Writing Samples

Writing Sample:

Working as A Civil Servant

The last decade has seen a remarkable growth in

the number of college students who enter for the

qualification test for civil servants. A recent survey

reveals that the growing number is strikingly high

with over double every year. This essay is to discuss

why students strive to join the ranks of civil

servants and offer my view on this fever.

The factors for this fever are complex. First, the

post for a civil servant is comparatively securer

than working in a company. A government

employee may stay in the job for life, free of the

fear of being laid off, and enjoy a carefree retired

life. Besides, the pay and benefits are very

satisfactory. This is vital in a society where bucks

are still closely associated with a better life. Most

important of all, it offers appealing prospects of

personal advancement and promotion.

It is a healthy trend for young graduates to take

civil servant jobs. Anyway, everyone has his own

ideal and ambition. However, as far as I’m

concerned, I will choose to work with a business or

corporation, for I feel my personality renders me

more qualified for a non-government organization. I

can’t stand inefficiency and I welcome challenge

and variety.

Writing Sample:

That some college students at university hire

cleaners to do laundry and cleaning has led to a

heated debate. Some people advocate and support

the idea and the practice. In their eyes, hiring

cleaners to keep the dorms clean can help students

save time, which they can spend on their studies.

Others, however, argue that hiring cleaners could

help students save time and devote to their studies

is merely a pretext. Usually, those students who

claim they are too busy to clean their own dorms

are most often found preoccupied with playing

computer games or shopping. They refuse to do

manual labor because they tend to regard

themselves as elites once they succeed in entering a

college.

Personally, I think college students shouldn’t hire

cleaners. In performing the cleaning himself/herself,

college students learn to share the responsibility for

managing a public space of which one is a part. And

by doing so, the students also show respect for the

common welfare of the entire dorm. Cleaning one’s

own dorm is a necessary process whereby one

becomes a responsible person.

Writing：

On Adversity

No one will fail to notice the fact that everyone

meets setbacks and frustrations in life, and each

tries hard to avoid them, only to find that they’re

just like your own shadow accompanying you all

your lives. The truth is, adversity can exert great

influence on you, depending on how you cope with

it.

When confronted by adversity, different people

make different response. Some people consider it a

stumbling block on the road to success, and get

depressed and even sink into despair; others

consider it the stairway to great accomplishments

and try to overcome it with constant struggle. The

latter, therefore, will recognize their disadvantages

from their temporary defeat, draw lessons from it,

and grow stronger each time they have coped with a

difficulty.

In my opinion, adversity often leads to prosperity.

Painful and depressing as it is, overcoming

adversity endows us with great confidence that is

crucial to achieve success. Great people are not

born successful, they are great only because they

have tempered their personality and remedied their

deficiencies through experiencing countless

adversity and defeat, which is actually a goddess of

blessings in disguise.

Writing

The period 1995-2005 witnessed a remarkable

increase in the number of students who study

abroad in City X. As can be seen from the chart, in

1990, only about 10000 students in this city pursued

their further study overseas while in 2000 this

figure quickly rose to 40000. In 2010, however, the

number of overseas students surged to over 120000,

which is over 10 times as many as that of 1990.

The increase in the number of students who study

abroad can be accounted for by a couple of factors.

First, along with social and economy progress, the

living standard of the Chinese people has been

greatly enhanced, so they have enough money to

send their children to study abroad. Meanwhile,

more and more young people want to broaden their

vision by exposing themselves to foreign professors

and experiencing exotic cultures.

Overseas study has a profound effect on both

individuals and society. It can widen our people’s

horizons, promote friendship between people with

different cultures, boost our social economy and

make our society more prosperous and dynamic. All