英语写作的开头，常用方式为五种，具体是：引用名人名言，摆事实讲道理，引证趣闻逸事或者运用修辞，具体描述这五种。
今天我们一起来看第一种方式：引用名人名言。在考试的时候，我们可以背诵常用的名言进行改写或者引证，比如：
(1). “Authority is quite degrading.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
(2). Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)
(3). Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer)
以2012年10月考题为例：Do all people need to be creative?
我们可以运用名言的同时进行平行改写。
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, once declared that “ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.” From my perspective, creativity is beacon. Without creativity, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.” Nothing comes first and is greatly needed but creativity and innovation instead.
这样的开头，可以帮助考官和读者逐渐理解作者观点的同时，亦可欣赏到美文，不失为一篇佳作。