2.耐心的重要性（the Importance of Patience）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying,“There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.”You can cite one example or two to illustrate the importance of patience. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

范文：

living in an era of information explosion, a growing number of people have too much desire but too little patience. However, provided that we intend to acquire and enjoy long-term progress and happiness, it is advisable for us to be the quality of patience.

On the one hand, patience, without a doubt, is like a stepping stone which enhances people’s resilience of dealing with difficulties, ensures more fruitful results, and enables them to go further on the way of success. A typical example is Edward Gibbon, a worldly renowned historian, who worked twenty years on the historic classicDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Another is Noah Webster spent thirty six years on his dictionary. On the other hand, for college students like us, without perseverance, we are prone to confine ourselves to low-efficiency and poor abilities. In fact, it is patience that lays a solid foundation for our academic success, as well as for us to be qualified job applicants in the future.

We, as youngsters, should bear in mind that when we encounter any adversities in life, work or study, only by working hard and wait patiently until the last minute, can we possibly see the advent of success. An enlightening saying shall be kept in mind, “There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.”

參考譯文：

生活在一個信息爆炸的時代，越來越多人有太多的欲望，但有太少的耐心。然而，假如我們想要獲得并享受長久的進步和快樂，那么我們就應該具備耐心的品質。

一方面，毫無疑問，耐心提高人們應對困難的適應能力，確保更加豐碩的成果，并且幫助他們在成功的道路上走得更遠。一個典型的例子是世界著名歷史學家愛德華·諾亞，他用二十年才完成了歷史經典《羅馬帝國衰亡史》；另一個例子是諾亞·韋伯斯特，他用了三十六年才編寫完《韋氏詞典》。另一方面，對于像我們一樣的大學生而言，如果沒有耐心，我們很容易就會陷入到低效率和差能力的境地。事實上，正是耐心奠定了學生們的學業成功的基礎，也為他們將來成為有能力的求職者奠定基礎。

作為年輕人，我們應當牢記當我們遇到任何生活，工作或學習中的苦難時，只有通過努力和耐心地等到最后一秒，我們才可能看到成功的到來。應當牢記一句發人深思的名言，“沒有任何一項成不是源自于耐心滴工作和等候。”