Topic(题目)：
Do you agree or disagree with the followingstatement? A person’s childhood years (thetime from birth to twelve years of age) are themost important years of a person’s life. Usespecific reasons and examples to support youranswer.
Model Essay(范文)：
I agree that a person’s childhood years, from birth until twelve years of age, are the mostimportant. All the information I’ve read about that time of life states that these are the yearsthat form us. These years determine what kind of a person the child will become. During theseyears we learn about relationships, begin our formal education and develop our moral sense ofright and wrong.
The early years are the time when we learn about relationships. First we learn about ourparents and siblings, then about rest of the world. We learn how to respond to others basedthe treatment we’re given. If we’re loved, then we know how to love others. If we’re treatedharshly, we may grow up to treat others harshly. We also form our ideas about our own self-worth from the way others treat us during these years. They can convince us we’reworthless, or they can teach us we deserve love and respect.
There are the years when we begin our formal education. We acquire the basic skills - reading, writing, working with numbers - that we’ll use throughout our lives. We need a goodfoundation in these subjects. Otherwise, anything we try to do later will be undermined by ourlack of skills. Perhaps the most important thing we can learn during these years is how toanalyze information and use it. These are skills that will always be useful.
Most important, from my point of view, these are the years when we develop our moral senseof what’s right and wrong. Others teach us about good and bad, but later in our early years webegin to decide for ourselves. It’s also during this time that we begin to develop the self-discipline to live according to our morals.
I believe a person grows and changes for the better throughout the many stages of life. However, the foundation is laid in those first few years of life.
重点单词 全部解释
determine[di'tə:min]v. 决定，决心，确定，测定
statement['steitmənt]n. 声明，陈述
acquire[ə'kwaiə]vt. 获得，取得，学到
worthless['wə:θlis]adj. 无价值的，无用的，可鄙的
moralsn. 道德
harshlyadv. 严厉地;刺耳地;粗糙地
respond[ris'pɔnd]v. 回答，答复，反应，反响，响应
n.
foundation[faun'deiʃən]n. 基础，根据，建立
n. 粉底霜，基
convince[kən'vins]vt. 使确信，使信服，说服
specific[spi'sifik]adj. 特殊的，明确的，具有特效的
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