托福官方题库范文之当今世界必备的一项技能

One skill needed to besuccessful in the world today

What is a very importantskill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today?Choose one skill and use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

『范文』

People succeed not merely because they haveone or more certain skills. However, if I have to choose one skill which issupposed to be useful to success, I think it should be the ability to convinceor persuade others.

By convincing or persuading we get what wewant from others. When we were children, we always managed to persuade ourparents to buy us candies; when we were in the high school, we had to persuadeour classmates to play with us; when we applied for a job after graduation, wehad better be able to successfully convince the employer that we are qualifiedemployees. Besides, some day, we will all have to convince a person whom welove that we are in deed outstanding husbands or excellent wives.

By convincing or persuading we become moreand more sturdy and powerful. Nobody is capable of doing every thing perfect.By persuading others to cooperate with us, we can achieve much more than wecould only by ourselves. Mr. Yu Minhong, CEO of Beijing New Oriental Education& Technology Group, had successfully convinced his alumni including Mr.Wang Qiang and Mr. Xu Xiaoping to strive after an ideal—to build a most influentialprivate university in China, and today, they have been so close. Mr. Yu, whileanswering a journalist, said that he once persuaded Chinese students to goabroad, his current work is to convince those students to return to their homelandwith their enhanced intelligences.

Ironically, it is ourselves who need us topersuade and convince most. We by nature are weak, yet have to be stronger toface up to tough surroundings. All too often we need encouraging. Amazinglyenough, it is ourselves who can in deed encourage. When we are in trouble, weneed convince ourselves not to give up, when we are in plain sailing, we needpersuade ourselves no to be negligent. By convincing ourselves, we become moreand more independent, and more and more robust, both of which arecharacteristics essential to success.