Ø  独立写作题目：

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

The most important characteristic for a successful politician or a leader is good communication skills.

下面就以“问题-解决”型的方式，来给同学们分析一下这道考题。

Problem 01：世事无绝对→题目中的“绝对词”：most（类似的还有only/best/any/always等），往往是写作逻辑辩证的突破口。

Solution 01：否定其most重要性，但肯定其有重要性，然后解释这种重要性体现在哪些方面。比如：领导善于沟通（strong communication skills），从而在商业、政治领域更容易达成合作（cooperation），支持（support）以及执行（execution）。

Problem 02：是否还有更为重要的个性（characteristic）？

Solution 02：没有内功修炼作为基础的秀个性，都是耍流氓 → 人与人沟通的70%是方式（communication skills），30%是内容（content）。但正是这30%的内容决定了人们要不要去在意这看似更“重要”的方式。举个例子（example）， 乔布斯（Steve Jobs）脾气暴躁，不善于与人交际，却依然能团结一群最优秀的人（intellectual elites），去开辟他的iPhone Empire。“乔布斯既能准确认清现在（understanding），又能清楚地看到未来（foresight）。如果你曾经与这些人共事过，你的职业生涯高度将被拔高，他们会是你最好的职业引导师（mentor）。”- 来自Quora

Problem 03：是否有与Problem 02同等重要的个性（characteristic）？

Solution 03：既已三思（understanding & foresight），就该后行（challenging） → 机遇与挑战并存，机遇青睐敢于接受挑战的人。比如：微软（Microsoft）的崛起，罗斯福新政（New Deal）的推行，哪怕是各位同学编造一个自己做足充分准备而为自己争取获得一个team leader的事例等。

参考范文：

How, you may wonder, will one’s ability to communicate with others influence his or her political or business career? Some people holds that this is the utmost important characteristic that promotes them to successfully accomplish their goal in being politicians or leaders. From my perspective of view, however, I doubt this proves to be nothing but an overstatement.

Admittedly, outstanding politicians and leaders are, to be fair,almost all equipped with equally outstanding communication skills. Basically, this quality ensures them support, cooperation as well as execution in their career. Such as during a political campaign, when a potential President is always giving speeches all over the country, expressing his/her political ideas and thoughts, whether Democratic or Whig, to the public. Without this sort of communication, people are less likely to vote for this candidate because, actually, they don’t even know him/her, let alone trust or support him/her.

However, what is of far more importance than communication skills turns out to be foresight. Namely, it makes sense that a successful political or leader should be capable of making predictions and planning both in advance and in detail. For instance, in order to achieve the ideal sales of a laptop computer, the marketing manager is supposed to evaluate where their potential customer base lies, where their promising market locates and which advertising approach would be more appropriate. Supposing that the marketing manager lacks this sharp insight, he/she is neither possible to survive in the highly competitive market nor granted as successful.

In addition, it is the courage to face challenges that plays an equivalent role in defining a leader or politician as successful. To be more accurate, challenges require people to have the gut to make risky decisions and undertake whatever it might finally bring about. A typical example of this is Bill Gates, the starter and CEO of Microsoft Corporation. Just imagine what will happen if Bill Gates hesitated about walking down the same and secure path as most of his contemporaries did instead of devoting himself to developing the MS-DOS system? Chances are that, practically, he would not witness the prosperity of his Microsoft empire it is now today. With negligence to  judgment, suspicion or mock around him, which are also obviously challenges, his risky spirit and efforts are ultimately paid off.

To sum up, despite the importance of communication skills towards the success of a politician or leader, it fails to be the most important one because other qualities, such as foresight and courage, can play an equal or even a more vital part in the career of a successful politician or leader. Only when politicians and leaders reasonably balance the weight of various qualities inside themselves can they fulfill what they desire.

Ø  综合写作题目：

Topic：探讨Sucralose（三氯蔗糖）的利弊

reason 1：损害健康：

（detail：）Australia的研究表明：在老鼠身上做实验，sucralose会损害老鼠的thymus（胸腺），一种免疫器官；thymus在人体（尤其是孩子）中很重要。

Listening反驳：（detail：）人要达到一定食用量才会伤害thymus：大约4000-5000 packs/天

reason 2：sucralose是一种organochlorine（有机氯）：

（detail：）organochlorine有毒，被用于制作化学杀虫剂。且该物质会在实验鼠体内积累，人长期服用会有危险。

Listening反驳：（detail：）不会被人体消化系统吸收，更不会积累而造成危害。

reason 3：反而让人更爱吃甜食，不利于减肥：

（detail：）含糖饮料：coffee；高糖食品：cake，cookies

Listening反驳：（detail：）sucralose性质特殊：高温加热不会分解，所以可用于烘焙蛋糕和饼干，从而适用于减肥。

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