Question

第二節  讀寫任務 (共1小題, 滿分25 分)

閱讀下面的短文，然后按照要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語短文。

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in winter, the second in the spring, the third in the summer and the youngest son in the fall.

When they all had gone and returned, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said the tree was ugly and twisted. The second son said no, it was covered with green buds ad full of promise. The third son disagreed, he said it was filled with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful that it was the most graceful things he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them, insisting that it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and satisfaction.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had seen but one season in the tree’s life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by one season. If you give up when it’s winter, you’ll miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, and satisfaction of your fall.

Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest!

[寫作內容]

請用30詞概括故事中四個孩子對梨樹的描述。

2．請用120詞以Do not make haste in judgment為主題完成以下寫作任務：

（1）談談你對上面的故事的理解，你聽過類似的故事或有過相關的經歷嗎？簡單講述一個類似的故事。

  （2）談談你自己對此類故事的感想，例如，明白培養自己全面客觀的人生態度的重要性，面對困境時,勇于堅持；面對矛盾時，善于易地而處……（可自由發揮）

 [寫作要求]

1. 可以使用自己的經歷或聽到的故事,可以參照閱讀材料的內容, 但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

 [評分標準]

概括準確、語言規范、內容合適、篇章連貫。

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Answer 1

  Don’t Make Haste in Judgment

The four sons, having been arranged to visit the pear tree at different seasons came back respectively describing it as disagreeable in winter, promising in spring, graceful in summer and full of life and satisfaction in autumn.

   Of course, as the father put it, they were all right but one-sided as none of them had witnessed the growth of the tree all year round. In fact, there are those who jump to a conclusion before taking a full perspective of things. Here is a story: a husband who had returned from a business trip, on arriving home at midnight, heard a snorting sound coming from the bedroom and decided that his wife had betrayed him, left home and requested a divorce from his wife, who felt hurt and begged to be explained why. When the wife told him the snorting was nothing but the Rising Anti-Virus Software in the computer, he was ashamed to death for being so irresponsible as not to give it a second thought.

  Therefore never make haste. Only when you learn to judge things in an all-sided manner can you enjoy and be grateful to your life and withstand difficulties or different opinions peacefully.