英语题型练习之改写句子的画线部分【热门20篇】

Unit 1 (P6)

Alice and Alan, Gina, Tony, and Julie are friends. But they have different problems. Alice is tired. She should go to bad early, and she shouldnt go to the party tonight. And Alan may cut his knee, so he should put a bandage on it, and he shouldnt play soccer. Gina has a nosebleed, she should put her head back, and she shouldnt jump up and down. Tony hurt his leg playing basketball so he should go to the hospital and get an X-ray, but he shouldnt walk to the hospital. Julie has a toothache so that she should brush her teeth every day ,and she shouldnt eat candy before sleep. Unit 2 (P13)

你们学校将要与一所贫困地区的学校（a school in the poor area）开展手拉手活动，学校团委提出了以下几种活动方案：1捐款学习用品2假期去做志愿者3邀请他们来学校参观并到家里做客4通过书信的方式交朋友 请从中选择你最喜欢的一种活动方式，并说明你将怎么去做？

Helping others is great

提出)activities hand in hand with a school in the poor area. Our headmaster called on each of us to give the poor a hand, all the teachers and students take part in the big activity, everyone did their best to offer their help to the poor.

Different people use different ways. Some of them gave away their school things, but most of them joined the school volunteer project to help the students in the poor school. Whats more, some students even invited the poor students to their home and showed them around their school, the rest students make friends with the poor by writing letters.

Generally speaking, each of us has given help in our own way. We all hope that we can make the poors lives better, we are happy because we helped them, And at the same time we also got great happiness.

Unit 3 (P19)和好朋友吵架英语作文

We did a survey about doing chores in our class. Here are results.

Frank and Lucy like doing chores. Frank often sweeps the floor and take the dog for a walk at home. And he thinks doing chores can develop children’s independence. It can also helps us to understand the idea of fairness. Lucy usually folds the clothes for herself and make the bed. She thinks we can learn to look after ourselves by doing chores.

But Bob doesn’t like doing chores. Sometimes he helps her mother takeout rubbish. So he thinks there is no need for us to do chores and we should spend time on our study.

I agree with Frank and Lucy. And at home I often do the dishes after meals and clean the living room. I think we should do more chores t our spare time. It can help us to understand our parents and it also give us a good chance for proper communication with our parents. Unit 4 (P26)

Eve的Alice和她的好朋友吵架了。Eve给了她Alice一些建议。Alice最后找到了与朋友和好的好办法。请根据提示写一段80词左右的对话。

E: Hey, Alice. What’s wrong?

A: I had a fight with my best friend. What should I do?

E: Well, you could write him a letter.

A: I don’t think so, although it’s a good idea. I’m not good at writing a letter.

E: Maybe you could call him up.

A: No, I don’t want to talk about it on the phone.

E: But you really should say sorry to him.

A: Yes, I should. But it’s not easy.

E: Oh, there is going to be basketball game tonight. Why don’t you take him to the ball game? A: Yeah, you are right. Thank you!和好朋友吵架英语作文和好朋友吵架英语作文

Unit 5 (P32)

昨晚八点钟突然停电了，先完成表格内容，然后根据表格内容描述你和你的家人在停电时

When the light went out at eight o’clock yesterday evening, my family were doing different things. My father was watching a basketball game on TV. And he’s going to watch the news on his mobile phone later. My mother was read a book about animal on the sofa. And she’s going to call her good friends. My sister was playing the piano in her room. But then she had to stop to play with her pet dog. What about me? Oh, at that time I was playing computer games. But I had to stop and have a rest.

期中检测卷（P65)

My Weekend

Last weekend was busy for me. On Saturday I went to the old people’s home. I helped the old people do chores. And I chat with them happily. Then we went to the Children’s Hospital to visit the sick kids. We told stories to cheer them up. They laughed and laughed and we all felt happy.

Last Sunday I went to play football on the playground at our school with my classmates. But it suddenly rained heavily. I hurt myself playing soccer. Then we went to the hospital. Luckily, it was not bad. The doctor gave me some medicine and they brought me home. And I felt a little sad.

月考1和好朋友吵架英语作文

你的朋友Jack由于长时间玩电脑游戏，现在头痛、眼睛不舒服、腰背酸痛，并且睡不好觉。写一篇短文介绍一下他的情况，并给出你对他的建议。

要求：

（1）内容包含所提供的信息，可适当发挥；

（2）书写认真，句子通顺；

（3）词数：60词左右。

Jack is my friend. He likes playing computer games very much. He often sits in the same way for too long without moving. Now he has a headache, sore eyes and a sore back. He doesn’t sleep well at night, so he feels tired every day.

I think he should take breaks away from the computer. He shouldn’t use the computer for a long time. He should do eye exercises to relax his eyes and go to bed early at night.

I think if he has a good rest, he will feel well soon.

期中考试

假设你是Emma，你的笔友Josh给你写了一封电子邮件，向你倾诉他在家里的一些烦恼。请根据来信和提示，给Josh回一封电子邮件。先说说你的看法，再给出建议，并适当发挥。 提示：1.内容要点：（1）看法：在父母看来，我们仍是孩子；父母这样做是为了保护我们。

（2）建议：给父母写信谈谈你的想法；主动帮你父母做些力所能及的事情。

2.回信应包括以上所有提示的信息，做到行文连贯，不要逐字翻译。

3.词数：不少于80。开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Josh,

Thanks for your e-mail. I have ever had the same experience. I even had a fight with my see this. To them, we are still children and they want to protect us.

Sometimes, its hard for you to talk to your parents. Heres an idea: Write your mother and father a letter. In the letter, tell your parents what you are thinking about. Then maybe they will understand you better. After your parents read the letter, try to talk to them. In your free time, youd better do something you can to help your parents. For example, you can help your parents with some housework.

Whats more, you can describe your friends to your parents and tell them more about you and your life.

I hope this helps!

1、改变句子的词序，不改变句子的意思。

例1

（什么地方）（谁）（在干什么）

同学们在教室里大扫除。

（谁）（在什么地方）（干什么）

（1）操场上空，五星红旗在高高飘扬。

（2）蓝天上，雄鹰在飞翔。

（3）马路上，各种车辆在行驶。

（4）公园里，小学生在画画。、

（5）礼堂里，我们在观看精彩的节目。

例2

老师和同学在公园里尽情地欣赏雪景。

（谁）（在什么地方）（干什么）

（在什么地方）（谁）（干什么）

（1）鲜花盛开在道路两旁。

（2）一棵棵向日葵在阳光下茁壮成长。

（3）海参在海底慢慢地蠕动着。

（4）狐狸在葡萄架下盯着葡萄。

（5）同学们在课堂上积极发言。

例3

妈妈扎牢了帐篷。

（1）巨浪吞没了大船。

（2）张老师提来了开水。

（3）我叫醒了王海。

（4）爸爸买回来了一大袋水果。

（5）乌云遮住了太阳。

2、照样子把下面每组里的两句话合成一句通顺的话。

例我背着书包。

我上学去。

（1）我迅速地跑到学校。

我上体育课。

（2）她涂上了红红的颜色。

她把太阳画下来了。

（3）她捡起地上地一元钱。

她弯下腰。

（4）小燕子搭窝。

小燕子衔来泥土。

（5）小兔拔了许多萝卜。

小兔挎着篮子到地里。

（6）老师在黑板上写字。

老师拿起粉笔。

（7）我听到口令。

我冲出起跑线。

（8）妹妹伤心地哭了起来。

妹妹扑在妈妈怀里。

（9）爷爷戴上老花眼镜。

爷爷看书。

（10）猴子在地上打滚。

猴子抱着皮球。

3、照样子把下面的句子改写成“把字句”

例狼叼走了羊。

羊把羊叼走了。

（1）我修好了一张桌子。

（2）妈妈织好了毛衣。

（3）他打死了一个敌人。

（4）我擦干净了黑板。

（5）小马拧紧了水龙头。

（6）冬冬卖了旧报纸。

（7）狂风吹倒了路旁的大树。

（8）乌鸦喝完了水。

（9）大夫治好了我的病。

（10）大鱼吃掉了小鱼。

4、照样子把下面的句子改写成“被子句”

例爸爸拿走了刚刚送来的报纸。

Look at the cloud is the weather

We can also according to the phenomenon of light on the cloud, speculated that the weather condition. Around the sun and the moon, sometimes a kind of beautiful colorful aperture, layer is red,The aperture is called halo. Solar halo and mooning often produce in volume layer cloud, volume layer at the back of the large altostratus cloud and rain clouds, is the sign of the big wind and rain. So have a "solar halo night rain, lunar halo noon the wind". Volume layer cloud in the instructions, and dizzy, the weather becomes bad. Another smaller than halo of color ring, known as "China". The arrangement of color is red, uv with dizzy just the opposite.Solar corona and part on the edge of altostratus yuet mostly. HuaHuan changed from small to big, the weather to clear. HuaHuan from large to small, the weather is likely to turn to rain. Summer, after a storm comes a calm,opposite the sun on the clouds of often hang a colorful arc, that is the rainbow. People often say: "east rainbow boom west rainbow rain."

一般疑问句、否定句

1.Lindaoftendoesherhomeworkafterschool.(改为一般疑问句)

________Lindaoften________herhomeworkafterschool?

2.Marysentherfriendacardtowishhimahappybirthday.(改为一般疑问句)

Maryherfriendacardtowishhimahappybirthday?

3.Hisfatherknowssomethingabouthowtocreatecomicstrips.(改为否定句)

Hisfather_________know_________abouthowtocreatecomicstrips.

4.MyhusbandhasneversentflowerstohismotheronMother’sDay.(改为一般疑问句)_________yourhusband_________sentflowerstohismotheronMother’sDay?

5．Weshalldonatemoneyandclothestothosewhoneedhelp.（改为一般疑问句）____________we___________moneyandclothestothosewhoneedhelp?

6.Iwanttosendthisletterbyexpressmail.(改为一般疑问句)

__________you__________tosendthisletterbyexpressmail?

7.BothmysisterandIlikereadingcomicstrips.(改为否定句)

_______ofus_______readingcomicstrips.

8.Mary’sfathertoldherhowtosolvetheproblemimmediately.(改为否定句)

Mary’sfather__________________herhowtosolvetheproblemimmediately.

9.TheGreeksoldierscapturedtheTrojansthroughatrickatlast.(改为一般疑问句)

____________theGreeksoldiers____________theTrojansthroughatrickatlast?

10.Martinhastowalktoschoolearlyinthemorning.（改为否定句）

Martin____________towalktoschoolearlyinthemorning.

11.Kittyhaspianolessonsatweekends.(改为一般疑问句)

Kittypianolessonsatweekends?

12.Theremovalmanputthewashingmachinenexttothefridge.(改为否定句)

Theremovalman________________thewashingmachinenexttothefridge

13.Peterhasalreadyfinishedhisproject.(改为否定句)

Peter________finishedhisproject________.

14.Bothofthetwinslikepopmusic.(改为否定句)

______ofthetwins______popmusic.

15.KatehasalreadyboughtacatfromMr.Wo’spetshop.(改为否定句)

Kate__________boughtacarfromMr.Wo’spetshop__________.

16.Samdrovetoworkyesterdaymorning.(改为否定句)

Sam__________________toworkyesterdaymorning.

17.Brucehastolookafterhislittlebrotheratweekends.(改为一般疑问句)

_________Bruce_________tolookafterhislittlebrotheratweekends?18.Mylittlesondidsomereadingbeforegoingtobedlastnight.（改为一般疑问句）___________yourlittleson_____________anyreadingbeforegoingtobed?

同义句

1.Theolderhegets,themoreforgetfulhebecomes.（保持原句意思）

Hebecomesmoreforgetful________________.

2.Sarahcan’tunderstandtheFrenchfilm.Cindycan’tunderstandit,either.(合并为一句)

________Sarah________CindycanunderstandtheFrenchfilm.Itwas________cold________thedrivercouldn’tgettheenginestarted.3.Itwastoocoldforthedrivertogettheenginestarted.(保持句意基本不变)

4.Alicedoessportsafterschool.Bendoessportsafterschool,too.（保持句意不变）Alicedoesportsafterschool.____________Ben.

5.Thefirewassofierce(凶猛的)thatnobodycouldenterthebuildingtorescuepeople.(保持句意基本不变)

Thefirewas_________fiercefor_________toenterthebuildingtorescuepeople.

6．Maryfinishedherwork.Thenshewenthome.（合并为一句）

Mary___________gohome_________shefinishedherwork.

7.Ifyouareverycareful,youwillmakefewmistakes(保持句意基本不变)

The__________carefulyouare,the__________mistakesyouwillmake.

8.Nancydoesn’twanttoownacar.Alandoesn’twanttowonacar,either.(合并为一句)__________Nancy__________Alanwantstoownacar.

9.Usethelinkmethodsothatyoucanimproveourmemory.(改为简单句)

Usethelinkmethod__________________toimproveourmemory.

10.Youwillbeunhealthyifyoudon’tdoexerciseregularly.(保持句意基本不变)

Youwillbeunhealthy_________you_________exerciseregularly.

11.Tokeeptheroomclean,weneedtowashpetdogsregularly.(保持句意基本不变)

Weneedto

washpetdogsregularly________________________wecankeeptheroomclean.

12.Iwillcallthepoliceifthatnoisedoesn’tstopsoon.(保持句意基本不变)

Iwillcallthepolice____________thatnoise____________soon.

13.Theicecreamwillmelt,soyou’dbetterputitinthefridgeatonce.(保持句意基本不变)Theicecreamwillmelt______you______putitinthefridgeatonce.

14.LittleTomatetoomanychocolates.Hehadtoothache.(两句合并为一句)

LittleTomate_________manychocolates_________hehadtoothache.

15.ThemagazineyouarereadingisJane’s.(保持句意基本不变)

Themagazineyouarereading______________Jane.

16.Ericdidthesciencetestmostquicklyinourclass.(保持句意基本不变)

Ericdidthesciencetest________________thananyotherstudentinourclass.

17.Ifyoudon’tcleanyourteethregularly,youwillgettoothache.(保持句意基本不变)You________gettoothache________youcleanyourteethregularly.

18.Peterwillgotojail.Johnwillnotgotojail.(合并成一句)

Peterwillgotojail____________John.

19.We’veaskedmymothertolookafterthekidswhenweareaway.(保持句意基本不变)We’veaskedmymotherto____________________thekidswhenweareaway.

20.DetectiveKenexaminedtheroomcarefullyinordertofindsomeclues.(保持句意基本不变)

DetectiveKenexaminedtheroomcarefully____________________hecouldfindsomeclues.

21.Iboughtmyprivatecartenyearsago.(保持句意基本不变)

I__________________myprivatecarfortenyears.

22.Takethemaglevtrain,oryouwillbelatefortheplane.(保持句意基本不变)

You_________belatefortheplane_________youtakethemaglevtrain.23.Jackwasverytall.Hewasabletoreachthebookontheshelf.(保持句意基本不变)Jackwas_________________________toreachthebookontheshelf.

1.TheterribleearthquakedestroyedmanyhousesinWenchuanin2008.(改为被动语态)ManyhousesinWenchuan________________bytheterribleearthquakein2008.

2.Abigfiredamagedahigh-risebuildinginShanghaitwomonthsago.(改为被动语态)

Ahigh-risebuilding________________byabigfireinShanghaitwomonthsago.

3.Youwritealltheanswersontheanswersheet.(改成被动语态)

Alltheanswers____________ontheanswersheet.

4．Thegovernmenthelpedthevictimsofthe11.15Fire.（改为被动语态）

The____________ofthe11.15Fire____________helpedbythegovernment.

5.Thereporterwillinterviewthewinnerof“China’sgotTalent”thisevening.(改为被动语态)Thewinnerof“China’sgotTalent”will____________________bythereporterthisevening.

6.MyfriendJoneswrotesomearticlesaboutmemorylastmonth.(改为被动语态)

Somearticlesaboutmemory______________bymyfriendJoneslastmonth.

7.Wegavetwopandas,KaiKaiandXinXintoMacaoasagiftlastyear.(改为被动语态)Twopandas,KaiKaiandXinXin__________________toMacaoasagiftlastyear.

8.Wecancompletetheworkaheadoftime.(改为被动语态)

Theworkcan________________________aheadoftime.

9.Mr.LichosetenstudentstotakepartintheEnglishreadingcontestlastweek.(改被动）

Tenstudents______________totakepartintheEnglishreadingcontestbyMr.Lilastweek.

10.Paulmadethreemodelplaneslastyear.(改为被动语态)

Threemodelplanes______________byPaullastyear.

11.Myfatheroftenusesacomputerinhiswork.(改为被动语态)

Acomputer________often________inmyfather’swork.

12.Recently,peoplefoundahugeegginachickenhouseinEngland.(改成被动语态)Recently,ahugeegg____________inachickenhouseinEngland.

13.Theartistswillpaintmorebeautifulpicturesinthefuture.(改为被动语态）

Morebeautifulpictureswill____________________bytheartistsinthefuture.

14.WewillbuildmoreundergroundlinesinShanghaiinthefuture.(改为被动语态)

Moreundergroundlineswill________________inShanghaiinthefuture.

15.WecanseepapercuttinginmanypartsofChinaduringtheSpringFestival.(改被动)

Papercuttingcan__________________inmanypartsofChinaduringtheSpringFestival.16.Theythrewsomerubbishintotheriveratnightdaysago.(改为被动语态)

Somerubbish______________________intotheriveratnightdaysago.

(对划线部分提问)

________________isShanghaiNo.1DepartmentStoreopen?

2.(对划线部分提问)________________hasLucyworkedinthiscompanysinceshegraduated?（对划线部分提问）__________________youinterviewsomeofherneighbors?对划线部分提问)

__________________thelittleboygetupearlyinthemorning?

5．BobpreparedfortheNewYear’（对划线部分提问）______________________BobpreparefortheNewYear’spartyofourclass?

6(对划线部分提问)

____________________didtheShanghaiWorldExpolast?

7.对划线部分提问)

______________theoldmanandhiswifelivetwentyyearsago?

8.(对划线部分提问)

__________________Alicecompletethesciencetestinyourclass?(对划线部分提问)

________________________havetheylivedinHongKong?就划线部分提问)__________mycousinsoftenkeepintouchwiththeirfriends?对划线部分提问)______________Aliceboughtsomepaperflowers?

12.Cheng’eII(划线部分提问)

________________didChang’eIIRockettraveltothemoon?(对划线部分提问)

____________istheirnewcompanyfromthecitycenter?对划线部分提问)____________________hasUncleDaminusedcormorantstocatchfish?

15.John’对划线部分提问)__________________isJohngoingtomeettheexchangestudentsfromtheUS?

16.isheldforababy’sfirst-monthbirthday.(对划线部分提问)

__________________heldforababy’sfirst-monthbirthdayinChineseculture?对划线部分提问)

_______________________isitfromheretothePeoplesSquare?

英语改写句子练习题（适合初中生）

根据上句完成下句，使两句话的意思相同或相一致，每空一词

1. Nancy is too young to dress herself.

Nancy is not _____ _____ to dress herself.

2. My watch doesnt work well.

There is ____ _____ _______ my watch.

3. Jane doesnt go to work by bus any longer.

Jane ____ _____ _____ to work by bus.

4. It took Mary two weeks to prepare for the exam.

Mary _____two weeks____ ______ for the exam.

5. It seems that they have known each other.

They seem to _____ _____ each other.

6. "My grandpa doesnt like coffee or coke" said Bob

Bob said that _____grandpa liked _____coffee _____coke.

7. Cao Fei joined the League three years ago.

Cao Fei _____ ____ _____ the League for three years.

8. I prefer walking there to going by bus.

I prefer to walk there ____ _____ going by bus.

9. -Thank you very much. -Youre welcome.

- ____ a lot. -Not at____ .

10. Kitty does well in English.

Kitty ____ ____ ____ English.

11. They realized Hainan was a beautiful place after they reached there.

They____ realize Hainan was a beautiful place_____ they reached there.

12. We will have to finish the work hardly if you dont help us. We cant finish the work _____ _____ ______

13. My dictionary isnt so thick as yours.

My dictionary is _____ than yours.

14. Could you tell me where the East Street Hospital is? Excuse me, ____ is the _____ to the East Street Hospital?

15. The book is exciting to read.

It is ____ _____ read the book.

16. Jacks mother asked him, "Have you packed your things?" Jacks mother asked him ____ he ____ packed his things.

17. She likes singing better than dancing. She ____ singing ____ dancing.

18. Remember to ring me up as soon as you get to Nanjing Make ____ to give me a ring as soon as you _____ Nanjing.

19. They couldnt catch the train because of the heavy traffic. The heital?

15. The book is exciting to read.

It is ____ _____ read the book.

16. Jacks mother asked him, "Have you packed your things?" Jacks mother asked him ____ he ____ packed his things.

17. She likes singing better than dancing. She ____ singing ____ dancing.

18. Remember to ring me up as soon as you get to Nanjing Make ____ to give me a ring as soon as you _____ Nanjing.

19. They couldnt catch the train because of the heavy traffic. The heavy traffic _____ them from _____ the train.

20. My brother has been away from home for two days.

My brother _____ home two days _____ .

21. Li Lei decided to move to Canada when he was thirty.

Li Lei made a _____ to move to Canada at the _____ of thirty.

22. Jim was too careless to pass the exam last term.

Jim was not_____ _____ to pass the exam last term.

23. If you dont hurry up, you cant catch the train.

Hurry up, _____ you may _____ the train.

24. Yang Li wei said to us, "Im going to visit your school tomorrow. " We were all pleased.

We were all pleased when we heard Yang Li wei_____ visit_____ school the next day.

25. This is the most interesting film I have ever seen. I have ____seen _____ an interesting film before.

26. I was late for school because of the traffic accident. The traffic accident _____ me _____ getting to school on time.

下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言，考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章，然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。

对于素材中用黑体字的部分，特别建议你熟读，背诵，因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白，表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累，潜移默化。从某种意义上说，提高英语写作能力无捷径可走，你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关，没有任何人能代替你过。

因此，建议你下点苦功夫，把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况，并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心：你可以这个星期背，下个星期忘。这没有关系，相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后，你会惊讶的发现：I can think in English now！

1.?????? Proverbs

1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.

3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.

7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.

8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.

2. Damaging Research

A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.

3. Education and Citizenship

An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.

Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.

Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.

Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.

4. The Teacher’s Role

Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.

Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.

5. Education Philosophy

For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.

Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.

In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.

This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.

6. Student Life

To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.

Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.

Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)

What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.

Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.

7. Adult Education

After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”

So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.

8. Moral Relativism in American

Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.

Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.

In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”

Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.

In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”

The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.

The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.

At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.

The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.

But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.

There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.

9. Schools Should Teach Values

People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”

There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.

As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”

This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.

We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.

What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.

These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.

After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.

10. College Pressures

Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.

What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.

My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.

I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.

“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”

Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.

It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.

The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.

Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.

Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.

Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.

I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.

“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.

“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”

“Then why are you going?”

“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”

Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”

But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.

I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.

Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.

“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”

The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”

Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.

Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.

“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”

Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.

To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.

If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.

Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.

“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”

“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”

I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.

Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.

This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.

They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.

If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.

I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.

I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.

11. To Err Is Wrong

In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?

Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.

Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:

Right over 90% of the time = “A”

Right over 80% of the time = “B~”

Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.

From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.

Playing It Safe

With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.

I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.

Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.

Different Logic

From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.

Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.

Errors as Stepping Stones

Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.

The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.

Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.

Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.

[英语作文写作的需要背诵的部分

名人名言必背部分

在英语作文中，我们经常会引用一些名人名言。这里就向大家介绍一些，务必要全部脱口而出!

Culture 文化篇

1.A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.(P. B. Shelley ， British poet )伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。(英国诗人 雪莱。 P.B)

2.Art is a lie that tells the truth 。( Picasso ， Spanish painter )美术是揭示真理的谎言。

(西班牙画家 毕加索)

3.Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.

(Mark Twain ， American novelist )幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表达感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。(美国小说家 马克·吐温)

4.The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep in their downward tendency.( Johan Wolfgang von Goethe ， German poet)文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的。(德国诗人歌德 。 J 。 W 。)

5.When one loves one‘s art no service seems too hard 。(O. Henry， American novelist)一旦热爱艺术，什么奉献也不难。 (美国小说家 欧·亨利)

Education 教育篇

6.And gladly would learn ， and gladly teach 。( Chaucer ， British

poet)勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人， 乔叟)

7.Better be unborn than untaught ， for ignorance is the root of misfortune.(Plato ， Ancient Greek philosopher)与其不受教育，不如不生，因为无知是不幸的根源。(古希腊哲学家柏拉图)

Friendship 友谊篇

8. Some friends come and go like a season. Others are arranged in our lives for good reason.(Sharita Gadison)一些朋友随季节离去，而另外一些则伴我们度过美好的季节。

9.A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends.

For if not， they weren‘t true friends in the first place.(Sandy Ratliff)真朋友是可以与你有不同见解的，如果不是，首先就不是真朋友。

10.True friendship is felt， not said.(Mariecris Madayag)朋友是说不出的感觉。

11.Friends are like stars，you don‘t always see them， but you know they‘re always there.(Hulali Luta)朋友是感觉不到的存在。

12.Memories last forever， never do they die. Friends stay together， never say goodbye.(Melina Campos)记忆永不死，朋友永不说再见。

Health 健康篇

13.light heart lives long.( William Shakespeare ， British dramatist)豁达者长寿(英国剧作家莎士比亚。 W.)

14.Early to bed and early to rise ， makes a man healthy ， wealthy and wise.(Benjamin Franklin ， American president )早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明。 (美国总统 富兰克林。B.)

15.The first wealth is health 。( Ralph Waldo Emerson ， American thinker)健康是人生第一财富。 (美国思想家爱默生。 R. W.)

(一)段首句

1. 关于……人们有不同的观点。一些人认为…… There are different opinions among people as to ____ .Some people suggest that ____.

2. 俗话说(常言道)……，它是我们前辈的经历，但是，即使在今天，它在许多场合仍然适用。 There is an old saying______. It"s the experience of our forefathers，however，it is correct in many cases even today.

3. 现在，……，它们给我们的日常生活带来了许多危害。首先，……;其次，……。更为糟糕的是……。 Today, ____, which have brought a lot of harms in our daily life. First, ____ Second,____. What makes things worse is that______.

4. 现在，……很普遍，许多人喜欢……，因为……，另外(而且)……。 Nowadays，it is common to ______. Many people like ______ because ______. Besides，______.

5. 任何事物都是有两面性，……也不例外。它既有有利的一面，也有不利的一面。 Everything has two sides and ______ is not an exception，it has both advantages and disadvantages.

6. 关于……人们的观点各不相同，一些人认为(说)……，在他们看来，…… People’s opinions about ______ vary from person to person. Some people say that ______.To them,_____.

7. 人类正面临着一个严重的问题……，这个问题变得越来越严重。 Man is now facing a big problem ______ which is becoming more and more serious.

8. ……已成为人的关注的热门话题，特别是在年青人当中，将引发激烈的辩论。 ______ has become a hot topic among people，especially among the young and heated debates are right on their way.

9. ……在我们的日常生活中起着越来越重要的作用，它给我们带来了许多好处，但同时也引发一些严重的问题。 ______ has been playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life.it has brought us a lot of benefits but has created some serious problems as well.

10. 根据图表/数字/统计数字/表格中的百分比/图表/条形图/成形图可以看出……。很显然……，但是为什么呢? According to the figure/number/statistics/percentages in the /chart/bar graph/line/graph，it can be seen that______ while. Obviously，______，but why?

(二)中间段落句

1. 相反，有一些人赞成……，他们相信……，而且，他们认为……。 On the contrary，there are some people in favor of ___.At the same time，they say____.

2. 但是，我认为这不是解决……的好方法，比如……。最糟糕的是……。 But I don"t think it is a very good way to solve ____.For example，____.Worst of all，___.

3. ……对我们国家的发展和建设是必不可少的，(也是)非常重要的。首先，……。而且……，最重要的是…… ______is necessary and important to our country"s development and construction. First，______.What"s more, _____.Most important of all,______.

4. 有几个可供我们采纳的方法。首先，我们可以……。 There are several measures for us to adopt. First, we can______

5. 面临……，我们应该采取一系列行之有效的方法来……。一方面……，另一方面， Confronted with______，we should take a series of effective measures to______. For one thing，______For another，______

6. 早就应该拿出行动了。比如说……，另外……。所有这些方法肯定会……。 It is high time that something was done about it. For example. _____.In addition. _____.All these measures will certainly______.

7. 为什么……?第一个原因是……;第二个原因是……;第三个原因是……。总的来说，……的主要原因是由于…… Why______? The first reason is that ______.The second reason is ______.The third is ______.For all this, the main cause of ______due to ______.

8. 然而，正如任何事物都有好坏两个方面一样，……也有它的不利的一面，象……。 However, just like everything has both its good and bad sides, ______also has its own disadvantages, such as ______.

9. 尽管如此，我相信……更有利。 Nonetheless, I believe that ______is more advantageous.

10. 完全同意……这种观点(陈述)，主要理由如下： I fully agree with the statement that ______ because______.

(三)结尾句

1. 至于我，在某种程度上我同意后面的观点，我认为…… As far as I am concerned, I agree with the latter opinion to some extent. I think that ____.

2. 总而言之，整个社会应该密切关注……这个问题。只有这样，我们才能在将来……。 In a word, the whole society should pay close attention to the problem of ______.Only in this way can ______in the future.

3. 但是，……和……都有它们各自的优势(好处)。例如，……，而……。然而，把这两者相比较，我更倾向于(喜欢)…… But ______and ______have their own advantages. For example, _____, while_____. Comparing this with that, however, I prefer to______.

4. 就我个人而言，我相信……，因此，我坚信美好的未来正等着我们。因为…… Personally, I believe that_____. Consequently, I’m confident that a bright future is awaiting us because______.

5. 随着社会的发展，……。因此，迫切需要……。如果每个人都愿为社会贡献自已的一份力量，这个社会将要变得越来越好。 With the development of society, ______.So it"s urgent and necessary to ____.If every member is willing to contribute himself to the society, it will be better and better.

6. 至于我(对我来说，就我而言)，我认为……更合理。只有这样，我们才能…… For my part, I think it reasonable to_____. Only in this way can you _____.

7. 对我来说，我认为有必要……。原因如下：第一，……; 第二，……;最后……但同样重要的是…… In my opinion, I think it necessary to____. The reasons are as follows. First _____.Second ______. Last but not least,______.

8. 在总体上很难说……是好还是坏，因为它在很大程度上取决于……的形势。然而，就我个人而言，我发现……。 It is difficult to say whether _____is good or not in general as it depends very much on the situation of______. However, from a personal point of view find______.

9. 综上所述，我们可以清楚地得出结论…… From what has been discussed above, we may reasonably arrive at the conclusion that____.

10. 如果我们不采取有效的方法，就可能控制不了这种趋势，就会出现一些意想不到的不良后果，所以，我们应该做的是…… If we can not take useful means, we may not control this trend, and some undesirable result may come out unexpectedly, so what we should do is_____.

人们对的观点因人而异。有些人认为，然而其他人却认为。小编收集了英语万能句子，欢迎阅读。

1、it must be realized that。

我们必须意识到。

2、all in all， we cannot live without but at the same time we must try to find out new ways to cope with the problems that would arise。总之，我们没有是无法生活的。英语万能句子。但同时，我们必须寻求新的解决办法来对付可能出现的新问题。

3、i sincerely believe that。

我真诚地相信。

4、it is natural to believe that ， but we shouldnt ignore that。

认为是很自然的，但我们不应忽视。

5、obviously， if we dont control the problem， the chances are that will lead us in danger。

很明显，如果我们不能控制这一问题，很有可能我们会陷入危险。英语万能句子。

6、obviously， if we want to do something ， it is essential that。

显然，如果我们想做某事，很重要的是。

7、only in this way can we。

只有这样，我们才能。

8、recently，http://tongxiehui.net/by/7321.html the problem of has aroused peoples concern。

最近，问题已引起人们的关注。

9、the best way to solve the troubles is。

解决这些麻烦的最好办法是。

10、no doubt， unless we take effective measures， it is very likely that。

毫无疑问，除非我们采取有效措施，很可能会。

11、it is time to take the advice of and to put special emphasis on the improvement of。

该是采纳的建议，并对的进展给予特殊重视的时候了。

12、people have figured out many ways to solve this problem。

人们已找出许多办法来解决这个问题。

13、here are some suggestions for handling。

这是如何处理某事的一些建议。

14、there are different opinions among people as to。

关于，人们的观点大不相同。

15、many people insist that。

很多人坚持认为。

16、nowadays， (overpopulation) has bee a problem we have to face。

如今，(人口过剩)已成为我们不得不面对的问题了。

17、personally， i am standing on the side of。

就个人而言，我站在的一边。

18、peoples views on vary from person to person。 some hold that 。 however， others believe that。

人们对的观点因人而异。有些人认为，然而其他人却认为。

19、from my point of view， it is more reasonable to support the first opinion rather than the second。

在我看来，支持第一种观点比支持第二种观点更有道理。

20、it is urgent that immediate measures should be taken to stop the situation。

很紧迫的是，应立即采取措施阻止这一事态的发展。

21、different people hold different attitudes toward (failure)。

对(失败)人们的态度各不相同。

22、it may be true that ， but it doesnt mean that。

可能是对的，但这并不意味着。

23、as far as something is concerned。

就某事而言。

24、hence/therefore， wed better e to the conclusion that。

因此，我们最好得出这样的结论。

25、it is monly believed that / it is a mon belief that。

人们一般认为。

26、attitudes towards (drugs) vary from person to person。

人们对待吸毒的态度因人而异。

27、taking into account all these factors， we may reasonably e to the conclusion that。

考虑所有这些因素，我们可能会得出合理的结论。

28、there is no doubt that (job-hopping) has its drawbacks as well as merits。

毫无疑问，跳槽有优点也有缺点。

29、i cannot entirely agree with the idea that。

我无法完全同意这一观点。

30、it is high time that we put an end to the (trend)。

该是我们停止这一趋势的时候了。

31、with the development of science and technology， more and more people believe that。

随着科技的发展，越来越多的人认为。

32、there is no evidence to suggest that。

没有证据表明。

33、taking all these factors into consideration， we naturally e to the conclusion that。

把所有这些因素加以考虑，我们自然会得出结论。

34、a lot of people seem to think that。

很多人似乎认为。

35、people may have different opinions on。

人们对可能会有不同的见解。

36、there is no doubt that enough concern must be paid to the problem of。

毫无疑问，对问题应予以足够的重视。

37、in my opinion， it is more advisable to do than to do 。

在我个人看来，做比做更明智。

38、the inter has been playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life。 it has brought a lot of benefits but has created some serious problems as well。

互联网已在我们的生活中扮演着越来越重要的角色。它给我们带来了许多好处，但也产生了一些严重的问题。

话题作文

Nowadays现在， there are more and more __ _ in _+名词_ _. 在。。。反面有越来越多的。。。It is estimated that ___. 据估计。。。Why have there been so many ____?为什么有这么多。。。 Maybe the reasons can be listed as follows. 也许原因如下

The first one is ______. 第一个原因是。。。Besides，而且。

_____. The third one is _____. 第三个原因是。。。To sum up总

之， the main cause of it is due to _____.最主要的原因是由于

It is high time that something were done upon it是时候我们来改善它了.

For one thing，一方面我们可以做。_____. For another thing， _____另一方面我们可以。. All these measures will certainly reduce the number of _____. 所有的这些措施都可以确切的减少。

it looks like rain [raining]. 看来要下雨了。

it looks as if it’s going to rain. 像要下雨了。

it’s going to rain. 要下雨了。

it’s beginning to rain. 开始下雨了。

it’s clearing up. 天放晴了。

it’s going to be fine tomorrow. 明天将是个晴天。

it seems to be clearing up. 天似乎要转晴了。

it’s getting warmer (and warmer).天气越来越暖和了。

i think there’ll be a storm soon. 我看很快就会有场暴风雨。

i don’t think the rain would last long. 我看这雨不会下很久的。

i think the rain is going to last all day. 我看这雨会下个整天了。

we’re going to have a snowfall today. 今天会下雪了。

the rain is setting in. 雨下起来了。

i’m so glad it has turned out fine. 我真高兴结果是个好天。

i’m so sorry it has turned out wet. 真遗憾结果是个下雨天。

i hope it will keep fine. 我希望天会一直晴下去。

i hope the weather stays this way. 我希望天气总是这么好。

i hope it won’t rain. 我希望天不会下雨。

the rain has stopped. 雨停了。

lovely day [weather], isn’t it? 天气真好，是吗?

nice and warm today, isn’t it? 今天挺暖和的，是吗?

very hot today, isn’t it? 今天很热,是吗?

rather cold today, isn’t it? 今天很冷，是吗?

terrible weather, isn’t it? 天气真糟，是吗?

pretty warm, isn’t it? 挺暖和的，是吗?

isn’t it lovely weather? 天气真好。

isn’t it a lovely day? 天气真好。

it’s raining heavily. 雨下得真大。

it’s much colder than (it was) yesterday. 今天比昨天冷多了。

it’s rather windy today. 今天风很大。

it’s quite cool here in august. 这里八月份很凉快。

1、Acknowledge what you’re grateful for.

学会对生活感恩。

2、Be mindful of your surroundings.

将注意力集中在你的生活中正在发生的事上，别为过去忧伤，也别为将来担心。

3、Counter every negative with apositive.

不顺的时候多想想生活中的好时光。

4、Decide to be happy every day.

下定决心开心度过每一天。

5、Evaluate the good in your life.

每天写几件你生活中的乐事。

6、Everything will be fine./Things will turn out all right./Things will work out all right.

一切都会好起来的。

7、Everything will come up roses.

一切都会圆满结束的。

8、Fake happiness until you feel it.

在失意的时候伪装快乐。

9、Focus on small goals instead of big ones.

多为自己制定一些易实现的短期目标，努力实现它们。

10、Help someone in need.

帮助需要帮助的人。

11、I anticipate your success.

我期待着你的成功。

12、I can do it blindfolded.

我闭着眼睛都能做到。

春华秋实，颗粒满仓。下面语文迷收集了秋天的英文句子，欢迎阅读。

1. 我认为秋天是一年中最美的季节。

I think autumn is the most beautiful season in a year.

2. 秋天时叶子变黄。

The leaves turn yellow in autumn.

3. 在秋天的晚上，我感到一丝凉意。

I feel a little cool in the autumnal night.

4. 秋天里树木都是光秃秃的。

The trees were naked during autumn.

5. 今天的天气已露出了一丝秋天的气息。

There is a breath of autumn in the air today.

6. 九月的天气确实像秋天了。

The weather in September was positively autumnal.

7. 我喜欢收集秋天赤褐色的叶子。

I like to collect russet autumn leaves.

8. 我们欣赏着秋天里新英格兰树林的瑰丽色彩。

We are enjoying the resplendent colors of the New England woods in the autumn.

9.夜半酒醒人不觉，满池荷叶动秋风

Wake up to drink ,people feel the middle of the night, moving wind over a lotus leaf pond

10.生命如此简单，如秋，如落叶。

Life is so si-mp-le, such as the autumn, such as fallen leaves.

11.秋中，有些感情便如落叶般凋零了，有些影子却挥之不去，只在网络虚缈中才有熟悉的名字。凋零就凋零吧，倦缩也好，成灰亦好，管它感情如一树红叶般怎样盛开，怎样凋零。我站在川流不息的时间里，谈笑风生，任凭满天的叶子飞舞，最终覆盖苍凉的生命。

In autumn, some emotions, such as fallen leaves as they decline, some have lingering shadow, only in the virtual network is indistinct in the familiar names. It withered on the decline,ashes are also good, regardleof the feelings of like how the leaves like a tree in full bloom and how to decline. I was standing on the flow of time, laughing, even if the sky flying leaves, eventually covering the lives of desolation.

12.那是一幅描绘秋天景色的油画。

That is an oil painting of a landscape in spring.

Learning English

How to learn English well?Maybe a mass of students cannot get rid of it.When it comes to Learning English,remembering words is one of the most important things to do.But remembering words is not a good business,it can take much time to do.And when you remember them,you may forget after several days.If you want to remember them for a long time,you should do it by imagination.As you remember a word,you can make a sentence to describe it.Then it can leave in your mind for a long time,even forever.

Spoken English is also important.It can be improved by reading aloud.If you read frequently,your Spoken English cannot be much bad.

Believe in yourself,you can learn English well.

[高一英语作文练习素材

太阳像一个大蒸笼，炙烤着大地。小编收集了太阳炙烤大地改写成比喻句的句子，欢迎阅读，

1 . 太阳像火炉一样炙烤着大地。

2 . 太阳仿佛一个大火炉一般炙烤着大地。

3 . 太阳像一个大蒸笼，炙烤着大地。

4 . 太阳像个大火球，炙烤着大地。

5 . 红红的太阳像大蒸炉，炙烤着大地。

6 . 太阳犹如一个巨大的火球，炙烤着大地。

7 . 太阳成了一个大火炉，炙烤着大地。

8 . 太阳炙烤着大地，大地犹如一个大蒸笼。

9 . 火炉似的太阳炙烤着大地。

10 . 太阳像一团熊熊燃烧的烈火无情地炙烤着大地。

11 . 夏天的太阳像红苹果一样炙烤着大地。

12 . 太阳像一团熊熊的火焰炙烤着大地。

13 . 火红的太阳像火炉一样烤着番薯般的大地。

14 . 太阳像一个火球，火辣辣地炙烤着大地。

15 . 夏天的太阳像火一样，烤着大地。

16 . 电炉般的太阳炙烤着大地。

17 . 火球般的太阳炙烤着大地。

18 . 太阳像个巨大的火球，燃烧着身体，炙烤着大地。

19 . 太阳像个大砖窑，炙烤着大地。

句子改写

基础试题

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【学习目标】

1、了解长短句，整散句的特点。

2、选用、变换句式。

【学习重点】

变换句式(特别是长短句互换)

【学习内容】

一、长句和短句：

（一）特点

句子使用的字数多，附加成分多，结构复杂的叫长句，反之，就可称为短句。

长句作用：表意严密、内容丰富、精确细致。长句一般用于书面语。短句作用：表意灵活、简洁明快、节奏感强。

（二）变换方法：

原则：

一、要审清题意；

二、要保留全部信息，内容不能省略；

三、是不改变原意。

四、可调整语序，可增删某些词语，注意不能有语病。

（一）长句变短句

【解题方法】

第一步：“提取主干”。即把长句中的基本结构抽取出来单独成句。第二步：剥离修饰、限制成份，使其单独成句。剥离的原则是：由大到小，先看一下有几层修饰、限制成份，然后找到每一层的动词谓语和其对应的主语，从而形成独立的单句。如果主语是省略的，可以用指代语，构成指代关系。

第三步：整合信息，调整句序，合理表达。即合理安排各内容要点的表述顺序，使语言连贯畅通。这时，为了表达的需要，可以适当补加必要的关联词或“这样”“他”（它）们”之类指示代词，还可灵活使用冒号以衔接下文。。

“调整句序”一般要遵循如下原则：如果修饰限制成份是由并列短语改为并列短句，因无先后主次之分，可依原长句中的顺序安排；如果改成的短句间存在着时空或事理上的关系，那么就应该按照时间顺序、空间顺序或事理顺序，调整短句间的关系。

例如：《西游记》是明代文学家吴承恩在民间文学的基础上经过加工整合再创作的一部故事情节曲折人物形象生动深受读者特别是广大青少年欢迎的古典长篇章回体小说。

【解析】这是一个结构复杂的单句，我们可以通过适当增删字数和标点符号，在不改变原意的情况下，把这个长句改成三个短句。对于此题，我们可以这样解答：

第一步：“提取主干”。

此题的句子主干是：《西游记》是一部古典长篇章回体小说。第二步：剥离修饰、限制成份，使其单独成句。

本例的修饰关系可分下列两层：第一层修饰成份：一部故事情节曲折人物形象生动深受读者特别是广大青少年欢迎的。第二层的修饰成份是：明代文学家吴承恩在民间文学的基础上经过加工整合再创作的。这两层的主语均为《西游记》，改后这两个单句可用“这部小说”或“这”代替。

第三步：整合信息，调整句序，合理表达。

本题的答案可表述为：《西游记》是一部古典长篇章回体小说。这部小说故事情节曲折、人物形象生动，深受读者特别是广大青少年的欢迎。这是明代文学家吴承恩在民间文学的基础上经过加工、整合，再创作的。

【典例解析】

【例1】将下面的长句改写成三个短句，保持语意不变，可适当增删个别字词。

以简练、朴素、通透、雅淡的风貌著称，在通风、隔热、防风、防雨、

防潮等方面都极具特色的岭南建筑在我国建筑之林中独树一帜。

【解析】这一句的主干是“岭南建筑在我国建筑之林中独树一帜”，这个句子之所以“长”的原因是主语前的修饰成份冗长。通过剥离修饰成份、调整语序，原句可以改成如下三个短句：①岭南建筑在我国建筑之林中独树一帜。②它以简炼、朴素、通透、雅淡的风貌著称。③它在解决通风、隔热、防风、防雨、防潮等方面都极具特色。

【例2】现在许多国家都已经能够生产可以独立操作机床，可以在病房细心照料病人，可以在危险区域进行作业的机器人。

答案：（1）现在许多国家都能够生产这样的机器人：它们可以独立操作机床，可以在病房细心照料病人，可以在危险区域进行作业。（运用复指突出句子主干；使用代词或冒号，构成一个总分结构或分总结构的复句）

（2）有的机器人可以独立操作机床，有的可以在病房细心照料病人，有的可以在危险区域进行作业。现在许多国家都已经能够生产这样的机器人了。（叠用表分项的词语和修饰语构成排比句式）

【例3】阅读下面一段不好的译文，然后回答①—②题。

地方法院今天推翻了那条严禁警方执行市长关于不允许在学校附近修建任何等级的剧场的指示的禁令。

①地方法院究竟允许不允许在学校附近修建剧场？

②把这段文字写成三个连贯的短句。要求：层次清楚，文意明白，内容不能删减，原意不能改动。

1.as an old saying goes,....正如一句古老的谚语所说

2....be nothing but... ....不过就是...

3.from where i stand.... 从我的立场来说

4.give oneself a chance to.....给某人一个机会去...

5.i feel sure that...我坚信...

6....is the best way to make sure that....确保...的最好办法是...

7.we must do our absolute best to....我们必须竭尽全力做...

8.there is no denying the fect that...无可否认....

9.nothing is more adj. than to v.没有比...更重要的了

10.As the world that we living today, people turns to /things turns to:在当今社会里，人民总是(或者)事物总是(这句话可以替代，nowadays. )

11.From my point of view , that .....从我的想法里，。。。。。、(这句话可以替代，I think)

12.Soon after that :紧接着。(可以替代AFTER.)、

13.As this result turns out to be.....(最后这个结果会。。。。)

14.still as the result of been.........(最后的结果还是。。。。)

15.On the other hand of this / the argument:(但是从另一方面想。。。。)

16.To the point that i can no longer think of:( 我已近想不出。。。。。)

17.Personlly i think that (我个人认为。。。。。)

18.the consequnce will be.....( 这个是最终会。。。。)

I liked the Autumn Festival very much when I was a small girl, because I was with my family then. On the evening of August 15 of the lunar calendar, when the moon was brightest, we always sat together outside in our yard to eat moon cakes--eaten only on this occasion--and enjoy the beautiful moonlight. Mother would then tell me the story of the moon fairy Chang-o, who lived in a palace on the moon, with a jade rabbit for companion. I always imagined that I was the moon fairy whenever I heard the story. When I grew older, however, I was compelled to leave home for education in the city. And now I am living alone away from home. The August moon only serves to remind me of the lost happy days I had with my family in the country.

[中秋夜英语作文随堂练习

英语四级好作文不得不用的句子-开头句 1. ______________ is known as one of the most serious problems in today’s society. we can see it almost everywhere. as the graph depicts, ______________ . 2. from the cartoon, we can see that. it’s a forceful satire on the kind of ______________ . 3. from the first graph, we learn that ______________. according to the statistics shown in the second graph, we can see that ______________. 4. this table shown us that ______________. the figures indicate that there is an inspiring tendency of ______________. 5. what you first think of when seeing this cartoon might be that ______________. as a matter of fact, this cartoon reveals a typical social phenomenon. 6. according to the first graph, it can be seen that ______________, it can also be concluded from it that ______________. () 7. there is an interesting and instructive picture which goes like this: ______________. 8. nowadays there is a growing concern over ______________. many people like ______________, while others are inclined to ______________. 9. nowadays, it is common to ______________. many people like ______________ because ______________. besides, ______________. 10. ______________, just like many other things, are preferred by ______________. while being attacked by the idea that ______________, some people consider ______________. they point that ______________. 11. everything has two sides and ______________ is not an exception, it has both advantages and disadvantages. 12. for years ______________ had been viewed as ______________. but people are taking a fresh look at it now. () 13. it has stipulated by the government that ______________. to this stipulation, many people respond actively because ______________. 14. ______________ is a common occurrence in our daily life. whatever we do, ______________ can’t be avoided. 15. ______________ has become a hot topic among people, especially among the young, and heated debates are right on their way. 261

一、开头句型

我们常说，良好的开端等于成功的一半。做事如此，作文也是如此。所以我们颇有必要在作文的开头花一番心思。

在写议论文时，你通常以什么样的方式开头呢?最简单也最常用的可能就是开门见山法。也就是说———直截了当地提出你对这个问题的观点，点出文章的中心思想。

I....has both advantages and disadvantages.……既有利又有弊。例如：

1.Obviously television has both advantages and disadvantages.

2.Living in a city has both advantages and disadvantages.

3.Com pared with cars，bikes have their advantages and disadvantages.

例如：

1.With the rapid increase of Chinas population，housing problem is becoming more and more serious.

随着中国人口的急剧增加，住房问题越来越突出。

2.With more and more women entering society，peoples attitude towards women is changing.

随着越来越多的妇女走入社会，人们对妇女的态度也在改变。

3.With the deepening of Chinese reform and opening up，an increasing number of Chinese families can afford a car.

随着中国改革开放的深入，越来越多的中国家庭买得起车了。(“越来越多”除了常用的more and more外，还可以用an increasing number of， a growing number of，a significant number of，a great number of等来表达。)

二、结尾句型

英语议论文多以简要总结全文或对所讨论的问题提出解决办法来结尾。总结全文时除常用到in one /a word，generally speaking等外，没有固定模式。提出解决办法时却常使用下一句型。

V....take measures to do sth.例如：

1.We should take measures to control pollution in order to save the world.

2.Wed better take effective measures to prevent students from cheating on exams.

3.The government decided to take strong measures against drug abuse.

4.Urgent measures should be taken to prevent terrorists from carrying out further attacks.

我的世界不允许你的消失,不管结局是否完美.

No matter the ending is perfect or not, you cannot disappear from my world.

为什么幸福总是擦肩而过,偶尔想你的时候….就让….回忆来陪我.

Why I have never catched the happiness? Whenever I want you ,I will be accompanyed by the memory of...

爱情…在指缝间承诺 指缝….在爱情下交缠.

Love ,promised between the fingers

Finger rift,twisted in the love

与你保持着一种暖昧的关系,怕自己会爱上你,怕你离开后,我会流泪

When keeping the ambiguity with you ,I fear I will fall in love with you, and I fear I will cry after your leaving.

当香烟爱上(_火柴时,就注定受到伤害

When a cigarette falls in love with a match,it is destined to be hurt

Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.

爱情就像一只蝴蝶，它喜欢飞到哪里，就把欢乐带到哪里。

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

假如每次想起你我都会得到一朵鲜花，那么我将永远在花丛中徜徉。

Within you I lose myself, without you I find myself wanting to be lost again.

有了你，我迷失了自我。失去你，我多么希望自己再度迷失。

I need him like I need the air to breathe.

我需要他，正如我需要呼吸空气。

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

如果没有相等的爱，那就让我爱多一些吧。

Love is a vine that grows into our hearts.

爱是长在我们心里的藤蔓。

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

因为你，我懂得了爱。

love you not because of who you are, but because of who am when am wth you.

我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。

No man or woman s worth your tears, and the one who s, won‘t make you cry.

没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

The worst way to msomeone s to be sttng rght besde them knowng you can‘t have them.

失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who s fallng n love wth your smle.

纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。