Directions

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “The most successful persons may not be the smartest ones.” You can give one example or two to illustrate your point of view. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

參考范文

According to a survey conducted among a group of people who were in the same college 10 years ago, those whose grade-point average was in the middle fifty percent, all become rich or managers of different fields, while not a single young man of the upper ten percent becomes an executive or boss.

One ingredient, among other things, is good interpersonal skills. With a wide circle of friends who can be trusted to provide information and resources, your chances of success are much higher. On the contrary, if you are competent in your profession, but have difficulty in getting along with your colleagues and even your boss, you can hardly survive the corporation. Another component is the ability toexpress oneself. In today’s world, what really counts is the ability to express oneself rather than technical competence or professional knowledge. The larger the organization of which you are an employee, and the fiercer the competition, the more important it will be that you know how to convey your thoughts and convince others of your ideas.

To sum up, according to my observation, academic brightness is only part of the story, the other factors are very important.

參考譯文

根據一項調查，十年前在同一大學中學習的一群人中，那些平均學分處于中間50%的人們都變得富有，或者成為不同領域的經理。然而沒有一個處于前10%的年輕人成了經理或老板。

諸多因素之一就是良好的人際關系。擁有廣泛的朋友圈可以信任并提供信息和資源，你的成功機會就會更大。相反，如果你在職業上很有能力，但是和同事甚至老板相處困難，就很難在公司中生存。另一個因素是自我表達能力。在當今世界，最重要的是表達自我的能力，而不是技術能力或專業知識。你所處的公司越大，競爭越激烈，你知道如何表達你的想法并使別人信服的能力就越發重要。

總之，根據我的觀察，學習優秀只是一個方面，其他因素也非常重要。

亮點詞匯

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句型拓展

①There is strong evidence that friendship can help to tide you over a period of difficulty.

大量有力的證據證明，友誼能幫助你度過難關。

②Why those who are not excellent in studies tend to be managers or own their own enterprises in their later life?

為什么那些在學業上不出眾的學生們以后反而容易成為經理或者擁有自己的企業?

③And what factors lead to success in career and life if brains are not the only answer?

如果智力不是答案，那什么因素導致了事業和生活上的成功呢？