2014年6月29日，希望对各位考生的备考有所帮助，祝每位烤鸭考试顺利，都能取得好成绩！
综合写作：
| Topic议题 | ||
| How to address the decline of aquatic life. | ||
| Reading | Listening | |
| Thesis总论点 | Three methods. |
Against. 反对 |
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Sub-point 1 分论点1 |
禁止捕捉螃蟹 | 这个做法专业渔民不会接受，关乎他们的生计，所以不可行 |
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Sub-point2 分论点2 |
可以引入oyster来解决疾病问题 | Oyster可能会带来新的疾病，有潜在的风险 |
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Sub-point3 分论点3 |
教育农民少用化肥 | 人太多面积太广，这个做法不实际 |
独立写作：
To remain happy and optimistic when you fail is more important than achieving success. 重复2010.10.9ML
Modern society places a lot of emphasis on success. Though success is clearly desirable, I think our intense focus on success is unhealthy and counterproductive. People would be better served by learning how to adopt a positive attitude towards failure.
First of all, this would allow them to live more fulfilling lives. Studies have shown that the fulfillment brought by success is very fleeting. While you may feel great for a little while after, your mood will quickly drop back to normal levels. The road to success is paved with setbacks; even if you do eventually achieve your goals, if you are unable to experience the failures positively, you will have actually experienced a net decrease in happiness. It is thus important to remain happy and optimistic through failure, because while failure comes inevitably and often, success does not.
Second of all, focusing too much on success will hurt your relationships with others, whereas learning to enjoy failure will actually improve your relationships with others. This is particularly true of working in a team. For one class project, I had to work in a team led by someone who only cared about success. We didn’t pursue any unusual ideas, and mistakes were criticized harshly. The team did fairly well, but by the end everybody hated working on the assignment. The leader’s attitude rubbed off on all of us: nobody wanted to take risks, and setbacks weighed heavy on all of us. This was in contrast to my friend’s group, which had a much more open-minded leader. She encouraged the team to test unconventional ideas, and any time they hit a roadblock, they took it as an opportunity to rethink their approach. After the project was over they all remained friends, and they even received a better grade than us.
This leads me to my final point: enjoying failure and de-emphasizing success will paradoxically make you more apt to succeed. This is because success hinges on consistent progress, and consistent progress can only come from continuously challenging your abilities and risking failure. Michael Jordan once said that his success came from failing over and over—that he had missed thousands of shots on his path to greatness. He was able to get better because he was eager to see where his deficiencies lay and figure out how to address them. This is the common thread we see in all successful people: they are all happy to fail, because failures open up opportunities for improvement.
Most people fail more often than they succeed. Thus, in order to live a fulfilling life, we should learn to approach failure positively. This will not only improve our relationships, but also make success more likely.