Is Failure a Bad Thing ? (1992,1)
  （ 失败是件坏事吗？）
   1. Failure as a daily occurrence;
   2. People’s different attitudes towards failure;
   3. My attitude towards it.
    
    从标题和提纲判断，本篇作文属于论说文。第一段，提出失败是生活中常有的事，如作为一个学生，经常会遇到失败，比如作文很差，考试不及格等。第二段，人们对失败所持的不同态度，如有的学生遇到失败时认为是世界末日；有的学生对失败采取无所谓的态度；有的学生从失败中学到很多东西。第三段，“我”对失败的态度是从失败中汲取教训，认为失败是成功之母。

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Failure is a common thing in our daily life. For example, as a student, we may get a very low score in our compositions. It may happen that we cannot pass our examinations. All these failures occur so naturally that almost every one of us has had such an experience.
However, there are different attitudes towards failures. Some students lose heart in the face of a failure, thinking that the world is coming to its end. Other students don’t take a failure seriously and just let it be, while some others learn much from a failure and thus see the light of hope through failure.
In my opinion, what really counts is not failure itself, but what we think of failure and how we respond to a failure. As long as we learn something from a failure, we’ll certainly make our mark in the end. Consequently, I’m not afraid of failure, for I believe that failure is the mother of success.