Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief account of the impact of the Internet on the way people communicate and then explain whether electronic communication can replace face-to-face contact. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
How are you? Your mother and I are fine. We both miss you and hope you are doing well. We look forward to seeing you again the next time your computer crashes and you come downstairs for something to eat.
We can see from the illustration there is a father talking to his son. Having heard his son’s words "Dad, I am a bit worried about disposing of nuclear weapons", the father replies, "If you can empty the dustbin here, you can do anything", pointing the garbage can beside him.
Funny and common as the conversation sounds, father intends to advise his son to do small things before undertaking the big. Unquestionably, doing small things is the first step of success and will lay root for doing something big. By doing something small, we are enabled to accumulate experience, master skills and train ourselves to be more patient. In other word, we can be well prepared for further challenges in the course of fulfilling small things. By contrast, those who set out to do something big will be constantly haunted by disappointment, frustrations or even failures. As when opportunity "something big" appears, they can hardly seize them because of the lack of experience and confidence stems from doing small things. Taking the picture presented above as a case in point, how can the little boy succeed in disposing of nuclear weapons if he even doesn’t know how to empty the dustbin?
From my perspective, we should never undervalue the power of doing small things. Instead, we should take the small things as the source of experience, skills and the prerequisite of success. "Great achievement only belongs to those who can do small things perfectly." Aristotle once said.
The picture shows us a dialogue between a father and a son. The son told his father, "Dad, I’m a bit worried about disposing of nuclear waste". While his father told him, "If you can empty the dustbin here you can do anything". It reveals the importance of doing small things well before
undertaking something big. There is also an old Chinese saying to go with this that a person can’t sweep the world before he can sweep his own room.
I agree on the point that it is of great importance for a person to do small things well before undertaking something big. First of all, doing small things well entail (蕴含)the qualities that needed in doing great things such as patience and ability of controlling time. For example, when we sweep our room, we need to manage our time and energy reasonably. Accordingly, if we sweep a bigger room, for example, a classroom with our classmates, we should learn how to cooperate and allot(分配) assignments as well. And a big advantage is that we can draw useful lessons from the failure of performing well because they didn’t cost a lot.
In another word, though these things seem trivial, they reinforce our manipulative (操控) ability and thus our understanding to the world. Therefore, we should not ignore the small things.
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