下面是根据时下最火的写作题型——名言警句题型给广大考生提供的一篇预测作文，并给出了相应的参考范文，希望考生在自行组织行文后再参阅范文，这样便于考生开启自己的语料库搜索模式，查漏补缺，从而灵感迸发，脑洞大开。
　　Directions:
　　For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
　　参考范文：
　　Peter Buck,a famous American female writer,once said “if you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” Evidently, it is meant to tell us the significant influence of history to this day and age or the intimate relationship between past and present.
　　Actually, examples proving it are abounded in our daily life. Here I can think of no better illustration of the proverb than the experience of students. In terms of English examination, taking CET-6 as an example, we students prefer to bone up on the past examination papers first in order to pass the exam successfully. Taking a look around, we can also find examples too many to enumerate. It is no denying to say that“Histories make men wise”( Francis Bacon ).
　　To sum up, we may say that if you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. So, one should not indulge himself in confusion for today and complaint the setbacks he is facing. What he really has to do is to slow down and seek inspiration or solution in his past. In a word, sometimes the best way to go forward is to look backward.

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