高考英语写作模拟题（经典20篇）

To my hometown, where is not wide, fame is not too big, but in my heart, it is better than any other big cities, because of the change of the home is too big, it become more and more beautiful, more become more lovely.

Considerable hometown scenery also more and more, such as huang taishan parks. Was a barren loess slope, the mountain of trees, let a person see the very boring. And now, has become a beautiful scenic spot, with hills, have small trees, flower beds, grassland, water... All the year round, the distinctive beauty. Artificial lake, the original is a river, the river used to shampoo in the rainy season, flooded farmland, villages. Downstream of the upstream reservoir, lake water, into the lake big lakes, this is no disaster. There, you can swim, can fishing, billow above during the day, night glittering and moving, is really fascinating.

Farther away, said the Aries valley. Here the mountain is the Great Wall, mountain spring water, the scenery pleasant. If you want to climb the Great Wall, you may wish to try first to Aries valley, you dont look down upon it, is also very high, it is not easy to climb. Want to play water, also can to the Aries valley, theres a big spring river, on the surface of the boat to catch ducks, havent seen it, very interesting. From sheep head spring water, pure natural, very clean.

In recent years, home building cover higher and higher, the width of the flat road, and even rural road hardening, became the real new rural ecological civilization. You are a genuine, locals out three to five years, also afraid of couldnt find the way home.

Home store my happy time, left a deep impression on me. Hometown of beautiful scenery bring us joy. Every time I want to home, I just cant help but think of my childhood in my hometown of happy days. Such a beautiful home, dont make me to love it?

I forgot to tell you, my hometown is - qianan region, had the opportunity to shoot, must it will make you linger!

要说我的家乡，地方不算广，名气也不太大，但在我心中，它比任何大城市都好，因为家乡的变化太大了，它越变越美，越变越可爱。

家乡的可观风景也越来越多了，比如黄台山公园。原来就是一片荒芜的黄土坡，山上的树也不多，让人看了很枯燥。而现在，已变成美丽的风景区，有小山，有小树林，有花坛，有草地，有湖水……一年四季都各具特色，美丽无比。人工湖，原来也只是一条河，这河以前经常在雨季发水，淹没农田、村庄。经上游修水库，下游修湖蓄水，变成了西湖似的大湖泊，从此没有灾害了。在那，可以游泳，可以垂钓，白天水光潋滟，晚上波光动人，真是令人陶醉。

再往远一点说，白羊峪。这里山上有长城，山下有泉水，风景宜人。如果你想爬长城，你不妨先去白羊峪试试，你可别小看它，也很高的，爬上去不容易哦。想玩水的话，也可来白羊峪，这里有一条大泉水河，在水面上划船赶鸭子，没看过吧，很有趣呢。还可以从羊头里接泉水，纯天然，很干净的。

几年来，家乡的楼房越盖越高，道路越修越宽越平，就连农村也搞道路硬化，成了真正的文明生态新农村。你就是一个地地道道的本地人，出门在外三五年，回家也怕找不到路。

家乡存储了我快乐的时光，给我留下了深刻的印象。家乡的美丽风景给我们带来欢乐。每次想的家乡，我就不禁想起童年在家乡过的快乐时光。这样美丽的家乡，难道不使我去爱它吗?

忘了告诉你了，我的家乡是——迁安，有机会一定要来呦，它会让你流连忘返的!

Zhang Dong is my best friend. He is a boy. Both of us are good at English, so we often have a chat in English in our spare time. Besides,football is our favourite sport. We like watching football match. Zhang Dong works hard at his lessons. He often studies late into the night. No matter how tired he is, he insists on doing his homework. So he gets good marks in all his subjects. He loves popular songs and classical music, too.

There are three people in his family and he is the only child. His father is a doctor and his mother is a Beijing Opera actress. Though Zhang Dongs family is wealthy, he is usually simply dressed. He dreams of being a lawyer in the future.

Such is my friend, a clever and kind boy. I highly value the friendship with him.

张东是我最要好的朋友，他是个男孩。我们两个人都擅长英语，因此我们经常在课余时间用英语聊天。此外，我们两人都喜欢足球，爱看足球赛。张东学习很努力，他经常学习到深夜。不管他多么累，他都坚持完成他的功课，所以他各科功课都很好。他喜欢流行音乐，也喜欢古典音乐。

他家有三口人，他是独生子。父亲是个医生，母亲是个京剧演员。尽管张东家境比较富裕，但是他的穿着却十分朴素。他梦想将来当个律师。

这就是我的朋友，一个聪明、友好的男孩。我珍视同他之间的友谊。

导语：高考英语作文万能句子能给人眼前一亮的感觉，下面是yuwenmi小编为还在备考的同学整理的优秀英语素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

1.As far as ...is concerned 就……而言

2.It goes without saying that... 不言而喻，...

3.It can be said with certainty that... 可以肯定地说......

4.As the proverb says， 正如谚语所说的，

5.It has to be noticed that... 它必须注意到，...

6.Its generally recognized that... 它普遍认为...

7.Its likely that ... 这可能是因为...

8.Its hardly that... 这是很难的......

9.Its hardly too much to say that... 它几乎没有太多的说…

10.What calls for special attention is that...需要特别注意的是

11.Theres no denying the fact that...毫无疑问，无可否认

12.Nothing is more important than the fact that... 没有什么比这更重要的是…

13.whats far more important is that... 更重要的是…

导语：写作一直是语文中重要的一项，是对学生综合能力，语言应用的考察，也在考试分数中占有较大比例，但是如何才能写好作文，在考试中取得高分，对同学们来讲却一直是个难题。下面我们一起来看看如何提高作文写作能力。

专家指出老师们应该教学思路灵活，关注学生个体发展，注重学生语文能力的培养，注重从根本上改变学生对语文的认识：

分数固然非常重要，但同时应当也是能力的提高，靠一次、两次的押题或许一时能取得一个好成绩，但学习成绩的决定因素：学习习惯、思维习惯的培养及形成是需要一定的时间。一个老师辅导一个学生，老师根据学生的情况进行教学，或补差，或提优，进行个性化教学，实现真正意义上的因材施教。为此，老师教你用独特的方法学好初高中语文。

学生作文时最头疼的问题是无话可说。为了解决这一难题，专家告诉大家不妨用刘勰的话说“流连万象之际，沉吟视听之间”启发他们：要想写好作文，必须谈如何生活，体察入微。生活，是写作的“源头活水”。叶圣陶先生曾说过，“作文这件事离不开生活……必须寻到源头才有清的水喝”，可见观察是中学生认识生活的重要途径。因此，专家指出老师们应该帮助学生明确观察的重要性，结合课本中的名篇交给他们观察生活，表现生活的方法。“授之以鱼”，不如“授之以渔”。例如学了《我的老师》后，可以引导学生观察自己所尊敬的老师，让他们明白老师的高风亮节，除了表现在批改作业到深夜，或带病上课，累倒在讲台上等外，还有许多值得挖掘的素材。以前，同样的材料上代人用来赞颂老师，下一代“涛声依旧”。似乎老师永远是身穿中山装，口袋里插一支钢笔，不苟言笑;老的，少的，农村的，城市的，一个样。通过观察，让其明白不同时代，不同环境，不同科目的老师穿着打扮、兴趣爱好、精神面貌、教学方式等都有差异。当今教师不但追求内在美，还注重外在美;他们不仅仅追求脚踏实地，还注重巧干。课上，他们“激扬文字”“指点江山”，评估论今，妙语连珠;课外，他们驰骋球场，泼洒丹青，舞文弄墨，雅趣如流。罗丹曾说，世界上不是缺少美，而是缺少发现美的眼睛。实践证明，丰富的写作素材，都是靠仔细观察周围事物的来的。

要关注生活，博采众长。古人云：“熟读唐诗三百首，不会写诗也会吟。”可见广泛阅读的重要性。老师应当有计划地引导学生进行课外阅读。例如，在教学中，鼓励学生每天写日记，可写身边的人或事，也可摘录一些名言警句、优美的段落，或介绍一部生动的有趣的影视剧作;规定每月读一本优秀期刊;每个假期读两本名著，如学了《美猴王》《鲁提辖拳打镇关西》后，建议学生读吴承恩的《西游记》和施耐庵的《水浒传》，让他们领略作者刻画人物的手法，反映社会生活的方法。

我们只有“行万里路”——广泛深入生活，只有“读完卷书”——博采众长，才能文思泉涌，“下笔如有神”。

(一)屈原投江

(one) Qu Yuan River

为了纪念爱国诗人屈原，居民为了不让跳下汨罗江的屈原尸体被鱼虾吃掉，所以在江里投下许多用竹叶包裹的米食(粽子)，并且竞相划船(赛龙船)希望找到屈原的尸体。

To commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, residents in order not to let Qu Yuans Miluo River jumped by fish and shrimp to eat, so in the river for the rice wrapped in bamboo leaves with many (dumplings), and race (rowing Dragon Boat Race) to find Qu Yuans body.

(二)曹娥寻父尸

(two) case of seeking father.

东汉孝女曹娥，因曹父溺江而亡，年仅十四岁的她沿江豪哭，经十七日仍不见曹父尸首，乃在五月一日投江，五日后两尸合抱而浮起的感人事迹， 乡人群而祭之。

The Eastern Han Dynasty filial daughter Cao E, drowned himself in a river because Cao father died, only fourteen years old, she cried along the ho, after seventeen days still do not see Cao father body, but in May 1st the river, five days from two dead and floating deeds, people group and sacrifice.

(三)白蛇传

(three) the legend of white snake

传说白蛇白素贞，为了报答许仙的恩惠，与许仙结为夫妻的凄美的爱情故事，传说端午节当天白蛇喝了雄黄酒，差点现出蛇形，加上法海白蛇及水淹金山寺的情节，都是脍炙人口的民间戏曲的曲目。

The legend of white snake and Bai Suzhen, in order to repay the grace of Xu Xian, and Xu Xianjie married the beautiful love story, the legend of the White Snake Legend of the Dragon Boat Festival a male Yellow Wine, almost a snake, white snake and flooded with sea Jinshan Temple of the plot, is a folk opera music win universal praise.

(四)伍子胥的忌日

(four) the anniversary of the death of Wu Zixu

传说伍子胥助吴伐楚后，吴王阖闾逝世，皇子夫差继位，伐越大胜，越王句践请和，伍子胥主战，夫差不听，却听信奸臣言，赐伍子胥自杀，并于于五月五日将尸体投入江中，此后人们于端午节纪祀伍子胥。

Legend has it that Wu Zixu will Fachu Wu, Wu helv Prince died, his successor, the victory of the king, and Wu Zixu battle, the king, do not listen, but listen to a word, give Wu Zixu Dutch act, and on May 5th the bodies into the river, then people in the Dragon Boat Festival worship Wu Zixu ji.

高考语文作文名师点津系列――记叙文运思

从小学二、三年级开始学写作文就写记叙文，写到高中了，还是解决不了记叙文的"疑难杂症"：

1.行文拖沓，故事感不强；

2."流水帐"结构，缺乏思想性；

3.平淡无味，缺乏鲜明、生动的意象。

【实用兵法】

写"标准的记叙文"，把握三个词：故事、思想、描写

1."故事"就是"出事了"。

◇"出事了"，出什么事了？谁家出事了？在哪儿出事了？因为什么出事了？什么时候出事了？……记叙要素全了。

◇"出事了"，是因为有矛盾冲突，利益的、情感的、性格的……越错综复杂越有看头。

◇"出事了"，就得解决，解决就有个过程--精彩的情节渲染点儿，扣人心弦的"疙瘩"吊着胃口慢慢解。

作文结尾例说

结尾同开头一样，也是作文中一道重要工序。如果说开头有先发制人的功效，那么结尾更有后发制人的威力。结尾好，会使文章显得结构严谨，大放异彩，反之，则会使文章结构松弛，黯然失色。考场作文的结尾，不管采取哪种方式，都要能结得住，断得下，能够呼应前文，点明意旨，升华主题。切不可草草收兵，或画蛇添足。

结尾的要求有哪些?一要简洁有力;二要照应开头;三要收束全文;四要令人回味。

一、结尾方法

1.升华式结尾。就是在结尾处写出肺腑之言，或充满激情的呼吁，或富有理性的启迪，给人留下思考的余地。

如《走过一路泥泞》：

【开头】有多少人在泥泞的路上被牵绊束缚最终倒下?有多少人为了这一路的泥泞不辞辛劳艰难但顽强的跋涉

【结尾】我们的天空曾经灰暗，我们的天空终将璀璨。没有犹豫没有退缩，跨过这一路泥泞吧，你会发现：生命最终是辉煌的!

又如：人生就是一条绵延长远的道路，只有泥泞才会留下脚印，只有经历了风雨才能见到阳光，只有艰难困苦才能铸就辉煌。

2.照应(呼应)式结尾。结尾呼应开头，关合全文，给人以完整的美感。一是呼应标题。文章标题往往与主题有直接的联系，结尾照应标题不但显得首尾圆合，而且能显示出考生的话题意识，强化文章主题。二是呼应开头。呼应开头显得文章结构完整，关合严密，写得好，可给读者留下整体性的美感。此法当牢记。

如《走过泥泞》：

【开头】人们常说：人生，就像一段历程，只有走过，才会留下生命的脚印。是的，一个人的一生只有走过泥泞，才能留下真正的脚印。

【结尾】让我们一起走过泥泞，留下自己的脚印吧!

3.总结式结尾。在前文叙述、描写或议论的基础上，对全文进行概括性总结。此方法较常见。

如穷且益坚，不坠青云之志。我们就应该坚守信念，在泥泞遍布的生命里，留下坚实而年轻的脚步，在自己的生命里划下最动人的惊叹号!

4.情景式结尾。就是在结尾处用精彩的语言描绘出富有诗情画意的艺术画面，达到情中有景，景中含情，包含意蕴，令人回味的效果。多配合使用比喻、排比等修辞手法

5.谈心式结尾。就是在结尾处用真切朴实的语言，用谈心的方式，告诉别人应该怎样，不应该怎样，这种方式容易引起别人感情上的共鸣，使人易于接受。

二、结尾常见的毛病

1.虎头蛇尾，收束无力。有的同学开头洋洋洒洒，但到结尾处却无话可说，草草几句煞尾，或添上一些无关紧要的东西。

2.有头无尾，结构欠缺。有的同学写作速度太慢，在规定时间内不能完篇，以致有头无尾，结构不完整。

3.过分张扬，与文不符。有的同学知道结尾的重要，不管什么文章，都借用一些优美的结尾句，结果造成结尾与正文内容和风格的不符。

4.公式化，空喊口号。

Varieties of electronic gadgets, without which some of us cant live, come into being. Despite their conveniences, they bring people much stress, so people have to balance their advantages and disadvantages before buying them.

I cant agree more with the author. With the development of science and technology, more and more fantastic electronic gadgets come into being, which dazzles people. People cant resist the temptation to buy and update them since these gadgets become outdated too quickly.

I have a lot of favourite electronic gadgets， one of which is a video MP3. As well as carrying my favourite music， a video MP3 player can play up to 150 hours of movies and TV programmes. However, it cost me 2，000 yuan. Besides, the loud volume will damage my hearing if I overuse it.

If I want to buy a necessary electronical gadget, the first factor that should be taken into consideration is whether its practical.

话题作文正日益受到广大老师和同学的重视，已经成为高中生日常作文训练的一项重要内容。下面小编为大家整理了一些写作技巧希望对大家有用。

一：清楚什么是话题作文

1.话题作文命题的结构

话题作文的命题分三个部分：话题前的材料或提示语、话题、写作要求。材料或提示语用来引出话题，话题提供写作范围，写作要求是对内容、文体、字数等方面提出的具体要求。

2.话题作文的基本特点

自拟题目、自定立意、自选文体是话题作文的三个基本特点。这三个特点为话题作文的写作提供了广阔的空间。

(1)可以自由地选择自己熟悉的素材，从感受最深的一点出发确立主题，说出自己的心里话。比如“诚信”这个话题，可以围绕历史上有关诚信的故事来写，如古人一诺千金的故事;可以围绕现代社会中与诚信有关的事情来写，如国外的产品召回制度;可以围绕现实中不讲诚信的事情来写，如假冒伪劣产品;可以联系自己身边的事来写，如考试中的作弊问题。同学们请看，在话题作文这种命题形式下，你可写的东西是不是很多呢?可发挥的空间是不是很大呢?

(2)可以自由地选择自己擅长的文体，你不只可以写记叙文、议论文，还可以写一个童话、一个科幻故事，可以写一篇日记、一封书信，还可以写一个短剧、一则新闻、一篇采访记等等。在近两年的高考中，考生的文体选择可谓异彩纷呈，出现了不少很有创意的佳作。

(3)话题作文写作的自由度虽然很大，但也有其限制性，同学们必须在话题的范围内写作，超出范围就属跑题。比如“假如记忆可以移植”这个话题，就要求我们应该写在这一假定前提(“记忆可以移植”)下可能发生的事情或问题，如果你写记忆移植绝对不可能发生、或者写情感可以移植就属于跑题了。

二、话题作文不能忽视审题

话题作文的写作空间很大，降低了审题难度，有些同学就认为话题作文的审题不重要，不需要重视了。其实不然，每次考试话题作文都会有跑题、偏题的文章，而且题目审得好不好对能否写好作文至关重要。审题时我们自然要从话题作文命题的三个部分人手：

1.审话题

审话题要注意两点：审出话题丰富的内涵及审清话题中的限制。

(1)审内涵：有许多话题包含了很丰富的内涵，深刻理解话题内涵，对我们写作话题作文、打开思路有很大的帮助。一般来讲，内涵包括本义和引申义两层。

(2)审限制：知道哪些是话题范围以内的，哪些是话题范围以外的，这样我们在写作时才能扣紧话题，避免跑题、偏题。

2.审材料或提示语

认真审读话题前的材料或提示语，有助于我们理解话题和打开思路。

3.审要求

看清话题后的写作要求，弄清在内容、文体、字数方面有哪些具体的限制再下笔作文。

三、打开思路是关键

话题作文的开放性决定了一个话题下可以有多种思路和多种表达，如果同学们能从这多种思路中找到一个自己最熟悉或最有创意的思路来写，肯定能完成一篇佳作，所以思路开阔对于写作话题作文非常重要。但不少同学因为习惯了命题作文和给材料作文，对这种开放性的命题形式反而不适应，拿到话题后脑中茫然一片、无从下笔，下面我们就给大家介绍几种打开思路的方法。

1.打开思路从话题开始

脑中空白时好好看看话题和话题前的提示语，从话题的内涵和提示语中就能受到启发，这一点在前面讲审题时已经讲得很清楚了。

2.打开思路的方式

(1)可以回忆：闭上眼睛回忆自己的所见、所闻、所感，从生活实际中寻找与话题相关的素材。

(2)可以推理：考虑与话题相关的各种观念和各种说法，加进自己的思考和判断，形成一种观点，然后在此观点的统摄之下寻找合适的事例，这种方法适合找到议论文的思路。

(3)可以想像和虚构：打开头脑的宝藏，展开想像的翅膀，可以虚构一个童话，可以编一个故事，也可以对头脑中已有的故事原型进行重新演绎，还可以变换一下视角，从物或动植物的视角看待评价一件事情。

3.从四个范畴出发打开思路

掌握了打开思路的方式，如果同学们还是找不到思路怎么办，这里再结合话题“成长”给大家介绍几个范畴，从这几个范畴考虑，相信同学们会很快找到思路。

(1)时间：过去、未来、现在、一段时间、某一时刻。

(2)空间：领域、场所。

不同场所中的成长，比如自己在家庭中的成长，或者同学们在学校中的成长;不同领域中的成长，比如随着年龄的增长，自己对美的认识越来越深入，或者对大自然的感悟越来越丰富。

(3)因果：原因、结果。

(4)对象：

①自己是很重要的对象，是重要的资源，因此可以写写自己的成长经历及感受。

②其他人，包括周围的人、古人、名人。比如爸爸的成长、同学的成长;李白的成长;比尔·盖茨的成长、乔丹的成长等。

③文艺作品中的主人公比如蜡笔小新的成长，林黛玉的成长。

④动物、植物。比如一只小狗的成长，一棵小草的成长。

⑤群体等。比如，一个小区的社会公德的成长，原来小区脏、乱、差，玻璃经常被砸坏，邻里之间经常吵架，现在干净整洁、窗明几净、邻里和睦。

四、文体选择天地宽

文体不限是话题作文的一个重要特点，但不限文体绝不意味着同学们用不着谙熟各种文体。不同文体各有特点，多掌握几种文体，就可以从容选择最适宜的文体来表情达意，可以选择新鲜的文体更有创意地表达内容。

1.常规文体的选择

(1)文体概念要清晰，不能写成四不像。

记叙文，应以记叙、描写为主，要形象具体。

议论文，应以说理为主，做到观点鲜明、有理有据。

以话题“理解”为例，思路是家长应对孩子读课外书、参加课外活动给予理解。若写记叙文，就应通过具体的一两件事来体现，

(2)根据自身特点、特长选择文体：形象思维较好的同学可以写记叙文;擅长讲道理、逻辑思维较好的同学可以写议论文;脑子灵活善于讲故事的同学可以写童话寓言、故事新编、小小说等。

(3)结合具体话题和思路选择文体：对某一话题有生动事实和独特感受的同学最好写记叙文，有鲜明观点的同学最好写议论文。

2.特殊文体的选择

特殊文体指的是应用文体和文艺性文体，应用文体包括日记、书信、演讲搞、辩论稿、会议纪要、实验报告、新闻报道、广告等;文艺性文体包括小说、戏剧、童话寓言、故事新编、散文、诗歌等。

(1)使用特殊文体可以更有创意地表达观点，表现素材。

比如“缺陷”这个话题，思路是“维纳斯的断臂是一种缺憾美”。这个思路写成议论文完全可以，但比较平，若写成一篇想像文章就比较新奇了

(2)特殊文体还可以扬长避短。请看下面几种文体：

①日记、书信：

扬长：可记叙、可议论、可抒情，可以自由地表达。

避短：结构自由，不需要复杂的过渡承接;写作时文体不太规范的同学也能写好。

②戏剧、对话体：

扬长：思路活跃、善于写对话的同学很容易写好。

避短：不需要什么叙述、描写，文章结构也较灵活。

③童话、寓言、科幻故事：

扬长：善于想象的同学可以借这种文体发挥特长。

避短：素材缺乏的同学可以通过这类文体弥补。

④故事新编：

扬长：有大量故事原型、头脑灵活的同学运用这种文体容易使文章出彩。

避短：素材缺乏的同学可以通过这种文体弥补。

总之，话题作文这种新的命题形式使写作变得很容易，也很有创意，相信本书中所介绍的方法和设计的训练会对同学们有所帮助，认真读读此书、做做其中的练习，你会发现，作文原来可以很快乐!

It is well known that exercise is important. In our school, we have to do

an hours exercise every day. Many students are very happy. In the one hour,

some of us play basketball, football and ping pong, and some run around the

playground. Everyone is talking and laughing. I love this activity very much. I

also hope that there will be more and more sunlight sports in our life after

school. That not only makes us happy, but also makes our body healthier.

下面是语文迷小编为大家整理提供的英语写作技巧以及关联词，供大家阅读参考。

英语写作技巧之一：用介词短语替代从句，例：

原句：While they were playing tennis, she started an argument that lasted all morning.

修改后：During tennis she started an argument that lasted all morning.

原句：When you come to the second traffic light, turn right.

修改后：At the second traffic light turn left.

英语写作技巧之二：删除诸如"who is”或"that is"之类的关系代词，变从句为短语，例：

句：The novel, which is written in three parts, told a story that took place in the Middle Ages.

修改后：The three-part novel told a story set in the Middle Ages.

注：把句中的"three parts"改用形容词来表达，节省了四个不必要的单词"which is written in"。我们经常可以将关系代词如"that"去掉，这只会引起最少的变动。

英语写作技巧之三：剔除你不需要的单词，例：

Two joint partners will present their views over a long-distance telephone call.

写完这样的句子后，你自己再读一遍，挑出单词"joint"和"telephone"，注意删去不必要的词。

关联词的积累

1.提出观点不要只用I think，要学会用：

As far as I am concerned

In my opinion

From my point of view

From my perspective

The way I see it

2.转折不要只用but， 要多用：

However,

nevertheless, nonetheless,

Whereas

Some people like fat meat, whereas other people hate it.

转折也可用比喻：as a coin has two sides(就象硬币有两面一样), …(陈述转折内容)

3.表递进的：

In addition, in addition to, additionally,

what is more, moreover, furthermore,

more importantly，

what is worse (更槽糕的是)

4.表示“事实上”：

In fact,

as a matter of fact,

actually

5.表总结：

in conclusion, as a result,

all in all 总而言之

In short,

In a word, 一句话讲

Taking into consideration,

Taking into account all the factors that I have mentioned above, it is safe to draw a conclusion that …

6.表示因此：

Consequently,

Hence,

Therefore,

Thus,

as a result,

resultingly

7.表因为：

because of

due to,

owing to,

thanks to,

as a result of,

8.虽然

Although, even though, even if, though

Proud as these nobles are, …

As flattered as I am, I would say no.

In spite of, despite

I love you in spite of that.

9.比较：

In comparison with,

compared to,

compared with

She’s nothing compared to you.

10.表最后：

Finally,

eventually,

in the end,

at last,

ultimately,

11.表示程度的副词词组亦非常重要，会使文章看起来比较成熟、辨证：

To some extent 在某种程度上讲

To some degree 在某种程度上讲

To a large part 在很大程度上说

In a sense 在某种意义上讲

In general, generally 大体上说

Generally speaking 一般地讲

In some cases 在有些情况下

Basically 基本上

Broadly speaking 宽泛地讲

12.其他(要尽可能多用在文章中。始终牢记内容次要，而语言形式第一位。内容服务于形式)：

Not only, but also

Neither nor, either or

Instead of, instead

For example, for instance (替换使用), take … for example

Be likely to

Be able to

Speaking of, when it comes to …

When it comes to food, he is really picky.

In terms of 根据

First of all, second of all

Above all,

Significantly,

The more, the more

这里重点谈谈议论文思路展开的问题。议论文的思路简单地说其实就是三个短语，小编收集了议论文的思路如何展开，欢迎阅读。

1、总分开路。开头总提问题，然后话分两头剖析，结尾归纳论点，全文构成总分总的关系。中间分说依据一分为二、矛盾对立统一的辩证思维。

2、纵深开路。根据论点逐层论述，由表及里，由浅入深，步步深入，体现透过现象看本质的辩证思考。一般用于需要深层剖析事理的文章。

3、横向开路。围绕论点向横的方向思索，把论述的广度逐步扩大，最后再收拢来。一般用于议论文的事实列举。要注意的是：一则必须紧扣论点展开，一则不能堆砌，展开的各面务必分属不同角度。上举佳作《我们》即是这一思路。

4、纵横交错开路。一般用于比较复杂的论述，主要体现在全文的间架上，在一个段落内极少见到。

5、对比开路。其中一个方面是正面的，一个是反面的。往往是用反面的来突出正面的。行文过程，一般是先正后反;但如果是用正面的来论证反面是错误的，行文过程又往往是先反后正。

6、类比开路。通过讲故事、打比方或引用成语典故，对某些属性相同的事物进行比较，阐明问题，论证论点。行文结构，一般总是先概述用来类比的故事、寓言、成语典故，再引申到要说明的道理上来，进行类比阐发。最关键之点是借以类比的事物和所要说明的道理之间要有共同的属性，要类比得合乎逻辑，要准确把握两者之间的辩证关系。材料作文基本采用这种思路。

7、逆转开路。先从一个方面论述问题，后面忽然来个逆转，否定前面的看法，论述另一种看法，思路发生了大转折。一般常用于对某些错误认识的分析批判。

8、生发开路。有些议论文，上文从正面立论，直接阐明了作者的主张或见解，下文针对某些人不同意作者主张的看法进行驳斥，从而间接论证作者的主张，我们把这种思路称之为生发开路，或叫“生发开，驳异论”。这种辩证开路不但使正面立论更充分更周详，而且有妙笔生花之效果。

原因

1.A number of factors are accountable for this situation.

A number of factors might contribute to (lead to )(account for ) the

phenomenon(problem).

2. The answer to this problem involves many factors.

3. The phenomenon mainly stems from the fact that...

4. The factors that contribute to this situation include...

5. The change in ...largely results from the fact that...

6. We may blame ...,but the real causes are...

7. Part of the explanations for it is that ...

One of the most common factors (causes ) is that ...

Another contributing factor (cause ) is ...

Perhaps the primary factor is that …

But the fundamental cause is that ...

高考就要开始了，考生们不用在为怎么写作高考作文发愁，下面是小编整理的跳出写作误区，欢迎阅读。

一、投机取巧，套用时文

2002年高考首次在卷面上提出“不得抄袭”的要求，还相应设立了一条评分标准：“确认为抄袭的作文，‘基础等级’在四等之内评分，‘发展等级’不给分。”但多年以来部分考生心存侥幸，套用现成故事的问题依然存在。比如海南省2010年高考评卷语文组副组长苏盛葵在题为“提倡真实的文风”的阅卷手记中介绍：“我们在现场还发现了2篇抄袭作文，抄江苏和上海高考的满分卷，经过在场外网上搜索，在场内验证，给了8分以下的处理。这些孩子完全是昏了头脑，是那些满分作文的书害了他们，也是背诵范文上考场默写的‘报应’。”四川省作文(考新材料作文“点线面”)阅卷也大力封杀“套作”——比如一篇作文题为“坚强”、一篇题为“古镇情韵”，它们分别套用了以前的高考作文及记者撰写的时文，判分都低得可怜。

这里要提醒考生：如果某些时文确实很精彩地诠释了作文话题，写作时予以概括，把它作为写议论文的例证，是完全可以的;但不能全文主体套用现成的故事，只在首尾加上一点扣题的话，更不能原封不动地照抄。

二、内容幼稚，气度狭小

2010年广东卷阅卷中发现，有些叙事文编得像小学五、六年级学生写的，缺乏必要的思想深度。比如《与你为邻(与你为邻，让我感到十分快乐)》一文，不足800字的篇幅就写了三个邻居，人物形象单薄，记叙水平不高。另外，文中反反复复提到的就是“(赵叔叔)你做的食物，每次都让我们感到十分美味，大饱口福”、“我一见到食物就十分高兴，马上把食物拿进了屋子，一口气把它们吃光了”、“(王大妈)她总会拿一些小零食给我，让我感到十分开心”，其品位十分低下。语言表达上则有生造词、方言词出现，如“而你每次都让我们这班小馋猫试食”、“也像在课室一样”等。

还有些考场作文在用语上出现了低幼化倾向，像“太阳公公”、“月亮婆婆”、“司马迁爷爷”、“雷锋叔叔”和“张海迪阿姨”这样的字眼频频出现。一个高中毕业生，已经是成人了，应该对社会、人生有比较深刻的理性思考和独立见解，如果到了十八九岁还停留在十岁多一点的思想情趣上，总让人觉得器量狭小。

三、选材雷同，了无新意

高考作文选材撞车的现象年年有，2010年依然突出。在江苏卷中，“低碳”作文相当泛滥——有老师戏称：“一看到低碳就长叹。”山东卷作文题(考“光明和阴影”)新颖度不算高，于是一些老掉牙的素材重新登场：史铁生、霍金、张海迪等摇着轮椅唱着生命阴晴不定的歌谣;海伦?凯勒、贝多芬、邰丽华等摸着盲文、打着哑语诉说着人生的执着与永恒;司马迁遭受难以启齿的侮辱却被众多学子不留情面地反复咀嚼。另外，李白、苏轼、丛飞、朱邦月等也频频出场。据粗略统计，二类卷中作文材料的“撞车”达75%。

除了事例陈旧，还有材料张冠李戴的现象。比如北京卷阅卷中发现，明明是宋朝的论据被套上明朝的时间，明明是这个名人说的话却套在另一个人的嘴上。这体现出考生知识积累并不细致、扎实。

对症下药

为丰富写作材料，平时应做到“三备”：备思想，备知识，备生活。

备思想，首先是要学好中学各门功课，各门功课的基本理论体现了辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义的思想，是我们认识世界的最基本的观点。其次是关心社会生活和时事政治，正确认识当代社会的一些热点、焦点问题。

备知识，可与备思想结合起来进行。可注意阅读思想性、文化性较强的报刊，还可进行搜集、分析事例的训练，大致做法为：通过课外阅读每周搜集三至五个事例，并列出每个事例可用来阐明的一种或多种观点。

备生活，这有多种途径，如注意观察周围的人、事、物，积极参加社会实践活动，与同学、亲友交往等。真要备好生活，还得把上述活动的内容写进日记或练笔中，特别是那些有闪光点、有冲击力、有启发性的人与事，要及时记下来。到临考前翻出来整理一番，记住一些典型的事件及细节。

小编导语：高中生思考食品安全的高考英语作文是小编为你准备的高中生思考食品安全的高考英语作文。食品安全问题一直是我们比较关注的一个社会问题。以下就是小编为你准备的高中生思考食品安全的高考英语作文，供你学习参考。

Not long ago. Sanlu milk powder incident once again draw the attention of food safety issues. Why food safety is always at risk? I think there are probably two reasons. For onr thing, the illegal business add a number of unsafe things into the food driven by the interests. For another thing, the countrys regulatory regime is inadequate, so that criminals can take advantage of the opportunity.

Food safety is very important. If you eat unsafe food, the consequences would be unthinkable. Therefore, we should take some measures to prevent unsafe food.

First of all, the government should strengthen supervision and improve the law to punish illegal food manufacturers. furthermore, when consumers buy food should depends on its production date and shelf-life. In short, to solve the food security issues need a long way to go, it needs the joint efforts of all sides.

[思考食品安全的高考英语作文

导语：水是生命之源，我们要保护水资源，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的相关英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Spring is tht best season of the year. The weather gets warmer and warmer. My clas iamates and I took a one-day sightseeing around our city.The scene was pretty. But when we saw the rivers along our city, I felt very sorry, and thoughit a lot.

With the development of modern agriculture and industry, more and more waste water is being poured into rivers. It has caused serious pollution. The river is becoming so dirty that no living things can live in it. The river is giving off a terrible smell.

We make an urgent appeal that measures should be taken to cope with the situation. Our government should start building various facilities such as sewage treatment!plant and encourage scientists to work out more and better ways to reduce the pollution of water.

Water is tho source of our lives. It is very important to protect water.

【参考翻译】

春天是一年中最好的季节，天气变得越来越暖和。我和我的同学们进行了一次环城一日游，所到之处景色宜人。但当我看到沿着城区流过的河流时，我感到很惋惜，想了很多。

随着现代工农业的发展，越来越多的污水排进河里，河水被严重污染。河水变得如此的肮脏以致于生物不能在里面生活。河水发出难闻的气味。

我们急切呼吁采取措施改变这种状况。政府应当建立各种设备，例如污水处理厂，并且鼓励科学家们想出更多更好的办法以减少水污染。

水是生命之源，保护水资源十分重要。

小学阶段不同年级的作文有不同要求和写作技巧小学英语写作指导小学英语写作指导。

对于小学3年级的学生，在他们已经掌握好了如颜色(colour)、衣服(clothes)、数字(number)、星期(day of the week)、月份(month)、宠物(pet)、情感(feeling)、身体部位(body)、文具(school things)的基础上进行文章的填空，如果学生能够按照文章的要求写进相关的信息，那就已经很不错了。下面是一个自我介绍的简单例子：

Myself

Hello，my name is_____. I am_____years old.My favourite colour is_____，_____， and_____.My favourite pet is______，_____ and______. My favourite food is_____，______and______.My favourite day is______. My favourite school thing is______and______.My favourite number is and______.I am______today.

上面的这个例子，如果学生能够依次能吧自己的姓名、年龄、喜欢的颜色、喜欢的宠物、喜欢的食物、喜欢的日子、喜欢的文具、喜欢的数字和今天的心情准确无误地写出来，那么就已经能够完成了3年级阶段的作文要求。

对于4年级的学生，可以写一篇介绍自己课室或者自己卧室的文章。下面是一篇4年级学生的介绍课室范文。

My classroom

I am studying at Tongji primary school.I am in Class Two, Grade Four. (介绍自己所在的学校和所在的年级) There is a blackboard in front of the classroom. There are twenty-five desks in our classroom, they are brown. There are many books on the desk. There are fifty students, thirty boys and twenty girls. There is a picture on the wall. There are two fans on the wall. (用there+be句型把班里和摆设和班上的人数都表达出来了) It is tidy and clean.I like my classroom very much.(最后是作者的总结)

对于5年级的学生，作文的要求也提高了很多，很多学生在介绍别人或者是写自己喜欢的小动物的时候很容易忘了第三人称单数动词要加ses，如：He get up at 7 o’clock(get忘了加s)，在用到现在进行的时候动词很容易忘了加ing(如I am play the piano，play就忘记了加ing)，介词和介词短语也占了很重要的位置如介词in，on，at，of。介词短语如dream of(区分dream that)和be afraid of都是很重要的介词短语，很多学生忘记了介词后面要加动词小学英语写作指导少儿基础英语。

对于6年级的学生，作文考查的是英语的综合应用能力，而且出的题目大部分都是看图作文，这就在一定程度上增加了写作的难度，它也是综合了3年级的分类词汇，4年级的句型，方位介词，5年级的重点介词短语和时态，不过我相信只要平时多点积累单词和句型、多点动笔、多注意语法上的问题、多看作文书，那么就能写出流畅、有深度的文章。

高考英语满分作文 Note 便条

Dear Alice.

I wonder if you eould lend me your Chinese-English dictionary. I will return it three days later. Now I am translating an important Chinese article into English. However, I often meet some Chinese words which I dont know how to say in English. So I have to turn to the Chinese-English dietionary for help from time to time. But mine is lost. I will take good care of your dictionary. I will definitely not damage it. Thank you very much!

Jenny

亲爱的艾丽丝：

我想知道你能否把你的汉英词典借给我，三天后还给你。现在我正在把一篇重要的中文文章翻译成英文。然而我经常遇到一些不知如何用英语表达的词，所以我必须时不时地求助于汉英词典，但是我的丢了。我会好好爱护你的词典，绝不损坏。非常感谢!

珍妮

5月15日

May 15th

Dear Alice,

Would you please lend me your Chinese-English dictionary? I will give it back three days later. Now I am translating an important Chinese article into English. In the article I often find Chinese words which I cannot translate into English, so I often need a Chinese-English dictionary But I

myself have no one. I will cherish your dictionary very much and promise not to damage it. Thanks a lot!

Jenny

亲爱的艾丽丝：

能把你的汉英词典借给我吗?三天后还给你。现在我正在翻译一篇重要的中文文章。在文章中，我经常发现一些我不会翻译成英语的词，所以我需要一本汉英词典。但是我没有。我会好好爱护你的词典，绝不损坏。非常感谢!

公共演讲的好处 Benefits of Public Speaking

Public speaking is bothinteresting and challenging. It is interesting because it asks you to come to abetter understanding of human nature and human communication. It is challengingbecause it asks you to take a risk, to put yourself in a situation where youcan succeed or fail in your effort to make a difference. As you go further,however, you will find more benefits of public speaking go beyond learning howto express yourself orally. The process of your speaking improves suchpractical skills as the following:

公众演讲既有趣也有挑战性。有趣是因为它要求你去更好地理解人的本质与人与人之间的沟通。它具有挑战性是因为它要求你承担风险，要把自己置身于经过你的努力既可能成功也可能失败的情况下。但是，如果你进行得更深入，你会发现公众演讲更有益于学习如何用口头表达自己。你的演讲过程提高了以下的一些技能如实践技能：

1. Organizational Skills

组织能力

The ability to organize ideas isa skill you will employ before you ever write a speech. As you practice, youwill also discover that the organizational skills are so essential in composingspeeches because it requires your skills of outlining, planning, organizing andpresenting your ideas logically.

组织能力是在写演讲稿之前就会使用的一种技能。在你练习的时候，你也会发现组织能力对于演讲是如此重要，因为它需要概述，规划，组织，有逻辑的表达自己的能力。

2. Writing Skills

写作能力

Many of the skills you use tocompose good speeches are the same as those you need to write well. Thepractice you gain preparing speeches will improve your ability to express yourideas on paper. You will learn how to get your audience’s attention, how toorganize your ideas clearly, and how to find more evidences to support your ideas.These skills will be beneficial to your writing.

许多用于撰写演讲的技巧和写好作文的技巧是一样的。在准备演讲前的练习会提高你在纸上的表达能力。你会学会如何获取听众的注意力，如何清楚地组织你的想法，如何找到更多的证据来支持你的观点。这些技巧将有助于你的写作。

3. Critical Thinking

批判思考能力

As we know, it’s important to guidestudents to think and to analyze. Public speaking skills and related listeningskills provide valuable tools for the critical analysis of ideas. By studyingthe use of supportive materials and persuasive strategies, you’ll learn how tofind an argument’s weak points and learn to ask questions, which needs greatcritical thinking.

我们都知道引导学生思考和分析是很重要的。公众演讲技巧及相关听的技巧对批判性分析想法提供了有价值的工具。通过学习支持资料和有说服力策略的使用，您将学习如何找到论据的薄弱点，学会问问题，这需要很强的批判性思维。

4. Research Skills

调查能力

Often, when students are asked toprepare a report, they go to the library or search the Internet to look for thereference books or articles they need. You will get into contact with a varietyof research materials and select something most valuable to you.

通常，当学生被要求准备一份报告的时候，他们会去去图书馆或上网找他们需要的参考书或文章。你将接触到各种研究材料并找到一些对你最宝贵的东西。

5. Listening Skills

聆听技巧

Speaking and listening go hand inhand. Whenever someone gives a speech, there is an audience to listen to it. Bylearning good speaking techniques, you’ll prepare speeches within audience’sunderstanding. You will also learn how to listen to other speakers in order tohear all the key points.

听说齐头并进。每当有人演讲时，都有观众在听。通过学习良好的演讲技巧，你会准备在听众理解范围之内的演讲。为了听得到所有的重点您还将学习如何倾听他人的演讲。

6. Strain Capacity

应变能力

Giving a speech to a group ofpeople involves a great deal of risk. However, it is true that by learning howto give a speech in front of a group, your self-confidence will grow, which helpsyou to confident enough to communicate with others and adapt to differentsituations. To a large extent, success in life depends on your ability to adaptto your environment and feel good about yourself.

给一群人做演讲涉及的风险很大。但是，这是真的，通过学习如何给在人群前演讲，你的自信心就会增强，这有助于你有足够的信心与他人沟通，适应不同的情况。在很大程度上，生活中的成功取决于你对环境的适应能力以及自我感觉良好程度上。

高考英语满分作文 :对人们大量捕杀动物的看法 A large number of people to kill animals

As is often read in the newspaper reports, wild life especially the rare species is threatened with extinction. Human beings are making attempts to hunt wild animals for a big profit., which, of course, results in a sharp decrease in the number of animals. So it is high time for us to take quick action to protect them. First of all, it’s quite necessary for every citizen to realize the importance of animal protection. Only by knowing its importance can people develop a sense of responsibility. People will surely take it for granted to have the duty to prevent any killing of wild animals. So a national publicity campaign should be launched, thus giving animals a good living environment. In addition, the government should pass some laws to forbid any hunting of rare animals. We don’t expect anything harmful to wild life to happen again.

正如经常在报纸上读到的报道，特别是野生动物，特别是珍稀物种正受到灭绝的威胁。人类正试图寻找野生动物的巨大利润，当然，这导致了动物数量的急剧减少。因此，我们是时候采取快速行动来保护他们了。首先，每一个公民都有必要认识到动物保护的重要性。只有认识到它的重要性，人们才能培养一种责任感。人们肯定会把它视为理所当然的，以防止任何杀害野生动物的义务。因此，一个国家的宣传活动应该被推出，从而给动物一个良好的生活环境。此外，政府应该通过一些法律禁止任何稀有动物的捕猎。我们不希望任何有害的野生生活发生再发生。

If everyone is involved in the protection of wild life, we’re sure man will be a good friend of animals rather than their enemy.

如果每个人都参与保护野生动物的生命，我们相信人类会成为动物的好朋友，而不是他们的敌人。

高考英语作文的范文：时间的价值The Value Of Time

I always think there is not enough time. For example, I have just taken a three-day holiday. But when I look back, I just feel that it’s only one day. There goes a proverb, “Time is money”. Now I want to say, time is more precious than money, because when money is spent, we can earn some more again. However, when time is gone or lost, never will it return.

Time goes without being noticed. The time for our study and work is usually limited. So I think we must make full use of our time. But it’s a pity that I am always not aware of the importance of time until it’s too late.

So I think, I should get into the good habit of saving time because wasting time is equal to wasting one’s life. Do not put off what can be done today till tomorrow!

我总觉得时间不够用，比如，我刚放完三天假期，但是当我回过头看，感觉就只有一天。有个谚语，时间就是金钱。我现在觉得，时间比金钱更珍贵，因为，钱花掉了，我们还可以挣得更多，但是，逝去的时间，就再也回不来。

时间流逝没有任何预告，学习和工作的时间往往都是有限的。所以我们应该充分利用好时间，但是，我通常不知道时间的重要性，直到为时已晚的时候才意识到。

所以，我们应该培养良好的习惯去争取时间，因为浪费时间等于浪费生命。不要把今天能完成的事拖延到明天。

奥运英语作文北京奥运第一枚金牌属于谁呢？Who is the first gold medal in Beijing Olympic Games?

北京奥运第一枚金牌属于谁？

The suspense over who will win the first Olympic medal and in which event is really a interesting thing. Chinese officials are determined to make sure China, as the host country, wins the first gold of the Games. The womens 10m air rifle - which includes two Chinese medal favorites - has its final scheduled at 10:30 am on Aug 9 and should end about 20 minutes later.

对谁将赢得第一枚奥运奖牌，并在这一事件的悬念是真的是有趣的事情。中国官员决心确保中国作为东道主，赢得奥运会的第一金。女子10米气步枪-其中包括两中国奖牌收藏有其最终定于9日上午10:30，应该结束约20分钟后。

If all goes as planned, either reigning gold medalist shooter Du Li or world champion Zhao Yinghui will raise 2008s first gold at the Beijing Shooting Range.

如果一切按计划进行，无论是卫冕金牌得主杜丽或射击世界冠军赵颖慧将在北京拍摄范围提高2008的第一金。

But if Du and Zhao are too far behind in points going into the final, the rumor says, organizers will delay the last ten shots of the final while the weightlifting final goes on as planned so China can secure the gold.

但如果杜和赵是太远的后面进入决赛，谣言说，组织者将推迟最后十次的最后一次，而最后的最后一次，因为这是有计划的，所以中国可以保证黄金。

I think the first gold medal must belong to we Chinese, let wait this moment together.

我想第一块金牌一定是我们中国人，让我们一起等吧。

爱心俱乐部 Love club

Dear Chairperson, I am a girl student from Class 3, Grade 2. Id like to be a member of the Helping Hands Club. I’m 15 years old. I’m strong and healthy. I work hard at my lessons. My favourite subjects are geography and science. I like helping others. I’m generous. I’m willing to share things with my friends. I love sports. I’m interested in playing volleyball. Last year, I often gave my seat to someone in need on the bus. I often helped my classmates solve problems. I donated my pocket money to Project Hope. I want to join the club to help more people. And I also want to make more friends. Ill be pleased if Im accepted. Im looking forward to your answer. Yours Wang Fang

尊敬的主席，我是一名3年级2班的女生。我想成为一个帮助俱乐部的会员。我15岁。我强壮健康。我努力学习我的功课。我最喜欢的科目是地理和科学。我喜欢帮助别人。我很慷慨。我愿意和我的朋友分享东西。我喜欢运动。我对打排球感兴趣。去年，我经常给有需要的人坐在车上。我经常帮助我的同学解决问题。我把我的零花钱捐给了希望工程。我想加入俱乐部，帮助更多的人。我还想结交更多的朋友。如果我被接受，我会很高兴。我期待你的回答。王芳

1. 大中取小法：如《追求》，从字面上看，题目很虚很大，审题立意时不知如何下手，这类题目就要从小处来写，可以写一个老教师的追求，一个普通工人的追求，一个边防战士的追求，一个中学生的追求，也可以写自己的追求，总之，各种典型人物的追求都可以写。

2. 揭示本体法：题目是喻体或象征体，就应该揭示它的本体。如《春风》、《暖流》，本体可以是党的政策的鼓舞，可以是师长的教导可以是同学的帮助等等。《红叶》，不是写经霜的枫叶，而是要赞颂老干部、老工人、老教师。老革命家等老同志保持晚节、争献余热的高尚粮神。也就是说，《红叶》就是写树老叶红，人老心红。

另外既可作本体来理解，也可作喻体来理解的题目，如《一次不寻常的考试》，则可以写文化科学知识方面的一次实实在在的考试，也可以写思想、道德、行为方面的一次考验。《珍贵的礼物》。可以写人情往来方面的赠送的珍贵物品，也可以写在某方面的突出成绩、成就或成果，还可以指父母、师长或上级领导教育自己的金玉良言。

3. 添加因素法：如《心事》，可以在原题前面加上“我的”、“老师的”、“奶奶的”、“班主任的”等。

4. 改造文字法：如(啊，新世纪)，这个题目抒情色彩很浓，审题的关键在于对“啊’”字的感情色彩的理解，“啊”字很显然含有惊喜、赞美之意，于是可将题目改造为《我赞美新世纪》、《新世纪畅想曲》等。

5. 扩大范围法：题目含意内容很窄，无法取材，可以扩大范围来写。如《在今天的课堂上》，可以将发生在“今e的课堂上的所见所闻”作为文章的线索，穿插回忆昔日课堂内外的事;也可以把“今天”作为广义的今天来理解，写最近一个时期的课堂上的事。

6. 瞬间升华法：如《得与失》、《机会》、《勇气》、《考场》、位置》等，均可叙写发生在一瞬间的事情经过，结尾道目从中悟出的哲理。

相信各位同学学习了以上几点一定对分析作文题目有了很多的想法和认识，加上平时复习中的对这类文章的着重训练，考生一定可以在高考中下笔有神、胸有成竹的!

【精讲与精练】

记叙文是以记叙为主，综合运用描写，抒情，议论等表达方式的一种文体。在近几年高考中，越来越多的考生开始选择写记叙文。优秀记叙文在高考阅卷现场尤其受到阅卷老师的青睐。

综观这些高考优秀记叙文，呈现如下特点：1.语言生动形象。2.人物丰满鲜活。3.叙事波澜起伏。4.情感真挚动人。与此相反，考生在写记叙文时也有很多失误，主要表现为：1.写人缺乏肖像、语言、心理、动作等描写，以致人物显得干瘪;2.叙述太过平淡，不带情感，缺乏感人的力量;3.表达方式太单调，如同白开水，索然无味。

那么，如何才能写出一篇优秀的记叙文呢?

一、多角度描摹法

所谓多角度描摹法，即对记叙对象综合运用多种描写手法进行多方面观照、多角度描摹，从而使景物人物形象化、立体化。例如：

例1、黑将军站在厨台上，威风地看着我，腿上绳子早已挣开。它发出得意的鸣叫，高亢、响亮、清脆，倒有一种虎啸山林之势。……我逼近它。它挑衅地看我一眼，向着窗户纵身一跃，跳了下去。(2011年江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：既有神态描写：“威风地看着”“挑衅地看”;又有声音描写：“发出得意的鸣叫，高亢、响亮、清脆”;还有动作描写：“纵身一跃，跳了下去”。尽管短短几十字，但通过多角度描摹法，一只勇敢无畏、不屈服于命运的公鸡形象跃然纸上，其拒绝平庸的精神不禁让人肃然起敬。

例2、我转身离去，而父亲仍旧默默地站在门口，踮着脚尖张望着儿子那越走越远的身影，“别忘了，多给家里打电话，记住，注意身体……”(2011山东考生《这世界需要你》)

点评：父亲的神情是“默默”的，“踮着脚尖”的动作则透露出对孩子的不舍，而语言描写对孩子的关心则表露无遗。三个角度的描写层层递进，形象地写出了父亲的情感变化。描写真实、自然，感人。

例3、深红的趟栊门前是三级浅平的石阶，某户人家的家猫正慵懒地躺在石阶上，享受正午到来前温和的阳光。偶有微风拂过，老猫用前爪轻轻拨弄脸上的胡子，发出“喵”的一声后，打了个滚又沉沉睡去。(2011广东考生《回到原点》)

点评：一幅温馨祥和宁谧的画面，来自于生动细腻的精心描写。猫是这幅画的中心，它“慵懒地躺在石阶上”“轻轻拨弄脸上的胡子”“发出“喵”的一声”“沉沉睡去”。有神态，有动作，有声音。有动有静，形神兼备。

例4、先生没别的嗜好，只好几口小酒。每餐一杯，绝无例外。记得在餐桌上吃饭时，先生看着酒杯里仅余的一小口，若有所思地说：“哎呀，就剩一小口了。喝还是不喝，这是个问题。”随即先生又摆摆手：“罢了罢了，喝!”我转而想说将来我孝敬您，又见先生喃喃自语道：“想下顿喝这顿的，日子才有盼头嘛!”我大笑不止。(2011年江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：寥寥数语就展现了一个幽默、不平庸的光彩夺目的形象，语言精炼，可见作者非凡的语言功底。我的“大笑不止”则是间接描写，进一步烘托了形象。

例5、时光渐渐赋予我怀念和遗忘的力量，过去我觉得我不能理解他，现在觉得爸爸就像一枚翠绿色的叶子，背面蒙蒙一片，将它翻转过来，叶脉清晰呈现在眼前。现在与过去叠加，记起的是若干年前的那个清晨，他告诉我向日葵没有眼泪。而我，还是泪流满面站定，等待他潮湿而温暖的拥抱。(2011湖南考生《向日葵没有眼泪》)

点评：“现在觉得爸爸就像一枚翠绿色的叶子，背面蒙蒙一片，将它翻转过来，叶脉清晰呈现在眼前”，优美的比喻，形象地写出了“我”的心理感受，“泪流满面”则是直写我的感情。心理描写和神态描写，一内一外，真实的写出了“我”对爸爸的内疚之情，也写出了对爸爸的爱，读来，真挚感人。

【跟踪训练01】请在古代诗人中任选一人，发挥想象，进行描写，以“坚守”为话题，写一片段。要求：运用多角度描摹法。

二、波澜起伏法

“文似看山不喜平”，记叙文忌平铺直叙。所谓波澜起伏法就是在记叙时可采用插叙、倒叙等叙述方式，或采用设悬念、埋伏笔、抑扬顿挫等写作手法，使叙事过程一波三折，引人入胜。例如;

例1、窗透初晓，日照西桥.追寻着一丝光亮，他疲困地睁开了双眼。“孩子他爸!你可醒了!”病床边的妻子激动的说。环顾四周都站满了人，但却仿佛没有他所要寻觅的东西，他着急的追问：“孩子，孩……”(2011上海考生《心雨》)

点评：开篇即用倒叙手法，设置悬念，吸引读者阅读兴趣。很好地避免了叙述的平板单调，使文章的情节波澜起伏，引人入胜。增强了文章的生动性。

例2、它是一只不普通的鸡。……它开始挣扎，尽管双腿被绑。…它挑衅地看我一眼，向着窗户纵身一跃，跳了下去。……它好似雄鹰，华丽地飞翔、降落，悠闲地离开。(2011江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：这个事件的叙述可谓波澜起伏，原因就在于这只鸡逃生的过程一波三折。而作者也很好地对此进行了生动详尽的描写。另外，这只鸡最终逃生成功，可以说是既出乎意料，又在意料之中。因为“不普通”“挑衅”已经给结局做下铺垫。

例3、当大胡子再次出现的时候，引来了许多人。“女士们，先生们，这就是我的作品。”说着拉下我身上的布。“啊……石——猴!”大胡子张大了嘴巴。(2011江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：出乎意料的结果，让故事的发展改变了既定的发展轨迹，不仅让故事中的人惊讶不已，也让读者享受到了记叙文波澜起伏带来的心理感受上的惊喜。

【跟踪训练02】请以“好奇心”为话题，以设置悬念的技法写一段文字。

三、叙议结合

一篇记叙文，如果只有记叙和描写，没有精当的议论，文章就会平淡无力。所谓叙议结合法就是在叙事和描写的文字后面，设置精当的一两句议论，以收点题、扣题、深化主题、升华感情之功效。

例1、后记：壮阔的臂膀担不起岁月的重量，一切不能忘记的也只能先跨过去，然后在某个人生时刻，它们会突然醒来。生活总是在忘记与铭记之间，让人被成长。(2011上海考生《心雨》)

点评：正文后的后记，闪烁哲理的点睛之笔，话语警策,富有感染力,。不仅扣题，还起到深化主题、升华感情之功效。

例2、它以置之死地而后生的拼搏，拒绝了平庸，超越了平凡。它属于自然。它本该离去。对于它，我只有敬意。(2011江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：一只等待宰杀的公鸡，不甘心命运的摆布，勇敢逃生。是一只不平庸的鸡。篇末的这几句议论揭示了该件事的意义，起到了点题的作用。而“对于它，我只有敬意”一句则从抒情的角度升华了主题。

例3、将这里拆掉，就是毁了我的根，就是毁了上百广州老街坊的根!可是，这样的呐喊谁会听见呢?人生的原点，文化的原点与高速发展的经济，与拔地而起的大厦相比，似乎已经变得渺小了。(2011广东考生《回到原点》)

点评：这几句饱含深情的议论，不仅扣题，而且读来引人深思，一是因为前文的叙述已体现出了作者对老街的热爱，很好地为此处的议论做足了铺垫。二是这几句中的对比，紧扣现实，蕴含哲理，显示了作者深刻见解。

【跟踪训练03】以“中秋月”为题，写一片段。要求：运用叙议结合手法。

四、饱蘸感情法

法国哲学家、文学家狄德罗说过：“没有感情这个品质，任何笔调都不可能打动人心”、“凡是有感情的地方就有美”。记叙文写作尤其如此。所谓“饱蘸感情”法，就是在记叙文写作中，要饱含感情，或直抒胸臆，或借景抒情，或寓情于事，以达到感染读者，打动读者，引起共鸣之功效。

例1我小心翼翼地把两只萤火虫放在一片宽阔的绿叶上。当它们呼吸到自然的气息时，燃起了那熟悉的萤绿色光芒，那么纯粹，又那么充满着生命力。(2011广东考生《回到原点》)

点评：“小心翼翼”形象地体现了“我”怕伤害到萤火虫的细微心情，而“那么纯粹，又那么充满着生命力”则体现了“我”的激动、欣喜之情。对萤火虫饱含爱护之情，含而不直露，是本句的抒情特点。

例2月光透过树梢撒在地上，鳞鳞散散的月光宛如孩子的心般支离破碎。只有布谷鸟红着眼睛在树上喊着：“不哭，不哭……”。(2011上海考生《心雨》)

点评：用比喻寓伤感之情于“鳞鳞散散的月光”，摹布谷鸟凄清的鸣叫为“不哭，不哭”，委婉含蓄的表达了孩子因误伤父亲而产生的极度悲伤之情，读来。让人伤感不已。

例3淡漠的我眼角流出一颗晶莹的泪珠伴着雨滴，滑下脸庞，砸在湿漉漉的地上，碎成几瓣：原来，父亲是那样的爱我。对不住，父亲!我明白，对我而言，世界上需要你，我的父亲!(2011山东考生《这世界需要你》)

点评：直抒胸臆，表达对父亲的愧疚和热爱，对伴着雨滴、滑下脸庞的泪珠的精致描写则加深了感情的抒发。

【跟踪训练04】以“母亲”为题。写一片段。要求：充满感情。

五、细节描写法

列夫托尔斯泰说：“艺术起于至微。”“至微”就是细节。细节是艺术的生命。所谓“细节描写”法，就是在记叙文写作中，通过真实生动的细节描写，使记叙从肤浅走向深刻，从枯燥走向生动，从平淡走向感人。细节描写是指作品中对人物动作、语言、神态、心理、外貌以及自然景观、场面气氛等细小环节或情节的描写。

例1、突然有一天，荒山里来了一位采石人，围着我转来转去，像驴子拉磨，还摸着我的屁股赞叹：“好石头，好石头!你是想平庸一生，还是愿随我去人间?”(2011江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：用“像驴子拉磨”来比喻采石人转来转去的动作，传神地写出了采石人对“我”(石头)极为欣赏的心理，语言幽默生动，让人读来不禁莞尔。而关于采石人的语言描写不仅点出话题“平庸”二字，还进一步丰富了对人物的塑造。生动细节描写使人物栩栩如生，跃然纸上。

例2、有一次，我拿起那条老手帕来到母亲的病床前，母亲用那只会活动的手掌，在泛黄的手帕上轻轻抚摸一会儿。随后，她笑着说：“这还是在你上小学三年级时我给你绣的。那个晚上下着雨，为了买一条新手帕，你闹的情绪比雨还大哩。”(2011四川考生《时间在流逝》)

点评：从细微的动作“轻轻抚摸”、神态“笑”以及对往事的清晰回忆的语言描写，刻画了一个挚爱女儿的温和可亲的母亲形象，也很好地表达了“时间在流逝”这个主题。

例3、父亲的手紧紧握住背带，我默默的低下头却看见父亲那双破布鞋早已湿透，裤腿也湿了大半截。雨越下越大。(2011山东考生《这世界需要你》)

点评：从“我”的视角看到的雨中的父亲：“手紧紧握住背带”“湿透的破布鞋”“湿了大半截的裤腿”。这是细节描写，传神地的刻画了一位生活艰辛，虽被大雨淋湿而心思依然放在孩子身上的一位可敬的父亲形象。环境描写(雨越下越大)则有力地烘托了父亲这一形象和“我”的不平静的心情。语句虽然简短，但通过细节描写很好地表达了“我”对父亲的感情：这世界需要你。同时，也巧妙地扣了题。

【跟踪训练05】以“晚自习时，一只小飞虫……”为开头写一片段。要求：有细节描写。

六、线串珍珠法

如果说丰富而生动的材料是一颗颗珍珠，那么线索就是将珍珠串起来的一条线。所谓“线串珍珠”法，就是通过设置贯穿全文的线索，把文中的人物和事件有机地连在一起，使文章条理清楚、层次清晰。文章线索的安排通常有以下几种形式：1.以主题为线索。2.以人物为线索。3.以事物为线索。4.以中心事件为线索。5.以“感情”为线索。

所要注意的是，无论采取何种线索，都必须从表现文章的中心思想和体现材料之间的内在联系出发，灵活巧妙地确定。

例1、一、五只粽子……可怜的屈原啊，您大概不会想到原本为了纪念您的粽子却成了我们的文化“吉祥物”吧?请原谅我吧，我只是一名平庸的考生，我要通过高考拒绝我的平庸呢。二、一只鸽子……可怜的“天然之子”鸽子啊，请原谅我吧，我只是一名平庸的考生，我还要通过高考拒绝我的平庸呢。 三、一棵树……亲爱的树啊，请原谅我吧，我只是一名平庸的考生，我要通过高考来拒绝我的平庸呢。(2011江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：文章设置了三个小标题，自然形成三个部分，在每个部分的后面用一句议论来点题。这三处议论中都包含的主题词(拒绝平庸)就是全文的线索。以主题为线索，不仅使文章条理清楚、层次清晰，还直接扣题。这种方法值得学习并应用。

例2、许多年来，在我的书桌抽屉里一直珍藏着一条老手帕。……数十年的时光匆匆而逝，而那条老手帕，好像是岁月送给我的一份特殊礼物。……有一次，我拿起那条老手帕来到母亲的病床前……母亲对它的记忆竟然如此清晰!……我希望自己像那条手帕一样，随着时光慢慢老去的同时，仍然能够珍藏温暖的亲情，并保留住一个真实的自我。(2011四川考生《时间在流逝》)

点评：本文是以事物(老手帕)为贯穿全文的线索。老手帕带出了对童年往事的回忆，也珍藏着一份温暖的亲情，从而也有了一种象征意义。“老手帕”之所以是“老”的，原因就是“时间在流逝”的结果。“老手帕”这个线索的设置体现了作者构思的精心和精巧。

例3我好奇地挤过去一看，啊，竟然是两只萤火虫!……我从回忆中回过神来，大家都散了，只剩下我还盯着萤火虫。……我鼓起勇气对抓萤火虫的同学说：“你能把这两只萤火虫送给我吗?”……我小心翼翼地把两只萤火虫放在一片宽阔的绿叶上。……我忽然觉得我们就像是萤火虫……是夜，流萤入梦，我回到了原点。(2011广东考生《回到原点》)

点评：本文是以中心事件为线索：发现萤火虫——回忆萤火虫——要萤火虫——放生萤火虫——梦见萤火虫。这一线索使文章的结构层次极为清晰，使文章的组材不枝不蔓，为表达主题起到了很好作用。

【跟踪训练06】请以“路”为题，写一篇作文提纲。要求：线索清晰。

七、靓化语言法

古人云：言之无文，行而不远。“文”就是“文采”。相对于议论文，记叙文更讲究“有文采”。所谓“靓化语言”法就是要让记叙文在语言上文采飞扬，吸引读者眼球，让读者有一种赏心悦目之感。要“靓化语言”就必须做到：词语生动，句式灵活，巧用修辞，文句有意蕴。

例1、一个熟悉的身影应声倒下，一座名为父亲的大山就此坍塌。倒地的声响不大，仅使得倒伏的玉米杆呻吟吱呀，却将一个孩子的心震碎成沙。(2011上海考生《心雨》)

点评：把父亲的倒下，比喻成一座大山的坍塌，形象的写出了父亲在孩子心中的崇高地位，还写出了自己内心因为误伤父亲而产生的深深的自责和巨大的悲伤之情。而“玉米杆呻吟吱呀”和“将一个孩子的心震碎成沙”的强烈对比，更是把孩子内心的自责和悲伤之情写到了极致。“玉米杆呻吟吱呀”一句尤为形象，是摹拟玉米杆倒下的声音，也是写父亲倒下时的痛苦，还有烘托孩子内心的悲伤的作用。文字简练，内涵丰富，给读者以鲜明而强烈的印象。

例2、冲锋的号角划破长空，9×10的小小战场刹那间狼烟四起，硝烟弥漫。疾驰的战车冲锋陷阵，摧城拔寨，骁勇善战;威猛的火炮杀机暗藏，“隔山打牛”，威风八面;奔驰的骏马跨日追月，卧槽挂角，纵横驰骋。而我，一个平庸的小兵孤零零地蜷缩在战场一隅。(2011江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：“狼烟四起”“硝烟弥漫”“冲锋陷阵”“、摧城拔寨”“骁勇善战”“杀机暗藏”“隔山打牛”“威风八面”“跨日追月”“卧槽挂角”“纵横驰骋”，此为整句，展示了作者深厚的语言功底，也生动地表现了“棋盘”上的那种激烈厮杀的场面。“而我，一个平庸的小兵孤零零地蜷缩在战场一隅”，是为散句，形象的写出了一个小兵的孤独平庸。整散结合，形成极为强烈鲜明的对比。有整句和散句语句气势上的对比，也有“小兵”和“车、马、炮”战斗能力上的对比，这种对比为下文写小兵的不甘平庸，勇猛作战做了铺垫。

例3、当孤傲的战车面对我与我的弟兄只能无奈地自嘲“自古双拳难敌四手”，当威风的火炮失去了炮架的支撑在我面前不堪一击，当“春风得意马蹄疾”的战马不经意间被我锁住了去路、缚住了马脚，当我撕开士象的坚固防线，当我挥舞着长矛刺穿敌方将帅的胸膛，我在他的眼里读出了失落，读出了恐惧，而更多的却是不解与震惊。(2011江苏考生《拒绝平庸》)

点评：综合运用了排比和引用。排比句写出了敌方车、马、炮和将帅的无奈、不解、震惊，从而反衬了小兵的因不甘平庸而产生出的巨大能量，切合了“拒绝平庸”的主题。“自古双拳难敌四手”和“春风得意马蹄疾”引用，则加强了上述表达效果，也展示了作者的文采。

例4往事越“十”年，“牧童”挥鞭。那时一放学，我总是“外甥打灯笼——照(舅)旧”，挥着鞭儿，牵着绳儿，吆着牛儿，上山去了。(2011四川考生《总有一种期待》)

点评：“往事越‘十年’，‘牧童’挥鞭”是化用毛泽东的诗句“往事越千年，魏武挥鞭”，巧妙而诙谐，表现了作者较高的语文素养和较强的语言功力;歇后语“外甥打灯笼——照(舅)旧”则使语言显得生动幽默。而“挥着鞭儿，牵着绳儿，吆着牛儿”，句式简短，活泼明快，读来朗朗上口，很有节奏感。

【跟踪训练07】请以“站在门口”，写一作文片段。要求：有文采。

Every year on January 15th of the lunar calendar is the Chinese attaches great importance to the traditional festival, the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is also called the Lantern Festival, the spring Lantern Festival, is a lot of family the reunion of the festival. The fifteenth day the full moon is the first month of the year, and the tradition of eating yuanxiao, the celebration and reunion of two word firmly together. The Lantern Festival is the first important after the Spring Festival holiday, whether the south north more attention for this holiday, a lot of activities to celebrate this festival. You must be very curious about the history and custom of the Lantern Festival, eat small charged China now tell you what is the Lantern Festival, what are the customs.

About the Lantern Festival origin is varied, there are three widely circulated.

The Lantern Festival comes a legend

Night when the festival is a Chinese emperor in honor of "ping lu". Legend hanshu a series after the death of hanshu afraid of to slip, plotting insurgency, clan wang capsule combined with founding veteran bo zhou suppressed "chaos" of lu. Special riot, the minister the second son of liu liu, said the Chinese emperor. Wen emperor was deeply millennium hard-won, kept calm "chaos of the lv" the fifteenth day of the first, as the day which was attended with the people, every family decorated in the capital, to celebrate. From then on, the fifteenth day of the first became a folk festivals celebrate - ring "yuanxiao".

The Lantern Festival origin legend ii

The Lantern Festival is also called the Lantern Festival, is celebrated the first full moon of the year. According to Taoism "three yuan", the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival, July 15 for the hungry ghost festival, on October 15th is RMB under section. Head up, middle and down three yuan heaven, earth, three officers, respectively cheongwan joy, so the Lantern Festival to eep. Yuanxiao randeng custom of setting off fireworks is from the claim.

The Lantern Festival origin legend three

Lantern Festival originated in the "torch festival", the han people in the country field hold torches to drive bug beast, hope to reduce the insect pest, pray for good harvest. To this day, people in some areas in southwestern China on the fifteenth day of the first made a torch LuChai or branches, flocking carrying torches in farm or ShaiGuChang dance. Since the sui, tang, song, but also reached its zenith. Sufficient amount to tens of thousands of those who participate in the dance, from the unconscious, and to grey and alone. When along with the social and the change of The Times, the Lantern Festival customs already had a big change, but still is a traditional Chinese folk festival, torch also gradually into the lantern.

Since middle period of tang dynasty, the Lantern Festival has become the national reform and development of mardi gras, so the Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom is the most thorough and typical traditional festival.

Most of the Lantern Festival custom have yuanxiao, lanterns, guess riddles, and bang, dragon dance, lion dance and other activities, but across the north and the south customs has uniqueness.

每年的阴历正月十五是中国人很重视的传统节日，元宵节。元宵节也叫“上元节”,春灯节，是很多家庭团圆的节日。正月十五日是一年中第一个月圆之夜，加上吃元宵的习俗，这个节日就和团圆两个字牢牢的联系起来。元宵节是春节之后的第一个重要节日，不管是南方北方都对这个节日比较重视，举行很多的活动来庆祝这个节日。大家一定很好奇元宵节的来历和习俗，现在中国吃网小编就告诉你元宵节是怎么来的，都有哪些习俗。

有关元宵节来历的说法多种多样，有3种说法流传较广。

元宵节来历传说一

宵节是汉文帝时为纪念“平吕”而设。相传吕后一系在吕后死后害怕大全旁落，密谋叛乱，宗室齐王刘囊联合开国老臣周勃一起平定了“诸吕之乱”。平乱之后，众臣拥立刘邦的第二个儿子刘恒登基，称汉文帝。文帝深感太平盛世来之不易，便把平息“诸吕之乱”的正月十五，定为与民同乐日，京城里家家张灯结彩，以示庆祝。从此，正月十五便成了一个普天同庆的民间节日--“闹元宵”。

元宵节来历传说二

元宵节又称“上元节”,是人们庆祝一年中第一次的月圆之夜。据道教的“三元说”,正月十五日为上元节，七月十五日为中元节，十月十五日为下元节。主管上、中、下三元的分别为天、地、人三官，天官喜乐，故上元节要燃灯。元宵燃灯放烟火的习俗就是从这个说法来的。

元宵节来历传说三

元宵节起源于“火把节”,汉代民众在乡间田野持火把驱赶虫兽，希望减轻虫害，祈祷获得好收成。直到今天，中国西南一些地区的人们还在正月十五用芦柴或树枝做成火把，成群结队高举火把在田头或晒谷场跳舞。隋、唐、宋以来，更是盛极一时。参加歌舞者足达数万，从昏达旦，至晦而罢。当随着社会和时代的变迁，元宵节的风俗习惯早已有了较大的变化，但至今仍是中国民间传统节日，火把也逐渐变为了彩灯。

自唐朝中期以来，元宵节发展成为了我国全民性的狂欢节，因此元宵节是把传统节日习俗体现得最为彻底和典型的传统节日。

大部分地方元宵节习俗有吃元宵、观花灯、猜灯谜，还有擂鼓、舞龙、舞狮等活动，但南北各地风俗也有独特之处。

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”.

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