GMAT考试写作指导：Issue写作范文四九

　　49. There is no doubt that hard work contributes to success. Yet a person can work

　　awfully hard and still achieve very little. In order to bring about success, hard work has

　　to be directed by dear goals and the knowledge of how to reach them. Moreover,

　　imagination, intelligence and persistence can be equally important to success.

　　Individual success is gauged by the extent to which one reaches his important

　　personal goals. And it takes careful planning to set goals and discover the best means of

　　realizing them. Before hard work even begins, therefore, considerable time and effort

　　should be spent on planning.

　　Intelligence and imagination play important roles in planning. Imagination helps

　　one to envision new solutions to problems, and new means by which to achieve goals.

　　Intelligence helps one research and critically evaluate the possibilities that imagination

　　has provided. Together, imagination and intelligence can even help one avoid certain

　　kinds of hard work, by producing more efficient ways to accomplish goals.

　　Finally, persistence is crucial to success. Sometimes, rewards do not come

　　quickly―even when one carefully sets the goals, creatively and intelligently plans ways

　　to achieve them, and work hard according to plan. Tradition has it, for example, that

　　Thomas Edison made thousands of attempts to create a light bulb before he finally

　　succeeded. In the face of countless failures, he refused to quit. In fact, he considered

　　each failure a successful discovery of what not to do!

　　In conclusion, it is true that there is no substitute for hard work. But hard work is

　　an ingredient of success, and not the key. Hard work can produce real accomplishment

　　only if it is directed by a plan involving some idea of ones goals and the means to them.

　　And a good plan, as well as its successful implementation, requires imagination,

　　intelligence, and persistence.