2003年专四作文真题：The Importance of Keeping a Good Mood

（保持好心情的重要性）——关于身心健康

Direction：

People in modern society live under a lot of pressure, from education,career, or family. So it is important for them to keep a good mood underwhatever circumstances.

Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:

The Importance of Keeping a Good Mood

You are to write in threeparts:

In the first part, state clearlywhat your view is.

In the second part, support yourview with appropriate reasons.

In the last part, bring what youhave written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Marks will be awarded forcontent, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow theinstructions may result in a loss of marks.

写作指南：

这是一篇属于给定明确观点型的作文。一般情况下，考题先提出一个话题，并给定了关于这个话题的一种明确的观点，要求考生以这个给定的观点作为文章的中心思想（论点）进行论证。写这类作文的关键在于是否能很好地论证这一明确的观点。

范文：

The Importance ofKeeping a Good Mood

With the development of modernscience, technology and economics, our living standard has reached an everhigher level. But more and more people are living under greater pressure thanever before. As a consequence, people are increasingly suffering from variousdistortions both physically and mentally. To help out, it is important thateveryone keep a good mood today.

There are several reasons for myargument. First, a good mood can create high efficiency. When you work with agood mood, you will feel happy and be willing to do some work which used to beboring. On the contrary, a bad mood can make you passive and do things withreluctance. Second, a good mood is beneficial to your health. If you fail tokeep a good mood, you will be feeling depressed and fed up, which is apt tocause some psychological diseases. Third, when you have a good mood, otherpeople around you will be influenced. Thus more and more people will feel happyto communicate with you.

To sum up, keeping a good mood isvery important both for yourself and for the people around you. If you want tohave a happy and successful life, please keep a good mood every day.