2005年6月大学英语六级作文真题及范文

    For this part, you are allowed 30 mins to write a short essay entitled Say No to Pirated Products. You should write at Least 150 words following the outline given below:

  1.  目前盗版的现象比较严重

  2.  造成这种现象的原因及危害

  3.  我们应该怎么做

    Useful words and expressions: 盗版：piracy (n.)

                          盗版产品：pirated products

                          知识产权：intellectual property rights

                          侵犯版权：infringe sb's copyright;

                                                                        copyright infringement

  范文：

Say No to Pirated Products

    Nowadays, the problem of piracy has become more and more serious. Books, tapes, VCDs and others high-tech products have been pirated. For instance, when a new product comes onto market, most probably, its pirated counterpart will soon put on its appearance in the market, too.

    Piracy has caused a great loss to legitimate producers, inventors and writers in many ways. To start with, the pirated products often cost much less than the genuine ones so that they enjoy a better trading position in spite of their relatively poor quality. The genuine products, on the contrary, sell poorly. What's worse, pirated books sometimes do great harm to the authors' reputation due to some misprints. In the long run, pirated products may have a negative impact on customers. Those legitimate producers' creativity and enthusiasm may be deeply hurt by the fact that some customers are more interested in the pirated products for the sake of small gains.

    In my opinion, it's high time that everyone start the battle against piracy. First, customers should develop their consciousness to resist the pirated products. Second, the government should take effective measures to put an end to piracy. Finally, laws must be strictly enforced to completely ban piracy. Only in this way can we wipe the pirated products out of our life.