Examinee Responses – Independent Writing Task
Level 5 Response:
the traditional virtue of telling the truth in all situations is increasingly doubted by many in
today’s world. many believe that telling the truth is not always the best policy when dealing with
people. moreover, the line of a “truth” is becoming more and more vague. this essay will explore
the importance of telling the truth in relationships between people.
we all understand that often the truth is offending and may not be a very nice thing to both hear or
say. lies or white lies often have their advantages. the manipulation of white lies is the most
obvious the business world. how many times have we heard that some product is “the finest” or
“the cheapest”? how many times have we heard that products have such and such “magical
functions”? advertising is about persuasion, and many would agree that if a company is to tell the
absolute truth about it’s products, no one would be interested in even having a look at the
products.
the same logic applies to human relationships. if your friend had worn a newly purchased dress
on her birthday and energetically asked you if it was a worthy buy, would you freely express your
opinion that you had never seen a dress as the one she’s currently wearing? and spoil her
birthday? unarguably, hiding(entirely or particially) the truth in some situations can be quite
handy indeed. confrontations and disputes can seemingly be avoided.
however, there is always the risk factor of the truth emerging sooner or later when telling an
untruth. the basic trust in any relationships(businessman/customer, friends, parents/children) will
be blotched, and would have an impact on the future relationship between both parties. the story
of the “the boy who cried wolf” fully illustrates the consequenes of telling untruths. no one will
believe you when you’re telling the truth. your word will have no weighting.
in addition, another “bad factor” of telling untruths is that you have absolutely no control over
when the truth(of previous untruths) will emerge. untruths breed pain in both parties: tears when
the truth is uncovered after a period of time; fear and the burden of sharing a “secret”. in the long
run, it seems that hiding the truth is not beneficial to either party.
everyone hates betrayal. even if it is the trend to occasionally hide the truth in relationships, it is
strongly recommended that not to follow that trend as the risk and the consequences of the truth
unfolded overwhelms the minimal advantages one can derive from not telling the truth. afterall, it
is understood that relationships are founded on “trust” which goes hand in hand with “truth”.
indeed telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people.
always.
Two Level 4 Responses
Level 4 Response 1:
I disagree with the statement above. Although I admit that honesty should be one of the most
important consideration in human relationship, sometimes white-lies are neccessary not to
damage the relationship.
First, it is not good to tell someone his or her faults or defects directly. By doing so, you might
feel good about telling the truth, but it could hurt the people who will listen. It is naturl that
people make mistakes and not everyone is perfect. Despite those shortcomings, we live together
by understanding each other and tolerate those errors as we could be the one who makes the same
mistakes next time. By being pointed out our mistakes or things other people think abominable,
such as the way we look, the clothes we wear, the way we talk and so on, we might hate the
person who criticize us rather than being thankful or correcting those.
Second, it is better not to tell someone serious facts that can possibly discourage him or her. I
speak this from my experience. About one year ago, my nephew got into a terrible car accident
and the doctor said he won’t be able to walk again. We were all shocked and felt desprate.
However, my other nephews decided not to tell the fact to their mother as she could pass off or be
shocked to generate other problems of her own. I felt guilty about not telling the truth to her, who
was relieved and became hopeful by the white-lies that her son would be okay. One year since,
my nephew is getting better and his mother has been a good supporter. If we had told her the
truth, she would have been so desparate that she couldn’t have taken good care of her son and her
own health would have been in danger.
All in all, even though honesty is obviously great virtue, “always telling the truth” is not the key
to maintaining good human relationship. By refraining from telling the truth in certain occasions,
we prevent other people from being hurt by the remarks.
Level 4 Response 2:
I certainly agree with this statement. However, in situations, it may happen otherwise. It depends
more on one’s mental makeup and the opinion changes because of the kind of relationship he/she
may have with people. If one wants a relation where he/she wants to be always in the good books
of another person, he/she pretends to behave friendly and says and do things favorable to the
other person. If, otherwise, he/she takes care of the other friend, he has to be himself and also
correct the other person when he/she is wrong.
Truth is bitter. Let us try to explain with an example. say, our friend smokes. Everybody knows
smoking is injurious to the health. If you are a person who just wants to be in the good books, you
will appreciate his habits. You may comment on the smoker’s style of smoking. You may say,
how smoking a cigarette reflects his attitude, like he looks cool, he looks manly and his style is
good. You may dislike the smell, but you just be in that place, just because you don’t want to hurt
him. By this, you actually don’t care for the person. Whereas, otherwise, you seriously care for
Level 4 Response 2, continued:
the person. You will say that the behavior is bad and you will try to make him understand how
smoking will actually affect him and you. It is not only a waste of money, but it is detrimental to
his health also. You will also try to educate him how passive smokers are put to risk being with a
smoker.
It is always better to be yourself and tell the truth in relation with people rather than pretending to
be in good relationship. It is because, he/she who considers you a friend, will love you for what
you are and not for what you will be or how you will react to please him/her. He will also
consider your companionship because you always make him understand what is good and bad.
He will also love you for what he is when he is with you.
Two Level 3 Responses
Level 3 Response 1:
Telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people once you
are going to deal with this person because you first of all must trust in this person, second nobody
likes to be treated as a fool, and the truth makes a solid relation perdure.
Firs of all, the trust is going to keep a relation going on with confidence and confidence is
something really important and you’re going to trust in a person only once. If you lose the trust in
someone I think that you will never more be able to trust in this person again. Will you trust a
very important value to someone that has already stolen you? I bet you won’t.
Second, nobody like to be seen as a fool. It’s not nice been as a glown. It’s not a good
sensation to be kept in lies while there many people who know the truth. Can you imagine the
sensation of been betrayed? How can you look at someone’s face that betrayed you? A
relationship, in this way, won’t be nice and trustful. Once I saw that for a relationship be solid
you must trust in person at the point of let yourself fell back in the person arms. I mean, you trust
that the person is going to be on your back to hold you on. It won’t be possible with a person that
lies to you.
The truth means that you can’t lie and if you can’t lie you won’t be able to betray, once
you won’t be able to hide anything. If you can’t betray you’re going to have a perfect
relationship. The truth is really the basis of a relationship.
As a conclusion, I think that the truth is really important in a relationship because it gives
you some safety in this relationship, the sensation that you won’t be betrayed..
Level 3 Response 2:
When we were children, we were taught to tell truth. Telling truth and being honest also become
the criteria of judging a person. I do think that most people prefer to live in a world of pure truth
and it is also the best wish of all kind hearted people. However, what we have to face is not the
dream land. Telling truth all the time could only exist in our dreams. In another word, lies could
not be avoided.
I will illustrate my opinion with the following facts. In the business world, always telling
truth equals to commit suicide. For example, when competitor company is asking the content of a
tender or the cost of a major product, telling truth is nonsense. Furthermore, we could learn from
old collegue that to keep the business secrete is to keep the position.
For those people whose profession is politics, lies is their favorite language. In order to
stablize the mood of anxcious people, some times president has to tell lies to comfort the peolple
so that no more serious result will hapen.
Among friends, allways telling truth will also cause lots of avoidable confllicts. For
example, when a 49 years old lady ask her froend whether she is beautiful or not. If the answer is
No (truth for sure). We could imagine the accompanied results. This is why we are using the term
white lie to find the suitable reason to use minor lies.
However, despite all these difficulties, we should always try to be honest and tell truth as
much as we could. In lots of situation, to tell truth can strengthen the relationship and deepen the
communication and understanding among people. Especially am
Examinee Responses – Independent Writing Task
Level 5 Response:
the traditional virtue of telling the truth in all situations is increasingly doubted by many in
today’s world. many believe that telling the truth is not always the best policy when dealing with
people. moreover, the line of a “truth” is becoming more and more vague. this essay will explore
the importance of telling the truth in relationships between people.
we all understand that often the truth is offending and may not be a very nice thing to both hear or
say. lies or white lies often have their advantages. the manipulation of white lies is the most
obvious the business world. how many times have we heard that some product is “the finest” or
“the cheapest”? how many times have we heard that products have such and such “magical
functions”? advertising is about persuasion, and many would agree that if a company is to tell the
absolute truth about it’s products, no one would be interested in even having a look at the
products.
the same logic applies to human relationships. if your friend had worn a newly purchased dress
on her birthday and energetically asked you if it was a worthy buy, would you freely express your
opinion that you had never seen a dress as the one she’s currently wearing? and spoil her
birthday? unarguably, hiding(entirely or particially) the truth in some situations can be quite
handy indeed. confrontations and disputes can seemingly be avoided.
however, there is always the risk factor of the truth emerging sooner or later when telling an
untruth. the basic trust in any relationships(businessman/customer, friends, parents/children) will
be blotched, and would have an impact on the future relationship between both parties. the story
of the “the boy who cried wolf” fully illustrates the consequenes of telling untruths. no one will
believe you when you’re telling the truth. your word will have no weighting.
in addition, another “bad factor” of telling untruths is that you have absolutely no control over
when the truth(of previous untruths) will emerge. untruths breed pain in both parties: tears when
the truth is uncovered after a period of time; fear and the burden of sharing a “secret”. in the long
run, it seems that hiding the truth is not beneficial to either party.
everyone hates betrayal. even if it is the trend to occasionally hide the truth in relationships, it is
strongly recommended that not to follow that trend as the risk and the consequences of the truth
unfolded overwhelms the minimal advantages one can derive from not telling the truth. afterall, it
is understood that relationships are founded on “trust” which goes hand in hand with “truth”.
indeed telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people.
always.
Two Level 4 Responses
Level 4 Response 1:
I disagree with the statement above. Although I admit that honesty should be one of the most
important consideration in human relationship, sometimes white-lies are neccessary not to
damage the relationship.
First, it is not good to tell someone his or her faults or defects directly. By doing so, you might
feel good about telling the truth, but it could hurt the people who will listen. It is naturl that
people make mistakes and not everyone is perfect. Despite those shortcomings, we live together
by understanding each other and tolerate those errors as we could be the one who makes the same
mistakes next time. By being pointed out our mistakes or things other people think abominable,
such as the way we look, the clothes we wear, the way we talk and so on, we might hate the
person who criticize us rather than being thankful or correcting those.
Second, it is better not to tell someone serious facts that can possibly discourage him or her. I
speak this from my experience. About one year ago, my nephew got into a terrible car accident
and the doctor said he won’t be able to walk again. We were all shocked and felt desprate.
However, my other nephews decided not to tell the fact to their mother as she could pass off or be
shocked to generate other problems of her own. I felt guilty about not telling the truth to her, who
was relieved and became hopeful by the white-lies that her son would be okay. One year since,
my nephew is getting better and his mother has been a good supporter. If we had told her the
truth, she would have been so desparate that she couldn’t have taken good care of her son and her
own health would have been in danger.
All in all, even though honesty is obviously great virtue, “always telling the truth” is not the key
to maintaining good human relationship. By refraining from telling the truth in certain occasions,
we prevent other people from being hurt by the remarks.
Level 4 Response 2:
I certainly agree with this statement. However, in situations, it may happen otherwise. It depends
more on one’s mental makeup and the opinion changes because of the kind of relationship he/she
may have with people. If one wants a relation where he/she wants to be always in the good books
of another person, he/she pretends to behave friendly and says and do things favorable to the
other person. If, otherwise, he/she takes care of the other friend, he has to be himself and also
correct the other person when he/she is wrong.
Truth is bitter. Let us try to explain with an example. say, our friend smokes. Everybody knows
smoking is injurious to the health. If you are a person who just wants to be in the good books, you
will appreciate his habits. You may comment on the smoker’s style of smoking. You may say,
how smoking a cigarette reflects his attitude, like he looks cool, he looks manly and his style is
good. You may dislike the smell, but you just be in that place, just because you don’t want to hurt
him. By this, you actually don’t care for the person. Whereas, otherwise, you seriously care for
Level 4 Response 2, continued:
the person. You will say that the behavior is bad and you will try to make him understand how
smoking will actually affect him and you. It is not only a waste of money, but it is detrimental to
his health also. You will also try to educate him how passive smokers are put to risk being with a
smoker.
It is always better to be yourself and tell the truth in relation with people rather than pretending to
be in good relationship. It is because, he/she who considers you a friend, will love you for what
you are and not for what you will be or how you will react to please him/her. He will also
consider your companionship because you always make him understand what is good and bad.
He will also love you for what he is when he is with you.
Two Level 3 Responses
Level 3 Response 1:
Telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people once you
are going to deal with this person because you first of all must trust in this person, second nobody
likes to be treated as a fool, and the truth makes a solid relation perdure.
Firs of all, the trust is going to keep a relation going on with confidence and confidence is
something really important and you’re going to trust in a person only once. If you lose the trust in
someone I think that you will never more be able to trust in this person again. Will you trust a
very important value to someone that has already stolen you? I bet you won’t.
Second, nobody like to be seen as a fool. It’s not nice been as a glown. It’s not a good
sensation to be kept in lies while there many people who know the truth. Can you imagine the
sensation of been betrayed? How can you look at someone’s face that betrayed you? A
relationship, in this way, won’t be nice and trustful. Once I saw that for a relationship be solid
you must trust in person at the point of let yourself fell back in the person arms. I mean, you trust
that the person is going to be on your back to hold you on. It won’t be possible with a person that
lies to you.
The truth means that you can’t lie and if you can’t lie you won’t be able to betray, once
you won’t be able to hide anything. If you can’t betray you’re going to have a perfect
relationship. The truth is really the basis of a relationship.
As a conclusion, I think that the truth is really important in a relationship because it gives
you some safety in this relationship, the sensation that you won’t be betrayed..
Level 3 Response 2:
When we were children, we were taught to tell truth. Telling truth and being honest also become
the criteria of judging a person. I do think that most people prefer to live in a world of pure truth
and it is also the best wish of all kind hearted people. However, what we have to face is not the
dream land. Telling truth all the time could only exist in our dreams. In another word, lies could
not be avoided.
I will illustrate my opinion with the following facts. In the business world, always telling
truth equals to commit suicide. For example, when competitor company is asking the content of a
tender or the cost of a major product, telling truth is nonsense. Furthermore, we could learn from
old collegue that to keep the business secrete is to keep the position.
For those people whose profession is politics, lies is their favorite language. In order to
stablize the mood of anxcious people, some times president has to tell lies to comfort the peolple
so that no more serious result will hapen.
Among friends, allways telling truth will also cause lots of avoidable confllicts. For
example, when a 49 years old lady ask her froend whether she is beautiful or not. If the answer is
No (truth for sure). We could imagine the accompanied results. This is why we are using the term
white lie to find the suitable reason to use minor lies.
However, despite all these difficulties, we should always try to be honest and tell truth as
much as we could. In lots of situation, to tell truth can strengthen the relationship and deepen the
communication and understanding among people. Especially am
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