今日看两道意义抽象的话题，由此体会托福写作中「会举例子」有多么重要。

　　Question 1

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

　　Remaining happy and optimistic when you fail is more important than achieving success.

　　Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

　　Sample Response

　　阅读提示：蓝色部分不是例子，呈现出来是为了给大家的阅读创建完整的语境。文中玫红色的部分是举例子的部分。另外，文章没有完整呈现。

　　To many people, having fame or wealth is the highest ideal. However, we deal with setbacks and mediocrity most of the time. In this case, optimism is desired, and, in fact, it is more important than attaining success.

　　An open mind in the face of failure enables individuals to have the gut to give it another shot, and as long as we try, the likelihood of success remains. Conversely, if they surrender to the defeat, they are hardly likely to achieve anything. This happens to me on a daily basis. As a salesperson, anytrade may not be made by the first meeting with my clients. Anegotiation may take forever, and failure is highly likely. However, I maintain my faith, and as a result, I persist all the time and have made good deals. Gradually, I find it more delightful to have resilience and patience than to achieve success, which brings only transient excitement. The opposite case happened to one peer of mine who recently quit the job. As he could notcope with the constant failure properly, he never made a single successful sale.

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　　Question 2

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

　　Some believe that we should keep a distance from the people we care about, because it is necessary for people to understand the importance of each other. Others think being away from people we care about can damage our relationship with them and we should spend more time with them.

　　Which do you prefer?

　　Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

　　Sample Response

　　阅读提示：蓝色部分不是例子，呈现出来是为了给大家的阅读创建完整的语境。文中玫红色的部分是举例子的部分。另外，文章没有完整呈现。

　　Between two individuals, keeping a distance could go either of the two following ways: the either strengthen or weaken the relationship. It is reasonable that some people prefer the intimacy between loved ones; in my case, a certain distance is necessary, however.

　　Staying close with each other, the two parties of a relationship—a friendship, a romantic relationship, or family—may have no secrets between each other. This may be the expectation of a good relationship of my opposite side. The opposite side may also expect that friends, lovers or family stick with each other and be the 24/7 company. They would otherwise feel insecure or even deny the relationship. However, the closeness may be stressful and annoying,counterproductiveto building a sound relationship. For example, my parents and I used to live in the same neighborhood. As they were physically close to me, they visited me often or my apartment when I was absent. Although I appreciated their doing household chores for me, I also felt uncomfortable because many of their unscheduled visits were intrusions and those regular visits were also not-so-delightful. As an adult, I would prefer privacy and random solitude to being taken detailed care of. It thus follows that we in fact would not appreciate an around-the-clock companion but prefer having no distractions.

　　It thus follows that keeping a distance is actually favorable to the mutual cherishment between two people. When the distance is kept, nothing is taken-for-granted, and the feeling of thathighlights the value of a friend, a lover, or family. Behind the feeling is the sense of insecurity, which however makes the friend, lover or family treasure.This is my strategy of maintaining a good status in my friendships. I deliberately keep myself available yet from a proper distance to my friends, and they thus have limited yet adequate access to me. Many of them may have the fear that they may lose me and, as a result, always keep me in mind.

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　　遇到意义抽象的话题时，我们的讲道理可能是苍白无力的，我们甚至可能也无法把一个道理讲出所以然。“会举例子”才是成就写作内容充实、道理真切的关键，且不说例子的内容在篇幅上的帮助。

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