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.

          We all know the story of "The tortoise and the hare". The hare lost because he was overconfident. So slow??-and-steady wins the race.but did you know the tortoise and hare raced three more times? Afrer his loss the hare challenged the tortoise to a second race and this time was without stopping from start to finsh. There was no doubt that he won. The lesson this time was

  that fast-and-consistent beats slow-and-steady.then the tortoise challenged the hare to  a third race. over a slightly different route. The hare ran at top speed until he reachcd a broad river.Although the finishing line was just a kilometre past the river the hare had no way of croasing and once more the slow-and-steady swimming tortoise came out on tup.

            The hare and the tortoise. by this time, had become good friends. They realized they could perfom better together than separately. So they decided to have one more race. But this time they would work as a team.  They started off. and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the  riverbank. There. the tortoise took over and swam across the river with the hare on his hack. On the opposite bank. the hare again camed the tortoise and they reached the finishing line togeLhcr. much more quickly than chey had been able to alone They both felt a greater sense of

Satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.                                        

  [寫作內窖]

    1．以約30個詞概括這段短文的內容；

    2(1)以約120個詞就第四次龜兔賽跑的寓意發表個人觀點。內容包括：

    (1)如何利用自身優勢：

    (2)如何發揮團隊精神。

  [寫作要求】

    1．在作文中可使用自己的親身經歷或虛構的故事，也可以參照閱讀材料的內容，但不

  得直接引用原文中的句子：

    2．作文中不能出現真實姓名和學校名稱。

  [評分標準]

    概括準確，語言規范，內容合適，篇章連貫。

Answer 1

The passage describes four races between the hare and the tortoise and analyses the moral learned from each race. In the last race, they learned they could achieve greater success and satisfaction through co-operation.

I think the story can teach us that when we work together we can achieve more than when we compete. It is a win-win effect. The story reminds me of my experience when I first came to this school. My classmate, Michael showed great talent in science studies while I was pretty good at history and economics. I feared that Michael would outperform me in the exams so I avoided helping him and viewed him as my competitor. It was not until Michael suggested that we work together that I understood the importance and benefit of cooperation. We shared learning methods and helped each other. As a result, we both made progress in our studies and became top-ten students.

As far as I’m concerned, it's good to be individually brilliant, but working as a team will always beat individual performance/brilliance.