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The Freshman Online Roommate Selection System, invented by a team of student

游客2023-12-03  22
问题     The Freshman Online Roommate Selection System, invented by a team of students at City College of Wenzhou University in Zhejiang Province, has been adopted by school authorities. The system allows incoming first-year students to get to know each other online and then pick their roommates based on their personalities, living habits and other factors. Should college students choose their own roommates? Students and experts have totally different views. The following are opinions from both sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:
    1. summarize briefly the opinions from bom sides:
    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.
    Students
    College students’ choosing their own roommates is not something new. Roomsurf, founded in 2009 by Dan Thibodeau and Justin Gaither, is an online social network for college students who are seeking roommates. Over the past 6 years, Roomsurf has grown into a successful Internet company with the help of more than 50 student consultants. The Roomsurf website was recently featured in the Orlando Sentinel, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and in a television commercial. Roomsurf continues to grow and has recently added more than 20,000 new profiles since January of 2012. Its success justifies college students’ choosing their own roommates.
    Roomsurf currently has about 900 institutions of higher learning in its database. Many of these colleges work with Roomsurf to help students find roommates. Students who do not see their schools listed may contact the webmaster, and new schools are added to the website periodically as interest grows.
    Students may create custom profiles on the website and log in using their Facebook accounts. In addition, users can create video profiles using YouTube as a platform. Students are able to create free basic accounts on Roomsurf, but the roommate matching service requires a premium membership. Roomsurf offers several ways for users to upgrade their accounts without having to pay. Roommate profiles are matched based on several factors, but students do not necessarily have to contact profiles that were matched to them.
    From the success of Roomsurf and the wide acceptation of high institutions, we can see that choosing roommates by students themselves is not only welcomed by students, but also by high institutions. Choosing roommates by students has several advantages: Firstly, it can free high institutions from the trouble of roommates’ arrangement annually. Secondly, it will create a harmonious dormitory atmosphere since the roommates have similar personality, habits, likes and dislikes.
    Experts
    First things first, admittedly students get along well with roommates of similar personality or living habits, but universities are the platform to develop not only academic abilities but also interpersonal skills. It is often said that universities are a microcosm of society. If students can learn how to deal with roommates of different personalities, it may easy for them to communicate with different people upon graduation so that they may get accustomed to the society in a short time. Thus, assigning dorms at random renders students the opportunity to cultivate their interpersonal skills.
    What’s worse, what about students with unique personality who seem not to be so sociable? If no one would like to share the dorm with those students, how would they feel? They may have psychological problems which may lead to serious consequences. It is reported that accidents involving campus violence have occurred from time to time, including the poisoning case at Tsinghua University years ago as well as the similar one at Fudan University recently. Therefore, having students choose their classmates may unknowingly cause psychological problems for other students, which could have been avoided by assigning dorms randomly.
    Lastly, letting similar students live together is not the best medicine for conflicts between students. The best way to reduce disputes is to help them further understand each other by rendering them more chance to communicate with each other, and also, to impart them with interpersonal skills to prevent possible conflicts. For instance, universities can invite experts in that field to give lectures about interpersonal communication, or hold activities to provide a platform for students to better understand each other.
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答案                 Should College Students Choose Their Own Roommates?
    A hot topic recently is about a university that has begun to let students choose their own roommates. It has aroused different reactions among the public. Students and experts hold totally different points of view.
    Students’ support of the mechanism of choosing their roommates is based on three reasons: a successful example abroad, fewer conflicts and harmonious dorm atmosphere, and less burden of the roommates arrangement of higher institutions. As for experts, the story is quite different. Firstly, it is often said that universities are a microcosm of society. If students can learn how to deal with roommates of different personalities, it may be easy for them to communicate with different people after graduation so that they may get accustomed to the society in a short time. Thus, assigning dorms at random renders students the opportunity to cultivate their interpersonal skills. Secondly, having students choose their roommates may unknowingly cause psychological problems for those unsociable students. Lastly, letting similar students live together is not the best medicine for conflicts between students.
    As far as I’m concerned, it is not necessary to have students make their own decision while assigning dormitory. Firstly, living with roommates randomly arranged is good for us to make different kinds of friends and enlarge our communication circle. It can also improve our communicative competence, which is very important in society. Secondly, there are not so many conflicts between roommates: even if there are, students should learn to overcome them rather than avoid them. Experiencing conflicts and solving them are also parts of university life. In short, the university’s good intention should be applauded, but at the same time, it ought to take other effective measures to help build a good relationship among students. Only in this way can all students enjoy a harmonious life on campus and yield abundant results during their college life.
解析 本文要求考生就大学生自主选择室友这一做法进行讨论。让学生自主选择室友是为了减少学生之间的矛盾，让他们在一个愉快的氛围中学习、成长，但这一做法是否合理、可行还需要探讨。在具体行文方面，考生可以在第一段开门见山，引出话题；接下来在第二段简要总结学生与专家的不同观点。学生认为自主选择室友有利于创建和谐的寝室环境，减轻学校负担；而专家则认为学校完全没必要让大学生自己选择室友，原因如下：首先，大学应该在培养学生学术能力的同时，发展他们的交际能力；其次，让学生自己选择室友可能无意中会冷落一些性格较为孤僻的学生，造成他们的心理问题，甚至引发悲剧；再次，减少学生之间的矛盾不需要让有共同点的学生住在一起，而应该通过科学、专业的途径对学生的交际方式进行引导。最后一段考生应谈谈自己对此事的态度与看法，并进行总结。
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