Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss whether there is a shortcut to learning . You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
In the given picture, a student in a library is looking for a book titled How To Do Well In School Without Studying . Replying by pointing to her left side, the librarian tells the boy the book can be found in the fiction section. As will be readily seen, the cartoon ironically implies that diligence plays a vital role in learning; namely, to reckon on so-called shortcuts is totally unrealistic.
A frequently cited saying goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” Likewise, academic achievements can only be fulfilled through painstaking efforts. Many students idle away their precious time during the whole term, only counting on the hasty cramming or random predictions to get a decent test score. However, as many facts have proved, fortune only favors those industrious ones. Also in the long run, we obtain knowledge in order to wield it someday; thus opportunists will surely get nowhere with their scanty knowledge accumulation.
In fact, the widespread “shortcut belief ” is the projection of an eagerness for quick success in academic field. Thus society should firstly form a favorable atmosphere, in which instant benefits would no longer be applauded, while people who seem slow-witted but spare no effort to work are fairly paid off.