写作题 TOPIC   “To get success, you need friends; to get huge success, you need enemies. ” Do you agree with this saying or not? Why or why not?
【正确答案】范文: I agree that we need friends to get success, but I don’t agree that we need enemies to get huge success. The reasons can be listed as follows. Friends have a positive influence on people’s lives. It’s friends who give us courage, love and support when we are at a low tide. By contrast, enemies only set barriers in our ways to success and make us suffer from painful losses. Imagine when you are in a cold weather, which one would you embrace, a fire or cold water?   It’s true that sometimes we are subdued by our enemies, while sometimes we are defeated by ourselves. We easily become so proud and arrogant after we have achieved a little success that we can’t accept others’ unflattering advice; pride and prejudices have blinded our eyes with ease. At this time, the threat from an enemy may possibly keep us awake from the laziness and self-indulgence accompanied success, and work harder to achieve the next success. In this sense, an enemy can be said to contribute to our success a little bit.   But can an enemy bring us huge success? Certainly not. A nation, as well as a person, gets huge success only from their hard work, ingenious minds and sometimes the help of chances. Enemies are always enemies. They may stimulate you to work hard, but it’s unwise to expect an enemy to give you a hand when hardship arrives. During the difficult times, it’s your friends who stand behind you and make strenuous attempts to help you. Success is hard to win, and huge success is even harder to secure. We can safely say that huge success can only come with your continuous efforts and generous help from your friends, family and associates; it will never be handed to you from an enemy, unless he or she purposely employs this as a strategy to confuse you. Besides, if you are strong enough in character, enemies can evoke your anger to fight against them hardly. But if your mind is not so strongly constituted, powerful enemies will destroy you effortlessly and utterly, leaving you little chance to bob up like a cork again. The contest between you and your enemies is often ruthless. Imagine you are in a battlefield now, do you believe that your enemies would make you win the battle? Definitely not. In this sense, enemies bring us not huge success, but desperation and destruction.   So we can change the above mentioned words into this: “to get success, you need friends; to get huge success, you need more friends and few enemies. ”
【答案解析】题目解析:这个题目比较有挑战性,乍看之下,两个分句自相矛盾。但是,既然有这种说法,就有它存在的理由,我们首先要找到人们这么说的理由是什么。找到了之后,才能够决定自己的立场,是赞成还是反对,理由分别又是什么。   首先审题发现,题目本身分成两个部分,一是“To get success, you need friends”,一是“to get huge success, you need enemies”。看起来像是一句似非而是的隽语,即看似矛盾而实际却可能成立的说法。对于题目中这两部分,考生可以分别表明态度,只支持其中一句而反对另一句;也可以全部赞成或反对,只要自己的立论站得住脚。一般而言,人们对第一句话没有太多异议,而第二句话才是争论的焦点。因此,题目中隐藏的重点是第二句话。此时,考生要细加思考的是:人们为什么会有第二句话这种说法?他们的理由是什么?这种观点真的可以成立吗?在什么样的条件下可以成立?在他们的逻辑中,有没有漏洞?……这样一步步追问下去,文章脉络就自然清晰了。提起笔来,也自然胸有成竹。