Issue 7

"All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."

I agree that it would serve the interests of all nations to establish a global university for the purpose of solving the world's most persistent social problems. Nevertheless, such a university poses certain risks which all participating nations must be careful to minimize--or risk defeating the university's purpose(改为or it would risk defeating…)
精华：pose certain risks

One compelling argument in favor of a global university has to do with the fact that its faculty and students would bring diverse culture and educational perspectives to the problems they seek to solve. It seems to me(在gre作文一般没有这样开头的) that nations can only benefit from a global university where students learn ways in which other nations address certain soda problems whether successfully or not. It might be tempting to think(=People cling to think that…) that an overly diversified academic community would impede communication among students and faculty. However, in my view any such concerns are unwarranted, especially considering the growing awareness of other peoples and cultures which the mass media, and especially the Internet, have created. Moreover, many basic principles used to solve enduring social problems know no national boundaries; thus a useful insight or discovery can come from a researcher or student from any nation.
精华： one compelling argument in favor of … has to do with the fact that…address soda problems, However, in my view any such concerns are unwarranted… Many basic principles used to solve enduring social problems KNOW NO BOUNDARIES
Growing awareness of other peoples(民族)

Another compelling argument for a global university involves the increasingly global nature of certain problems. Consider, for instance, the depletion of atmospheric ozone, which has waned the Earth to the point that it threatens the very survival of the human species. Also, we are now learning that dearly-cutting the world's rainforests can set into motion a chain of animal extinction that threatens the delicate balance upon which all animals--including humans--depend. Also consider that a financial crisis---or a political crisis or natural disaster in one country can spell trouble for(改为to) foreign companies, many of which are now multinational in that they rely on the labor forces, 
equipment, and raw materials of other nations.
精华： another compelling argument for… involves…dearly-cutting （dearly 在这里的意思是excessively）spell trouble to… in that…＝because 
之前几段作者阐述the necessity and reason why we should establish a global university, 接下来就是分析其局限性了。

Environmental, economic, and political problems such as these all carry grave social consequences--increased crime, unemployment, insurrection, hunger, and so forth. Solving these problems requires global cooperation--which a global university can  facilitate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing reasons why a global university would help solve many of our most pressing social problems, the establishment of such a university poses certain problems of its own which must be addressed in order that the university can achieve its objectives. First, participant nations would need to overcome a myriad of administrative and political impediments. All nations would need to agree on which problems demand the university's
attention and resources, which areas of academic research are worthwhile, as well as agreeing on policies and procedures for making, enforcing, and amending these decisions.
Query whether a functional global university is politically feasible, given that sovereign nations naturally wish to advance their own agendas.
精华：Environmental, economic, and political problems such as these all carry grave social consequences Notwithstanding the foregoing reasons why… as well as agreeing on policies and procedures for making, enforcing, and amending these decisions. advance their own agendas

A second problem inherent in establishing a global university involves the risk that certain intellectual and research avenues would become officially sanctioned while others of equal or greater potential value would be discouraged, or perhaps even proscribed. A telling example of the inherent danger of setting and enforcing official research priorities involves the Soviet government's attempts during the 1920s to not only control the direction and the goals of its
scientists' research but also to distort the outcome of that research--- ostensibly for the greatest good of the greatest number of people. Not surprisingly, during this time period no significant scientific advances occurred under the auspices of the Soviet government. 
The Soviet lesson
provides an important caveat to administrators of a global university: 
Significant progress in
solving pressing social problems requires an open mind to all sound ideas, approaches, and theories---respective of the ideologies of their proponents.
精华：A second problem inherent in doing sth…involves the risk that…
A telling example of the inherent danger of setting and enforcing official research priorities involves ostensibly for the greatest good of the greatest number of people

A final problem with a global university is that the world's preeminent intellectual talent might be drawn to the sorts of problems to which the university is charged with solving, while parochial social problem go unsolved. While this is not reason enough not to establish a global university, it nevertheless is a concern that university administrators and participant nations must be aware of in allocating resources and intellectual talent.
精华：a final problem with … is that……while parochial social problem go unsolved.

To sum up, given the increasingly global nature or the world's social problems, and the escalating costs of addressing these problems, a global university makes good sense. And, since all nations would have a common interest in seeing this endeavor succeed, my intuition is that participating nations would be able to overcome whatever procedural 
and political obstacles that might stand in the way of success. （以下这句值得反复背诵）As long as each nation is careful not to neglect its own unique social problems, and as long as the university's administrators are careful to remain open-minded about the legitimacy and potential value of various avenues of intellectual inquiry and research, a global university might go along way toward solving many of the world's pressing social problems.
精华：to sum up…
escalating costs of addressing these problems makes good sense=sound reasonable / rational
此篇文章总的来说是相当不错的， 要知道如果是卡时间的话，能在短短45分钟写出如此长段已经很amazing 啦，更别提语句的通顺和不落俗套了。但我必须指出一点的是，作者没有在首段下功夫，因为首段往往占据着决定性地位的，其次是内容，再次是语法，语句的复杂程度了。

最后总结：大家看了这几天的“每日一评”的几篇文章之后，虽然其质量参差不齐，但我们能感觉到，gre作文要拿高分，无非紧随这几项原则：
· 首尾段要十分attractive, straightforward, incisive.
· 大凡举例要有意义，就是从societal, environmental, economical, national, ethical, ethnical… 这些大方向开始海阔天空吹一番，但别太过火了。
· 要遵循一定的辩论模式，但不能太依赖模版，也就是需要内容要insightful来锦上添花。

作者:tomatoeggs