Topic(题目)：
Why do you think some people are attracted todangerous sports or other dangerousactivities? Use specific reasons and examplesto support our answer.
Model Essay(范文)：
Dangerous sports or activities attract a certaintype of person. This person is often a risk taker, anoptimist, and a fatalist.
People who take risks are found both in dangerous sports and business. But it is a specialperson who takes a risk with his own life as opposed to his money. My father was a risk taker. He put everything be owned into his business, but he stopped playing risky sports likehorseback riding and skiing. Once his business was a success and he no longer bad to worryabout providing for us, he returned on the age of 60, to the risky sports that he did as a youth.
Someone who plays a dangerous sport must be an optimist. They cannot imagine thatanything will happen to them. They never think about breaking their leg while skiing, falling offa cliff while rock climbing, falling on their head while sky diving. They live for the thrill of themoment without a thought to the many things that could go wrong.
Rock climbers and sports car drivers must be fatalist. They might plan for potentialproblems, but once they have done everything they can do, the outcome is out of their bands. A motorcyclist when jumps across a narrow canyon will get the fastest, strongest bikeavailable that will carry him or her across the canyon, however, wind conditions or otherproblems might interfere and the cyclist my fall short of his goal.
Many people have the same traits of course. Many of us are risk takers, optimists andfatalists. But I think people who play dangerous sports must have these characteristics inabundance.
重点单词 全部解释
characteristics[,kærəktə'ristiks]n. 特性，特征;特质;特色(characteristi
abundance[ə'bʌndəns]n. 丰富，充裕
specific[spi'sifik]adj. 特殊的，明确的，具有特效的
n. 特
outcome['autkʌm]n. 结果，后果
interfere[.intə'fiə]vi. 妨碍，冲突，干涉
certain['sə:tn]adj. 确定的，必然的，特定的
pron.
potential[pə'tenʃəl]adj. 可能的，潜在的
n. 潜力，潜能
canyon['kænjən]n. 峡谷
opposed[ə'pəuzd]adj. 反对的，敌对的 v. 和 ... 起冲突，反抗
available[ə'veiləbl]adj. 可用的，可得到的，有用的，有效的
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