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SAT写作满分范文SAT Essay Sample Prompt Think about the views expressed in the following passage: WANT TO GET AHEAD? TRY LYING says a headline, with the idea that by always telling the truth, or by telling too much truth, we put ourselves at a disadvantage. Stephen Lim tells the following story: Working my way through school, I delivered special delivery mail for the U.S. Postal Service. Each morning the dispatcher handed drivers a pile of letters and packages. Before starting our route, we recorded the number of stops we had to make. While the other drivers padded their figures, I didnt. This made me look bad in comparison, lowering the supervisors opinion of my performance. Stephen paid a minor penalty for telling the truth. But others can suffer more serious consequences for being honest. Consider a few: Because they dont cheat on assignments and tests to boost their grades, some students fail to get into the college of their choice. Job applicants dont succeed in getting a coveted position because they refuse to pad their resums. In a nutshell, its harder and harder to be an honest person in todays society, says Stephen Lim.After a while, you feel like a jerk when other people are getting ahead by taking shortcuts. Adapted from Stephen Lim, Telling the TruthDoes It Pay? Plain Truth, May/June, 2001 | 
