应对

　　Many scientists believe that now we can study the behavior of a three-year-old child to see whether they will grow up to be criminals.

　　To what extent do you think the human nature produces crimes?

　　How can we prevent children from growing up to be criminals?

　　这个题目

　　(2020年8月15日真题)

　　学生在主体部分回应第 一个问题的时候写了如下一句话：

　　External environment plays a decisive role in children’s growing, which may take the most responsibility for their crimes.

　　教师修改后的句子，如下：

　　The external environment plays a decisive role in children’s growth, which is arguably the most important factor that either curtails or provokes the criminal gene.

　　* 定冠词的缺失被补上了。

　　* “成长”这个概念有现成的名词growth。

　　* which引导的用来修饰growth的定语从句是这个句子的关键：

　　1)arguably the most important factor替代原来的简单粗暴的take the most responsibility;

　　2)either curtails or provokes the criminal genets替代原来的简单粗暴的crimes。其中，criminal genes——“犯罪的基因”是一个很有意思的表达，either ... or …——“要么…要么…”用来介绍两个可能的情况，是不是比直接认定犯罪显得更理性一点。同时curtail和provoke这两个词要学会。

　　小总结

　　词汇肯定是要升级。词汇的升级不仅仅在于类似“curtail”和“provoke”这样的词(直接的“难度词”)，类似“criminal genes”这种时髦的、有表达风格的词汇也要积累。