use and contraception should be included in the curriculum. Many others, on the other hand, think sex education need to focus on responsible decisions. Certainly, schools at different levels have different key points to teach.
   Contrary to the United States, the sex education still remains an almost barren land in China’s educational systems. Reports found that most college students get knowledge on sex simply from online information, which shows the reality about China’s sex education. Therefore, sex education in China needs to be enhanced and we may learn from the developed countries like the United States or Canada based on China’s own circumstances.
   Firstly, it is urgent and necessary for children to protect themselves when they get physically mature to desire for sex. Curiosity may hurt them, so they need guidelines to protect themselves. The fact that AIDS among the young have increased in surprising number in the world, including China for sure, today evidences the need to have sex education. Secondly, the more open Chinese culture has made it possible for China to begin sex education. Parents nowadays are not so unwilling to talk about sex and now beginning to accept their children’s changing sex concept, which is not what they are ashamed of. Thirdly, it is found that sex education greatly boosts the likelihood that teens will delay having intercourse. That conclusion answers the question of whether sex education is valuable or detrimental to children.
   In my opinion, as long as sex education is carried out fully step by step, the teens will know how to love themselves and love others. That is also one of the purposes of teaching and education.
解析    本题讨论的是学生的性教育问题，题目要求简要概括作者的观点并针对性教育进行评论。在具体行文方面，首先要根据要求总结美国性教育的概况，尤其要体现教学内容上的分歧。在个人观点中，应当针对中国当前的情况剖析中国的性教育现状以及中国开展性教育的重要性和可能性。
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