2016考研英语作文话题练习及范文：热衷极限运动的原因

Topic(题目)：

Why do you think some people are attracted todangerous sports or other dangerous activities?Use specific reasons and examples to supportour answer.

Model Essay(范文)：

Dangerous sports or activities attract a certaintype of person. This person is often a risk taker, anoptimist, and a fatalist.

People who take risks are found both in dangerous sports and business. But it is a specialperson who takes a risk with his own life as opposed to his money. My father was a risk taker.He put everything be owned into his business, but he stopped playing risky sports likehorseback riding and skiing. Once his business was a success and he no longer bad to worryabout providing for us, he returned on the age of 60, to the risky sports that he did as ayouth.

Someone who plays a dangerous sport must be an optimist. They cannot imagine thatanything will happen to them. They never think about breaking their leg while skiing, falling off acliff while rock climbing, falling on their head while sky diving. They live for the thrill of themoment without a thought to the many things that could go wrong.

Rock climbers and sports car drivers must be fatalist. They might plan for potentialproblems, but once they have done everything they can do, the outcome is out of their bands.A motorcyclist when jumps across a narrow canyon will get the fastest, strongest bikeavailable that will carry him or her across the canyon, however, wind conditions or otherproblems might interfere and the cyclist my fall short of his goal.考研英语试题

Many people have the same traits of course. Many of us are risk takers, optimists andfatalists. But I think people who play dangerous sports must have these characteristics inabundance.