托福写作指导：范文汇总-Competition between Friends 朋友竞争
Essay by 谢振礼老师 Jeenn Lee HsiehTWE Topic>
真题还原
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "Competition with
friends may have negative effect on friendship." Use specific reasons and
details to support your answer.
范文：
It has often been thought that completion could be either beneficial or
harmful to friendship. When you compete too much with your friends, it could
mean the end of a good relationship. In any case, you ought to learn well how to
distinguish what is healthy competition between friends and what is not.
More often than not, there is nothing wrong with healthy competition
between friends. For example, when you play sports or games and try to beat your
friend, competition is normal and natural. This type of competition is healthy
because, win or lose, both friends could enjoy it in good humor. Further,
betting on which team will win is also a healthy way to compete between friends,
without causing resentment and conflict whatever. Generally speaking, positive
competition would do you good, motivating you to work harder and strive for
more. When in doubt at this point, it is always inspirational to recall the
teaching of Confucius: "Friends are more beneficial who are better than you, one
way or another."
Trying to be better than your friends at everything might not be so
healthy, though. There are several ways in which a friendship could be severely
damaged by competition, invariably mixed with rage and/or jealousy. Sometimes,
such negative emotions might turn out to be too overwhelming to be swallowed.
One sure way to corrupt friendship is when two friends happen to find something
they might both want so badly that they could not share peacefully, but opt to
compete in a mood of pride and superiority. It is easy to tell that non-healthy
examples of competition between friends include: who has the best clothes, the
best place to live and the best car.Thus, if you want to keep your friendship
healthy, you must try to stop this type of behavior.
Accordingly, if you want to keep friendship alive, it is important to enjoy
healthy competition and avoid unhealthy competion. The right thing to do, then,
is to keep competition positive, if possible at all. You may now ask yourself
this question: given that unhealthy completion between friends is permanent,
could friendship as you know it last forever?
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