Question

为配合学校“诚信教育”活动，学校英语报开展了以“Try to be honest”为主题的征文活动。请你根据下面的内容提示，写一篇征文稿。

（1）列举你班同学存在的不诚实现象：抄作业，考试作弊，说谎话......;

（2）简述诚实的重要性，并用你的一次具体经历加以说明。

注意：（1）文中不得出现真实的人名和学校名称。

（2）词数100左右。

（3）短文首句仅供参考，不计入总数。

参考词汇：作弊cheat（v.）说谎tell a lie

Try to be honest

To be honest is one of the most treasured traditional values in China.____________________

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Answer

Try to be honest

To be honest is one of the most treasured traditional values in China. The children are taught to be honest when they are very young. At schools the students are also instructed to be honest.

However, with the development of society, we often hear complaints about dishonesty. Reports with the theme of dishonesty often appear in the media. For example, some people try to get rich and live a comfortable life. But they do not work hard honestly, instead they cheat others. They sell something quite ordinary at a very high price. Some people’s delaying paying back the loan can serve as another example. Some people, including some college students, get loan from the bank, and promise to pay within, say, 3 years. However, they don’t do that.

The dishonest people sometimes can get benefit from their behaviors. So some people assert that dishonesty can bring people benefit, while honesty only makes people suffer. Is that so? Definitely not. It is always true that honesty is the best policy. It pays to be honest. The cheater selling "the treasure" mentioned above will surely be disclosed and punished some day.

On the contrary, if he had been honest, neither the buyer nor he himself would have suffered. The people who do not return money in time will sooner or later become infamous, and will not get the money from others again. If he had acted differently, he would have earned respect and trust, meanwhile, the bank would not have suffered from loss.

【解析】这是一篇诚信征文，英语作文要注意人称和时态，注意提供的观点、材料，要注意句子的完整性，谓语动词的正确形式，句子之间的衔接和过渡。英语作文，要忠实于材料，不必扩展，注意用好连词，多用非谓语，慎用较难的句型，一定不能写错句。