1、一、 初赛1. Staying in China or going aboard for education becomes more and more popular for several years. Do you think which is better?2. Should middle school students be allowed to bring the cell phone or not?3. Is it good or not to observe the experience4. City or village, which one is the best plac
2、e to live in5. Can money buy happiness?6. Should we diet in order to keep fit?7. Is puppy love good or bad for studying?8. Does criticism do more harm than good to people?9. Is it good or not for Yunnan to cancel the senior high school entrance examination二、 复赛1. Is it good or not for Yunnan to canc
3、el the senior high school entrance examination2. Is it good or not for Kunming to build the underground3. “Piracy” means the publishing, reproducing of a book, CD, VCD, tape, etc. without permission. Are you in favor of piracy or against piracy?4. Do you think cosmetic surgery have a positive or neg
4、ative influence on our society?5. Should different cultures merge into each other or maintain their unique features?6. Which is more important for hunting a job, the personal ability or interpersonal relationships?7. Does advertisement play a positive or negative role in our society?8. Is it good to
5、 use Internet words instead of using traditional words9. When we see the old lying on the ground, lend a hand or not?三、决赛1. Is it a right and smart way for Americans to take up the Wall Street and even Washington D.C2. Foreign culture has great effect on Chinese culture. Does the advantage of such e
6、ffect outweigh the disadvantage or does the disadvantage outweigh the advantage?3. What does work mean to people? Work to live or live to work?全国初中生英语辩论赛参考题目Should students only learn from books?1. Only books can provide people with the knowledge that makes them educated.2. The criticism that what s
7、tudents learn today is not adapted to present-day society is utterly wrong because education can never be seen only in terms of how useful the subjects are when students leave school. We ought to evaluate education in terms of how much the students enjoy those subjects and how much they mean to thos
8、e students. 3. Instead of being trained to be utilitarian, students should be encouraged to do things for their own sake, for getting satisfaction out of them rather than for what is achieved at the end.4. Those with a good command of the knowledge provided in books can adapt themselves better to th
9、eir future life than those without.5. Those who stress only practical skills and techniques and ignore the function of books are short-sighted.6. Only by urging students to read more, write more and do more exercises can education be improved.7. Being practical, many children leave school and start
10、earning money at an early age. Because of this, quite a large number of children join the ranks of the illiterate in the country.8. Without the knowledge provided in books, there is no point in talking about training qualified personnel and fostering versatile talents.Counter-arguments1. Education i
11、s a gradual extension of oneself. It does not only take place in school buildings. It is a life-long experience.2. Students should be taught how to live and how to get on with one another. This is more important than reading and writing.3. Writing, reading and arithmetic dont really matter. What mat
12、ters is that students should learn to understand the world.4. Students are so overburdened with classwork and homework that many of them do not enjoy good health.5. Instead of offering students book-learning only, we should encourage them to get to know society so that they will be more adaptable to
13、 real life.6. Many students are spoilt by our present-dayeducational system. They may be top students at school, but they are at a loss as to how to deal with practical matters.7. Education is but a failure if it only produces people who are unable to put theory into practice.8. We should put right
14、the tendency of stressing only students academic achievement and ignoring their moral and physical education. Students, in their formative years, should have a chance to broaden their outlook rather than feel compelled to work towards passing an exam. Should smoking be prohibited?Argument1. Smoking
15、should be prohibited, for the World Health Organization points out that diseases linked to smoking kill at least 2,500,000 people each year.2. Scientific research had shown that the risk of developing lung cancer increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the duration of the smoking
16、habit, and it diminishes with the cessation of smoking.3. Smoking not only leads to lung cancer, but many other diseases such as heart attacks, sore throat, headache, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema, etc.4. Smoking is not only harmful to the smoker himself （herself）, but also results in the
17、deaths of non-smokers. Statistics show that passive smoking is causing 3,000 to 5,000 lung cancer deaths a year among American non-smokers.5. An American scientist estimated that smokers who average a package a day for 20 years will lose about eight years of their lives.6. Smoking is an expensive ha
18、bit, for a smoker who consumes 10 cigarettes a day will have to spend at least 40 Yuan a month.7. Smoking has a bad impact on the psyche of the smokers. On the one hand, smokers realize the bad effects of smoking and are persuaded from time to time to give up smoking. On the other hand, many of them
19、 can hardly resist the temptation to smoke. Hence they often lose confidence in themselves. 8. Children exposed to parental cigarette smoking are put at a higher risk of developing lung diseases later in their lives.9. Smoking not only pollutes the air but also makes the streets dirty, for some smok
20、ers flick the ash off their cigarettes and throw cigarette ends everywhere.10. Smoking speeds up the process ofaging and helps cause wrinkles on peoples faces.1. Smoking should not be prohibited, for cigarettes give a vast number of people a good deal of pleasure a lot of the time.2. Nicotine can pr
21、oduce a tranquillizing effect during high emotional and shock situations, and, therefore, helps to calm people down.3. Smoking counteracts the decrease in efficiency that typically occurs in boring, monotonous situations.4. Smokers can improve their performance in complex situations while smoking.5.
22、 Smokers help increase the revenue of our country.6. Smoking kills no more people than epidemics or traffic accidents.7. Most non-smokers spend a lot of money on snacks, a habit costing as much as smoking if not more.8. If smoking is eliminated, a lot of people in the tobacco industry will be out of
23、 jobs, and that will create many social problems.9. Facts have shown that if a chain-smoker suddenly quits smoking, hes more likely to have lung cancer than those who keep the habit.10. Everybody has the right to keep his or her habit. Smokers are no exceptionDoes parental permissiveness affect chil
24、drens development?Arguments1. The excessive permissiveness of present-day parents is doing more harm than good to children and society as well.2. Children should develop the habit of working and living independently and, meanwhile, practice the virtue of being filial to their parents.3. Children who
25、 have a surfeit of happiness in their child hood often emerge like stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.4. The fact that young people nowadays are self-centred, indifferent and inconsiderate of others is largely the outcome of parental permissiveness in their childhood.5. Parental auth
26、ority in a family helps a child to develop his character healthily.6. Parents should exercise strict discipline over their children because, the more permissive the parents are, the more rebellious against their parents the children will become.7. Lavish care and excessive permissiveness will only g
27、ive rise to hedonism among the younger generation.8. If one lets the child do whatever he wants to, he will ruin the child for life.9. We have to admit the fact that we now have got a generation of spoilt, self-centred brats with no respect for their elders.10. The spread of juvenile delinquency in
28、our age is largely due to parental permissiveness.1. More care for children is not the same as permissiveness to them.2. The truth is that parents nowadays do not take enough care of their children and often neglect their development because the parents are only interested in their careers.3. Parent
29、s are not at all permissive to their children. Violence often takes place in families in which children are abused.4. Only a relaxed family atmosphere can help the physical and psychological growth of children.5. To let children do what they like contributes to their independence and competence in t
30、heir adult lives.6. It is unfair to blame parents for thespread of juvenile delinquency. There are a lot of other causes involved.7. Many cases show that children leave home and become members of street gangs just because they can not bear authoritarian control over them by their parents.8. Strict d
31、iscipline does not always work in terms of developing childrens personal qualities. Too much pressure on children leads to rebellion and other extreme actions.9. Parents are not justified in using violence to keep discipline and maintain their authority over the children.10. Children are human beings, too. They need to be protected instead of being f
