TOFEL写作作业 （Jack船长）---望指教

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In today’s world, it is more important to work quickly and risk making mistakes than to work slowly and make sure that everything in correct. (追求速度还是小心谨慎?)

In contemporary society, speed and efficiency are considered as priority in people’s daily life. Everyone is seeking the fastest and shortest way to complete tasks. However, different people hold divergent opinions on this matter. As far as I am concerned, working slowly and making sure that everything is correct has more advantages than working quickly and risking making mistakes.

Admittedly, speed is a key aspect in many projects and there is an old saying that “time is money”. Therefore, in terms of this factor, complete tasks with high speed is likely to be a shortcut for the time and money saving. However, the real situation is not always like that. Actually, on the one hand, the benefits obtain from high speed could be counteracted by the cost of errors. Take the tragedy of lake-crossing bridge fracture in my hometown as example. Building this bridge was a profitable engineering, with high return on investment, while lots of challenging. In order to reduce the labor costs and earn more profits, the investor accelerated construction speed without quality consideration. Of course, the bridge was broken eventually soon. Luckily, no one was hurt in this disaster. For the both the citizens and the investor, the lost will be far higher than the cost saving from the unreasonable high speed construction strategy.

Additionally, working slowly and making sure that everything in correct would bring you more advantages than you think. There are some examples could aptly illustrate this point. In the software industry, it seems like the speed of new software product is critical for a start-up company because it could take the first mover advantage. Nevertheless, this is not the case. Comparing with the fast-made software with many bugs and bad customer experience, the lower speed product with excellent quality will be more welcome by the customers. Secondly, as a college student major in biochemistry, we need to deal with lots of self-design experiments. Some of my classmates always start their experiments running as quickly as possible due to time saving without good preparation and design. So they often make mistakes and couldn’t get accurate data. Instead, the top student, Frank, always finishes his work slowly but more carefully. Right now, he is in medical school, on his way to being a Dr. Frank.

To sum up, from what has been discussed, we can easily draw a conclusion that making everything correct with low speed is more essential than bad inferior quality with high speed.

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Friendshave more influence than teachers on students?? （老师影响大，还是学生影响大）---378 words

Incontemporary society, students can be influenced by many factors from family,school and society. And as the most suitable place for students to study, schoolsindeed play important role in the growing of students. Any tiny factors willinfluence students greatly, including the teachers and classmates. As far as Iam concerned, the influence from both friends and teachers is supposed to beequally significant.


Onthe one hand, teachers are the samples imitated by almost all the students. Withoutparents accompany with them, students, especially the pupils are always feelconfused and do not know how to study, how to make friends with classmates andeven how to perform in music class. So they begin to search for the suitablesample to follow. As trained adults with natural authority, teachers will be theirbest choice for imitation. The pupils will follow the teacher’s way of talking,reading, singing and walking. I came from a small village, in the WesternChina. I could not speak Mandarin even when I started primary school, so I feltdeeply frustrate and was afraid to make friends with the other classmates. Thenby carefully observing and imitating her pronunciation during her classes, Iobtained a great improvement in Mandarin speaking finally. My excellent gradein Chinese proved effectively that teachers could influence greatly.
Onethe other hand, what need to be mentioned and paid attention to is thatdifferent friends around us also play an important role. The reason why schooltime is so impressive in our lifetime is due to the amazing and funny friends. WhenI close my eyes, most relaxing and fantastic pictures emerge in my brain is thetime together with my friends. It is friends that decorate our boring studytime so unforgettable and beautiful. When I feel depressed, I will listen tothe music that my friends recommend; when I feel confused, I will talk with myfriends to let things clearly; when I earn any achievement, I will share thehappy time with my friends.

Tosum up, from what has been discussed above, we can easily draw a conclusionthat both teachers and friends play an important role on students’ daily lives.We had better take full advantage of the assistance from them.