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

You are to write in three parts.

In the first part, state specifically what your idea is.

In the second part, provide one or two reasons to support your idea or describe your idea.

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

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

My Idea of a University Arts Festival

The Arts Festival is supposed to provide the students a platform on which they can show their strong suits they are covered up when they are sitting in the classroom and play the role of students. The student body may organize the Arts Festival in the form of competition and the competition can be widely ranged according to the interests of students such as speeches, drawing, dancing, singing, instrument playing, chess playing and so on.

Why should the Arts Festival be better organized in the form of competition based on students’ interests? First, the students are ambitious group. Competition can spice the Festival and stimulate the desires of the students to show themselves without hesitation and reservation. Second, a platform provided for students’ interests may indirectly help their academic performance. Suppose a student who performs poorly in his academic life wins a competition of his strong suit, he is likely to start to hold a positive attitude toward himself: I am not as inferior as I have believed. His confidence is strengthened in some degree and this plays an active role in his study. In this way, the Arts Festival helps the students in his studies indirectly.

The Arts Festival is not only an important forming part of the extracurricular activities of university students’ campus lives but also a necessary complement to the copied lives of study. Therefore, it is the purpose of Arts Festival that can colorize the college life and benefit the university students spiritually.