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Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use your own words.
Lori Schneider knows a few things about fear. "We were crossing a ridge that dropped off 8,000 feet on both sides says the 53-year-old climber of ascending Mount Everest last spring. The wind was blowing at 60 miles an hour. If there was ever a moment to panic, this was it.”
But she didn't. An hour later, she reached the peak--the last step in her personal challenge to scale the highest mountains on all seven continents.
Ten years earlier, she’d come face-to-face with a different type of fear, when she was unable to feel anything in the right side of her body After learning she had multiple sclerosis(MS)-a serious illness that gradually makes a person weak and unable to move or see, she left her marriage, job, and home: “I ran from my whole life."
It was just before climbing South America's Mount Aconcagua in 2000 that she set her sights on the Seven Summits. After training by pulling 50-pound bags of dog food up the ski slopes near her home, she topped Europe’s Mount Elbrus in 2002, North America s McKinley in 2006, and Australia's Kosciuszko and Antarctica's Vinson Massif in 2008. She'd scaled Africa s Kilimanjaro in 1993. That left Asia's Everest, the highest of all.
And there she stood, on a ridge at 28, 800 feet. When I trained, I told myself to take one step at a time by spelling out words," she says." So I spelled out ‘Don't let fear in.’" It got her to the top.
She's the first person with MS to conquer the Seven Summits. With her condition stable, she plans a return to Kilimanjaro-this time with 15 others with MS by her side.
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试题解析
该篇作文要求考生写一篇总结文章观点并围绕文章思想进行个人评论的作文。该篇文章主要讲了一位53岁的女性 Lori Schneider尽管身患严重的多发性硬化症(MS),但她还是攀登上了七大洲的最高山脉,她告诉自己“Don't let fear in.”,这是一种强大的心理暗示,对克服心理恐惧和生活中困难都具有重要的作用。
在写作该篇作文时,考生首先需要明确题目要求:总结文章大意,并且表达自己的观点。这就要求考生在总结文章中心思想的基础上进行评论,提出自己的观点。需要注意的是,在总结文章大意时,一定要简明扼要;而在围绕文章大意发表评论时,一定要层次分明,注意语句、语段间的衔接。