2016年12月英语四级作文真题：听比说重要

For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “Listening is more important than talking.”You can cite examples to illustrate the importance oflistening. You should write at least 120 words, no more than 180 words.

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As the most evolved creature in thisplanet，wehuman beings are in possession of two kinds of most powerfulcapability, which are listening and talking. Compared with talking,more often than not, the significance of listening is way ahead inour life.

The most typical example of the importance of talking liesin the exchange among family members. When we are accustomed totalking without listening, in the process of which we might onlyfocus on ourselves, feeling of others are ignored and even hurt.Without listening, the essential passport towardsmutual understanding, the relation among our family members may bitby bit go alienated .

Besides , listening can also promote the efficiency ofteamwork and efficiency is of the utmost consequence in such afast-tempo society.

Talking is a window through which we convey ourselves ,while listening is a door via which we understandeach other . A life without mutual listening isjust like a house without adoor. Careful listening , so atleast it seems to me , is a necessity but not a luxury in our dailylife as well asin our work .

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