新东方2017年2月11日雅思写作真题答案解释回忆版

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The chart below shows the percentage of adults not doing physical exercise in Australia in 2005.

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In modern society, ambition is more and more important. How important is ambition for being successful in life? Is it positive or negative?

相同考试日期：2012-4-12

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1. 野性对于一个人的成功极为重要，它推动着人们克服困难，集中注意力在自己的目标上。举例，在野心驱动下，人们总是态度积极，工作努力，而且乐于竞争，这些让人们有一个出色的工作表现。相反，缺乏野心总是让人变得平庸(mediocre)，甚至是懒惰，他们会没有意志力，没有远见。

2. 野心是一种宝贵的品质。举例，有野心的职员会全力投入到工作中，他们会对自己有明确的目标和计划，不会把时间花费在聊天和发呆之中。此外，野心让人们有挑战精神，这让他们不会被困难和挫败感所打倒。此外，野心会激发人们的思维，让人们有新的点子来解决问题。

3. 当然，野心过度也会导致一个失衡的生命。举例，野心勃勃的人总是工作狂，这会让他们忽略自己的健康，甚至是花时间在照顾家庭和孩子上。此外，这些人总是对自己要求很高，一旦不如意，他们就会感到巨大的失落和焦虑。这也是很多努力工作的家伙自杀的原因。

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In an age of fierce competition, the characteristic of ambition has been stressed in schools and companies. Personally, I concede that ambition is the source of motivation helps people making progress, while ambition abuse might have negative effects on the society.

Firstly, ambition plays an essential role, because it is the source of driving force for people to achieve success. For example, in order to reach goals, people with ambition are always active, attentive, hard-working and competitive. Therefore, their excellent performance in their fields can be highly expected. On the contrary, the absence of aspiration would weaken people physically and mentally, making them passive, mediocre and lazy. Their willpower will falter; their dreams and visions will fade, let along the success.

There are many virtues of ambition in moderation, including desire, enthusiasm, concentration, dedication, determination and fearlessness. All of these traits can push people’s careers forwards in the right direction. For example, under the stimulation of ambition, employees in a company have definite objectives and plans, as well as devote themselves into work with a sharp focus, which means a higher efficiency and lower mistakes in work. In addition, ambition equips employees with challenging spirit, by which they can courageously face and solve problems and difficult, instead of being defeated and frustrated with small barriers. Moreover, ambition can activate the thinking of people, thus sparking new ideas and inspirational proposals.

However, overambitiousness might be risky to people’s life. For one thing, it would shape people as workaholics trapped into a work-oriented lifestyle, which means prolonged work hours, frequent extra tasks and meetings, as well as the shortage of time spending on family, leisure, sleep or exercise. For another, ambitious people always set a high-level anticipation about their work performance in minds. As long as their practical achievements are not as good as expected, they would immediately be attacked by negative emotions like depression, anxiety and self doubting. That is to say, the emphasis on ambition would lead to an imbalanced and unhealthy life, physically and mentally.

In conclusion, it is undeniable that people today need ambition for self improvement. However, we should be very circumspect about this personality, because as long as it goes too far, a balanced life might be ruined.