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浙江高考试卷-上海体育学院分数线
正方(Affirmative)：Men contribute more to the
society than women
反方(Negative)：Women
contribute more to the society than men
Good
morning everyone. I'm honored to be nominated as a
master for today's debate. The topic is
women
contribute more to the society”. As we all know ,
there are two kinds of people in the world , men
and women .They play different roles in the
society . But they are all indispensable .Even
though I'm a
girl, I have to admit that men
make a huge contribute to the society. So it is
really hard to say which
one(who)
contribute(s) more to the society. But our
debater(s) have their own viewpoints . We have 8
debaters
today, 4 on each side. This is the
affirmative side(pointing to the affirmative),they
believe that men
contribute more to the
society . This is the negative side(pointing to
the negative), they hold that women
contribute
more to the society. Now, I'd like to introduce
the procedure of today's debate. First, introduce
their viewpoints. Second, free debate. Third,
conclusion. As everybody is ready , now let's
start the debate.
First ,welcome the
affirmative side ,number one debater.
(正方)
Today, our topic is about who contributes more
to the society, men or women. As we all know, for
most
of human existence, our society is man-
dominated. At almost every pivotal historic
moment, the people who
navigated the direction
of history are always males. This is beyond
dispute. Those great ancient emperors
and
kings who create prosperous and powerful kingdoms,
and those who desire to explore and discover our
splendid nature, dedicated their lives to
invent, to create the inventions that entirely
changed the human
world into highly advanced
civilization, they are nearly all men. We can give
countless illustrations such
as emperor
QinShihuang, scientist Newton, inventor Edison,
thinker Marx, etc. All in all, we hold the view
that men contribute more to the society.
(反方)
Our opinion is that “Women contribute
more to society than men”. If you look up in a
dictionary, you
will find what the word
“contribute” means. The definition in the
dictionary is: to give money, help,
ideas,
experience etc to something that a lot of other
people are involved in. According to the
definition,
we can see obviously that women
contribute more to society than men. My reasons
may be as follows:
First, the role they play
in family. As we all know that women are in charge
of the whole family’s daily
life, make meals,
wash clothes, clean houses, bore children and then
take care of children. All the things
above
are basic element to make a family run normally
and happily. And we all know that society is made
up of all families. So, at the role women play
well, the family will be more harmonious, and then
there’s
no doubt the society will be more
harmonious, too.
Second, the role they play in
society. In the past, women are fettered by
cultural effects and by the
tradition idea of
family. But now, things changed. As it’a a society
call for women’s liberation, nowadays,
there
are an increasingly large amount of women who go
out and make their own career. In this process,
women
make their own contributions to the
society, aren’t there more and more Business
Superwoman in society,
and at the same time
women aloso have to take care of the whole
family’s daily life. So how can you say
that
women are less contributory, how can you say that
men contribute more to the society.
Finally,
the characters they are born with. It’s know to
everbody that men are bellicose and impatient.
On the contrary, women are always peacefull
and patient. According the the history, men’s
shortcomings
in characters have cause many
disasters. For examples, Emperor Qin Shi Huang who
burn the books and bury
the scholars alive,
and Adolf Hitler who was regarded as one of the
initiators who lead to the World War
1.
With the reasons above, we have enough
evidence to say that women contribute more to
society than men.
(正方)
My dear friend,
do you mean “women hold up half the sky”. But
could you tell us why people always emphasize
the important of the half sky held up by women
instead of the half sky held up by men?
In
the ancient times, a woman without talent is
virtuous. In general, woman’s knowledge level is
lower
than that of man. What’s more, woman is
weaker than man in physiology. There is no doubt
that at that time
most of the contribution to
the society was made by men. But with the
development of the society, women
can
hold up half of the sky. But, we all know just
half of it, which means women are still helping
men to
hold up the sky. Man is still taking
the leader role. Even though, many successful
women have proved sometimes
women can do as
well as men. But what’s the actual situation? In
all the social classes, the top leaders
are
always men. For example, we have so many men
presidents instead of women presidents. Granted
that women
do have the ability to contribute,
but base on the fact, women didn’t do contribution
as much as men.
(反方)
Women's contributions
are usually behind-the-scenes, while men often say
work comes first, women have
no choose to
sacrifice themselves to take care of the elder and
the child. What is more, they sometimes
go to
work too. They devote a lot to the family, and
play an important role in making the family's
happiness
and harmony. As long as family is
the foundation of the society, they do a lot to
the society's harmony.
There is a saying that
every succeed man need a woman behind him to
support him. Why? Because women often
do the
most complicated work, such as washing, cooking,
and caring. They carry the obstacles for men to
become succeed. Without women, men can do
little contribution.
Women are more careful
and tender, which is useful and helpful to child's
growing. Most kindergarten
teachers and nurses
are women. They do a lot to the society's future.
(正方)
Yes, you got it! I quite agree with
you. I admit that a woman means so much to a man.
Men can never live
well without women. But
please remember our topic, women sacrificed much
to men, and men contribute more
to the
society. Quite right!
(正方)
Firstly，it’s
incorrect to claim women play a more important
role by emphasizing the minority women who
make enormous contributions. Take Soong May-
ling and Madame Curie for example, which just tell
us that women
are capable to do the same thing
as men do. But, the fact is that most women didn’t
choose to do that despite
of their having
capabilities or intelligence. And thus the
development of our society is pushed by countless
men except for women who are few and far
between. The contributions made by men are far
beyond women’s
whether in quality or quantity.
When it comes to the importance of domestic
happiness, I have to acknowledge that women have
more impacts
on men then men have on
themselves. Although woman seldom devote to
diplomacy and internal affairs, they
definitely create a good living environment
for men. However, what we discuss today is who
makes more
contributions to society rather
than who makes more contributions to men. So,
compared with women, men
contribute more to
the society.
As you’ve said, there are some
men that, indeed, have brought disasters to the
society; yet, we can’t
deny the contributions
made by men. Our task today is to work out men or
women who make more contributions,
not to
compare the difference after merits offset faults.
Our society has always been run by men and men
are more powerful. Furthermore most of the
contributions
towards our society have been
made by men. Men are the head of families and
controlled the means of the
production, and
women played a secondary and supportive role as
opposed to a leadership one.
（反方）
As for
that point, your argument is totally untenable.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are no longer in the
primitive
stage of slash and burn cultivation
when bigger muscles implied more agricultural
productivity. We are in
an age of mechanism
and automation, in which more significance is
attached to intelligence and wits. And
it’s
intelligence and wits that makes us men, not
muscles. Even when muscles can be of some avail in
sports
undertakings, men did not live up to
our expectation as women did. To illustrate, take
Beijing Olympic Games
for example, among the
100 medals that we had won, women won 27 gold
medals, men 24; women won 11 silver
medals,
men 10; women won 19 bronze medals, men 8.
Altogether women won 57 medals, while men 42(The
last
one was shared by both men and women.).
Another example is Chinese football. The best ever
record of Chinese
male football team was made
in 2002 JapanSouth Korea World Cup, when Chinese
male football team broke through
the
elimination round, making the so-called historic
record. Take a look at the Chinese female football
thth
team. They had won the champion of 6
and 7 Asian Cup in 1986 and 1989. They were the
sliver winner of
Atlanta Olympic in
1996 and Women World Cup in 1999. In addition, Sun
Wen was named the women’s world player
of the
year in 1999. It’s so hard for us to expect a
men’s world player of the year while the Chinese
football fans were still waving homemade signs
which read “Chinese football, rush out of Asia!”
(正方)
Yes, in a way. But haven’t you
realized what you said can just indicate that
people of either sex are capable
of doing the
same job well. And the fact is, many women have
abilities to create their own career, but they
didn’t do it. Perhaps the opportunity this
man-dominating society offered to women is so
rare. Any way,
their contribution is very
limited.
(正方)
human history, there are
many great statesmen; scientists are women, such
as Sung Mei-ling, Madame
Curie and so on. But
I think these are a few examples that women make
great contributions to the society.
And they
just indicate that women can also do the things
that men always do. We must declare that although
women can also many jobs that men always do,
they don't do them. So from the history, we can
know that men
who make progress in society are
countless, but women are rare.
2 even though
women do more contribution to our family, and
someone may say that, it's women behind the
men, but who is over the women or behind or
protector of women? the answer is men. And today's
topic is
that who contributes more to the
society, not women contributes more to men.
3
In our history, there are also many instances that
men bring many disasters to our society. For
example
Qin Shihuang, Adolf Hitler. But I
think that even though a few men bring bad effort
to our society, much
more men do help to our
society's progress, such as Mao Zedong, Newton and
so on. And if we say that men
bring disasters
to our society, women also do it, the most famous
women as CiXi, Lvzhi.
4 Men are stronger than
women in many aspects such as physical strength.
Men play an very important role
in our society
development .They are the organizers, the workers
and so on. Take a look at our government
and
politics 90% of the position is being taken by the
men. So men is more in contributing towards the
society.
Even though today there are some
women have a higher salary than most of the men.
but this is just a small
number!At the top of
society we can see men everywhere: most world
rulers, presidents, prime ministers,
most
members of Congress and parliaments, most CEOs of
major corporations, and so forth — these are
mostly
men.
5 Because of the
discrimination to the female, women can't make
great contribution to our society?
We all know
that in the development of the human history,
first appeared the matriarchal society. In that
society, women had the power to do everything
they want to do, they was not discrimination to
them. And
in contrast, at that time men did
not have any social status. But did the women make
great contribution
to the society development?
I think the answer is no. In the end, the
matriarchal society was replaced
by
patrilineal society . From that time, males make
the human society develop fast. Why did it happen?
Why
did not worldlast longer than the worldCan
this manifest that the society was eliminated
because human society development needs higher
advanced civilization.
(反方)
Although both
men and women contribute to society, as to
contributions to the society, I would definitely
stand with the opinion that women contribute
more to the society than men.
（反方）
Only a
woman can carry in her body an eternal being which
bears the very image of God. Only she is the
recipient of the miracle of life. Only women
can conceive and nurture this life using her own
flesh and
blood, and then deliver a living
soul into this world. God has bestowed upon her
alone a genuine miracle---the
creation of
life, and the fusing of an eternal soul with
mortal flesh. This fact alone established the
glory
of motherhood, and also the glory of
women.
(正方)
Contribution to the society
includes material contribution and spiritual
contribution.
First of all, men do more
material contribution. According to a survey
conducted in 1990, the average monthly
incomes
for male and female workers in urban areas were
193.15 yuan and 149.60 yuan respectively, with
women
receiving only 77.4 percent of
the pay given to men. In rural areas, the average
annual incomes for men
and women were 1,518
yuan and 1,235 yuan respectively, with women
getting 81.4 percent of the earnings of
men.
Moreover, men do more spiritual contribution:
When some disasters happen, man can always
keep a clear mind and does something really
helpful. Did you
still remember the earthquake
took place in Qinghai province? Aid workers are in
a race against time to
save thousands of
earthquake victims stranded near the epicenter.
Chinese soldier went to the
earthquake-
stricken area at top speed for succoring the
injured person. Most of the soldiers are men,
right?
They served the public with dedication
and integrity. Their selfless dedication and
bravery do ever lasting
spiritual contribution
to the society.
We always say “teachers are
engineers of soul”. Teachers make notable
spiritual contribution to the
society. The
survey given by China Education Yearbook in 1992
showed that only 14.6% of the graduate student
tutors are women. It’s clear that men do more
contribution to the higher education, which is a
part of
men’s spiritual contribution.
The
education level of women is lower than men. In
2002, the female students in college are only
40.98%
of all the college students. Then we
can conclude men have higher comprehensive
quality, which can help
them to do more
spiritual contribution.
So according to the
analysis of material contribution and spiritual
contribution, we can safely come to
the
conclusion that men contribute more to the society
than women.
(反方)
Well, ladies and
gentlemen, women, from biological point of view,
are bestowed with a unique ability to
conceive, to give birth, to nurture and
educate their children. They also had to suffer
the sickness of
being pregnant, they dare not
take pills because they take the health of the
baby into serious consideration,
they had to
bear the sharp pain of delivery, they had to feed
the baby in the depth of night, they had to
try desperately to keep a slim figure to
prevent any possibility of their husband’s
abandonment just because
of their changed,
sacrificed figure for delivery. While at the same
time, they burden themselves with most
of the
domestic affairs, they refuse to give up their
dreams; they work as teachers, policemen,
engineers,
scientists, doctors, journalists,
coal miners or what not. You have no idea or you
have always been neglecting
the enormity of
the contribution that women have made and would
have made. All in all, ladies and gentlemen,
the victory of this debate alone is not the
thing that my teammates and I are seeking for. We
just wan to
convince you when everything is
said and done, women still contribute more than
men.
(正方)
We have long been debating on
the topic. Indeed, we are so impressed by the
eloquence of our fellow debaters.
But on
another thought, however, it is not hard to find
some mistakes in your argument. For example, you
have evaded definitions. What we are talking
about is the contribution to the society instead
of contribution
to the family. So we would
like to reiterate our viewpoint that men
contribute more to the society than
women.
Let’s conclude our opinion as follows:
On the
one hand, let’s talk about the subject condition.
First, man’s physical strength is enormous. If
a man and a woman have the same knowledge
background and
skills, man can do better and
do more contribution.
Second, on the mental
aspect, we always hold the opinion that woman is
emotional, while man can always
make decisions
swiftly. The different can be noticed when people
are dealing with some emergencies. Just
think
about, who make the decision that we must press
ahead with the reform and opening up policy. The
answer
is man, right?
So, on the subject
condition, we can reach the conclusion that woman
has less ability than man to do
contribution
to the society.
On the other hand, let us down
to the objects condition.
First, the public
opinion makes people believe men should do more
contribution than women do, and even
make
women themselves believe that they do not have
duty or ability to do contribution.
Second, the fact of life gives women
few chances to make contribution. The unemployed
women are much more
than unemployed men.
Looking back to history and our daily life, we
can find the men who help us to make progress in
society
are countless. But women who make a
big contribution are rare as the phoenix. So base
on the reasons we
mentioned above, we cherish
the unshakable belief that men contribute more to
the society than women.
Thank you.