閱讀下面短文,按要求用英語寫一篇150詞左右的短文,向《21世紀(jì)報》中學(xué)生版投稿。
Florence Chadwick was born in California in 1918. She grew up on the beach and began competing as a swimmer at the age of six, when her uncle entered her in a race. For the next 19 years, she continued as a competitive swimmer.
On July 4, 1952, at the age of 34, Chadwick attempted to become the first woman to swim 21 miles across the Catalina Channel, from a port on the California coast. That day the ocean was ice cold, the fog was so thick that she could hardly see the support boats that followed her, and sharks swam around her. Several times, her support crew used guns to drive away the sharks. While Americans watched on televisions, her mother and her trainer, who were in one of the support boats, encouraged her to keep going. However, after 15 hours and 55 minutes, with only a half mile to go, she felt that she couldn’t go on, and begged to be taken out of the water.
Later, Chadwick told a reporter, “Look, I’m not excusing myself, but if I had seen land I know, I could have made it.” The fog had made her unable to see her swimming goal, and it made her feel she was getting nowhere. Two months later, she tried again. Although the fog was still heavy, yet this time she made it with the goal rooted in her mind. She knew behind the fog was the land she pursued.
【寫作內(nèi)容】
1.以約30個詞概括短文大意;
2.以約120個詞就“Goal and Success”的主題談?wù)勀愕目捶,?nèi)容包括:
1)分析Chadwick第一次失敗和第二次成功的原因;
2)Chadwick的故事對你有什么啟發(fā);
3)結(jié)合實際談?wù)勅绾螌崿F(xiàn)自己的目標(biāo)。
【寫作要求】
1.可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子;
2.作文中不能出現(xiàn)真實姓名和學(xué)校名稱。