对比说明:帮助有前科的人开始新生活-HelpEx-cons①StartNew.
帮助有前科的人开始新生活
【内容提示】
对于犯错误的人或以前服过刑的罪犯应该采取什么态度呢？是排斥还是帮助？有的人可能采取前一种态度，有的人则会采用后一种态度。试想，这两种态度会带来什么结果呢？显然会出现两种结果。请结合你平时经历过的一些事情对比说明上述两种情况。
【作文示范】
Help Ex-cons①Start New Life
I once read a story about a person who was put into prison for his bad behavior. After serving his time in prison, he returned home.“How can you have the face to come home, go away!”his angry father shouted at him. Two months later, he was put into prison again for stealing.
I also read a story about a different person in the same situation, but when he returned to his village, no one looked down upon him, and people helped him find a job to make a living. Five years later, he became a millionaire②and contributed to the building of a school in his hometown.
Different attitudes produce different results.
Generally speaking, after reeducation③ most people have learnt their lessons and find a legal④ way to support themselves through honest labour. When returning to society, only a few returned to their old ways. But even though the number of the ex-felons⑤ who return to a life of crime is below 8 per cent, we should understand that these repeated offences are much worse than first offences.
The task of guiding these people is a job that belongs not only to the persons themselves and their families, but is a task the whole society should confront⑥.
（选自1999年1月27日《英文21世纪报》）
【词语解释】
①ex-con[eks ＇k&n] n．以前的罪犯；有前科者
②millionaire[?milj+＇n#+] n．百万富翁
③reeducation[＇ri:edju(:)＇keiM+n] n．再教育
④legal[＇li:g+l] adj．法律（上）的
⑤ex-felon[eks-＇fel+n] n．重罪人，重罪犯
⑥ confront[k+n＇fr)nt] v．（使）面对，（使）面临
【写法指要】
本文是一篇对比型说明文，即对照两个人或事物的不同点。文章采用综合法（all-about pattern）开门见山地对所讨论的问题作了对比：第一段写对有前科者的不正确态度；第二段写对这类人员的正确态度，经纬分明。第三、四段是作者做出的总结和结论。第五段写作者的建议。