GRE Issue Task 문제은행

GRE General Test의 Analytical Writing 섹션에서 Issue Task 문제는 아래 150개 토픽 중 하나가 나온다. 복구 문제나 후기가 아니라 ETS에서 공식적으로 제공하는 문제은행이며 무조건 이 중에 하나가 나온다는 것 또한 ETS의 공식 입장이다.

• 공식 설명: https://www.ets.org/gre/test-takers/general-test/prepare/content/analytical-writing/issue.html
• 공식 PDF: https://www.ets.org/pdfs/gre/issue-pool.pdf

문제 은행

Issue Pool

1. Governments should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.
   • 정부는 과학 연구와 개발에 제한을 거의 두지 말아야 한다.
2. The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
   • 가르치는 가장 좋은 방법은 긍정적인 행동을 칭찬하고 부정적인 행동은 무시하는 것이다.
3. Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students.
   • 정부는 모든 학생들에게 대학 교육을 무료로 제공해야 한다.
4. The luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.
   • 현대 생활의 사치와 편리함은 사람들이 진정으로 강하고 독립적인 사람으로 성장하는 것을 막는다.
5. In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important contributions.
   • 어떤 분야의 탐구든 초보자가 전문가보다 중요한 기여를 할 가능성이 높다.
6. The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people.
   • 위대한 국가의 가장 확실한 지표는 통치자, 예술가, 또는 과학자의 업적이 아니라 국민의 일반적인 복지에 의해 나타난다.
7. The best way to teach — whether as an educator, employer, or parent — is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
   • 교육자로서든, 고용주로서든, 부모로서든, 가르치는 가장 좋은 방법은 긍정적인 행동을 칭찬하고 부정적인 행동을 무시하는 것이다.
8. Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.
   • 교사들의 급여는 학생들의 학업 성취도에 기초해야 한다.
9. Society should make efforts to save endangered species only if the potential extinction of those species is the result of human activities.
   • 멸종 위기에 처한 종들의 잠재적 멸종이 인간의 활동의 결과일 경우에만 사회는 멸종 위기에 처한 종들을 구하기 위해 노력해야 한다.
10. College students should base their choice of a field of study on the availability of jobs in that field.
    • 대학생들은 그 분야의 직업의 가능성에 기초하여 어떤 분야의 학문을 선택해야 한다.
11. As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.
12. In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view.
13. Educational institutions should dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
14. Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.
15. Society should identify those children who have special talents and provide training for them at an early age to develop their talents.
16. It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.
17. College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather than the courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs.
18. Claim: When planning courses, educators should take into account the interests and suggestions of their students. Reason: Students are more motivated to learn when they are interested in what they are studying.
19. The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
20. Students should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.
21. The increasingly rapid pace of life today causes more problems than it solves.
22. Claim: It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero. Reason: The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished.
23. Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education.
24. Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
25. Educators should find out what students want included in the curriculum and then offer it to them.
26. Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts.
27. Claim: We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from those whose views contradict our own. Reason: Disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning.
28. Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carry out the will of the people they serve.
29. Young people should be encouraged to pursue long-term, realistic goals rather than seek immediate fame and recognition.
30. The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
31. If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it are justifiable.
32. In order to become well-rounded individuals, all college students should be required to take courses in which they read poetry, novels, mythology, and other types of imaginative literature.
33. In order for any work of art — for example, a film, a novel, a poem, or a song — to have merit, it must be understandable to most people.
34. Many important discoveries or creations are accidental: it is usually while seeking the answer to one question that we come across the answer to another.
35. The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times.
36. Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline; students cannot be motivated by school or college alone.
37. Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.
38. Politicians should pursue common ground and reasonable consensus rather than elusive ideals.
39. People should undertake risky action only after they have carefully considered its consequences.
40. Leaders are created by the demands that are placed on them.
41. There is little justification for society to make extraordinary efforts — especially at a great cost in money and jobs — to save endangered animal or plant species.
42. The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only tools of human minds.
43. People who are the most deeply committed to an idea or policy are also the most critical of it.
44. Some people believe that society should try to save every plant and animal species, despite the expense to humans in effort, time, and financial well-being. Others believe that society need not make extraordinary efforts, especially at a great cost in money and jobs, to save endangered species.
45. Some people believe that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. Others believe that formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
46. Some people believe it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public. Others believe that the public has a right to be fully informed.
47. Claim: Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's major field of study. Reason: Acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.
48. Young people should be encouraged to pursue long-term, realistic goals rather than seek immediate fame and recognition.
49. Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.
50. Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
51. In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
52. We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
53. The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.
54. People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by society as a whole.
55. Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
56. All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.
57. Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
58. Teachers' salaries should be based on the academic performance of their students.
59. It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
60. Some people believe that in order to thrive, a society must put its own overall success before the well-being of its individual citizens. Others believe that the well- being of a society can only be measured by the general welfare of all its people.
61. Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future. Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate.
62. Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed. Reason: It is inappropriate — and, perhaps, even cruel — to use public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs are not being met.
63. Claim: Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system. Reason: Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts or minds.
64. Educators should take students' interests into account when planning the contentof the courses they teach.
65. The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people's efficiency so that they have more leisure time.
66. Educators should base their assessment of students' learning not on students' grasp of facts but on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate.
67. Unfortunately, in contemporary society, creating an appealing image has become more important than the reality or truth behind that image
68. The effectiveness of a country's leaders is best measured by examining the well-being of that country's citizens..
69. All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.
70. A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
71. Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
72. Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study in which jobs are plentiful.
73. People's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.
74. Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
75. Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning.
76. Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
77. The best ideas arise from a passionate interest in commonplace things.
78. To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
79. Claim: Imagination is a more valuable asset than experience. Reason: People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible without the constraints of established habits and attitudes.
80. In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.
81. To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
82. Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field.
83. Some people believe that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understanding of the world around us. Others believe that science has revealed to us that the world is infinitely more complex than we ever realized.
84. Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field.
85. In any profession — business, politics, education, government — those in power should step down after five years.
86. Requiring university students to take a variety of courses outside their major fields of study is the best way to ensure that students become truly educated.
87. Claim: The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists. Reason: The surest indicator of a great nation is actually the welfare of all its people.
88. Any leader who is quickly and easily influenced by shifts in popular opinion will accomplish little.
89. Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carry out the will of the people whom they serve.
90. A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.