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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying “Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission.”You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Lifelong learning is viewed as the process in which people develop their minds and gain knowledge through books, computers and evening courses rather than merely having a formal higher education. Just as an old saying goes, “Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission.” I would agree that real education begins with lifelong learning.
Obviously, for the person who believes in lifelong education, learning never stops. To illustrate, Abraham Lincoln had very little schooling as did Thomas Edison, but yet these two men are not regarded as uneducated. They rose to the top of their fields in politics and science respectively, because they never stop learning. In fact, people who are really well-educated are not satisfied with the existing knowledge, so they will never stop their pursuit of knowledge.
In brief, lifelong learning means that one will never stop learning and be willing to find knowledge in all possibilities, which are also indispensable ways for self-education.
终生学习是指通过书本、网络和夜校而非仅仅通过正式的高等教育来增长才智和获取知识的过程。正如谚语所说：“学习是一种日常经历，也是一种终生使命。”我赞同真正的教育源于终生学习的说法。
显而易见，对于那些相信终身教育的人士而言，学习是一个永无止境的过程。例如，亚伯拉罕·林肯和托马斯·爱迪生仅接受过短期的学校教育，却无人敢小觑此二人的才识。他们各自在自己所从事的政治和科学领域取得了杰出的成就，他们成功的秘诀就是不断学习。事实上，真正接受过良好教育的人是不会满足于现有知识的，所以他们从不会停下自己追求知识的脚步。
总之，终生学习意味着一个人会永无止境地学习，并且愿意在一切可能中找寻知识，这也是自我教育中不可或缺的方式。
lifelong learning 终生学习
be viewed as 被视为
process 过程
gain knowledge 获取知识
evening course 晚间课程（引申为：夜校）
rather than 而不是
merely 仅仅
formal 正式的
higher education 高等教育
daily experience 日常经历
lifetime mission 终生使命
obviously 显而易见
schooling 学校教育
uneducated 未受过教育的
field 领域
politics 政治
respectively 分别
in fact 事实上
well-educated 受过良好教育的
satisfied 满足的
existing 现有的
pursuit 追求
in brief 总之，简言之
be willing to 愿意
possibility 可能
indispensable 不可或缺的
self-education 自我教育
本文第一段应该通过引语引出主题：学习的重要性；第二段可以通过列举自己身边或社会热点例子支持自己的观点；第三段可以进行归纳总结或提出建议措施。
① A thirst for knowledge and willing feet that will carry you to wherever that knowledge is found are essential. 对知识的渴求和愿意带你到任何地方去寻找知识的脚步是必不可少的。
② Regularly visiting the library or the bookshop, attending evening courses and researching topics of interest by using the Internet are ways in which people can be self-taught. 人们进行自学的方式有定期去图书馆或书店、参加夜校课程或利用网络研究自己感兴趣的课题。
③ Many famous peoplesuch as Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers never went to college. 诸如亨利·福特和怀特兄弟等很多名人都从未上过大学。