高考英语写作策略研究方案实用20篇

导语：高考英语书面表达想拿高分并不容易，首先你要避免一些在学生中比较常见的几种错误才行。下面小编为大家整理了高考英语写作常见的错误，希望大家在考试中能够避免。

有的同学对于否定的概念模糊，不知如何否定，有时会写出不合规则或有异义的句子。

1. 我认为没有必要买大的。

误：I think its not necessary to buy the bigger one.

正：I don’t think it is necessary to buy the bigger one.

析：有些动词如think, believe, expect, suppose, imagine, guess, fancy等的主语是第一人称单数且一般现在时，表示否定的观点应用I don’t think…，而I think… not则属于汉语式表达习惯。

2. 我们直到天全黑了才到家。

误：We arrived home until it became completely dark.

正：We didn’t arrive home until it became completely dark.

析：此汉语句子里面尽管没有否定词，但until用于肯定句时意为“直到…为止”;用于否定句时，其意为“在…以前”。因此，表示“直到…才”用not…until。

3. 如果没有受到邀请的话，我是不会去参加舞会的。

误：I’ll not go to the party unless I’m not invited.

正：I’ll not go to the party unless I’m invited.

正：I’ll not go to the party if I’m not invited.

析：unless“除非”、“如果不”，常可用if…not来替换。误句中的条件状语从句双重否定表示肯定，结果与原句意思相反。

4. 那孩子不够大不能去上学。

误：The child is not old enough not to go to school.

正：The child is not old enough to go to school.

正：The child is too young to go to school.

析：这是学生最容易写错的句子。enough to“足以、足够”。原句中“不够大不能去上学”意思是“不够上学的年龄”，故应译为not old enough to go to school。

5. 他们两个都不说英语。

误：Both of them don’t speak English.

正：Neither of them speaks English.

析：中国学生特别对于all…not 和both…not等这种部分否定结构，很容易理解成全部否定。两者全部否定用neither, 三者以上用none。

6. 开车时再小心也不过分。

误：You can be too careful in driving a car.

正：You can not be too careful in driving a car.

析：cannot…too“无论作…也不过分”。

课文中的经典句子，又是精华中的精华，背熟之后对你的写作语法有很大的帮助。下面来看看小编为大家带来的英语课文经典句子吧，希望对你有帮助。

1、 Flora,whose beautiful hair and dress were all cold and wet, started crying.

2、 Tree after tree went down, cut down by the water, which must have been three meters deep.

3、 The garden that was once so beautiful was completely destroyed, swept away by the wild water.

4、 I found some photos of interesting places which were not too far away from Chengdu.

5、 He told me that I could go on a two-day trip to Leshan and Emei, which wasn’t too expensive.

6、 First,we went to Leshan, where we climbed all the way up the mountain to see the Buddha.

7、 Looking up at the large head and down at the large feet makes you feel so small.

8、 Wei Bin took photos of us standing in front of the Buddha.

9、 Steven Spielberg, whose mother was a music teacher, was born in 1946 in a small town in America.

10、 In 1959 Spielberg won a prize for a film which he made when he was thirteen years old.

11、 The reason why he could not go there was that his grades were too low.

12、 Here he worked on a short film, which won him a job as the youngest film director in the world.

13、 This was the moment when Spieberg’s career really took off.

14、 I hate hiking and Im not into classical music.

15、 I surf the Internet all the time and I like playing computer games.

16、 Rock music is OK, and so is skiing.

17、 When are you off to Guangzhou?

18、 My plane leaves at seven, so I think we’ll take a taxi.

19、 See you when I get back.

20、 The next moment the first wave swept her down, swallowing the garden.

21、 Now ,the water, which was cold as ice and flowed faster than a river, was above her knees.

22、 Jeff and Flora looked into each other’s face with a look of fright.

23、 Chuck is a businessman who is always so busy that he has little time for his friends.

24、 One day Chuck is on a flight across the Pacific Ocean when suddenly his plane crashes.

25、 He realizes that he hasn’t been a very good friend because he has always been thinking about himself.

26、 Chuck learns that we need friends to share happiness and sorrow, and that it is important to have someone to care about.

27、 When he makes friends with Wilson, he understand that friendship is about feelings and that we must give as much as we take.

28、 The lesson we can learn from Chuck and all the others who have unusual friends is that friends are teachers.

29、 I found the bathroom, but I didn’t find what I was looking for.

30、 Don’t forget to buy me some ketchup on your way back.

31、 There are more than 42 countries where the majority of the people speak English.

32、 In total, for more than 375 million people English is their mother tongue.

33、 In China students learn English at school as a foreign language, except for those in Hong Kong, where many people speak English as a first or a second language.

34、 In only fifty years, English has developed into the language most widely spoken and used in the world.

35、 With so many people communicating in English every day ,it will become more and more important to have a good knowledge of English.

36、 For a long time the language in America stayed the same, while the language in England changed.

37、 In the same way Americans still use the expression “I guess “(meaning “I think”),just as the British did 300 years ago.

38、 At the same time, British English and American English started borrowing words from other languages ,ending up with different words.

39、 Except for these differences in spelling, written English is more or less the same in both British and American English.

40、 However,most of the time people from the two countries do not have any difficulty in understanding each other.

41、 Many people travel because they want to see other countries and visit places that are famous, interesting or beautiful.

42、 Many of today’s travelers are looking for an unusual experience and adventure travel is becoming more and more popular.

43、 Instead of spending your vacation on a bus, in a hotel or sitting on the beach, you may want to try hiking.

44、 Hiking is fun and exciting, but you shouldn’t forget safety.

45、 A raft is a small boat that you can use to paddle down rivers and streams.

46、 If you want a normal rafting trip, choose a quiet stream or river that is wide and has few fallen trees or rocks.

47、 The name “whitewater “comes from the fact that the water in these streams and rivers looks white when it moves quickly.

We have an annual Mid-Autumn festival, I love Mid-Autumn festival, love its moon cakes golden and full, and love its beautiful moon circle.

Fifteen moon was round, so we decided to go to the moon in the evening of sixteen. Night, we came to the plaza, we sat down on the grass, didnt appear at that time the moon, the sky is dark blue, but in the square street lamps are festooned with colored lights, the street was filled with the festive atmosphere of the festival. People hold glowing fluorescent sticks in their hands, colorful and more beautiful in the streets. The moon seems to want to play hide-and-seek with us, never to appear. The sky had only a few scattered and faint stars. Suddenly there appeared some white in the sky, as if the moon were coming, watching the moon rising from the west. At this time the moon is not very round, there was no light, a dark clouds, the moon through the test of time and time again, finally with a perfect, beautiful gesture to show in front of people, the crowd trouble. The fireworks, the smile of fireworks and the moon made a beautiful scene. After a while, the fireworks ended and the crowd quieted down. Began to appreciate the moon, and I cant help but think of my grandma and grandpa in hometown, the Mid-Autumn festival is family reunion, how I want to my grandma and grandpa, can in the side with us to enjoy the night silent, beautiful, and the moon bright and tender. I hope the moon in my hometown is so beautiful, so round. In the moon seems to have so little drops shadow, it reminds me of the "chang e" of the story, the dribs and drabs shadows should is the goddess of the moon in the missing seed, "chang e should the regret steal the efficacious medicine, every night heart". Back home, our family around the table cut moon cakes, moon cakes have almond, ice skin, double yellow and so on, but my favorite double yellow, because it looks golden full, thin skin filling jing, taste palate is rich. Im going to eat mooncakes!

Qi shuang qiu gao, I love Mid-Autumn festival, also love the Mid-Autumn festival all customs, habits.

【示例一】

①With the rapid advances of ________ in recent years, ________has ________(引出现象). ②However, ________has ________, as ________(提出问题). ③As a result, ________(指出影响),which has aroused close social attention from all walks of life.

【示例二】

①With the rapid development of science and technology (electronic industry/higher education), more and more people come to realize that ________(引出现象). ②It is estimated, over the past decade, that ________(用具体数据说明现象).

There?is?a?widespread?concern?over?the?issue?that?__作文题目_____.?But?it?is?well?known?that?the?opinion?concerning?this?hot?topic?varies?from?person?to?person.?A?majority?of?people?think?that?_?观点一________.?In?their?views?there?are?2?factors?contributing?to?this?attitude?as?follows:?in?the?first?place,?___原因一_______.Furthermore,?in?the?second?place,?___原因二_____.?So?it?goes?without?saying?that?___观点一_____.?

People,?however,?differ?in?their?opinions?on?this?matter.?Some?people??hold?the?idea?that?___观点二_______.?In?their?point?of?view,?on?the?one?hand，?___原因一_______.?On?the?other?hand,?____原因二_____.?Therefore,?there?is?no?doubt?that?___观点二______.??

As?far?as?I?am?concerned,?I?firmly?support?the?view?that?__观点一或二______.?It?is?not?only?because?________,?but?also?because?_________.?The?more?_______,?the?more?________.?

1、When all else is lost the future still remains.就是失去了一切别的，也还有未来。

2、Sow nothing, reap nothing.春不播，秋不收。

3、Keep on going never give up.勇往直前， 决不放弃!

4、The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.精神的财富是唯一的财富。

5、Never say die.永不气馁!

6、Nurture passes nature.教养胜过天性。

7、There is no garden without its weeds.没有不长杂草的花园。

8、The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好!

9、The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.伟人之所以伟大，是因为他立志要成为伟大的人。

10、Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life.苦难是人生最伟大的老师。

12、A man cant ride your back unless it is bent.你的腰不弯，别人就不能骑在你的背上。

13、Although again sweet candy, also has a bitter day.即使再甜的糖，也有苦的一天。

14、Sharp tools make good work.工欲善其事，必先利其器。

15、Never put off what you can do today until tomorrow.今日事今日毕!

16、Wasting time is robbing oneself.浪费时间就是掠夺自己。

17、The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.世界上对勇气的最大考验是忍受失败而不丧失信心。

18、A mans best friends are his ten fingers.人最好的朋友是自己的十个手指。

19、Only they who fulfill their duties in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions.只有在日常生活中尽责的人才会在重大时刻尽责。

20、The shortest way to do many things is to only one thing at a time.做许多事情的捷径就是一次只做一件事。

21、Theres only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and thats your own self.这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进，那就是你自己。

22、The first step is as good as half over.第一步是最关键的一步。

23、Do one thing at a time, and do well.一次只做一件事，做到最好!

24、Believe that god is fair.相信上帝是公平的。

25、Wealth is the test of a mans character.财富是对一个人品格的试金石。

26、Let bygones be bygones.

过去的就让它过去吧。

27、Let sleeping dogs lie.

别惹麻烦。

28、Let the cat out of the bag.

泄漏天机。

29、Lies can never changes fact.

谎言终究是谎言。

30、Lies have short legs.

谎言站不长。

Once upon a time, someone asked me low carbon life really so important? I firmly answer is ! But real sample is low carbon life? Let me tell you!

Low carbon life is very simple. For example: washing, the faucet screw tightly, dont let the water escape; Water washing a face can be used to wash feet, wash clothes of water can also be used for polishing the floor, and then the wastewater is also used to flush the toilet.

Before, and my brother is watching TV with closed with the remote control, I said to the younger brother: "brother, do you turn off the TV with the remote control, in fact is still in power, only turn off the switch on the television, the television is no electricity. Brother listened to my words, hurried and switch off the television. From then on, my brother watching TV, will turn off the TV switch, see this scene, I was so happy, think brother also learned to" low-carbon life"

Want to talk about mom and dad low carbon than a brother. Whenever something can be used again, my father and I were so happy, we used some cardboard and can make a pen holder, what can make a pencil case or wallet with some cloth; Mother is a fan of flowers, we looked at those green, green, suck, heart suddenly feel filar silk cool idea, has the good air and beautiful, really kill two birds with one stone!

Our family is low carbon life. How, carbon in enough!

曾经，有人问我低碳生活真的很重要吗?我坚定地回答是!可是真样才算低碳生活呢?就让我告诉你们吧!

低碳生活其实很简单.例如：洗好手,就把水龙头拧得紧紧的,不让水逃出来 ;洗脸的水可以用来洗脚，洗衣服的水也可以用来檫地板，然后这些废水还拿来冲马桶。

以前，弟弟看完电视就随手用遥控器关了，我就对弟弟说：“弟弟你用遥控器把电视关上，其实还在耗电，只有把电视上的开关关上，那电视才没有用电。弟弟听了我的话，就急忙吧电视的开关关上。从此以后，弟弟看完电视，都会把电视的开关关上，看到这一幕，我太高兴了，以为弟弟也学会了‘低碳生活’了

要说起爸爸妈妈比弟弟还要‘低碳’。每当有什么可以再次利用的东西，我和爸爸就无比高兴，我们用一些纸板又可以做出一个笔筒，用一些布就可以做出铅笔盒或钱包什么的;妈妈是一个养花爱好者，大家看着那些绿色，允吸的绿色，心中顿时感觉丝丝的凉意，有了好空气又养眼，真是一举两得呀!

我们就是低碳生活的家庭。怎么样，够地碳吧!

作文不仅仅是语文科目的重头戏也是英语科目的重头戏，就为考生朋友们整理了高考英语作文范文，希望对大家有帮助!

车祸(An Accident)

My uncle will never forget what happened to him yesterday.

In the evening, he was invited to an inn. He enjoyed his dinner with his friends, drinking a lot of beers. As a result, he got drunk.He insisted on driving home after the meal, although his friends tried to persuade him not to do so.A few minutes later, he was winding his way on the street. And then his car ran into a tall tree. Fortunately, he was still alive, though seriously injured. The police came to the spot, and he was taken to the hospital. Naturally, he had to stay in the hospital for several days.Even worse, his driving license was revoked. How he regretted what he had done!

车祸

我的叔叔将永远忘不掉昨天发生的事情。昨天傍晚，朋友邀请他去喝酒。他和朋友们吃得很开心，也喝了很多酒。结果，他醉了。朋友劝他留下来，但他坚持开车回去。

一会儿后，车在路上摇摇晃晃，然后就撞到一颗树上了。幸运的是，他尽管伤得很重，但没有生命危险。警察来到事故现场，然后把他送到了医院。自然，他必须在医院里呆上几天。更为糟糕的是，他被吊销了驾驶执照。他对自己所做的事感到万分后悔。

[高考英语作文：车祸(An Accident)

A Letter of Application

Dear Sir or Madam,

I have learned from an advertisement that your company is in need of a secretary. I would like you to consider me for the position.

My name is Li Min. I am twenty-three years old. I am studying business management in Xiamen University. I will graduate this summer. I am familiar with computer operation and office softwares, which can help me do the office work very well. And I have learned English for ten years.In the past two years, I have been an editor for the English Paper of my department. My grades come out top in my department. Whats more, I like office work very much and I also think that I can be competent for the job.If I could have the opportunity to get the job I will be quite appreciative.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully

Li Min

亲爱的先生或女士：

我从一则广告上得知你们公司需要秘书。我希望您考虑一下我。

我叫李敏，23岁，现在在厦门大学学习经济管理，今年夏季即将毕业。我精通计算机操作及办公软件的使用，这可以帮助我做好办公室工作。我学了十年英语。在过去的两年里我一直担任本系英语报的一名编辑。我的成绩在系里名列前茅。另外，我非常喜欢办公室工作并且我也认为我能胜任这个工作。如果我能有机会得到这份工作，我会非常感激。

谢谢您的考虑。我盼望着您的回信。

您忠实的朋友

李敏

导语：随着互联网的发展，网站慢慢取代了报纸的作用，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

报纸

1.传统媒体，天天更新，信息可靠 2. 携带方便，随时随地可以阅读 3.仅有文字和图片

网站

1.新兴媒体，信息更新速度快 2.依赖于电脑及互联网 3. 包含文字、图片、音频和视频

注意：

1.短文必须包括表中所有内容，可以适当发挥; 2. 词数：100-120 3. 参考词汇：更新update;音频audio;视频video

Newspapers and Websites

Newspapers and websites are two major new media in the world today, both of which can provide us with lots of news and information. But theyre different in some ways.

Newspapers enjoy a longer history and often come out daily with more reliable news and information. They can be carried and read almost anywhere you like. So many people like reading them. But they can only contain texts and photos.

On the other hand, websites are quite new and popular, especially among young people. Websites have not only texts with pictures but also audios and videos, which makes stories more interesting. Whats more, they are updated from time to time. So the latest news is always seen on websites instead of in newspapers. But it is not quite convenient for people without a computer connected with the Internet to get information from websites.

【参考译文】

报纸和网站

报纸和网站是当今世界上的两大新兴媒体，它可以为我们提供大量的新闻和信息。但他们在某些方面不同。

报纸有着较长的历史，每天都会出现更可靠的新闻和信息。他们可以携带和阅读几乎任何地方你喜欢。这么多人喜欢读。但它们只能包含文本和照片。

另一方面，网站是新的和流行的，尤其是在年轻人。网站不仅有图片文字，还有音频和视频，这使得故事更有趣。更重要的是，他们不时更新。所以最新的新闻总是出现在网站上而不是报纸上。但是没有电脑连接的人从网站上获取信息并不太方便。

人类对自然的依附性已随着现代化的进程而日益凸显。人类文明的触角延伸出的却是钢筋水泥固封的楼群，浓烟废气造成的污染，灯红酒绿培植的浮躁，物欲横流带来的贫乏。没有任何一个时代的人像现代人这样渴望新鲜清明的空气，繁茂葱翠的森林，蔚蓝夐远的天空。所以，我们要从现代文明中汲取古人“天人合一”的智慧，为人类的生存树一面恒久持续的丰碑。

这类题材的写作，容易流于枯燥的数字堆砌和絮烦的空洞议论。要善于从已知材料中挖掘情感意蕴，让饱含情感的叙述打动阅读者的心扉;要从细节处捕捉人类与自然相互依存的秘密，把握“和谐”共存的主旋律。在结构安排上，可以正反对照，古今映衬，从古典诗词中的美妙意境透析深意，与工业文明过度开掘所造成的恶果形成强烈反差，从而使所思所感深彻透辟，达到以情感人、以理服人的目的。

自然是人类生存的唯一家园。物质利益的追求不能以牺牲环境为代价，“唯我中心”只能让人类走上“不知归”的自我毁灭之途。随着人类对自然环境重要性的认识的提高，各种治理污染、减少破坏措施的出台，我们终究会再看到古人曾经看到过的蓝天，感受到古人曾有过的热爱自然与美好生活的情怀。

Wele to Baishan Mountain Hotel

Baishan Mountain Hotel is now open for business。

Our hotel stands 500 meters away from the entrance to Baishan Mountain。 It

has 20 single rooms and 15 double rooms，all with hot showers。 A single room is

100 yuan and double room 150 yuan for one night。 You are advised to book in

advance。 The hotel serves three meals a day and there are Chinese food and

western food for you to choose from。 You can also enjoy yourself at the café

drinking tea or coffee in the evening。 We also have a swimming pool，which is

open all day and free of charge。

All are wele!

In recent years, internet voting has become increasingly popular in China.

People not only cast on-line votes themselves, but also urge others to vote for

competitions like the “Most Beautiful Teacher” and the “ Cutest Baby”.

Li Jiang, a high school student, is invited to vote in the “ Best Police

Officer 冶 competition, organized by the local government to let the public have

a better understanding of police officers’ daily work. Li Jiang visits the

website and reads all the stories. He is deeply moved by their glorious deeds.

He is already thinking of becoming a policeman himself in the future.

Su Hua is invited by his uncle to vote for his cousin in the “ Future

Singer冶 competition. He has already received three similar invitations this

week. His uncle tells him that if his cousin wins the competition, the family

will win an oversea s tour for free. Su Hua likes his cousin very much, but he

finds other singers perform even better. To vote, or not to vote This is a

question that troubles him very much.

导语：知足常乐贵就贵在一种自我调节，在忙碌的追求中，能改变心态，积极乐观地面对生活，下面是yuwenmi小编为备考的同学准备的作文素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

1、唐伯虎曾写下“不见五陵豪杰墓，无花无酒锄作田。”与仕途擦肩而过，唐伯虎没有悲伤，反而对自己的田园生活感到快乐。“赌书消得泼茶香，当时只道是寻常。”

2、纳兰容若的恬适生活令他沉醉，他满足于这样的生活，所以他是快乐的。

3、苏轼的“一蓑烟雨任平生”豁达乐观令世人感慨，虽仕途不顺，但他不过分悲叹自己，反而生出这样的大境界，如何能令人不敬佩?

4、还记得那个“奉旨填词”的柳三变吗?“你且去浅斟低唱，何要浮名?”皇帝的一句话，即刻就断送了柳永的仕途。他悲伤过，低徊过，但他最后选择接受命运的安排，在勾栏瓦肆之地浅斟低唱，追寻自己的内心。朝廷只是少了一位小官，却成就了两宋的大词人，璀璨了两宋文坛，照亮了宋词的前程。不要老想着你没有什么，要想到你拥有什么，你就会快乐的。

人活着为了什么?有人告诉我，人活一辈子，实质上什么都留不下，不要单单想着做什么只为了名垂青史——人不在了，什么用都没有了。

在某种层面上，我们可以说这个人缺少追求和激情，但仔细回味，倒是有一番道理。知足常乐是一种处事态度——看过一篇米老鼠漫画，讲的是一次误会使得古斯离家出走找工作，结果工作搞得一团糟，根本没人要他，他就靠在树下睡觉，很多压力大的白领就问：“我们怎么才能活着不这么累?”“累了就在树下歇会儿。”“歇会儿，可是好多工作都没有做!”“做完了又怎样呢?”“做完了还有新的工作啊!”“有完的时候吗?”

知足常乐贵就贵在一种自我调节，在忙碌的追求中，能改变心态，积极乐观地面对生活，面对负担，其实收获的不一定比怨声载道的人少。

知足常乐是一种悠然情怀——“采菊东篱下，悠然见南山”陶渊明的与自然和谐共处、融为一体;“宁静致远，淡泊名志”诸葛亮高洁傲岸的情操;都体现出了古人知足常乐的高尚情怀。对于人间世事，都能以宽广的情怀对待，便可以拥有平平淡淡的自由生活。小时候，我们可以为得到一件心爱的小玩具而喜笑颜开，如今回首，可能觉得这没什么大不了，但其实这就是知足常乐的完美体现。知足常乐是一种高尚品质——人不免有贪欲，不是所有人在每件事上都放得开。

从小的说，无意间占了几次小便宜，便会有一种潜意识：只要有可能，下次还要占便宜。结果呢，看上去做了很多事，其实什么收获都没有。大的说，无数的贪官污吏，从不得不收几百块钱的小礼，到主动去收几千块钱的大礼，最后成把成把的公款往自己兜里塞，还不是一枪崩了。所以说能够克制自己不为利益所迷惑的人，才具有知足常乐的品质。知足常乐并不意味着不思进取——知足的意思是知道满足，请注意：知道满足是对于目前的状况，不是对于未来的前途。知足常乐的人，他是对于现在适当地满足，使得自己能够得到些许放松，从而精力充沛地投入到未来的学习工作中去，真正实现可持续性发展，这样的人是明智的，更易获得成功;而不思进取的人，他是由于一次或多次成功而被冲昏了头脑，身心上是完全的松懈，从而在未来没有前进的动力，这样的人不理智，会慢慢退步，最终一蹶不振。

知足常乐用在学生身上怎么理解——实质上学生的知足是对于自己的生活状况的满足，因为社会的压力是脱离不掉的，而学生也不能在学习成绩上得到满足。所以在大压力的环境下，只有对生活知足，对未来抱有希望，对前途有一个明确的目标，才能获得常乐。一天早上上学时，我在校车里向外看，看到了光芒万丈的壮丽的朝霞，我便喊朋友们都来看，看着他们若有所思的样子，我说了一段话并记了下来，作为文章结束语：“停下来，先停一会儿，看看远方的天，一望无际的金色的朝霞，这才真正感觉到人生的美好!”

导语：输得起，是一种高贵的君子风度，但并不是没有原则的宽容。诸如南海诸岛的得失，事关国家安危，那不能输。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的高考作文素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

从古到今，“输不起”情结深植于中国文化基因中，纠结在领导们的脑子里，因为输不起，所以无法接受批评、拒听反对意见、打压异己、逆我者亡。整个社会，每一个角落稍稍掌握一点权力的人，哪怕是保安，也大多输不起：不愿接受批评，不肯认输道歉，从不承认决策失败，不能欣赏对手的优秀，闻过则怒、闻功则喜。

朱棣还是燕王时，与刘伯温之子刘颢下棋，见局势不妙，发威说：“卿不少让耶?”刘颢正色道：“可让处则让，不可让者不敢让也。”朱棣一听，面色发青。这盘棋，朱棣输了。及至朱棣登位，刘颢称疾不至，被捕入京，仍坚持原则毫不屈服：

“殿下百世后，逃不得一个‘篡’字。”朱棣将他下狱，刘颢不愿受戮，自尽而死。

下棋输不起，要别人让他：政治上输不起，让别人下狱。羞怒自卑至此，却还感叹：怎么就赢不了他呢?

“输不起”的故事喧嚷于史册中。拥有权力的人，或因无知，或因病态，为了“维稳”，不惜采用极端手段，鞭尸的伍子胥可算典型。“输不起”的根子是什么?是自卑。

相对于“输不起”的，是一种开阔的胸襟、气度、容忍、包涵、雅量、欣赏……这些素质在史册中偶尔发光，却十分灿烂。

输得起的领导者，我首推秦穆公，他派遣三主将伐郑，在崤山之役被晋军伏击，全军覆没。主张出兵的由余自请治罪，秦穆公说：“罪止寡人一身，与爱卿何干?”他穿上素服哀悼阵亡将士，并亲自迎接被遣回的三主将。承认失败，是何等了不起的胸襟，所以跻身五霸也。

楚庄王围攻宋城，大夫子反前去窥探宋军虚实，巧遇宋大夫华元也在窥探敌情。子反问华元：

“子之国何如?”华元老实地说：“惫矣，易子而食，析骸而炊之。”子反又问他为何愿意吐露军情，华元说：“吾见子之君子也，是以告情于子也。”子反闻言，大为感动，也向华元据实以告：“勉之矣，吾军亦有七日之粮尔。尽此不胜，将去而归尔。”子反回来向楚庄王报告经过，楚庄王责问他为何泄漏军机，他从容地说：“以区区之宋，犹有不欺人之臣，何以楚而无乎?”楚庄王默然。

这段往事的核心是“诚”，是子反的气度，楚庄王的包容。子反跳脱了你死我活的格局，从敌人的眼中看到了尊严，从而萌生雅量。楚庄王的默然，是一种高蹈。如果他把子反训斥一顿，或治以泄漏军机之重罪，然后挥军猛攻，宋军势必覆灭。果如此，“五霸”中还有楚庄王吗?

素材运用:输得起，是一种高贵的君子风度，但并不是没有原则的宽容。诸如南海诸岛的得失，事关国家安危，那不能输。从历史寻根，将输得起、输不起的故事重现，无非是还原人性的尊严与光辉，以对照那些狭隘自卑的文化弊病而已。

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

课标全国1适用地区：河南、河北、山西、山东、湖南、湖北、江西、广东、安徽、福建。

假定你是李华，暑假想去一家外资公司兼职，已写好申请书和个人简历（resume）。给外教Ms Jenkins写信，请她帮你修改所附材料的文字和格式(format)。

注意：

1、词数100左右；

2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考范文：

Dear Ms Jenkins,

I want to tell you something about my plan for the summer vacation and I’d like you to dome a favor.(点名主题：暑假，请帮忙)

To get some working experience, I plan to find a part-time job in a foreign capital company（要点1：想去外资公司兼职）. I have already finished my job application and personal resume（要点2：已写好求职申请和个人简历）.However, my English is bad. Worse still, I don’t even know much about the format of a personal resume (说出自己的困难). So, I’m writing you a letter, hoping to get your guide and

suggestion. You can correct any mistakes yon find in them.(总结，点名写信目的)

Looking forward to your reply（期盼回复）. And I’d be really thankful（表达感激之情）.

Yours,

Li Hua（结束语）

课标全国2适用地区：黑龙江、吉林、辽宁、宁夏、海南、青海、西藏、内蒙古、新疆、云南、贵州、甘肃（最后三个不考听力）。

假定你是李华，你校摄影俱乐部(photographyclub)将举办国际中学生摄影展。请给你的英国朋友Peter写封信，请他提供作品。信的内容包括：

1.主题：环境保护；

2.展览时间；

3.投稿cfemail="7296d1c81b1c061e021a1d061d011a1d0532151f01111a1d1d1e5c111d1f">[email protected]

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

标准范文：

Dear Peter (称呼),

Our schoolphotography club is going to hold an International High School

StudentPhotography Show（你校摄影俱乐部将举办国际中学生摄影展。）. The theme of the show is environmental protection（要点1，主题：环境保护）. It will start from June 15th and last for threehours（要点2，展览时间）. Anystudentwho is interested iswelcome to participate（鼓励投稿）. I know you take good pictures and you’ve always wanted to dosomething for environmental protection. I remember you showed me some photos onthat theme the last time you visited our school. This is surely a good chance for

morepeople to see them（引申：点名Peter可以投稿的原因：摄影好，也喜欢为环保做贡献，以及良好的结果）, If you want to join, you can send your photos

[email protected]（要点3，投稿信息）

Hope to hear from yousoon.（提出期望）

Yours,

Li Hua （结束语）

课标全国3适用地区：陕西、广西、重庆。

假定你是李华，与留学生朋友Bob约好一起去书店，因故不能赴约。请给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1.表示歉意；

2.说明原因；

3.另约时间。

注意：

1.词数100左右

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

标准范文：

Dear Bob,(称呼)

I am sorry to say that I cannot go to the bookstorewith you on Friday afternoon（要点1：点题致歉）. I have just found that Ihave to attend an important class meeting afternoon(要点2：说明原因). I hope the change will notcause you too much trouble.（引申）

Shall we go on Saturday morning（要点3：另约时间） We can set out early so that wewill have more time to read and select books（引申：另约，强调什么事）. If it is convenient for you,lets meet at 8:30 outside the school gate. If not, let me know what timesuits you best.（增加细节，给出两种时间原则）I should be availableany time after school next week.（亮明自己下周随时有空，可不能再延期致歉啦） Yours,

Li Hua（结束语）

英语考场作文写作建议

1.仔细审题，简列提纲。

2.扩展提纲，连句成文。

3.过渡词语，衔接紧凑。

4.卷面整洁，爽心悦目。

5.细心复查，确保无误。

附：衔接连贯常用语

表举例示范：for example, in other words, for instance, that is, that is to say等

表因果关系：therefore,so, hence, thus, accordingly, consequently, as a result等

表总结概括：insummary, to sum up, in brief, in short, on the whole, in a word, all in all, inconclusion, as has been noted, on the whole等 表转折让步：unfortunately,though/ although, anyway, but, however, otherwise, still, yet, after all, inspite of, on the contrary, on the other hand, in any case, whatever等

表递进过渡：again,also, worse still, obviously, then, besides, further, furthermore, moreover,next, similarly, after a while, at the same time, in addition, meanwhile,suddenly, later, soon, in the same way, what’s more等

Dragon Boat Festival is one the very classic traditional festivals, which

has been celebrated since the old China. Firstly, it is to in honor of the great

poet Qu Yuan, who jumped into the water and ended his life for loving the

country. Nowadays, different places have different ways to celebrate.

In my hometown, there will be a traditional competition, that is the dragon

boat race. People make up the team and fight for the honor. Every boat looks

like the dragon and it is the most obvious feature. A lot of people will come to

visit or watch the match. Then the game begins. The audience will cheer for the

teams and the competitors try their best to make the boat go fast. It is very

lively.

Besides the competition, eating the traditional food zongzi is favored by

everyone. For me, it is very delicious. My grandma makes the best zongzi. She

has the special recipe and it fits my stomach. So every time I go back hometown,

my grandma will make it for me.

In other places, drinking the special wine and hanging the leaf are also

the tradition. The preserve of the traditional festival makes our culture

profound.

一、句式多变，词汇丰富。

鉴于这部分的写作要求和难度，不论是写书信还是编故事，由于100词的字数要求，考生必须要学会用具体的，多样化的语句来描写某样东西或某件事情。有的学生从头至尾都用"Thereis"的句式，而且重复多遍，看来单调乏味，很难得高分。我们不妨用主动和被动句式、各种不同的从句、动词不定式、强调句、虚拟语气等等，当然我们要写的句式必须是自己熟悉的，有把握的。

词汇量的大小影响写作成绩。试想你形容餐馆good，食品good，氛围good，那也太无聊了，我们平时就积累一些词汇，比如餐馆cleanandtidy，食品niceandtasty，氛围friendlyandpleasant等等，而不至于到考试时言之无物。

二、问题都答，加上连词。

如果第二单元你要给笔友写一份回信，信中有这么一个问题Haveyougotafavoriterestaurant?Tellmeaboutthefoodandwhatyoulikeabouttherestaurant。这个问题看似非常简单，但如果你就回答一句Ihavegotmyfavoriterestaurant.可以，但如果你不学会怎么扩展这个话题，那一封信中根本就写不了上百个单词。因此，学会拓展话题这一点在这部分中尤为重要，如你可以写餐馆的名字、位置、特色等等。

如果你选择编故事也很好。我们PET考生大多是青少年，正是想象力非常丰富的时候，很适合去编故事。但在书写的过程中，一定要注意尽量用自己有把握的语言来表达和描述。此外，既然是故事，就应该把事情发生的时间、地点、人物、过程以及结果都完整地表述出来。因此，我们在平时就把日常生活中所发生的有意义的小事儿用英文记录下来，日积月累你会发现，你的书写素材会越来越多，这种考试对你来说，将会是"apieceofcake"。

另外注意适当使用一些关联词，如and,but,so,if，使行文更加流畅。

三、平时勤练，克服畏惧。

因为该部分要求比较高，建议考生平时可以多做这样的书写练习。在学而思PET，我们会练习四五篇大作文，希望同学们平时就认真对待，描写到位，在老师的指导下，逐步明白自己的弱项在哪里，进而逐渐消除无话可写的心理恐惧，并提高写作水平。

导语：好的句子正确运用能给作文带来意想不到的效果，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

1. According to a recent survey， four million people die each year from diseases linked to smoking.依照最近的一项调查，每年有4，000，000人死于与吸烟有关的疾病。

2. The latest surveys show that quite a few children have unpleasant associations with homework.最近的调查显示相当多的孩子对家庭作业没什么好感。

3. No invention has received more praise and abuse than Internet.没有一项发明像互联网一样同时受到如此多的赞扬和批评。

4. People seem to fail to take into account the fact that education does not end with graduation.人们似乎忽视了教育不应该随着毕业而结束这一事实。

5. An increasing number of people are beginning to realize that education is not complete with graduation.越来越多的人开始意识到教育不能随着毕业而结束。

6. When it comes to education， the majority of people believe that education is a lifetime study.说到教育，大部分人认为其是一个终生的学习。

7. Many experts point out that physical exercise contributes directly to a persons physical fitness.许多专家指出体育锻炼直接有助于身体健康。

8. Proper measures must be taken to limit the number of foreign tourists and the great efforts should be made to protect local environment and history from the harmful effects of international tourism.应该采取适当的措施限制外国旅游者的数量，努力保护当地环境和历史不受国际旅游业的不利影响。

9. An increasing number of experts believe that migrants will exert positive effects on construction of city. However， this opinion is now being questioned by more and more city residents， who complain that the migrants have brought many serious problems like crime and prostitution.越来越多的专家相信移民对城市的建设起到积极作用然而，越来越多的城市居民却怀疑这种说法，他们抱怨民工给城市带来了许多严重的问题，像犯罪和卖淫。

10. Many city residents complain that it is so few buses in their city that they have to spend much more time waiting for a bus， which is usually crowded with a large number of passengers.许多市民抱怨城市的公交车太少，以至于他们要花很长时间等一辆公交车，而车上可能已满载乘客。

11. There is no denying the fact that air pollution is an extremely serious problem： the city authorities should take strong measures to deal with it.无可否认，空气污染是一个极其严重的问题：城市当局应该采取有力措施来解决它

12. An investigation shows that female workers tend to have a favorable attitude toward retirement.一项调查显示妇女欢迎退休。

13. A proper part-time job does not occupy students too much time. In fact， it is unhealthy for them to spend all of time on their study. As an old saying goes： All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.一份适当的业余工作并不会占用学生太多的时间，事实上，把全部的时间都用到学习上并不健康，正如那句老话：只工作，不玩耍，聪明的孩子会变傻。

14. Any government， which is blind to this point， may pay a heavy price.任何政府忽视这一点都将付出巨大的代价。

15.Nowadays， many students always go into raptures at the mere mention of the coming life of high school or college they will begin. Unfortunately， for most young people， it is not pleasant experience on their first day on campus.当前，一提到即将开始的学校生活，许多学生都会兴高采烈。然而，对多数年轻人来说，校园刚开始的日子并不是什么愉快的经历。

导语：《平凡的世界》是中国著名作家路遥创作的一部百万字的长篇巨著;下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的作文素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

《平凡的世界》是路遥老师创作的一部百万字长篇巨著,在70~80年代的背景上,劳动与爱情、挫折与追求、痛苦与欢乐、日常生活与巨大社会冲突纷繁地交织在一起。

1991年3月份《平凡的世界》获中国第三届茅盾文学奖。第一版于1986年12月在文联出版社出版;第二版于2012年3月在北京十月文艺出版社正式发行。

路遥(1949—1992)，原名王卫国，中国当代农村作家。

1.生活不能等待别人来安排，要自己去争取和奋斗;而不论其结果是喜是悲，但可以慰藉的是，你总不枉在这世界上活了一场。有了这样的认识，你就会珍重生活，而不会玩世不恭;同时，也会给人自身注入一种强大的内在力量。

2.我认为，每个人都有一个觉醒期，但觉醒的早晚决定个人的命运。

3.你能痛苦，就说明你对生活还抱有希望!

4.幸福不仅仅是吃饱穿暖，而是勇敢地去战胜困难。

5.我不啼哭，不哀叹，不悔恨，金黄的落叶堆满心间，我已不再是青春少年。

6.生活包含着更广阔的意义，而不在于我们实际得到了什么;关键在于我们的心灵是否充实。

7.不懈的追求生活，又不敢奢望生活过多的报酬和宠爱，而是理智而清醒的面对着现实。

8.什么是人生?人生就是用不休止的奋斗!只有选定了目标并在奋斗中感到自己的努力没有虚掷，这样的生活才是充实的，精神也会永远年轻!

9.生活啊，生活!你有多少苦难，又有多少甘甜!天空不会永远阴暗，当乌云退尽的时候，蓝天上灿烂的阳光就会照亮大地。青草照样会鲜绿无比，花朵仍然会蓬勃开放。

10.当然，普通并不等于庸俗。他也许一辈子就是一个普通人，但他要做一个不平庸的人。在许许多多平平常常的事情中，应该表现出不平常的看法和做法来。

11.命运总是不如愿。但往往是在无数的痛苦中，在重重的矛盾和艰难中，才使人成熟起来，坚强起来;虽然这些东西在实际感受中给人带来的并不都是欢乐。

12.年轻是一个中性词，它代表着很多缺点：缺乏经验、少不更事、容易冲动。但是也有很多优点，其中之一就是有大把的时间去遗忘那些不该记住的事情。

13.生命里有着多少的无奈和惋惜，又有着怎样的愁苦和感伤?雨浸风蚀的落寞与苍楚一定是水，静静地流过青春奋斗的日子和触摸理想的岁月。

14.生命里有着多少的无奈和惋惜,又有着怎样的愁苦和感伤?雨浸风蚀的落寞与苍楚一定是水,静静地流过青春奋斗的日子和触摸理想的岁月。

15.在这个世界上，不是所有合理的和美好的都能按照自己的愿望存在或实现。

16.生活不能等待别人来安排，要自已去争取和奋斗;而不论其结果是喜是悲，但可以慰藉的是，你总不枉在这世界上活了一场。有了这样的认识，你就会珍重生活，而不会玩世不恭;同时，也会给人自身注入一种强大的内在力量。

17.人活着，接得随时准备经受磨难。他知道不论是普通人还是了不起的人，都要在自己的一生中经历许多磨难。 磨难使人坚强。通过一段血火般的洗礼，他相信，自己历尽千辛万苦而酿造的生活之蜜，肯定比轻而易举哪来的更有滋味!

18.人生啊，是这样不可预测，没有永恒的痛苦，也没有永恒的幸福，生活象流水一般，有时是那么平展，有时又是那么曲折。要知道，春天的道路依然充满泥泞!人的生命力，是在痛苦的煎熬中强大起来的。

19.细想过来，每个人的生活同样也是一个世界。即是最平凡的人，也得要为他那个世界的存在而战斗。从这个意义上说，在这些平凡的世界里，也没有一天是平静的。

20.其实我们每个人的生活都是一个世界，即使最平凡的人也要为他生活的那个世界而奋斗。

21.人们宁愿去关心一个蹩脚电影演员的吃喝拉撒和鸡毛蒜皮，而不愿了解一个普通人波涛汹涌的内心世界……

22.钱当然很重要，这我不是不知道;我一天何尝不为钱而受熬苦!可是，我又觉得，人活这一辈子，还应该有些另外的什么才对……

23.命运总是不如人愿。但往往是在无数的痛苦中，在重重的矛盾和艰辛中，才使人成熟起来。

24.生活包含着更广阔的意义，而不在于我们实际得到了什么;关键是我们的心灵是否充实。

25.人和社会，一切斗争的总结局也许都是中庸而已。与其认真，不如随便，采菊东篱下，悠然见南山。有钱就寻一醉，无钱就寻一睡，与过无争，随遇而安。