口语15题及答案1.doc

3.How do you define success? What factors do you think are decisive for achieving success? I think success is about achieving the little goals you set for yourself that give you a sense of accomplishment. It can be simple things such as getting an A on a difficult exam or bigger things like graduating from high school/college. Its knowing that there was a challenge or obstacle that you managed to overcome. Whats more,If youve managed to live a relatively happy life, I think thats a success. Our world is driven and focused on monetary value, but not all those that are rich are happy. Some people think that opportunity is the first factor leading to success. They hold the idea, as a proverb saying, “Man proposes, god disposes”. Because almost all successful people have good luck and have caught their valuable opportunities, they believe that opportunity is a leading condition of the success. If seizes and makes the best use of opportunity available, one can succeed surely. In summary, to them, chances and lucks play the most important role on the road to success. However, others maintain that “no pains, no gains” .Without exerting oneself, one could never expect to achieve success in no matter what one is doing. As is known to all, there is no royal road to the summit of success. One is likely to succeed only when one has worked with whole-hearted devotion and perseverance. Those who are lazy, sloppy and indifferent to their work, those who never concentrate on work will definitely end in failure. On the whole, as far as they are concerned, hard-working is the decisive factor to success. In my view, both hard work and opportunity eventually matters. They are inseparable from each other, and put together, they make a great success. Hard work is to luck what fish is to water, and can be seen as an interior precondition of success. It lays the corner-stone for building a house while luck serves to cement it, to make the building bricks adherent to one another. They are