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General Writing: Short Passages

  Students are required to write a composition of about 120 words within 30 minutes in CET 4. The composition you write should first of all stick to the point(s) you are asked to make. The language you use should be correct and clear. The ideas should be developed in a logical and coherent way. More often than not, you are asked to write a three-paragraph composition or a composition based on a chart or a graph. To help you to write, an outline or the main points are often given in English or in Chinese. The following is an example: a topic with three main points given in English to guide you in your writing.

Reading Selectively or Extensively
  1. Some people think we should read selectively
  2. Others hold that we should read extensively
  3. My opinion is that...

Here is a model:

Reading Selectively or Extensively

  Despite diversified sources of information in modern times, reading books still remains essential to the acquisition of knowledge,some people with a cost-effective turn of mind,prefer selective reading in that,with purposeful reading,much of their time and energy will be saved and that it is almost unlikely to learn everything through unrestrained reading.
  Others strongly argue that it is wise to read extensively. They believe the changing world today requires a wide range of knowledge. Hardly can anyone make a rigidly pre-set choice as to what to read. By doing extensive and randomly-chosen reading, people feel it will easier to be employed on the one hand, and they can enjoy a more colorful life on the other.
  Personally, I believe selective reading should be combined with extensive reading. As Francis Bacon stated, some books are to be chewed, some tasted and others swallowed. On the basis of “ tasting” extensively, we may select books that are to our taste for” chewing”.

Write a short passage of 120 words or so on the topic How to Be a Globally Qualified Talent. Your writing may be based on the following outline given below.

How to Be a Globally Qualified Talent

1. The challenges we face in such a globalized world.
2. The qualities one should have to be a globally qualified talent
3. The importance of being qualified


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