按照2016年“外研社杯”全国英语写作大赛组委会的通知要求，根据《2016年“外研社杯”全国英语写作大赛章程》，我校将于9月8日晚上举行初赛，选出我校优秀的选手参加复赛，现将初赛有关事宜通知如下:
一、参赛资格
全国具有高等学历教育招生资格的普通高等学校在校本、专科学生、研究生（不包括在职研究生），35岁以下，中国国籍。曾获得往届“‘外研社杯’全国英语写作大赛”出国及港澳交流奖项的选手不包括在内。
二、参赛注册
大赛官方网站（uchallenge.unipus.cn）将于2016年6月27日起开放注册窗口。所有报名参赛的选手必须在大赛官网注册，填写个人信息。参赛选手在大赛网站注册时所用的电子邮箱及手机号将作为参加复赛和决赛时登录大赛写作系统的重要认证信息。没有注册的选手无法参加复赛。参赛选手注册的个人信息须准确、真实。如经组委会查证与真实情况不符，将取消其参赛资格。
三、组织方式
初赛由外语系负责组织实施。初赛赛点应有不少于100人参赛。参赛学校应保证本校符合参赛资格的学生都有公平的报名参赛机会。
为了确保宁德师范学院初赛点比赛圆满完成，2013级、2014级、2015级外语系学生每个班级必须有15人上网注册参赛。每个班级学委负责统计本班报名人数，并且于9月4日将本班报名注册人数统计后报外此次写作大赛联络员处。联络员：张雅婷 联系电话：13328942670。
四、比赛时间 9月8日 星期四晚上 6:30-8:30
五、比赛地点 AA201 AA301
六、比赛题目
考场现场公布。赛题为议论文写作1篇，说明文写作1篇，每篇长度500词左右，写作时间共两小时。
七、比赛方式
现场写作。比赛不允许携带电子设备，不允许使用网络。需带上学生证和身份证。
八、奖项设置
特等奖3名，获奖选手代表本校参加复赛，并且获得相应的校级奖金奖励。一、二、三等奖获奖人数分别占本校参赛选手总数的1%、3%、6%。所有获奖选手将获得由大赛组委会颁发的获奖证书，并且由学校颁发相应的奖金。
九、参赛方式
8月31日-9月4日 各同学上网注册报名
9月5日 管理人员核实报名人数，准备相关考务事务
9月8日 组织参赛学员考试
9月9日-9月10日 组织评委阅卷，评定各级奖项
9月12日 公布比赛名次
联系人：张雅婷 18350300263
游灼梅 13950507495
宁德师范学院外语系
2016年8月30日
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外研社杯”全国英语写作大赛“模拟赛场”
写作题一：议论文写作（Argumentative Writing）（10分）
Write a passage in response to the text below. You should state clearly whether you agree or disagree with the text and explain your reasons for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the author’s opinion might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position. You should write about 500 words.
What builds a brand? What ruins one? After 131 years in the photography business, the famous film and camera company, Eastman Kodak Co. (柯达公司), filed for bankruptcy (破产) on January 19, 2012. Most people attributed its failure to its slowness to adapt to the digital age and poor leadership that lacked vision and consistency.
Dr. Kamal Munir, from the Cambridge Judge Business School, argued that there might be deeper causes. “For three quarters of the twentieth century, Kodak’s supreme success was not only developing new technology—the film camera—but creating a completely new mass market,” Kamal said. “Kodak made photography a popular pastime around the world. Kodak also played a big role in converting travel to tourism. The idea was that if you hadn’t brought back pictures from your vacation you might as well not have gone. For them, photography was about preserving memories for posterity (后代) and about sentiment.”
However, as Kamal noted, having played such a central role in creating meaning for photography, the company failed to understand that meaning had changed, from memories printed on paper to images shared by e-mail or on Facebook. What Kodak needed was a new business model for an environment in which people do not “preserve memories” but “share experiences”.
写作题二：说明文写作（Expository Writing）（10分）
Write a passage based on the two pie charts below. The charts show the primary energy consumption in the United States and in China in 2011. In your writing, you should summarize the features of the two charts and make comparisons. You should write about 500 words.
