opportunity

hard work

　　I firmly believe that opportunity is more important for success. Hard work is common, while opportunity is rare. With opportunity, your efforts can turn into success. Opportunity is the key to open the door to success; hard work is just preparation, and opportunity decides whether your efforts come to fruition.

　　Preparation and opportunity together decide whether you ever reach that opportunity, making opportunity important.

　　Well, let's talk about which is more important. Hard work is important, but opportunity is more important. Without opportunity, you can't turn your hard work into success. For example, an excellent actor with amazing acting skills is still unknown until a good role or platform appeals. You can practice continuously by yourself, but if no opportunity comes to show yourself, you will never achieve success. So hard work is important, but opportunity is more important.

　　Dear judges, dear opponents, I firmly believe that opportunity is more important for success. Hard work is common, opportunity is so rare. With opportunity, your efforts can turn into success. Opportunity is the key to open the door to success; hard work is just a preparation, and opportunity decides whether your effort comes. Preparation and opportunity decide whether you ever have that opportunity, making opportunity important.

　　OK, OK. Firstly, I want to say: I never deny that hard work is useful. Everyone can work hard, and about that, everyone can be successful. We all know that success needs a stage or platform, and opportunity provides this. For example, a singer can't be famous without the chance to perform, a player can't win without the chance to compete, and also, a student needs an interview to get a good job. So we can see that hard work just makes you able, but opportunity makes you visible. So opportunity is more important.

　　Well, after that, can you succeed without hard work? Let's take the story of the "turtle and the rabbit". The rabbit was confident and took a nap, while the turtle kept working hard, so the turtle was the first to reach the finish line. But I well... I agree that hard work is important, but we're talking about which one is more important. Um, I think it's definitely opportunity that's more important. For example, an excellent actor with amazing acting skills is still unknown because she can't get a good role or platform to show herself. So she just needs opportunity. But you can practice and improve yourself continuously, but if no opportunity comes to show yourself, you will never achieve real success. So opportunity is more important for real success.

　　Well, you know that opportunity decides our limits. Is that true? But hard work may let you be able to decide whether you can catch it. You know that hard work is the foundation to improve yourself, which makes it easier to find opportunity. If you don't work hard, you might not recognize the opportunity when it comes. For example, if you don't study hard, you can't get into a good company, and thus you might miss the opportunity to get a good job in the future.

　　But if hard work were more important than opportunity, hardworking people would succeed. But in real life, not everyone can be successful. For example, strict cleaners without the opportunity to access better education or career changes—their hard work alone can lead them into success. If hard work alone could lead them into success, then every cleaner would be a millionaire, but in reality, they aren't.

　　Well, I need to say that we have so many opportunities around us, but most of us are unaware of them and might miss two or three opportunities in one day. It's just like we want to sit here and speak English fluently. We all know that we have different futures—some want to go into acting, others want to find a good job. So why don't we check our dreams and focus on them right now? In years, working hard to learn the book well is important because hard work is a very key point to reach it. You know that if you don't work hard, you can't reach the opportunity because without preparation, you can't meet it when it comes.

　　Well, if you...