Question

Guided writing（25分）
Directions: Write an English composition in 120—150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
人們常說“戰勝自己，超越自我”。請你以“I only compete with myself”為題寫一篇短文。敘述你生活或學習中的一件事，說明只有戰勝了自己，超越了自己才有意義，才是真正意義上的成功。

Answer 1

  In the real world, everyone wants to be splendid. Someone looks for a man of straw to catch up with, while others just compete with themselves. To me own, I certainly stand for the latter.
As a high school student, my main purpose is to get high marks and enter the dreaming university. I once locked on the number one student in our grade as my target object. But the result turned out to be far from satisfactory. Under greater and greater pressure, I just couldn’t bend my energy on studies and often made stupid mistakes. Hence, I stopped forcing myself and struggled to the very end just to be the best of me. What I required myself to achieve was not to be better than anyone else but to defeat the old one. And since then, I have performed better and made progress day by day.
So it is really useless setting unrealistic goals, since there is always someone who is either prettier or smarter than us. We might have kept chasing after others for a lifetime but finally found that we didn’t achieve anything. As the saying goes, “God only saves the man who saves himself.” and analogously, we only need to compete with ourselves. The sun will illuminate every corner of the land as long as we try to be the best of us.

試題分析：考查半開放性作文。半開放性作文給出了一個話題，并有部分的文字提示。給考生自由發揮的余地較大。本文討論的話題是“戰勝自己，超越自我”，按照要求要夾敘夾議，通過自己的親身經歷進行闡述只有戰勝了自己，超越了自己才有意義，才是真正意義上的成功。，要求考生在保證內容要點全部概括的基礎上可以充分發揮自己的想象，進而用自己的語言來表達某種觀點或看法，增添了寫作的靈活性，同時能較好地考查考生的想象能力和英語語言表達能力。同時也要選擇合適的連接詞，把各個要點組織成一個完整的整體，如besides, further, last but not least等。
點評：半開放性作文寫作對于考生的綜合能力要求較高，要求考生有很強的謀篇布局的能力和組織要點的能力。在完成開放性作文時，首先要選擇自己熟悉的短語或者句型，在你的能力范圍之內，選擇句式時要賦予變化，因為這樣你才可以更好的駕馭。在發表個人觀點的時候，可以使用諺語來提升整個文章的檔次和文采，也能增加得高分的可能性。