中考英语写作万能模板(最新20篇)

Dear editor,

I’m writing to tell you about the discussion we have had about whether an

entrance fee should be charged for parks. 60% of us schoolmates think t hat an

entrance fee do not meet people’s expectations, for a park is considered to be a

place where the public can have a good time when they are not busy either a t

home or at work. If an entrance fee must be paid by the visitors for a park, it

will be necessary to build a gate and surrounding walls. In the end a city will

take on a bad look. 40% of us schoolmates think that an entrance fee can be

accepted, but it must not be too expensive. The money from ticket selling can be

used for paying the gardeners in the par k and buying some other kinds of

flowers and trees.

With regard to myself, I think an entrance fee is useful, for it can be

used to protect a park. Do we share the same opinion, dear editor?

Yours truly,

Li Hua

1 the best season 最好的季节

Summer is the great season for all sports in the open air. It is the season for baseball which is often called the national sport because of its popularity. I usually watch television and read the newspaper reports about the baseball results of the newspaper reports about the baseball results of the little leagues.

During the summer I like to go to the beach often because it is very close to my home in the village. I usually go there bur in the summer vacation to relax after many months in school in the city. I feel very comfortable with the familiar quiet of the villagers.

夏天是户外运动最好的季节。这是个打棒球季节，通常被国家体育称为受欢迎程度的季节。我通常看电视和读有关棒球比赛结果的报纸报道。

在夏天，我喜欢经常去海滩，因为它离我家很近。我通常在暑假去城市放松。我觉得熟悉的村民的平静让我很舒服。

2 Summer Camp 夏令营

July 20,20xx

I went to summer camp on vacation. On the first day, we went to a beautiful beach. It was a sunny and hot day, so we went swimming. The water was warm and we had great fun. Then the next day, we went to the mountains. There were many trees and I really enjoyed them. On the last day, we had a great party. We sang and danced happily. We didn’t want to leave the friends and the teachers. I hope I can go to summer camp again next year.

我去夏令营度假。第一天，我们去了美丽的海滩。这是一个阳光和炎热的一天，所以我们去游泳。水是温暖的，我们玩得很开心。然后第二天，我们去了山区。有许多树木，我非常喜欢他们。在最后一天，我们有一个盛大的派对。我们高兴地载歌载舞。我们不想离开朋友和老师。我希望明年我可以再次去夏令营。

3 Unforgettable summer vacation 难忘的暑假

I think this summer over a very meaningful day,in addition to the study of computers outside,also tried a new aerobic exercise -YOGA,I love this sport, so I learned an optimistic face life,but also to correct my bad shape,for my future learning and life will be very helpful,I love YOGA,with the hope more people will join me to try this new movement.

今年暑假过得非常有意义

我觉得今年暑假过的非常有意义，每天除了学习计算机以外还尝试了新的有氧运动-YOGA，我非常热爱这项运动，它让我学会了乐观的面对生活，还纠正了我的不良体形，对我今后的学习及生活都有很大的帮助，我爱YOGA，希望有更多的人和我一起尝试这项新的运动。初中英语作文难忘的暑假

4 visitng 参观

Ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to Heyuan, now let me introduce our city — Heyuan to you. Heyuan is a city with a long history. It is in the northeast of Guangdong and 198 kilometres away from Guangzhou. It has a population of 3,240,000.

There are many places of interest in Heyuan, such as Sujiawei Wanlu Lake and so on. Wanlu Lake is a beautiful place. The water is clean and not polluted. There are all kinds of fish in it. You can go boating, go fishing and have a picnic there. It is really a good place to spend your holiday. Besides, you can go and visit Heyuan Museum. There you can see a lot of dinosaur egg fossils.

I hope you can enjoy yourselves in Heyuan.

Thank you.

女士们,先生们,

欢迎来到河源市,现在让我向你介绍我们的城市——河源市。河源市是一个有着悠久历史的城市。在广东的东北部,离广州198公里。它有3240000人口。

在河源市有许多名胜,如Sujiawei，万绿湖等等。万绿湖是一个美丽的地方。水是干净的,没有污染。有各种各样的鱼。你可以去划船,钓鱼,野餐。这真的是一个好地方可以度过你的假期。此外,你可以去参观河源市博物馆。在那里你可以看到很多恐龙蛋化石。

我希望你能在河源市玩得愉快。

谢谢你们！

5 My Summer Vacation 我的暑假

This is my summer vacation. I intend to finish the operation. Then, take a look at Chinas famous novel. Look at some day. Of course, also want to play with the computer, watch TV. Early every morning to get up and running to run, do other sports. But it is conducive to our body! But one thing should not be forgotten. must help parents do the housework! My holiday arrangements like? something good? give suggestions?

这就是我的暑假。我打算完成作业。然后，看中国的著名小说。看书看一些日子。当然，也要玩电脑，看电视。每天早上早早起床跑步，做其他运动。这有利于我们的身体！但有一件事不应该被忘记。必须帮助父母做家务！我的假期安排呢？好的东西？给点建议？

6 I enjoy the rain 我喜欢下雨

That was a morning in the early of June. I took a bus to my school in the suburb which was surrounded by rice paddies and ponds. The sky was gray with the gloomy clouds congregating gradually along the far eastern horizon. "There must be a heavy rain soon." I spoke to myself.

When I hurried into the classroom, the sky, gray before, was shrouded now by black clouds, darken to twilight, I felt quite stuffy, while it was quite calm, without wind. I saw the leaves of trees and grass static, which seem to await something tohappen. Several minutes later, I saw the lightening split the clouds and heard the thunders following. Suddenly, the curtain of rain fell and the wind blew. soon the grass flattened under the wind and the rain. With the rain forming like a fog, the sky became bright. I took several deep breathes. I felt comfortable.

The heavy rain lasted three hours and stopped when the class was over. The air was so fresh and the sky was so clear. I felt like a new man myself.

那是6月初的一天早上，我乘汽车去郊区的学校上课，学校四周是稻田和鱼塘。天空是灰色的，在遥远的东方地平线上有阴云在慢慢汇聚。我心想：“要下大雨了。”

当我匆忙走进教室时，原本灰色的天空已被黑云笼罩，像黄昏。我感到气闷，而周围一切都很静，没有任何声音，没有风。我看到树叶和草一动不动，像等着什么事情发生。几分钟之后，我看到闪电撕开云层，听到随之而来的雷声。突然，大雨倾盆，风也起了。草在风雨中倒伏。随着雨下成了雾状，天空开始放亮，我深吸了几口气，舒服多了。

大雨下了三个小时，下课的时间停了，空气那么新鲜，天气那么晴朗，我感觉像换了一个人似的。

The Spring Festival, the most important festival to Chinese. Is China the biggest, the most lively, one of the most important ancient traditional festivals, is also unique to Chinese festival.

Festival, is the beginning of the lunar calendar, another name is called New Years day, Spring Festival is the biggest, the most lively, China one of the most important ancient traditional festivals, is also unique to Chinese festival. Is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization. Since the western han dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival continues today. The Spring Festival, generally refers to New Years eve and the first day. But in private, in the traditional sense of the Spring Festival is from the Greek festival of the day or month, 23 or 24 people, until the fifteenth, among them with New Years eve and the first day of the first lunar month. How to celebrate this holiday, in one thousand years of history development, formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, there are a lot of handed down also. During the traditional festival, the Spring Festival of the han nationality in our country and most of ethnic minorities have to hold various celebration activities, these activities are to worship deities, worshiping ancestors, blow away the cobwebs, meet jubilee blessing, pray for good harvest as the main content. Form rich and colorful, activities with strong ethnic characteristics. On May 20, 2006, "Spring Festival" folk have been approved by the state council listed in the first batch of state-level non-material cultural heritage list.

The origin of the Spring Festival has a legend, the Chinese ancient times have a kind of call "year" monster, head long feelers, fierce abnormalities. "Year" the elder deep in the bottom of the sea, every New Years eve just climbed out, swallowed cattle damage lives. Therefore, every New Years eve that day, the people of CunCunZhaiZhai could flee to the mountains, to escape the "year" animal damage. One NianChuXi, from the village outside a begging the old man. Folks a hurried panic scene, only the east village, an old woman gave the old man some food, and urged him quickly up the hill avoid "year" beast, the old man stroked his beard say with smile: "mother-in-law if let me stay overnight in the home, I must have" years "beast." Old woman continue to persuasion, begging the old man smiling without a word. At midnight, "nian" beast into the village. It found the village atmosphere unlike previous years, village east wifes husbands family, the door stick red paper, candle lit the room. "Year" beast was a shake, long a sound. Nearly the door, hospital suddenly spread "banging spluttered" Fried sound, "nian" shuddered, again dare not go up. Originally, "year" the most afraid of red, fire and exploding. At this time, her mother-in-laws door open and saw hospital a red-robed man laughed. "Year" frightened to disgrace, mess up. The next day is the first day, the people of refuge back very surprised to see the village safe. At this point, the old woman was suddenly enlighted, quickly spoke to the fellow villagers begging the old mans promise. This matter quickly spread around the village, people know driven "years" beast approach. (the legend of hakka) from then on, every year New Years eve, families paste red couplets, firecrackers; Household candle lit, keeping stay by age. Beginning in the early morning, still walk close bunch of congratulate friends say hello. This custom spread more widely, Chinese the most solemn of the folk traditional festival.

春节，中国人最重要的节日。是中国最盛大、最热闹、最重要的一个古老传统节日，也是中国人所独有的节日。

节，是农历的岁首，春节的另一名称叫过年，是中国最盛大、最热闹、最重要的一个古老传统节日，也是中国人所独有的节日。是中华文明最集中的表现。自西汉以来，春节的习俗一直延续到今天。春节一般指除夕和正月初一。但在民间，传统意义上的春节是指从腊月初八的腊祭或腊月二十三或二十四的祭灶，一直到正月十五，其中以除夕和正月初一为高潮。如何过庆贺这个节日，在千百年的历史发展中，形成了一些较为固定的风俗习惯，有许多还相传至今。在春节这一传统节日期间，我国的汉族和大多数少数民族都有要举行各种庆祝活动，这些活动大多以祭祀神佛、祭奠祖先、除旧布新、迎禧接福、祈求丰年为主要内容。活动形式丰富多彩，带有浓郁的民族特色。2006年5月20日，“春节”民俗经国务院批准列入第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录。

春节的来历有一种传说，中国古时候有一种叫“年”的怪兽，头长触角，凶猛异常。“年”长年深居海底，每到除夕才爬上岸，吞食牲畜伤害人命。因此，每到除夕这天，村村寨寨的人们扶老携幼逃往深山，以躲避“年”兽的伤害。有一年除夕，从村外来了个乞讨的老人。乡亲们一片匆忙恐慌景象，只有村东头一位老婆婆给了老人些食物，并劝他快上山躲避“年”兽，那老人捋髯笑道：“婆婆若让我在家呆一夜，我一定把‘年’兽撵走。”老婆婆仍然继续劝说，乞讨老人笑而不语。 半夜时分，“年”兽闯进村。它发现村里气氛与往年不同：村东头老婆婆家，门贴大红纸，屋内烛火通明。“年”兽浑身一抖，怪叫了一声。将近门口时，院内突然传来“砰砰啪啪”的炸响声，“年”浑身战栗，再不敢往前凑了。原来，“年”最怕红色、火光和炸响。这时，婆婆的家门大开，只见院内一位身披红袍的老人在哈哈大笑。“年”大惊失色，狼狈逃蹿了。第二天是正月初一，避难回来的人们见村里安然无恙十分惊奇。这时，老婆婆才恍然大悟，赶忙向乡亲们述说了乞讨老人的许诺。这件事很快在周围村里传开了，人们都知道了驱赶“年”兽的办法。(客家人的传说)从此每年除夕，家家贴红对联、燃放爆竹;户户烛火通明、守更待岁。初一一大早，还要走亲串友道喜问好。这风俗越传越广，成了中国民间最隆重的传统节日。

导语：朱自清，朱自清对优雅和谐、含蓄节制的美的追求，一方面是中国传统文化精神的延续，另一方面也隐含着对中国现实社会景象的逃逸和否定。下面是小编整理的关于朱自清的相关材料，欢迎阅读，谢谢!

【朱自清简介】

朱自清(1898年11月22日-1948年8月12日)，原名自华，字佩弦，号秋实。原籍浙江绍兴，生于江苏东海，长大于江苏扬州，故称“我是扬州人”。北京大学毕业，曾任清华大学中文系教授、系主任。中国现代诗人、散文作家。文笔清新，所著合编为朱自清全集。为中国现代散文增添了瑰丽的色彩，为建立中国现代散文全新的审美特征创造了具有中国民族特色的散文体制和风格;主要作品有《雪朝》、《踪迹》、《背影》、《春》、《欧游杂记》、《你我》、《精读指导举隅》、《略读指导举隅》、《国文教学》、《诗言志辨》、《新诗杂话》、《标准与尺度》、《论雅俗共赏》。

1.朱自清的最后岁月

逝世前半年，常年劳累的朱自清体力衰弱，经常连走一点路都很吃力。他感到自己骤然衰老，不过并不因此而消极。他把唐人的诗句“夕阳无限好，只是近黄昏”，反其意而用之，改成“但得夕阳无限好，何须惆怅近黄昏”，作为对自己的鞭策，压在书桌的玻璃板下。每天一清早就坐在桌前，读书勤奋不息，工作毫不减轻。

在生命的最后两个月，朱自清的身体已极度衰弱，体重低到77.6斤，且又“彻夜胃痛不止”，“不断大量呕吐”，病情日益危重。可他仍然编辑《闻一多全集》，编写教科书，备课讲授，演讲呐喊。在这两个月的日记中，他直接写到读书、买书、选书的日记竟有17篇之多。其中有他认真阅读瞿秋白同志的《鲁迅杂感集序言》和《大众哲学》的记载。甚至在逝世前26天，他还在日记中订了一个阅读计划，要求自己除星期六下午和星期日外，每天坚持轮流读一本英文书和中文书，利用休息时间读诗。说到做到，此后两天，即订出计划的第一个星期一，他开始读布尔芬奇的《神话集》和《波罗克夫的眼界》一文。

2.朱自清先生的一则逸事

根据上个世纪30年代清华的规定，教授们在校工作五年，就有一年的学术休假，由学校资助去外国访问进修。朱自清时任清华大学中文系教授，于1931年利用学术休假，在英国伦敦皇家学院和伦敦大学注册旁听。据《朱自清日记》于该年记述，他有两次夜梦清华未能继续聘他为教授，理由是他在外国文学上的学养上尚有不足;梦醒，全身冷汗，深感不发聘书颇有道理，于是他更加努力利用在伦敦的一切便利条件，来提高自己。俗语云：日有所思，夜有所梦。所谓“不足”，并非真的来自清华校方的压力，而是朱先生对自己严格要求的反映。

3.朱自清宁可饿死，不领美国救济粮

朱自清是清华大学中文系教授。1948年初，人民解放战争进入最后阶段，6月，北平学生掀起了反对美国扶植日本军国主义的运动。当时，朱自清身患重病，又无钱医治，但他毫不犹豫地在写着“为表示中国人民的尊严和气节，我们断然拒绝美国具有收买灵魂性质的一切施舍物资，无论是购买的或给予的”。的宣言上签了自己的名字。8月初，朱自清病情加重，入院治疗无效，12日逝世。那时他年仅50岁。临终前，朱自清以微弱的声音谆谆叮嘱家人：“有件事要记住，我是在拒绝美国面粉的文件上签过名的，我们家以后不买国民党配合给的美国面粉!”

吴晗1960年写的《关于朱自清不领美国“救济粮”》说：“这时候，他的胃病已经很严重了，只能吃很少的东西，多一点就要吐。面庞瘦削，说话声音低沉。他有大小七个孩子，日子比谁过得都困难。但是他一看了稿子，毫不迟疑，立刻签了名。”朱自清夫人也写道：“我们家人口多，尤其困难。为了生活，佩弦(朱自清字佩弦)不得不带着一身重病，拼命多写文章，经常写到深夜，甚至到天明。那时家里一天两顿粗粮，有时为照顾他有胃病，给他做一点细粮，他都从不一个人吃，总要分给孩子们吃。”在吴晗找朱签名时，“他的病情已经很严重了，呕吐得厉害——医生说应尽快动手术。”当天朱自清的日记中写道：“此事每月须损失六百万法币，影响家中甚大，但余仍决定签名。因余等既反美扶日，自应直接由自身做起，此虽只为精神上之抗议，但决不应逃避个人责任。”由此可见，吴晗说“毫不迟疑，立刻签了名”显然有夸张之嫌，朱自清至少也是咬牙决定的，以身作则的观念使他决定牺牲家庭的生活必需。

4.函请接济家父

鲁修贤

芦沟桥事变发生之后，朱自清先生转往大后方，他写信给当时在上海教书的李健吾，请他就近接济自己住在扬州的老父亲，李健吾自然不会让老师失望。那么，朱自清先生何以有信心如此重托他人呢?原来，这二人之间早已建立了深厚的师生情谊。——1925年暑假过后，朱自清先生应聘来到清华大学担任了中国文学系的教授。李健吾这时刚好从北京师范大学附属中学毕业，考取了清华大学中文系。上第一堂课，朱自清先生点名，点到李健吾时，问道：“李健吾，这个名字怪熟的，是不是常在报纸上写文章的那个李健吾?”李健吾回答：“不敢瞒老师，是我。”确实是在师大附中读书时，李健吾就和蹇先艾等组织了爝火社，从事新文学活动了。“那我早认识你啦!”朱先生高兴地说。下课后，朱自清先生劝李健吾：“你是要学创作的，念中文系不相宜，还是转到外文系去吧。”当时中文系只念古书，所以朱自清先生这么说。李健吾听了朱自清先生的话，第二年就转到外文系去了。师生虽不在一个系，但李健吾写了作品，都先送给朱先生看，始终把朱自清先生当作导师。朱自清先生也每次都字斟句酌地帮李健吾定稿。多年互动，使他们真挚的师生情笃定终生。

5.朱自清的读书生活

朱自清在上中学时，就极喜欢读书。当时家里每月给他一元零花钱，他大部分都交给家乡一家广益书局了，而且还常常欠账。引发他对哲学兴趣的一部《佛学易解》，就是从这家书局得到的。

1920年，是朱自清在大学最后一年。一次，他到琉璃厂去逛书店，在华洋书庄见到一部新版的《韦伯斯特大字典》，定价要14元。这钱对这部大书说来虽不算太贵，可对一个念书的学生却实在不是个小数目。自己手头没这么多钱，可书又实在舍不得，思来想去，就自己的一件皮大氅还值点钱了。

这件大氅，是父亲在朱自清结婚时为他做的，水獭领，紫貂皮。大氅虽是布面，样式有点土气，领子还是用两副“马蹄袖”拼凑起来，可毕竟是皮衣，在制作的时候，父亲还很费了些心力。可当时实在舍不得那本“大字典”，又想到将来准能将大氅赎出，便在踌躇许久后，毅然将它拿到了当铺。

当铺在学校后门，转身就到。朱自清并没有过多考虑。因为想到将来赎回，便以书价作当价：14块。大氅当然不止这个价，所以当铺柜上的人一点不为难，即刻付款。

拿上钱，朱自清马上去把那本《韦伯斯特大字典》抱了回来。不料那件费了父亲许多心力的大氅，却终于没有赎回来。

根据中文设置的情景和英文提示词语，写出语法正确，意思连贯的句子。所给的英文提示词语必须都用上。

上星期日，我们乘车去西山植树。一些学生种树，其他学生……

1. it, fine, last sunday

2. we, go, west hill, by bus

3. some, plant trees, other, carry water

4. because, we, work hard, tired, happy

5. all, know, stop… form, blow, and, city, make, beautiful

___________________________________

it was fine last sunday. we went to west hill by bus. some students planted trees, others carried water. because we worked hard, we were tired, but we felt happy. we all know trees can stop the wind from blowing the sand towards the city, and they can make the city beautiful.

[中考英语作文训练:去西山植树去(Goes to Xishan to plant trees)

"I like honest men of all colors."我喜欢所有诚实的人。

"I start out by believing the worst."我凡事先做好最坏的打算。

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."茍活比牺牲需要更多的勇气。 。

"I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest."我已做了所有的打算，其余就交给上帝了。

"Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined."生死有命，没有人能要求多活一秒钟。

"If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have liked to have been born Alexander."如果今天我不是拿破仑的话，我想成为亚历山大。

"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of ones designs to ones means."一个人的计划与实践存在太大的落差即是疯狂的表现。

"The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future."聪明的人谈现在，愚蠢的人谈过去，傻子才谈未来。

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. "与其后来替一个人婉惜，不如先嘲笑他算了。

"When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna."一旦你着手要攻下维也纳，就把她拿下吧﹗

"What I did is immense. What I had decided to do, and what I had projected werestill more so"我所做的是大事业，而我当初的决定与计划亦是如此。

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."在我的字典里找不到「不可能」这个字。

"I wished to found a European system, a European Code of Laws, a European judiciary; there would be but one people in Europe."我想建立一个整合的欧洲体系，包含了法律，法庭，与人种。

"The French complain of everything, and always."法国人终其一生都在抱怨所有的事。

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."害怕被征服的人，注定要失败。

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."坚持必将成功。

"Adversity is the midwife of genius." 逆境造就天才。

"Circumstances? I make circumstances!" 英雄造时势。

"Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities."人们常只想到自己的需要，而没考虑自己的能力。

"Men are moved by only two levers: fear and self interest."恐惧和兴趣能激励人。

想要写好英语作文都有哪些技巧呢?下面是语文迷网为大家提供的英语写作技巧，欢迎阅读参考。

一、写作决窍

总体把握，要点齐全;人称时态，逻辑清楚;

关键词汇，动词第一;组词成句，结构完整;

组句成文，连词增色;此路不通，绕道迂回;

字迹工整，留好印象;从句适量，高分有望。

二、写作步骤

1.认真审题。审题包括要点、格式、词数以及此篇文章要传递给读者什么样的信息，告诫读者什么(即写作目的)。

2.确定文体和时态。确定文体后，根据不同文体的特点和要求进行组织材料;同时确定出该篇文章的总时态与时态的变化。

3.写完要点，但不随意发挥。

4.先草稿，后抄写。

三、作文案例

[2004年全国中学生英语能力竞赛初赛初三组] (14分)

Choose one of your hobbies and write an article for the school magazine about it. Tell the magazine readers.

·What exactly your hobby is;

·When and how you became interested in this hobby;

·Why you enjoy your hobby;

·About your hopes and plans for the future.

写作要求：

1.根据所提供的内容，适当拓展想象空间，灵活地将提供的信息体现在文章中。

2.条理清楚，语句通顺，书写清晰、规范。

3.词数60-80.

[学生解答A]

My hobby is read books①.When I was seven years old.I became interested in reading books.I like needing books because there are a lot of useful things in books.I can learn a lot of knowledge from books. Books also② can teach me how to be a good person.Books even can solve many problems for me.I will read more good books to improve myself.

①改为reading books，动词作表语时应该用动名词。

②also的位置应放在can之后。

[点评]：档次9-11分。

①要点不全，漏掉最后一个要点。

②句子基本无误，能正确传递信息给读者但文章不流畅，句子与句子之间过渡不自然，给读者感觉在回答上述问题。

③有少量错误。

[学生解答B]

My hobby is reading.Reading books is very enjoyable.When I was young ,my mother used to tell me a story before.I went to bed every night.The stories were so interesting that I always felt they weren’t enough.So I began to read books by myself.Little by little I became interested in reading.I can learn much knowledge and many interesting things all over the world.When I read books,I can enjoy the beautiful sentences.At the same time I can improvemy writing.I want to be a writer in the future,so I must study hard and read more books so that my dream can come true.

①开门见山、点题。

②真情流露，理由充分。

③文中带圈的连词使用得恰当，使文章过渡自然、

④巧妙使用句型以表决心。

[点评]：档次13-14分。

①清楚表达写作目的，要点齐全。

②语言表达灵活多样，字里行间流露出真情实感，文章有感染力。

③恰当使用连词和从句，语言流畅，且无错误，是一篇高质量的作文。

[高分突破]

①文体：记叙文。

②要点：what → when →how → why → hope and plan for the future.

③时态：一般现在时，一般过去时，一般将来时的自然变化。

内容具有开放性，但它也是“控制性”的写作试题，因此不能随意发挥，要善于抓信息，写完要点。选用这两篇学生真实习作，一是因为他们选材相同，二是因为他们都是英语成绩优秀的同学。同学B灵活使用连词so…that,so,little by little,when,so that等，恰到好处地使用新句型和短语used to,became interested in,come true……等，使内容丰富，读起来优美流畅。其实这些表达同学A也会，只是缺乏技术加工。通过这两篇作文点评，同学们便能悟出其中的奥妙。

四、培养途径

1.根据老师布置的写作内容，独立完成一篇写作。

2.与同伴合作，交流自己的写作，通过交流找出各自作文中写得好的地方和优美的句子，合作创造一篇新的文章，供大家欣赏。

3.找老师点评，请求老师指点，尤其是怎样润色。

4.自己纠错，写下反思。

五、备考演练

A

缙云山是重庆著名的游览胜地，每天有大量的游客。请你根据下面提供的信息写一篇报道，说明现在的游客在环境保护方面的变化。

写作要求：

1.词数在100左右。

2.条理清楚，语句通顺。

3.开头已写好，但不计入总词数。

Jinyun Mountain is a famous place of interest …

B

阅读电视广告词：“If we don’t save water,the last drop of water will be a tear-drop.”根据提示，写一篇60-80词的短文。

提示：

1.生活离不开水。

2.可饮用水在减少。

3.水污染严重。

4.应保护水源，再利用水。

思路点拨与参考答案

A. [思路点拨]：

①文体：记叙文。

②时态：一般过去时态，一般现在时态。采用正反对比的写作手法，增加感染力。

③写作目的：告诉读者保护环境的重要性。

Jinyun Mountain is a famous place of interest.Every day a lot of tourists come here to enjoy its beauty. But a few years ago,some of them paid no attention to protecting theenvironment.They threw their rubbish,such as plastic bags,fruit skins and waste paper on the ground.Sometimes they broke trees,picked flowers and killed birds. Some even made fires in the woods to cook food.How dangerous it was.Luckily,great changes have taken place here.Tourists are used to putting their rubbish into dustbins,and they are doing their best to protect the birds and plants as well.They bring their own meals instead of cooking to preventstarting a forest fire in the mountains.All these changes make us very happy.

B. [思路点拨]：

①夹叙夹议(说明现状，谈谈感想)。

②时态：一般现在时态。

③广告词的含义——水很重要，应保护和再利用(写作意图)。

Water is very important to humans.We can’t live without water.The water we can drink is falling.But some people don’t seem to care about it.They waste a lot of water.They pour dirtywater into rivers and lakes.Water pollution is getting more and more serious.So we must do something to stop the pollution.We not only protect the water but also find ways to reuse it.If we don’t do this,the last drop of water will be a tear-drop.

导语：生命的价值是否可以超过平凡，是否可以一种完全奉献的姿态出现?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!

昨夜与朋友喝茶闲聊，他说人生有三个境界：生存、生活、生命。我笑着回道，我也认为有三种人生境界：物质、半物质、精神。我们相视而笑。我们都是普通的人，融入人海，也就一堆活动的物质而已，但这一堆物质却有着不可思议的力量，让浩宇中的这一个小星球变得异常的丰饶，悲悲欢欢的一幕幕一而再，再而三地你方唱罢我又登台。

我说生命的境界应该是自我的充分体现、精神与物质的完美结合。他说还有个人修为的浓厚沉淀。我又笑了，用那种欣慰的笑容。

有时候，聊些比较凝重的话题，虽然会有些唏嘘感叹，但会让自己反思一些平日里认为不重要，日后老去时再去思考已经没有意义的问题。

生命是什么?这是当年柏拉图与老庄同时思考的问题，然后延续到了今天，在静谧的书屋、在高高的论坛、在江边山麓，仍有许多思考者在孜孜不倦地暝目颔首，试图解去这一千年老题。思想是永不磨灭的，我控制不住自己的思绪。

也许是因为年轻，我们总是将一些不重要的东西看得重要，将一些重要的东西忽略，等有一日才发现自己如此的苍白，苍白得让自己害怕，害怕将自己失去，从而不再去想自己，不想自己的一切，意义，价值，方向，让生命在麻木中自生自灭。

从一座古寺下山时，天已经微黑，城市的灯光如同以往一样依然摇晃得迷离。各种音乐从不同的角度刺入耳朵，让在宝刹中得到片刻清禅的灵魂再度充斥了现实的无奈。刚才的梵钟响起时，感觉生命里的那些是是非非得得失失全都不值得介意，在一尊佛像前，我似乎钻入了他的塑像里，好像成了那不苟言笑的佛，冷峻地看着芸芸众生。而踏着下山的台阶，一步步我又走到了物质的世界。心的生命是空幽的，肉体的生命要由四觉牵引，人的物质属性决定我永远无法摆脱那些必须要面对的事实，无论是佛道儒，都是无法让我解脱的。佛的四大皆空，道的修身养性，儒的入世中庸，全蕴我之心底，却无法融为一体，像段誉体内的不同内力，仿佛要将人撕裂。

有时候对自己说，做一个生命的隐者吧。去听听草间的风声，去享受林木的呼吸，还有那夜的明月、雨的彩虹。我是从自然中走出的灵魂，应该将自己还给自然吧。可是，我没有足够的勇气去放弃生命的颜色。只能在一条本不愿意继续的道路上踉跄前行，然后一次次迷失自己。我不懂得珍惜，也不懂得放弃。我无法从容地面对生命，品味生命。

不知何年何月，我学会了真正地爱惜自己的生命，那时候我必定也能学会真正地爱人和爱这个世界，用笑容去填补我的朋友的不快与失意。我知道我必须要去学会从容地面对生命的风雨，才能让爱人真正地快乐。

我们生存在一个文化与艺术都重新萌发个性与特色的时代，每个人对于他人都是一个异教徒。这是一个科学推动着文明的时代，尤如多年前米兰敕令颁布之前，我们轮回到没有上帝的多神时代，文明也不会再次殒灭。一次次生命的放纵，或者悲歌，或者长歌，是如此多姿多彩地表达着生命的真实含义。

我想，那亘古以来似乎永不更改的璀璨夜空经历亿万光年的距离，一次次注视着从古寺上走下的人，那闪烁的微笑应该是真诚的吧，犹如我真诚地笑对着周围的人们。一点点微笑会换来朋友的一个美梦或者一份释怀，对于学经济的我来说，这个交换是不平等的，我付出的太少，而得到的太多，我睡得如此沉静，笑得如此安静。有一个时刻，我懂得了生命是要用心来享受，用灵魂来享受的，刹那的感悟，我知道自己将来会让爱人与家人快乐，是精神上的快乐，绵长而真实。

当生命的质量、厚度和内涵超出了以往的范围时，思考的结果也得到了一次飞跃。不是不为物喜不为己悲的境界，是一种恬然的喜悦。如果让生命显示了它宝贵的价值，如同班得瑞音乐般醉却林木春花、春柳秋月，生命又何其幸哉。

生命的价值是否可以超过平凡，是否可以一种完全奉献的姿态出现?不去索求回报，静静地爱，静静地帮助别人，然后收获心理上的一份礼物，其实得到最大利润的还是自己。因为能够真正品尝生命乐趣的人，已经被物流冲得七零八落，能留下来的，皆是幸运儿。

斯巴达的生命是剽悍的，雅典的生命是文明的，特鲁斯尔坎人在七个小丘上修起围墙的时候，人类已经懂得品味生命。无论用哪一种方式，恺撒享受的是悲壮，屋大维享受的是神圣。中国的古人们在奔波放逐中，也能笑着吟唱唐朝的云，宋朝的风。在品味自己生命的时候，也嚼出了历史的滋味。

昨日归家时，高空正好一轮稍椭的明月，月光垂直地射入我的百会穴，有一种清心的感觉，瞬间仿佛体会到了什么，却又什么也没有，只是在静静的树滨中紧了紧风衣，一步步朝家走去。

(1)In the last decades, advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past.

在过去的几十年，先进的医疗技术已经使得人们比过去活的时间更长成为可能。

(2)Admittedly, this limit has made it possible for the public to realize the importance of environmental protection and enable we Chinese people to cherish the beauty of our communities.

可以承认，这一限制已经使得公众认识到环境保护的重要性，并且使得我们中国人去珍惜我们美丽的社区。

(3)Although many people claim that, along with the rapid economic development, the number of people who use bicycle is decreasing and bicycle is bound to die out. The information I’ve collected over the recent years leads me to believe that bicycle will continue to play extremely important roles in modern society.

虽然很多人承认，随着经济的快速发展，使用自行车的人数正在下降，自行车一定会消失。根据我最近几年所收集到的信息使我相信自行车会在现代社会中扮演一个非常重要的角色。

(4)Most people are under the illusion that a college degree guarantees success. There is no such guarantee without hard work.

许多人错误地认为大学学位能保证成功。不努力工作就没有这样的保证。

(5)While the inclination to procrastinate is common, one must fully consider the detrimental impact of unnecessary delays.

虽然拖延的倾向是普遍的，但是人们应该充分考虑到不必要的延误造成的有害影响。

(6)The tendency to take things for granted is understandable, but the need for one to rationally evaluate the circumstances of any situation is absolutely essential.

想当然的倾向是可以理解的，但是，理智地估计任何情形的情况是完全必需的。

(7)From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw a conclusion that, although the parentsadvantages.

通过以上讨论，我们可以得出如下结论：尽管家长想亲自照看孩子的愿望是可以理解的，但是这样做的缺点远大于优点。

(8) From what has been discussed above,we may safely draw the conclusion that, although extra studies indeed enjoy many obvious advantages,its disadvantages shouldnt be ignored and far outweigh its advantages. It is absurd to force children to take extra studies after school.

通过以上讨论，我们可以得出结论：尽管额外学习的确有很多优点，但它的缺点不可忽视，且远大于它的优点。因此，放学后强迫孩子额外学习是不明智的。(结论句式)

(9)While achieving success is easier said than done, persistence does in fact pay off. One of the most important traits of a successful person is self-confidence, another is desire, and still another is determination.

获得成功说起来比做起来容易，然而坚持不懈确实会有好结果。成功人士的最重要的特征之一是自信，第二是渴望，还有一个是决心。

(10)Independence offers many advantages, the first and foremost of which is self-determination.

独立带来很多好处，首先也是最重要的是自决

(11)There has been undesirable trend in recent years towards the worship of money . A recent survey showed that X percent of respondents ranked getting rich as their top priority , compared to X percent only a few years ago . Why do people fail to realize that wealth does not necessarily bring happiness?

近年来出现了对社会有害的拜金主义倾向。最近的一项调查表明，X%的调查对象把致富作为他们的首选，相比之下，就在几年前，只有X%的人这样想。为什么人们没能意识到财富不一定带来幸福呢?

(12) Most people are of the opinion that wealth provides solutions to all problems. But in spite of the material benefits wealth provides , I believe one should abandon the pursuit of materialism and instead concentrate on the pursuit of happiness.

大多数人认为财富为所有问题提供解决的办法。但是，我认为，尽管财富提供物质上的利益，一个人应该放弃物质至上的追求，而是集中精力追求幸福。

两个原则

1、真实才能动情。真正能打动读者的，还是那些你亲身经历有真情实感的身边小事;

2、妙语才能煽情。只有风趣幽默，生动活泼的语言才能让读者眼前一亮，读之使人不断点头默叹。

三字要求

1、稳：写好事，力求能够按照记叙文的六要素把事情交代清楚，开头结尾注意点题，结尾处要点明中心，稳定的发挥好自己的写作水平。特别是写作能力较好的同学，不要强求自己必须写出“惊世之作”来，考试作文能够发挥自己80%的写作水平就很了不起了。

2、细：不要像电视剧情介绍那样的简单叙述，中间要加入环境描写、人物外貌、动作、语言、心理描写，能力好的同学再来些远近相衬、动静相映、侧面烘托、环境渲染、五觉描写，是文章细腻、动人。

3、精： 对于一般的同学来说，“精”体现在：(1)选择自己最拿手的内容;(2)写出自己最好的字;(3)采用自己最顺手的结构(总分结构或顺叙方式)，力求发挥好自己的水平。

对于写作能力较好的同学来说，“精”应体现在：(1)选择较有新意的、又是自己有把握写好的内容;(2)有漂亮的书写;(3)精心的安排好开头和结尾，适当的采用倒叙、衬托、联想、象征、描写、抒情、以小见大、欲扬先抑、渲染气氛、借景抒情、托物喻志、以物喻人的方法方式结构文章;(4)采用适当的修辞手法，特别是运用比喻、反复、排比、反问等手法，恰当的运用成语、引用格言名句，增添文采。

四个流程(保住基本分)

1、审清题意：千万注意，题意审不好，来个文不对题，哪就……应该先花2-3分钟看看作文题，然后在开始答基础知识题目。

3、选好材料：符合题目要求的、自己最熟悉的、能够写好的事。

2、立好中心：至少指导自己想说什么，是喜欢、是厌恶?是感动、是反对?是快乐，是痛苦?是哲理、是深情?是赞扬、是批评?…………用一句话把它写在草稿纸上。

4、写好提纲：(1)用一句话写出中心内容和主题;(2)分清开头、中间、结尾各写什么?(3)打好开头、结尾的细稿，以及每段的开头句。

接下来就是在试卷里写作文啦，要力求一气呵成，只要提纲和开头、结尾、段落开头的稿子打得好，一气呵成事不难做到的，思路顺畅了20分钟就可以把作文写好。

五项技巧(赢得感情分)

1、有一个灵活的头脑：造句法、筛选法、换题法。

2、有一张可爱的脸蛋：书写要工整，自己的字能够写多好就必须写多好，不得使用涂改液，不得随意修改，特别是开头、结尾和段落的开头句，不能修改。

3、有一双闪亮的眼睛：好的文题等于成功了一半。参见《话题作文的拟题方法》

4、有一身漂亮的衣装：(1)一个最拿手的题材(适合自己);(2)一个好故事(好布料);(3)一个好结构(好设计);(4)一口流畅、优美的语言(好花纹、好色彩)。

5、有几件精美的饰品：(1)倒叙、描写、引用开头(好发型)(2)结尾：议论反问式、含蓄余味式、赞美抒情式、哲理深思式、名言点睛式、联想做梦式、决心号召式(名鞋);(3)名言名句名作的恰好点缀(钻石哟);(4)用景物描写渲染气氛(如梦的纱巾)。

六个大忌(莫丢冤枉分)

一忌潦草涂改：书写要端正，千万别连文题都改，只改明显的错别字，将错就错，能够不改的就不改。

二忌过短过长：字数一定要足，字数不足，写得再好也很难及格;字数不能太多，不要超出试卷中的作文纸，万般无奈之下，也只能在2行以内。

三忌开头议论：还不如开门见山、直接点题开头的好，能来点环境描写，就先来点描写。

四忌分段太少：4-6段为好，千万别少于3段。

五忌文不对题：不说也知道会有什么后果。

六忌选材太俗：别总是玩呀、救落水儿童呀、猫啊狗啊……

七隆重忌一点，千万别把人写死了，也不能把人写成癌症。

纵观历年的高考书面表达，其文体题材各异，有书信、口头通知、简介、日记、自我介绍、记叙文、描写文、说明文、看图作文等，不同的体裁需要考生应用适当的篇章结构，将题目所提供的信息清晰、明了、准确，逻辑合理地表达出来。

篇章结构在语言表达中起着非常重要的作用，同样的信息点会因为不同的表达顺序传达出不同的信息。层次分明，逻辑合理的篇章结构会让读者在很短的时间内获得并准确理解题目所规定的信息;而叙述顺序混乱，前言不搭后语的篇章则让人一头雾水，不知所云何物。当然，后者是失败的表达，即使作者在写作的过程中使用了再漂亮的词汇和句型，混乱的文章结构也不会让读者准确领悟作者的意图。

记叙文主要是记叙所发生的事情和经历。常见的形式有：故事、日记、新闻报道、游记等。

记叙文的写作要素：

1 要交待清楚五要素的内容，即where, when, what, who ,how，给读者一个内容完整、细节清晰的故事。

2. 事情的叙述可以按时间或空间的顺序叙述，让读者易于把握所叙述内容之间的内在关联，从而理解文章主题。

3. 时态通常使用与过去有关的时态，如一般过去时。

记叙文的篇章结构：

开头 the beginning——交待必要的背景。如：时间、地点、人物等。

中间 the middle——交待故事情节(事情的主体)。如：事件的发生、发展和前因后果。(可以使用表示时间或空间的连接词，使文章连贯。 如：at first…then…few minutes later…)

结尾 the ending——事情的结果或感想、愿望等。(所表达的感想或愿望应与所记叙的内容有关系，起到扣题或点题的作用，使文章结构紧凑)。

例如NEMT2000

假设你是李华，正在美国探亲。2000年2月8日清晨，你目击了一起交通事故。警察局让你写一份材料，报告当时的所见情况。请根据下列图画写出报告。

注意：1. 目击者应该准确报告事实

2. 词数100左右

3. 结尾已为你写好

However,the Spring Festival in 2020 is totally different.A war without smoke and

guns has started,and the "new tubular virus"pneumonia has swept through.All

departments have responded positively and fought against the epidemic

together.

然而2020年的春节却完全不一样，一场不见硝烟，不闻炮响的战争打响了，不宣而战，“新型管状病毒”席卷而至，各地各部门积极响应，共同对抗疫情。

Angels in white, armed police officers and soldiers,volunteers.Many brave

men are fighting in the front line. As the lifes reverser,they have opened a

new chapter in2020.

白衣天使们，武警官兵们，志愿者们……许许多多奋战在一线的勇士们，他们作为生命的逆行者，开启了2020的新篇章。

2020 is a new beginning,but just at the time of the Spring Festival,the

Chinese people once again face the virus crisis: new coronavirus,only17years

since the last SARS in2003.

2020年是一个新的开始，可是，恰好在春节降临之际，中华人民再一次面对病毒危机：新形冠状病毒，距离上次2003年非典仅过去17年。

Before the Spring Festival this year, a coronal pneumonia swept across the

country like a wind.

今年春节前一场冠性肺炎像场风一样，席卷了全国

中考快到了，语文的写作成为了考试的难点，小编收集了中考高分的写作技巧，欢迎阅读。

(一)

很多学生写作失误的原因即是跑题，而跑题非常重要的表现之一又是文章中没有任何一处文字起到了点题的作文。从这个意义上来说，实际上，文章当中是否有一些好的点题文字能够看出学生自己对作文材料及主旨的理解程度。因为只有真正能够把握住自己的立意，才能把题点好。

所以在写作打腹稿的时候不妨先想想能不能用本文所提到的“造句法”在文章首尾段点点题，如果可以的话，通常情况下，这个材料是可以使用的。而如果打腹稿的时候发现材料无法如此点题，基本情况下，这个材料的闪光点连你自己都还没挖掘出来，那么选择这个材料作文的时候就需要对其主题再进行深挖，或者换一个材料了。

所谓的“造句法”，即写一个句子充当开头和结尾，这句子的内容应该包含三个部分：作文题的关键词，主要内容的关键词(即作文中写的那件事)，主旨的关键词。

比如2011年北京中考满分作文之一《日积月累》的开头： 友谊如清风，驱散我心中的忧愁;友谊如高山，保护我那弱小的心灵;友谊如帆船，载着我乘风破浪!而这真挚的友谊只有在日积月累的坦诚相见，真诚相助中练就。

这篇文章的主题是“友谊在日积月累中加深，练就”，材料是“同学期中考试帮助我”，即“互助”，而标题则是《日积月累》，而这个开头就非常准确的扣住了三个关键词“友谊”“日积月累”“真诚互助”，这样的点题就非常好，其材料也肯定就是围绕着主题来写的了。

这篇文章的倒数两段也是如此：“在这段小李帮助我奋战的日子，我对学习由沮丧自卑，逐渐有了收获，直到信心满满;我与小李的交情也在点点滴滴的日积月累中逐渐加深，越来越浓。

友谊是永不落山的太阳。请伸出真诚互助的手，让友情温暖你我的心田，滋润你我的灵魂吧!”这个结尾也是紧紧扣住了三个关键词“日积月累”“我与小李的友谊”“朋友之间的帮助”。算是一个“豹尾”。

再如另一篇2010年济南中考满分作文《几分温暖在心头》的结尾：“头发梳梳，在成长的轨迹上，我始终滑不出母亲浓浓的爱。这份爱，无论何时想起，都会有几分温暖在心头!”

这篇作文的主题是“母爱让人感觉温暖”，材料是“母亲和我互相梳头”，标题是“几分温暖在心头”。这个结尾也非常巧妙的将这三部分内容放在了结尾当中。 很多学生，尤其是初一学生，都不知道考场作文该如何点题，那么，希望这篇文章能够对大家有所帮助。

(二)

1.摘记

在你的孩子学习写作之前，对他给你讲的故事、梦想、奇遇等等要表现出极大的兴趣，并随时摘记下来。注意：在他能够有自己的见解而且可以说得头头是道的地方，不要轻易披露出家长的看法--孩子往往会对自己的言谈中所显露出的隐约可见的奇妙之处备觉欣慰。

2.墙壁的魔力

孩子们都喜欢在墙壁上画呀写的。利用这种嗜好鼓起他们创造的勇气，挂一块黑板，或者找张牛皮纸贴在墙壁上，随他尽情画写。

3.笔记

使你的孩子养成记笔记的习惯--"我要去吉米家，我们打算玩垒球。"像这样信手写来，给他随时准备好纸和笔。

4.写标题

给你的孩子买本纪念册，再送给他一些图片，让他贴在纪念册里，写出每张图片的标题。

5.记日记

送给你的孩子一个日记本，鼓励他持之以恒地写日记;或者，帮助他装订一份自订的日历--留下许多空白页，使他得以记下每天的所见所闻。

6.写故事

给孩子一些稿纸，让他练习写一些短篇故事、短文或记叙一篇家史等等。

7.写信

对一个儿童来说，要想收到信件的唯一办法就是先给别人写信。鼓励他给亲友写信，或者建议他结交一位通信的伙伴。

8.触觉游戏

做一只盒子--做得大一点，抠上一个足以伸进一只拳头的窟窿。把各式各样的东西放进里面，让他们(孩子)去摸这些东西，然后请他们描绘自己的感受。

9.荧光屏的启迪

孩子们很少懂得电视节目和电影的演出始于写作的稿本，假如他们对手稿为何物还不甚了解，那么就到图书馆借一本给他们瞧瞧，鼓励他们创造出自己的手迹。

10.循序善诱

下一次你可以先写个开头，然后让稍大点的孩子接着写下去，确信他对此是一丝不苟、严肃认真的。"转向绿色的街道。"不错!下一步如何走法呢?请他斟酌整个旅程的路线，用尽量完美的词句表达出来。

如何在中考中作文拿高分甚至满分?考生可以着眼于以下七个方面：卷面、文体、标题、立意、题材、结构、语言。

一、关于卷面：

同学们必须记住，考场作文，是阅卷老师读了你的作文后打分的。卷面的整洁、写字的工整、段落结构的协调，都直接影响着阅卷老师的 视力感觉，对阅卷老师的打分心理产生冲击。一个好的卷面，即使作文不怎么出色，分数也不会少。一篇生动的作文，如果卷面不整，分数就不会高。

很多同学写字并不好，你们在考场上一定要记住，必须一笔一划写清楚，不要太大，也不要太小。千万别写得太潦草。你不认真，阅卷老师也不会认真。

二、关于文体：

国家教育部关于中考的《指导意见》中，对作文的要求是：不得设置审题障碍，要淡化文体要求，鼓励学 生写真情实感。据此，我们可以 明确地准备记叙文一种体裁。同学们在备考的时候，要阅读优秀的记叙文范文，掌握几种叙事方法。譬如：开头情景渲染、开门见山点题、中间注意插叙等等。

这里提一下小应用文。小应用文今年中考八成要考，大家要注意。书信、通知、颁奖词、短信、导语、简单的说明文、分析概括某种现象等，可能还会出现。建议大家查查资料，把去年中考语文试卷的小作文题复习一遍，做到有备无患。

三、关于标题：

根据新课标精神，近两年的作文发生了一些变化。其中最大的变化是：命题和半命题作文成为主流。去年的中考作文，命题作文约占70%，半命题约占7.5%，话题和材料作文，占15%。即使出现了材料作文，有些也是二选一题目。

如果是命题作文，我们自然不用考虑起标题。如果是半命题或其他形式，我们则要尽力求新。如《从__身上学到的》，就考验了同学们的补题技巧和题 材创新。有的同学直接填了“父母”、“老师”、“同学”，创新程度就不够。有的同学写了“那片松柏”、“温总理”、“那座雕像”、“陈贤妹”，就能使阅卷 老师感到“眼前一亮”。

四、关于立意：

首先，我们必须记住，作文是让阅卷老师读的，不是自己在QQ空间上信马由缰地乱写，因此，作文的立 意必须积极向上。对于有争议的 内容，不要太大胆。譬如，你要求中日开战夺回钓鱼岛，中菲海军在黄岩岛摆战场，你骂朝鲜独裁，等等类似的内容，只能降低你的分数。一句话，我们要写阅卷老 师愿意看的，作文得高分才是正途。

其次，无论中高考作文怎么出题，立意的范畴基本分为8类。一是生命意义，写生活中感悟的滋味。二是自然景物，写对周遭世界的感悟。三是情感体 验，写你珍藏在内心的人和事。四是享受幸福，写那些给我们温暖和智慧的情节。五是成功成长，写花季中的酸甜苦辣。六是道德修养，写生活中宝贵的品质如诚 信、真诚、勇敢、善良等。七是哲理品悟，写自己从生活细节中提炼的规律性认识。八、告别往昔，写对生活中值得珍藏的片段。上面几个方面，有侧重也有交叉， 同学们要根据作文题目，明确不同的立意。

五、关于题材：

在这里，我明确反对写古人，譬如，每次中考，司马迁、李白、屈原、陶渊明、林则徐等，都会当做材料出现在作文里，老师们已经看腻了，大家要避免这个误区了。

那我们选什么题材呢?我的建议是，把上述的8个立意的范畴，各准备一个比较典型的题材。也就是说，准备好8件生动的事儿，以备中考作文采用。

这里需要强调的是，无论同学们写什么题材，强烈建议用第一人称，写你自身经历的事儿，写你生活中真实的感悟。大家储备素材的时候，要找自己亲身经历的事情，或者发生在身边现实生活中的事例。一般来说，在考场上瞎编乱造，多数会出现纰漏，导致减分。

六、关于结构：

作文的结构无非是“总分总”、“分总”、“总分”。就考文而言，前两者比较适用。大家一定要记住，作文的开头不要很长，不要因为 玩弄作文书上的技巧而弄得开头超过了5行。我个人倾向于“一句话开头”，直接交待你想说的话和想说的事儿，第一句就是时间地点人物事件。

关于结尾，我们一定要明确，结尾就是抒情和扣题的。在结尾必须抒情，归纳你想表达什么，而且扣题，最好“糊膏药”(出现标题或标题中的关键词)。

同学们要记住，六七百字的作文，要有六七段，千万不要出现“大肚子作文”、“大头作文”，“大尾巴作文”，这样结构不协调，视觉也不够顺眼。

七、关于语言：

学生作文的语言不生动，常常是作文老师最头疼的难题。在作文教学中，学生语言的提高，是最为困难 的。备考作文，语言的准备是最难 的。在此给考生们提几点建议：一是遇到你喜欢的句子和段落，你干脆背下来，也许能用在考场上，反正就是这一锤子卖卖，即使没产生作用，也不会扣分。二是， 记住要有描写。写人要有动作和语言描写，写事注意细节和环境描写。三是，句子最好短一些，不要一逗到底，一个句子的主谓宾定状补都有了，就用句号。四是注 意修辞手法。

综上所述，我们明确了中考作文的命题规律，搞清楚作文的几个构成要件是什么，阅卷老师注重的是什么，这样就能有针对性地复习，以期取得较高的分数。

2015上海中考满分作文《不止一次我努力尝试》

题目：不止一次，我努力尝试

要求：(1)写一篇600字左右的文章。(2)不得透露个人相关信息。(3)不得抄袭。(60分)

[范文]

不止一次，我努力尝试

一路上，望着远处的阳光灿烂，我努力尝试，忘却砂砾带来的疼痛;一路上，面对困难和挫折，我努力尝试，穿越丛生的荆棘，想要到达山顶。

不止一次，我努力尝试。

当我的指尖触上黑键白键，我就知道，我不是一个音乐天才，我必须付出比别人更多的努力。很快，我就遇到了困难。我发现别的同学指下流淌出的，是清澈的小溪，向前向前，最终汇入大海;我的琴声却总是遇见石头和高山的阻隔，断断续续。

于是，我开始努力尝试。我尝试把一首曲子分成很多的小部分，然后一部分一部分去练。把每一小部分都练熟，最后连贯起来，就是一曲完整的歌。我努力地练， 一段一段乐声融在空气里，一次一次忍着手的酸疼，一遍一遍甩过手后继续执著地练习。日复一日，终于，我的小溪，经过坎坎坷坷，居然也流入了一片汪洋。

那一次次的努力尝试，连起一个个音符，把汗水，变成了微笑。

可是后来，同学们都说我只是连贯，曲调却毫无变化。甚至还有人嘲笑我，说我根本不懂什么是弹琴。我难过，我困惑，我的琴声里好像缺了一点重要的东西。直到看着老师弹琴时忧伤抑或欣喜的表情，我懂得了什么。

弹琴，无关技艺，关键在于用心。

我再次努力尝试，去用心弹琴，去表现作者的情感。如果作者欣喜，大笑，就弹出 “乱石穿空，惊涛拍岸，卷起千堆雪”的豪放;如果作者悠然，就弹出“小楼一夜听春雨，深巷明朝卖杏花”的闲适;如果作者忧伤，就弹出“泪眼问花花不语，乱红飞过秋千去”的伤感……让心与作者的心贴近，去品味每一个音符背后的情感。

就这样，不止一次，我努力尝试。我相信，总有一天我会到达那阳光灿烂的远方。那时，一路上的荆棘化成了花朵，一路上的寒风会漾满温柔与笑意。

不止一次，我努力尝试。我坚信，终有所得。

导语：在享受自由的权力前，先进行一个自我的约束，尊重他人即是对自己的尊重。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的写作素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

孟子曰：“不以规矩不能成方圆。”这个规矩在现在是一种制度，一个约束，一个需要维持的秩序。

近几日我上了一个叫《礼仪与做人》的一个选修课，其中讲到己所不欲勿施于人。就是你自己不想做的不喜欢的事情不要强加到别人身上，换句话而言就是尊重他人。老师举了个例子：老师在上面讲课，可是很多学生在做自己的事情，喝水玩手机讲话，甚至是随意的自由出入教师，那么老师的心情是非常糟糕的。如果下面的学生到上面来讲话，下面噪声一片，讲台上的学生的心情肯定和老师一样非常糟糕。因此尊重他人，要有一种自我约束力去控制自己，共同来营造一个良好的秩序。

中国许多学生都在吐糟中国式教育，认为中国教育封闭缺乏自由，羡慕西方的教育，羡慕他们能随意的在课堂上大声自由讨论。但是这所看到的只是一个片面，在老师讲课时西方学生绝不会打断老师的话，自由的讨论是经过老师同意后开始的。因此，西方教育遵循的原则是：秩序在前，自由在后。

无论在做什么，都需要去维持秩序。每个人都有自由的权力，但同时每个人也有着许多与此相关的义务。坚持“秩序在前，自由在后”体现着你对他人的尊重，体现着你的礼节教养，体现着这个社会的规章制度。在你想去做一件事的时候想想是否此时合适去做，多换位思考，去理解体谅他人的感受，然后再去决定要不要去做或是去说。

秩序在前，自由在后。这不是绝对的权威，却是你无形体现出来的礼节教养。其中蕴含着你的气质，藏着你读过的书，走过的路。

在享受自由的权力前，先进行一个自我的约束，尊重他人即是对自己的尊重。无论何时都需要记住：秩序在前，自由在后。

导语：英语写作是一种创作性的学习过程。下面是小编收集的小升初英语作文写作技巧，欢迎大家阅读!

英语写作是一种创作性的学习过程。启动知识信息储存，构思立意，谋篇布局，遣词造句，对语言表达的正确性和准确性、思维的逻辑性和文章的条理性都比口语要求更高。通常英语写作有以下几个特点：紧扣教学大纲对考生书面表达的要求;以有指导的写作为主(guidedwriting)，便于考生在短时间内构思成文;突出试题的交际性，考查考生在特定的情景中运用语言的能力;增强试题的实用性，所选话题贴近学生学习生活，为学生所熟悉;看图作文主要考查考生运用所学知识解决实际问题的能力。

英语写作注意两点

一、先审题，弄清写作要求审题是写好作文的前提，也是书面表达的基础。如果写偏了题，语言表达再好也很难得高分。审题时要注意两个方面：

1.认真地看两遍题目，包括提示，全面了解写作要求。

2.理清思路，确定体裁、框架结构和内容。

二、用英语进行思维英语写作时必须排除汉语思维的干扰。

从现在起应逐渐加大阅读量和听的输入量，将阅读、听力训练与书面表达有机地结合起来。经常体会和领悟作者传递信息和表达思想的方式。在话题讨论和写作中经常运用所学到的表达方式就会有所创造。还要尽量做到“五多”：多看、多听、多思考、多用心体验和感悟身边的人和事、多用英语说和写自己的体验和感受。

最后一个月如何训练英语写作

1.重视增加阅读量是提高英语写作的途径之一。

目前，考生在进行大量阅读的同时，应注重所读材料的文章结构以及连接词的运用(ontheotherhand，however，furthermore)、作者的表达方式(词汇、习惯用语和典型句子的使用)、作者是如何进行叙述和议论的。

2.在教师的指导下，平时应勤写多练。

练习写作应从基本功抓起。在中译英翻译训练过程中，加强积累适量的词汇、词组和增加各种类型句子的运用。把握好各种句型和词汇的搭配，并从各类题材和体裁着手，多阅读好的范文。然后模仿写作，作文写好之后，一般都要修改。第一遍收笔后，先看一看结构，然后从字词上推敲，使文章“充实”起来。更重要的是经老师修改过的作文一定要仔细地看一至两遍，然后再认真地抄写一遍，收获将会很大。

英文写作“四步走”

由于时间限制，考试时必须在所限定的时间内完成英语作文。英语作文步骤如下：

1)作文动笔之前一般都要先打腹稿。在确立中心上、运用材料上、篇章结构上，充分酝酿。

2)考虑好想写多少句子，该用哪些动词和词组等。

3)边写边思考内容的连贯性，语言和句子的准确性。

4)写完后一定要再细看一遍。

主要体裁作文写作技巧

(一)写提示议论文应考虑的几点：

1.文章开头，能依据提示确立主题句(topic)阐明观点或看法。

2.会使用连接词分层次说明理由、缘由(supportingsentences)。

3.归纳总结，首尾呼应。

(二)看图作文应考虑的几点：

1.看懂图片，把图片展示的人物、地点、时间、事件等有机地串联起来，使之成为内容连贯的句子。

2.确定短文须用的时态和该用的人称。

3.确定体裁(说明文还是记叙文)，接着用简洁的语句描述图片或图表大意。

4.根据图片或图表大意议论。

导语：2016年中考很快就会到了，英语作文是重要的拿分点。词汇量当然是必备的。下面是yjbs作文网小编为您收集整理的英语词汇，希望对您有所帮助。

一、表示递进关系的关键词语

Additionally 加之;又

besides 此外;除……之外

equally important 同样重要的是

furthermore 此外;而且

in addition 另外

in other words 换句话说

last but not least 最后但同样重要的是

moreover 而且;此外

that is say 即;就是;换句话说

二、表示转折关系的关键词语

although 虽然;尽管

at the same time 同时;但是

despite 不管;尽管;不论

even if 即使

even though 即使

however 然而;可是

in spite of 不管

instead 代替;而不是

nevertheless 然而;不过

on the contrary 正相反

otherwise 另外;不同地

regardless of 不管;不顾

still 依然;仍然

though 虽然;可是

while 而

yet 然而;但是;仍

三、表示选择关系的关键词语

either…or… ……或……

instead of… ……，而不是……

neither…nor… ……和……都不……

not…but… 不是……而是……

rather than… 宁可;胜过

whether…or not 是否

四、表示比较关系的关键词语

compare with / to 与……比较

equally 相等地;平等地

in comparison with 与……比较

in contrast 相反;大不相同

in contrast to 和……对比

in the same way 同样地

instead 代替;改为

on the contrary 正相反

while 而

五、表示因果关系的关键词语

accordingly 因此;从而

as a result of 作为结果

because (of) 因为

consequently 从而;因此

due to 由于;应归于

hence 因此;从此

in that 由于;因为;既然

now that 因为;既然

on account of 由于

owing to 由于;因……的缘故

so 所以

so that 所以

thanks to 由于

therefore 因此;所以

thus 因此

六、用于表示总结的关键词语

above all 最重要的是

accordingly 于是

as a consequence 因此

as a result 结果

as has been noted 如前所述

as I have said 如我所述

at last 最后

briefly 简单扼要地

by doing so 如此

certainly 当然地;无疑地

consequently 因此

eventually 最后

hence 因此

in a word 总之

in brief 简言之

in conclusion 总;最后

in short 简而言之

in summary 简要地说

in sum 总之;简而言之

obviously 显然

on the whole 总体来说;整个看来

to conclude 总而言之

to speak frankly 坦白地说

to sum up 总而言之

to summarize 总而言之

英语写作说难也不难，下面是语文迷为大家整理的一些英语写作方法指导，供大家参考选择。

2014年6月的3套题的考查形式是这样的：write an essay explaining “why it is unwise to jump to conclusion upon seeing or hearing something”, “why it is unwise to put all your eggs in one basket”, “why it is unwise to judge a person by their appearance”;

2014年12月的3套题的出题形式是这样的：write an essay based on the picture below, you should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss “whether technology is indispensable in education”, “whether there is a shortcut to learning”, “what qualities an employer should look for in job applicants”;

2015年6月的3套题的出题形式是这样的：write an essay commenting on the saying “knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it”, “if you can’t do great things, do small things in great way”, commenting on Albert Einstein’s remark “I have no special talents, but I am only passionately curious”。

但是，透过这些变化的考查形式，我们也可以发现不变的考查方向，不论是2014年6月的谚语或名言原因阐述型，还是2014年12月的漫画或图片描述型，亦或是2015年6月的俗语或名言评论型，在写作体裁上都是一样的，都是在要求考生写出一篇夹叙夹议，以议论为主的议论文。

六级写作方法指导

议论文写作是六级考试的重点，考生既要注意旗帜鲜明地说出自己的观点，围绕观点展开深层次的论述，更要注意综合运用一些高端词汇和句型来表达自己的观点，尽量避免套用一些常见模板，从而给阅卷老师留下耳目一新的感觉，取得高分。

具体而言，六级议论文通常都可以采用“三段式”的结构。

第一段开门见山，直接提出观点;

第二段对观点展开论述，先陈述理论，在列举事例;

最后一段再次回应论点，也可提出措施，再次强调论点。

对于谚语或名言类文章，首先，要注意充分理解和深刻挖掘其中的道理，不能仅从字面去理解，更多的是要结合实际理解其深刻的寓意，其次，要选择有典型性更有说服性的事例展开论述，把道理讲透并让人信服。谚语类题型近年来出现频率越来越高，所以，考生要注意加强日常的积累，多积累多思考，只有这样，才能在考试时不慌不忙、有理有据地写好谚语类作文。图画类作文是议论文的一种，区别在于该类作文要求考生首先要理解图画内容并在首段将其清晰的描述出来。第二、三段的写作与其他议论文是一样的。

下面是语文迷网整理提供的35个初中英语写作会用到的句型，大家一起来看看吧。

一、~~~ the + ~ est + 名词 + (that) + 主词 + haveever + seen ( known/heard/had/read, etc)

~~~ the most + 形容词 + 名词 + (that) + 主词 + have ever + seen ( known/heard/had/read, etc)

例句：

Helen is the most beautiful girl that I have ever seen.

海伦是我所看过最美丽的女孩。

Mr. Chang is the kindest teacher that I have ever had.

张老师是我曾经遇到最仁慈的教师。

二、Nothing is + ~~~ er than to + V Nothing is + more + 形容词 + than to + V

例句：

Nothing is more important than to receive education.

没有比接受教育更重要的事。

三、~~~ cannot emphasize the importance of ~~~ too much.(再怎么强调...的重要性也不为过。)

例句：

We cannot emphasize the importance of protecting our eyes too much.

我们再怎么强调保护眼睛的重要性也不为过。

四、There is no denying that + S + V ...(不可否认的...)

例句：

There is no denying that the qualities of our living have gone from bad to worse.

不可否认的，我们的生活品质已经每况愈下。

五、It is universally acknowledged that + 句子~~ (全世界都知道...)

例句：

It is universally acknowledged that trees are indispensable to us.

全世界都知道树木对我们是不可或缺的。

六、There is no doubt that + 句子~~ (毫无疑问的...)

例句：

There is no doubt that our educational system leaves something to be desired.

毫无疑问的我们的教育制度令人不满意。

七、An advantage of ~~~ is that + 句子 (...的优点是...)

例句：

An advantage of using the solar energy is that it wont create (produce) any pollution.

使用太阳能的优点是它不会制造任何污染。

八、The reason why + 句子 ~~~ is that + 句子 (...的原因是...)

例句：

The reason why we have to grow trees is that they can provide us with fresh air./ The reason why we have to grow trees is that they can supply fresh air for us.

我们必须种树的原因是它们能供应我们新鲜的空气。

九、So + 形容词 + be + 主词 + that + 句子 (如此...以致于...)

例句：

So precious is time t

that we cant afford to waste it.

时间是如此珍贵，我们经不起浪费它。

十、Adj + as + Subject(主词)+ be, S + V~~~ (虽然...)

例句：

Rich as our country is, the qualities of our living are by no means satisfactory. {by no means = in no way = on no account 一点也不}

虽然我们的国家富有，我们的生活品质绝对令人不满意。

十一、The + ~er + S + V, ~~~ the + ~er + S + V ~~~

The + more + Adj + S + V, ~~~ the + more+ Adj + S + V ~~~(愈...愈...)

例句：The harder you work, the more progress you make.

你愈努力，你愈进步。

The more books we read, the more learned we become.

我们书读愈多，我们愈有学问。

十二、By +Ving, ~~ can ~~ (借着...，..能够..)

例句：By taking exercise, we can always stay healthy.

借着做运动，我们能够始终保持健康。

十三、~~~ enable + Object(受词)+ to + V (..使..能够..)

例句：Listening to music enable us to feel relaxed.

听音乐使我们能够感觉轻松。

十四、On no account can we + V ~~~ (我们绝对不能...)

例句：On no account can we ignore the value of knowledge.

我们绝对不能忽略知识的价值。

十五、It is time + S + 过去式 (该是...的时候了)

例句：It is time the authorities concerned took proper steps to solve the traffic problems.

该是有关当局采取适当的措施来解决交通问题的时候了。

十六、Those who ~~~ (...的人...)

例句：Those who violate traffic regulations should be punished.

违反交通规定的人应该受处罚。

十七、There is no one but ~~~ (没有人不...)

例句：There is no one but longs to go to college.

没有人不渴望上大学。

十八、be + forced/compelled/obliged + to + V (不得不...)

例句：Since the examination is around the corner, I am compelled to give up doing sports.

既然考试迫在眉睫，我不得不放弃做运动。

十九、It is conceivable that + 句子 (可想而知的)

It is obvious that + 句子 (明显的)

It is apparent that + 句子 (显然的)

例句：It is conceivable that knowledge plays an important role in our life.

可想而知，知识在我们的一生中扮演一个重要的角色。

二十、That is the reason why ~~~ (那就是...的原因)

例句：Summer is sultry. That is the reason why I dont like it.

夏天很燠热。那就是我不喜欢它的原因。

二十一、For the past + 时间，S + 现在完成式.(过去...年来，...一直...)

例句：For the past two years, I have been busy preparing for the examination.

过去两年来，我一直忙着准备考试。

二十二、Since + S + 过去式，S + 现在完成式。

例句：Since he went to senior high school, he has worked very hard.

自从他上高中，他一直很用功。

二十三、It pays to + V ~~~ (...是值得的。)

例句：It pays to help others.

帮助别人是值得的。

二十四、be based on (以...为基础)

例句：The progress of thee society is based on harmony.

社会的进步是以和谐为基础的。

二十五、Spare no effort to + V (不遗余力的)

例句：We should spare no effort to beautify our environment.

我们应该不遗余力的美化我们的环境。

二十六、bring home to + 人 + 事 (让...明白...事)

例句：We should bring home to people the valueof working hard.

我们应该让人们明白努力的价值。

二十七、be closely related to ~~ (与...息息相关)

例句：Taking exercise is closely related to health.

做运动与健康息息相关。

二十八、Get into the habit of + Ving= make it a rule to + V (养成...的习惯)

We should get into the habit of keeping good hours.

我们应该养成早睡早起的习惯。

二十九、Due to/Owing to/Thanks to + N/Ving, ~~~(因为...)

例句：Thanks to his encouragement, I finally realized my dream.

因为他的鼓励，我终于实现我的梦想。

三十、What a + Adj + N + S + V!= How + Adj + a + N + V!(多么...!)

例句：What an important thing it is to keep our promise!

How important a thing it is to keep our promise!

遵守诺言是多么重要的事!

三十一、Leave much to be desired (令人不满意)

例句：The condition of our traffic leaves much to be desired.

我们的交通状况令人不满意。

三十二、Have a great influence on ~~~ (对...有很大的影响)

例句：Smoking has a great influence on our health.

抽烟对我们的健康有很大的影响。

三十三、do good to (对...有益)，do harm to (对...有害)

例句：Reading does good to our mind.读书对心灵有益。

Overwork does harm to health.工作过度对健康有害。

三十四、Pose a great threat to ~~ (对...造成一大威胁)

例句：Pollution poses a great threat to our existence.

污染对我们的生存造成一大威胁。

三十五、do ones utmost to + V = do ones best (尽全力去...)

例句：We should do our utmost to achieve our goal in life.

我们应尽全力去达成我们的人生目标。

写作包括两部分，一是要求在35分钟内写一篇150字左右的短文，二是要求在10分钟内写一个50--60字的便条。这两部分均为命题作文，作文内容与大学生的日常生活、学习都密切相关，另外也有社会热点问题，比如环保、旅游、健身等，题目理解起来都比较容易。

短文写作部分文体为议论文，一般采用三段式的结构，第一段为论点，第二段为论据，第三段为结论。最高要求为文章内容切题，思想表达清楚，论据充分，论证严密，基本无语言错误。要想写好一篇文章，应该注意一下写作步骤：

1.审题：作文评分的第一个要求就是内容切题，因此审题特别关键。专业四级作文都是命题作文，而且多有中文提示或提纲，所以你首先应了解命题的基本要求，理解题目的真正意图，然后确定提纲中的关键词及各要点间的逻辑，整理自己的思路，对自己所想到的内容进行组织和全面安排。尤其对要讨论的问题，该涉及的内容，所需的事实、例证、阐述、说明和总结等，在头脑中形成一个整体的构思。

2.组织段落：构思好之后，根据构思的提纲，运用选好的材料，恰当地运用连词，合理安排段落，使文章条理清楚、内容连贯。段落的组织主要是通过扩展句对主题句的支持或说明来进行的。各段的主题句在审题构思时就应基本形成，主题句确定下来，接着就是通过一系列的扩展句，来说明、论证或阐述主题句的思想。常见的段落展开方法有列举、举例、比较和对比、因果、叙述、归类、下定义等，考试时应灵活运用。

3.修改：也就是说要删除与主题不相干的内容，检查句子时态、语态等。特别应注意单词的正确拼写；字母大小写和标点符号；数的一致性（包括主语与谓语以及名词与其限定语的单复数一致性）；指代关系（包括指代的一致性和代词的选用）；动词形式（时态、语态、语气）等方面。

关于考试过程中短文写作的时间分配问题。我们知道，短文写作的时间为35分钟, 要力争写完写好, 这就要求考生做到有条不紊，忙而不乱，充分发挥自己应有的水平。建议按照如下的方案分配时间: 审题1～2分钟；组织素材, 细节和关键词: 4～5分钟；起草: 20～25分钟；修改定稿: 4～5分钟。

最后要说明的是，从某种意义上来说，专业四级考试作文有其固定的写作格式、结构，而对于固定的题型，有固定不变的表达法。因此，大家有理由相信只要训练方法得当，搞好写作是不难的。大家不妨试试多背范文和常用句型，包括各类型作文的开头、结尾句、中间展开、过渡句，以及比较、图表说明等的常用句型和表达法，然后自己多动笔写一写，只要按这样的方法进行练习，相信在一定时间内就可以在写作上取得满意的分数。因为是三段式作文，写作的时候一定注意第一段提出的论点要简洁明了，开门见山；第二段的论据要能充分说明论点，论证条理清楚；第三段的结论要水到渠成，切忌草率，严谨完整的结尾是取得高分的保证。

便条写作最主要的是注意格式正确，交待清楚，比如请柬、贺信、道歉函等，要注意称呼、正文、签名等的格式，一定要把相关的时间、地点、原因及主要事件内容交待清楚。

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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