专八英语写作范文.doc

1 2006年 TEM-8 满分作文 Ambition Ambition is the decision one makes and the resolution with which he carries out that decision. It provides us with the required driving force to plish any undertakings inour life. Just as Joseph Epstein, a famous American writer put it, “ And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. ” Indeed, once we make up our minds to choose todo something, then our life es meaningful and specifically orientated. This notion of life, as far asI observe, is closest to truth and does apply to almost all aspects of life. First things first, ambition renders usa sense of mission. No matter what decision you make you have tobe responsible for your choice. Your choice procures you a sense of orientation, or more specially a sense of mission. And only a strong mission may enable one to plish greatness. Caesar of the ancient Roman Empire was urged by his ambition “I came, I saw, I conquered. ” and became an unrivaled empire builder in the history of Rome. John Milton, stimulated always by his ambition that aimed at writing some “ mighty lines ” which England would unwillingly forget, had indue time secured his position as the second Shakespeare in the history of English literature. In the second place, ambition can bring one ’s potentials to the full. Ambition may well serve asa catalyst activating one ’s dormant potentials. Without ambition one ’s potentials will remain slumbering like a dormant volcano. A case in point is Ms Zhang Haidi, a Chinese Helen Keller. It was her ambition tobea useful person has turned the almost paralyzed Zhang Haidi into a well-plished figure whose achievements would dwarf those of some normal people aim at the sun, though, at worst, they may probably land on the moon. Influential as it isupon us, however, ambition must be channeled in the right direction. If wrongly directed, one ’s ambition may bring havoc on him and others. Hitler, whose ambition was to conquer Europe by whatever evil means, finally turned him into a d