本文為51雅思網和北京新東方學校聯合約稿作品，

其實，復雜的詞匯是學生一時半時無法掌握的，反而是簡單的單詞怎樣用好，成為英語寫作考試教學初級的主要課題。如果用好簡單的詞匯，就可以逐步追求表達的準確和精確，使用復雜的詞匯。可是一開始就鼓勵學生背誦大量的詞匯，既不現實，也對于考試于事無補。

比如我再舉個例子，還是雅思考試的題目。

Computers are now widely used in education so the teachers are not as important as they were before computers were popular. Do you agree or disagree with this point?

范文
Compared with other human inventions and innovations, computers, the cold machines that are definitely devoid of soul, admittedly, have been playing a significant role in shaping and reflecting human life, study, and work patterns. Thus at one time the average public was flooded by the overwhelming written materials and advertisements advocating, or even exaggeratedly promoting, various computers and their affiliated software, making it hard for the people to distinguish the facts from fictions. Worst of all, some scholars and engineers even imprudently “forecast” that computers will finally replace or supersede teachers in education. On the strength of philosophical and scientific analysis in a far more profound and insightful way, I solemnly and firmly gainsay such a misguiding argument and put forward that never in history have any human made machines had superseded, in its strict sense, human beings, nor will they.

譯文
和其它人類得發明革新相比，計算機，這種毫無靈魂的冰冷機器，誠然在塑造并反映人類工作，生活，和學習模式上起到重要得作用。因而，一度人們為潮水般的，大肆宣揚甚至是夸張促銷計算機及其相關軟件的書面材料和廣告所包圍，使得一般公眾難辨真偽。更有甚者，某些學者和工程人員不負責任地鼓吹計算機最終會因其優越行而取代教授。根據深刻致密的哲學和科學分析，我堅定地，嚴肅地否定這種誤導性的論點。我指出，歷史上從來沒有任何機器，從嚴格的字面意義上講，曾經取代過人類。將來也不會。

講解
這種文章，考生看到幾乎沒有不認識的單詞，但是要是讓考生寫出這樣的句子，筆者斗膽斷言，實在是：“蜀道難，難于上青天”。為什么會有這種現象出現呢？別人寫，考生認識，可是自己怎么也些不出來。什么原因呢？

道理非常簡單：考生死記硬背單詞的漢語意義，而不是在英語的文章中學習單詞的用法和搭配。導致的后果就是寫不出真正的文章。