题目内容
请根据以下提示，并结合事例，用英语写一篇短文。
As for “the way to success”, Abraham Lincoln once said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
注意：①无须写标题；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例；
④文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
⑤词数不少于120，如引用提示语则不计入总词数。
One possible version:
As a proverb goes, “Preparedness ensures success and unpreparedness spells failure”. It can’t be denied that good preparation is one of the essentials of success.
The first two years of my junior middle school life went so smoothly and I got so good grades in every exam that I took it for granted that I was sure to be admitted by a key high school. Thus，in my junior three, I began totally loosening myself up and no longer focused on study. It is no accident that my academic performance declined sharply. Not until the last month of my junior three did I realize it and concentrated on learning again. However, it was too late to make full preparation then— I failed in the senior high school entrance examination.
From my experience, I see that at no time should we ignore the importance of making good preparation, and that success belongs to those who can suffer long years of patient toil and constant efforts.
【解析】试题分析：考查开放性作文。开放性作文给出了一个话题，并有部分的文字提示。给考生自由发挥的余地较大。对于考生的综合能力要求较高，要求考生有很强的谋篇布局的能力和组织要点的能力。在完成开放性作文时，首先要选择自己熟悉的短语或者句型，在你的能力范围之内，选择句式时要赋予变化，因为这样你才可以更好的驾驭。同时也要选择合适的连接词，把各个要点组织成一个完整的整体。【亮点说明】范文用了一些常见短语：take it for granted视为当然，be admitted by录取，loosening myself up放松自己，focus on专注于，belong to属于，还有范文中的句式也很出彩：As a proverb goes, “Preparedness ensures success and unpreparedness spells failure”.这句话用了非限制性定语从句，Not until the last month of my junior three did I realize it and concentrated on learning again.这句话用了倒装句，and that success belongs to those who can suffer long years of patient toil and constant efforts. 这句话用了定语从句， However, it was too late to make full preparation then— I failed in the senior high school entrance examination.这句话用到了however表转折语气。
考点：考查开放性作文写作
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