下面的材料旨在豐富學生在是非問題寫作方面的思想和語言，考生在復習時可以先分類閱讀這些篇章，然后嘗試寫相關方面的作文題。

對于素材中用黑體字的部分，特別建議你熟讀，背誦，因為它們在語言和觀點上都值得吸收。學習語言的人應該明白，表達能力和思想深度都靠日積月累，潛移默化。從某種意義上說，提高英語寫作能力無捷徑可走，你必須大段背誦英語文章才能逐漸形成語感和用英語進行表達的能力。這一關，沒有任何人能代替你過。

因此，建議你下點苦功夫，把背單詞的精神拿出來背誦文章。何況，并不是要求你背了之后永遠牢記在心：你可以這個星期背，下個星期忘。這沒有關系，相信你的大腦具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后，你會驚訝的發現：I can think in English now！

I. Proverbs

1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.

3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

4. The classroom -- not the trench -- is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

5. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.

7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn't answer questions; it provokes them.

8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

9. the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different -- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision -- he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

12. If you can read and don't, you are an illiterate by choice.