浏览
7904作文
1000中高考英语作文:结尾句型
全文共 1269 字
+ 加入清单导语:要想写好英语作文,我们平时就得多练习,下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文素材,欢迎阅读与借鉴,谢谢!
1、Taking all thesefactors into consideration,we naturally reasonablycome to the conclusion that…
把所有这些因素加以考虑,我们自然会得出结论…
2、Hence/Therefore,we’d better come to the conclusion that smoking has a great influence on ourhealth. 因此,我们最好得出这样的结论…
3、There is nodoubt that (job-hopping) has its drawbacks as well as merits.
毫无疑问,(跳槽)有优点也有缺点。
4、All in all, we cannot live withoutwater. But at the same time, we must try to find out new ways to cope withthe problems that would arise.
总之,我们没有…是无法生活的。但同时,我们必须寻求新的解决办法来对付可能出现的新问题。
5、It is high timethat we put an end to the (trend)。
该是我们停止这一趋势的时候了。
6、It is time to take the adviceof …and to put special emphasis on the improvement of …该是采纳…的建议,并对…的进展给予特殊重视的时候了。
7、不用说…… It goes without saying that= It is obvious that …
例:不用说早睡早起是值得的。It goes without saying that itpays to keep early hours.
8、……是必要的 It is necessary (for sb.)to do / that … …
是重要的 It is important(for sb.) to do / that … ……
是适当的 It is proper(for sb.) to do / that ………
是紧急的 It is urgent(for sb.) to do / that …
例:It is proper for us to keep thepublic places clean.
It is proper that we(should)keep the public places clean.
我们应当保持公共场所清洁。
9、Best wishes to you and yours.衷心的祝福你及你的家人。
I’m looking forward to hearing from you. 期待你的回信。
更多相似作文
篇1:快餐高考英语作文
全文共 1154 字
+ 加入清单Fast food business has developed tremendously in the past 50 years.Nowadays people will see all kinds of fast food restaurants here and there.which clearly shows how closely it is related to our daily life.Most people believe that fast food business has become part of our life and its developement is good for both society and people.
Firstly,the best thing about fast food is being fast. Now everyone lives a busy life so time is the most valuable thing to us all.Fast food offers a most efficient way to eat.You will waste no time in waiting or choosing.Secondly,fast food restaurants provide us with a good environment for entertainment and study.Friends come here,chatting or playing cards;students come here,reading books or doing homework,and meanwhile you can enjoy a bag of chips and a bottle of cola which will bring more pleasure.Thirdly, youngsters can even find good opportunities of working practice in some fast food restaurants.Working experience help them understand the society better and improve their communicating skills.
In many ways,we benefit a lot from the fast food business.Therefore,I think it helpful and important to our life.
篇2:有关团队的高考英语作文
全文共 1572 字
+ 加入清单导语:众人拾柴火焰高,团队的力量是强大的,下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的有关团队的英语作文,欢迎阅读与借鉴,谢谢!
As teamwork is increasingly important in modern society,everyone should train his ability to cooperate with others.
Todays society is no longer a self-sufficient one,but one in which all the people depend on each other for existence.Only for existence,not to mention the pursuit and obtainment of happiness,one cant do without the ability to work harmoniously with others.In the highly developed society today,one can almost accomplish nothing without joint efforts.Every loaf of bread,every article of clothes,every house or apartment,every means of transportation is the product of cooperative efforts.We play with other children in kindergartens;we study with our classmates at schools;and we will work with our fellow workers or colleagues in factories or companies. What we have got through teamwork is not only self-improvement,personal success but also the satisfaction at both our devotion to common causes and the sense of collective honor.
To meet the needs of both personal improvement and the sophisticated society,we should learn to cooperate with each other and adjust to each other.Only in this way can we achieve successes and satisfy ourselves as well as the society.
【参考译文】
在现代社会中团队精神越来越重要,每个人都应该培养自己与他人合作的能力。
当今社会不再是自给自足的,所有的人都是互相依存。只为了生存,更不用说追求与获得幸福就这样了,人不能缺乏与他人和谐相处的能力。在今天高度发达的社会,没有共同努力一个人几乎是一事无成。每一块面包,每一件衣服,每一个房子或公寓,各种交通运输工具都是团队努力的结果。我们在幼儿园与其他小孩一起玩;我们在学校和我们的同学一起学习;我们将与我们的伙伴或在工厂或公司的同事一起工作。通过团队合作我们得到了什么,不仅是自我完善,个人成功,而且也有共同目标的的贡献和集体荣誉感的满足。
为了同时满足个人完善和复杂的社会需求,我们应该学会互相合作和互相适应。只有这样我们才能获得成功,满足自己和社会。
篇3:初中英语写作必备句型
全文共 4892 字
+ 加入清单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。
篇4:2024年高考语文写作万能事例推荐
全文共 2673 字
+ 加入清单下面是语文迷网小编精心整理的关于高考写作的素材,欢迎大家阅读参考。
一、马蝇效应
1860年美国总统大选结束后,林肯当选为总统。他任命参议员萨蒙?蔡斯为财政部长。
有许多人反对这一任命。因为蔡斯虽然能干,但十分狂妄自大,他本想入主白宫,却输给了林肯,他认为自己比林肯要强得多,对林肯也非常不满,并且一如既往地追求总统职位。
林肯对关心他的朋友讲了这样一个故事:
“在农村长大的朋友们一定知道什么是马蝇了。有一次,我和我的兄弟在肯塔基老家的一个农场犁玉米地,我吆马,他扶犁。这匹马很懒,但有一段时间它却在地里跑得飞快,连我这双长腿都差点跟不上。到了地头,我发现有一只很大的马蝇叮在它身上,我随手就把马蝇打落了。我兄弟问我为什么要打落它,我说我不忍心看着这匹马那样被咬。我兄弟说:“唉呀,正是这家伙才使马跑得快嘛。”
然后,林肯说:“如果现在有一只叫‘总统欲’的马蝇正叮着蔡斯先生,那么只要它能使蔡斯和他的那个部不停地跑,我就不想去打落它。”
二、金钱价值在于使用方法
汽车大王福特不是一个吝啬的人,但他却很少捐款。他顽固地认为,金钱的价值并不在于多寡,而在于使用方法。他最担心的就是捐款经常会落到不善于运用它们的人手里。有一次,乔治亚州的马沙?贝蒂校长为了扩建学校来请求福特捐款,福特拒绝了她。
她就说:那么就请捐给我一袋花生种子吧。于是福特买了一袋花生种子送给了她。福特后来就忘了这件事情。没想到一年以后,贝蒂女士又上门了,交给了他600美元。原来学生们播种了当初的那一袋子花生种子,这就是一年的收获。福特什么都没说,立即拿出了600万美元交给了贝蒂。
福特的担心绝不是多余的,太轻易得来的金钱往往很难让受施者感受到金钱后面潜隐着的苦与智;我更赞赏贝蒂对点滴施与的至高的尊重,她带领孩子们撒播下的其实是足以证明他们有能力领受他人恩惠的资格。
三、鱼儿不会说话
美国联邦议会批准了在小田纳西河上修建一座用于发电的水库,先后投入了一亿多美元。当大坝工程即将完工的时候,生物学家们发现大坝底有一种叫蜗牛鱼的珍稀鱼类,如果大坝最终建成的话,将影响这种鱼生活的环境而导致这种鱼的灭绝。于是环保组织向法院提出了诉讼,要求大坝停工并放弃修建水库的计划,但在第一次诉讼中,他们失败了:初审法院认为大坝已经接近完工,浪费纳税人一亿多美元的钱去保护一个鱼种是不明智的,拒绝判决大坝停工。环保组织又上诉到最高法院。
终于,这些小鱼儿在最高法院赢得了它们的权利,依据是联邦1973年颁布的《濒危物种法案》。这些小鱼儿可以在它们的家园自由地栖息,而它们身边是那被永久废弃的价值一亿多美元的大坝。
四、大火烧出的奇迹
1933年,正当经济危机在美国蔓延的时候,哈理逊纺织公司因一场大火化为灰烬。3000名员工悲观地回到家里,等待着董事长宣布公司破产和失业风暴的来临。在无望而又漫长的等待中,他们终于接到了董事会的一封信:向全公司员工继续支薪1个月。
在全国上下一片萧条的时候,能有这样的消息传来,员工们深感意外。他们惊喜万分,纷纷打电话或写信向董事长亚伦?傅斯表示感谢。
1个月后,正当他们为下个月的生活发愁时,他们又接到公司的第二封信,董事长宣布,再支付全体员工薪酬1个月。3000名员工接到信后,不再是意外和惊喜,而是热泪盈眶。在失业席卷全国、人人生计无着的时候,能得到如此照顾,谁不会感激万分呢?第二天,他们纷纷拥向公司,自发地清理废墟、擦洗机器,还有一些人主动去南方一些州联络被中断的货源。3个月后,哈理逊公司重新转了起来。对这一奇迹,当时的《基督教科学箴言报》是这样描述的:员工们使出浑身的解数,日夜不懈地卖力工作,恨不得一天干25小时,曾劝董事长傅斯领取保险公款一走了之和批评他感情用事、缺乏商业精神的人开始服输。
现在,哈理逊公司已成为美国最大的纺织品公司,分公司遍布五大洲50多个国家。
五、发泄
一天,陆军部长斯坦顿来到林肯那里,气呼呼地对他说一位少将用侮辱的话指责他偏袒一些人。林肯建议斯坦顿写一封内容尖刻的信回敬那家伙。
“可以狠狠地骂他一顿。”林肯说。
斯坦顿立刻写了一封措辞强烈的信,然后拿给总统看。
“对了,对了。”林肯高声叫好,“要的就是这个!好好训他一顿,真写绝了,斯坦顿。”
但是当斯坦顿把信叠好装进信封里时,林肯却叫住他,问道:“你要干什么?”
“寄出去呀。”斯坦顿有些摸不着头脑了。
“不要胡闹。”林肯大声说,“这封信不能发,快把它扔到炉子里去。凡是生气时写的信,我都是这么处理的。这封信写得好,写的时候你己经解了气,现在感觉好多了吧,那么就请你把它烧掉,再写第二封信吧。”
六、大错误与小错误
日本松下公司的创始人松下幸之助以经营技巧高超,管理方法先进,被誉为“经营之神。”
后滕清一原是三洋电机公司的副董事长,后来投奔松下公司,在担任厂长时,工厂失火烧掉了。后滕清一心中十分惶恐;以为不被革职也要降级。不料松下接到报告后,只对他说了四个字:
“好好干吧!”
松下这样做,并不是姑息部下的过错。以往,即使只是打电话的方式不当,后滕也会受到松下严厉的斥责。这种作风可以说是松下管人的秘决。由于这次火灾发生后没有受到惩罚,后滕自然会心怀愧疚,对松下也会更加忠心效命,并以加倍的工作来回报。
松下的这种做法,巧妙地抓住了人类的心理。在犯小错误时,本人多半并不在意,因此需要严加斥责,以引起他的注意;相反犯下大错误时,傻子也知道自省,因此就不必要再去给予严厉的批评了。
七、果断
有一个6岁的小男孩,一天在外面玩耍时,发现了一个鸟巢被风从树上吹掉在地,从里面滚出了一个嗷嗷待哺的小麻雀。小男孩决定把它带回家喂养。
当他托着鸟巢走到家门口的时候,他突然想起妈妈不允许他在家里养小动物。于是,他轻轻地把小麻雀放在门口,急忙走进屋去请求妈妈。在他的哀求下妈妈终于破例答应了。
小男孩兴奋地跑到门口,不料小麻雀已经不见了,他看见一只黑猫正在意犹未尽舔着嘴巴。小男孩为此伤心了很久。但从此他也记住了一个教训:只要是自己认定的事情,决不可优柔寡断。这个小男孩长大后成就了一番事业,他就是华裔电脑名人—王安博士。
八、将军和驴子
古罗马皇帝哈德良曾经碰到过这样一个问题。
皇帝手下的一位将军,觉得他应该得到提升,便在皇帝面前提到这件事,以他的长久服役为理由。“我应该升更重要的领导岗位”,他报告,“因为,我的经验丰富,参加过10次重要战役。”
哈德良皇帝是一个对人及才华有着高明判断力的人,他不认为这位将军有能力担任更高的职务,于是他随意指着绑在周围的战驴说:
“亲爱的将军,好好看这些驴子,它们至少参加过20次战役,可他们仍然是驴子。”
篇5:高考写作素材
全文共 1711 字
+ 加入清单一、最后一课:
哲学家在草地上给弟子上最后一课,问:“如何除掉这些杂草?”弟子甲说:“用铲子铲。”乙说:“用火烧。”丙说:“撒上石灰。”丁说:“连根拔去。”哲学家说:“都试一下。如果没有除掉,一年后再来此相会。”一年后,都来了,哲学家未来。但他的弟子看到满地茂盛的庄稼而无一根杂草,终于悟到了一个真理:欲无杂草,必须种上庄稼。
审题参考:这个故事让人明白:欲无必有,欲有必无。那么,要心中有真善美,必远离假恶丑。这必须经过选择、鉴别和心灵的“巷战”,才会让一个退出,另一个占据。提示“无”与“有”是两个抽象的概念,材料中要“无草”,则要“有庄稼”,这是含义深刻的比喻,草喻生活中的假恶丑,庄稼喻真善美,此类题目审题时要注意化抽象为具体,联系实际。
二、两只小鸟:
有两只小鸟,一只关在笼子里,一只放飞在野外。在笼子里的小鸟三餐无忧,在野外的小鸟自由自在。两只小鸟经常交谈。笼里的小鸟羡慕野外小鸟的自由自在;野外的小鸟则羡慕笼里的小鸟的安逸。一日,一只小鸟对另一只小鸟说:“咱们换一换吧!”另一只小鸟同意了。于是笼子里的小鸟飞进了大自然,野外的小鸟飞进了笼子里。从笼子里飞出来的小鸟高高兴兴,在大自然里拼命地飞呀飞呀;飞进笼子里的小鸟也十分兴奋,因为不用为寻找食物而发愁了。但不久,两只鸟都死了。一只是因饥饿而死,一只是因忧郁而死。从笼子里出来的小鸟获得了自由,却没有同时获得捕食的本领;飞进笼子里的小鸟获得了安逸,却失去了自由。
审题参考:本来两只鸟都生活得很幸福,各得其所,相安无事,但是,它们却这山望着那山高,欲壑难填,结果把那小命都搭上去了。这个悲剧告诉人们:知足者常乐。
三、头顶樱桃树的小鹿:
在森林里住着一个猎人。有一次,他在打猎途中遇到了一只美丽的小鹿,可是子弹打光了,于是他顺手把几粒吃剩的樱桃核放进了枪膛。枪响了,头部受伤的小鹿很快消失在密林深处。奇迹就由此发生了。第二年春天,人们惊奇地发现,森林里出现了一只头顶上长着樱桃树的小鹿。樱桃小树在小鹿头顶上茂盛异常。在收获的季节里,小鹿摇落鲜红的樱桃果,把果实分给森林里所有的居民,包括那个射伤她的猎人。小鹿由此赢得了大家的喜爱与敬佩。
审题参考:人生就要像小鹿那样,敢于鼓起直面困难的勇气,把袭来的子弹仔细珍藏,在血和泪的浇灌下让她它长大、开花、结果。漫漫人生路,几多风雨,几多坎坷,所以我们一定要学会坚强,要笑着面对挫折和打击,并最终把它们转化成前进的动力。此外要学小鹿,像她那样以仁慈为怀,以德报怨,化敌为友,这样才能建立一个和谐的环境。
四、擦亮心窗:
有一位女士,多年来总是嘲笑对面的女邻居懒惰:“你看她衣服永远都洗不干净,晾着的衣服上面总是有斑点!”有一天,这位女士的朋友到她家做客,听见她嘲笑对面的女士时,就仔细地观察起来。结果细心的朋友发现了问题所在,于是拿起一块抹布,把女士家的玻璃窗上的污垢擦干净,然后说:“你再看看,对面的衣服还脏吗?”原来是这位女士自己家的玻璃窗脏了。
审题参考:自己的玻璃窗脏了,透过这样的窗户看任何东西恐怕都是脏的。自己的心灵晦暗了,那么看任何人都是污浊的,有问题的,甚至是邪恶的。同时告诉人们,当你说别人不是时,应首先反省反省自己。
五、别让心脏了:
有一次,一位朋友拿给他一叠复杂的插图让他描画,当然报酬很高。他一面干一面对我说,这些插图都这么难画,一定是那个朋友把容易描画的都选了去,让他啃“骨头”,于是他就对朋友心生不满,并敷衍了事。几天以后,那位朋友来取插图,同时还带来了更多需要描画的插图,而且都比先前的那些插图容易描画。原来那个朋友是想让他先描画难画的,如果他能胜任那么容易画的他就更能胜任了。然而朋友看了他描画的插图后,没再留下那些容易描画的插图。事后那位朋友遗憾地告诉我:“本来我是想帮他牵上这条线,好让他以后一直帮这家出版社做下去的,可以固定地挣一笔‘外快’,谁知他不能胜任。”
审题参考:其实读了这篇短文后,我们不难知道,其实并不是文中我的亲戚的能力不能胜任,而是他的心不能胜任,他的心脏了,所以他总也看不清事实的真相,总以错误的眼光看待一切,最终贻误的是自己,只好眼睁睁地看着那煮熟的鸭子飞走了。这叫聪明反被聪明误。
篇6:2024英语高考作文模拟题
全文共 1679 字
+ 加入清单“灿烂星空,谁是真的英雄?”做出惊天动地业绩的人是英雄,为追求真理献出生命的人是英雄,在平凡岗位上默默奉献的人是英雄……
一.Dr Norman Bethune
1.Nationality(国籍): Canada
2.Hobby: taking photos
3.Main stories: saved a lot of Chinese people; opened hospitals; invented medical tools
二.Liu Xiang
1.Nationality: China
2.Hobby: singing
3.Main stories: won the first
4.Olympic gold medal in the men s 110m hurdles event in Athens; set a world record in the same event in Lausanne
从上面信息卡中选择一位英雄,以The Hero in My Heart为题写一篇短文。
要求:① 包含所选信息卡上的内容;② 适当拓展,如学英雄的感想、行动等;③ 不能出现表明你身份的信息;④ 词数80左右,不含已给出部分。
The Hero in My Heart
As we know, most people have heroes in their hearts. Forme,
【优秀满分范文1】
The Hero in My Heart
As we know, most people have heroes in their hearts. For me, Dr Norman Bethune is the hero in my heart. He was a great doctor from Canada.
Dr Bethune was good at performing operations. And taking photos was his hobby. In 1938, he came to China. He opened hospitals and invented medical tools. He worked so hard that he saved thousands of Chinese people. He didn’t stop to take care of his own injured hand and died.
I am deeply moved by his stories. So I’ll work hard today and do my best to help others.
【优秀满分范文2】
The Hero in My Heart
As we know, most people have heroes in their hearts. For me,Liu Xiang is the hero in my heart. He is a famous Chinese sports man.
Liu Xiang is good at running. In 2004,he won his first Olympic gold medal in the mens 110m hurdles event in Athens. Then, he set a world record in the same event in Lausanne. Besides training and taking part in competitions, Liu Xiang also likes singing and he sings well.
With his hard work, he is winning competitions one after another. This encourages me to study harder from now on.
篇7:英语四级作文写作技巧大全
全文共 2199 字
+ 加入清单一、审题
我们拿到作文后第一件要做的事就是审题。审题的作用在于使你写作不跑题(如果跑题,条理和语言再好,也得不到及格分,甚至0分。)那末审题要审什麽呢?
1.体裁(议论文,说明文,描述文)
审题就是要审作文的题材和体裁。因为什末样的体裁就会用什末样的题材去写。那末体裁包括那些呢?它包括议论文,说明文和描述文。从近些年看,四级作文不是单一的体裁,而是几种体裁的杂合体。例如: Directions: For this part ,your are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topicTrying to Be A Good University Student .You should write at least 100 words and you shouldbase your composition on the outline (given in Chinese ) below :
1.做合格大学生的必要性
2.做合格大学生的必备条件(可以从德智体方面谈)
3.我计划这样做
很多人说这种类型的作文是议论文。这是片面的,因为,第一段要求写"...必要性",这说明本段体裁是议论文;第二段要求写"
...必备条件",这说明本段要求写说明文;儿地三段要求写"...这样做",这说明本段要求写描述文。所以在大多数情形下,四级作文是三种体裁的杂合体。
2.根据不同体裁确定写作方法
我们审题的目的就是根据不同体裁确定不同的写作方法。通过审题,我们可以看出四级作文大都是三段式。如上例第一段为议论体,第二段为说明体,地三段为描述体。而各种文体又不同的写作方式: 议论文;要有论点和论据,而且往往从正反两方面来论述。例如上面第一段的思路是:做合格大学生,会怎末样(这是从正面论述);不能做合格的大学生,会怎末样(从反面论述);所以我们要做合格的大学生(结了论)。
说明文:可以从几方面或几条来说明一个问题,就上作文而言,可以从方面(德智体)来说明合格大学生的必要性。
描述文:一"人"为中心描述一个"做"的过程。与上两段相比,本段的主语多为人称代词,他要与第二段相互应进行描述。 二 确定主题句
通过审题,我们知道该如何确定正确的写作思路。下边我们就谈如何些。第一部就是要写主题句。主题句是确保不跑题的前提,只有不跑题才有可得及格分。写主题句嘴保险的方法就是把中文提纲的各句译成英语。例如上述三段主题句分别为:
1.It is very necessary to be a good university student . (议论体的主题句)
2.There are several respects of necessities to be a good university student .(说明体的主题句)
3.What I will do in the future is the following .(描述体主题句)
如果要求句是英语就可以把它变成主题句,例如这样一篇作文:
Good Health
1.Importance of good health
2.Ways to keep fit
3.My own practice
这样的作文的要求句就可以扩充成主题句。扩充后三段的主题句分别为:
1.It is very important to have good health .(将名词 importance变成形容词important)
2.There are four ways to keep fit for me .(用 there be 句型)
3.My own practices are the following .(采用原词)
二、条理清楚
保证不跑提示写作当中第一任务,第二个重要任务就是要做到条理清楚。对于议论文来说,正反面要清楚,对于说明文来说条理要清楚,对于描述文来说,谁干什么要清楚。就拿上例Good health 来说,第一段保持正反面要清楚救应这样写:正面(With good health ,we can...),反面(Without good health ,we cando nothing .We cant do...)
为了使文章更具有条理性,我们可以用first(ly) second(ly) third(ly)等副词,他们可以是文章的条例性更加突出。作文是主观题,想得告分就必须引起老师的主意,老师的时间很短(每篇作文只有一两分钟就要阅完),所以我们在列调试最好不用: To be with,... after that ,...And then, ... The next , ... Thefollowing , ... As last ... 。因为用这样的词语不利于老师看出你作文的条理性。
三、保证作文符合字数要求的十二句作文法
考生一般都希望作文达到字数而又不至于写得太多,因为写得太多一方面暴露自己语言上的弱点,另一方面又会占用过多的时间。写得太多还易跑题,一个有效的方法就是十二句作文法。
我们知道,四级作文都是三段式。我们算一下,如果我们在每一段中写上四句,即主题句加两三句扩展句和一个结论句就可以了。这样全片在十二句左右,每一句十多个词,就又120-150个字。大家可以试图找一些作文题练一练。
篇8:关于应聘的高考英语作文
全文共 847 字
+ 加入清单作文不仅仅是语文科目的重头戏也是英语科目的重头戏,就为考生朋友们整理了高考英语作文范文,希望对大家有帮助!
假定你是李华,将于今年七月从新星外语学校毕业。你从报纸上得知B&;B公司要招聘一名英文秘书,你很感兴趣。请给该公司写一封信,1.年龄 2.学习情况和英文水平 3.兴趣特长 4.性格特点
范文:
Dear Sir /Madam ,
I learned from the newspaper that your company needs an English secretary . I’m really interested in this position and hope I can work for you.
I’m 18 years old and will be graduating from xinxing Foreign Languages School this July. I’m an excellent student ,among the top 5 in my class of 50 students. I’m good at English , especially spoken English 。I often use the computer and I type very fast . In my spare time ,I read a lot 。 Poems are my favorite . I enjoy music very much too. Being an active young person , I like sports and outdoor activities .Besides , I ‘m easy to get along well with and I like to make friends .
I’m looking forward to your reply .
Sincerely yours,
Li hua
篇9:高考作文立意写作技巧
全文共 3199 字
+ 加入清单面对材料作文,不少考生因未能真正吃透材料,熟练掌握审题立意、观点提炼的方法,时常造成所提炼的观点与材料若即若离、似是而非,差之毫 厘、失之千里,甚至南辕北辙、风马牛不相及的重大失误——即使你的文章结构再严谨、论证再充分、事例再丰富、语言再优美,也只能是“瞎子点灯白费蜡”了。 可见,材料作文的观点提炼,至关重要。
那么,如何方能吃透材料,紧扣材料`,选好角度,确立一个具有相当新意、深意的观点呢?以下方法谨供参考。
一、主旨领悟法
这是材料作文最为常用且最为稳妥的审题立意方法。如果能准确地领悟材料的中心,并以之为文章的主旨,那么,所写文章定能既切题又有深度。
示例
《华尔街日报》报道:海湾战争前夕,该报记者到驻沙特的美国陆战队采访时,惊奇地发现,在沙漠的帐篷里,待命的军舰上,美国的官兵正在争相研读中国的《孙子兵法》。陆战队司令格雷将军指令:《孙子兵法》为陆战队官兵必读书。
综观材料,我们不难发现,美国官兵之所以学习中国的《孙子兵法》,是用以指导他们的战术,材料的主旨十分清晰,据此,可提炼“他山之石可以攻 玉”之类的观点。当然,这是显性的;从隐性看,外国人尚且如此重视对我国文化遗产的学习,那么作为中国人的我们,则更应“重视祖国文化遗产的传承”,而这 在某种意义上更具深意。
二、关键把握法
关键词句往往是“文眼”,蕴含着材料的主旨。因此,可将其作把握材料、选择立意角度的突破口。在材料作文的材料中,关键词句常常是命题者或材料中的人物的评议性语句。
示例
巴西足球名将贝利在足坛上初露锋芒时,一个记者问他:“你哪一个球踢得最好?”他回答说:“下一个!”而当他在足坛崭露头角,已成为世界著名球王,并踢进一千多个球后,记者又问道:“你哪一个球踢得最好?”他仍然回答:“下一个! ”
这“下一个”三个字,既体现出永不满足的进取精神,又蕴含着艺无止境、不断创新的哲理,闪耀着人格、智慧、精神的光芒。抓住了这个关键词,便抓住了材料的灵魂实质。
三、由果溯因法
事物都是互相联系的。比如,有很多事物就是以因果关系的联系形式存在的。写材料作文,审题时如果能由材料中列举的现象或结果推究出造成所列现象或结果的本质原因,往往能找到最佳的立意。
示例
某胶粘剂公司研制成强力万能胶水,在推向市场之前,别出心裁地将一枚价值可观的大金币,用该胶水粘在该公司的大理石柱上,并称谁能将其取下而不 损坏门柱,金币归谁。一时间,门前人头攒动,不少人纷纷一试身手,结果力气耗尽,金币却岿然不动。人群中爆发出热烈掌声,各色人等称赞有加,消息不胫而 走。新产品一上市,厂家即获得巨大效益。
材料中新产品一上市,之所以“获得巨大效益”,一是因为该强力万能胶水粘后能“岿然不动”的有目共睹的过硬质量,二是由于公司采用了非同寻常的 营销宣传策略,于是,我们便能顺理成章地分别得出 “事实胜于雄辩”、“酒香还需巧吆喝”的结论。相比之下,后者更富有时代气息。
四、寓意揭示法
对于一些寄寓性材料,如寓言、童话、漫画等,须透过材料的表象,进行“由物及人”、“由物及事”的联想,即由材料中的物联想到人,进而联想到与材料内容相类似的人生哲理、社会现象等,挖掘其真正的内涵,从而确立论点。
示例
驴子驮盐渡河,它滑了一下,跌进水里,盐溶化了,它站起来时轻了许多。这件事使它很高兴。又有一天,它驮了海绵走到河边,故意一滑,跌进水里,那海绵吸了水,驴子站不起来,终于淹死了。
这则寓言告诉我们,一切应从实际出发,情况变化了,我们的思想和工作方法也应随之变化,如果墨守成规,或盲目套用,必将招致失败。写作时要透过驴子驮盐和海绵的表象,把握并取其寓意作为文章的论点。
五、细节切入法
示例
郑板桥的书法,用隶书参以行楷,非隶非楷,非古非今,俗称“板桥体”。他的作品单个字体看似歪歪斜斜,但总体感觉错落有致,别有韵味,有人说“这种作品不可无一,不可有二”。
从局部细节来看,大致有以下思路:
郑板桥书法,“用隶书参以行楷,非隶非楷,非古非今”,启示人们要“善于借鉴”,学会融合;“作品单个字体看似歪歪斜斜,但总体感觉错落有致, 别有韵味”,提示我们要注重个体与总体、局部与整体关系的和谐,即“和谐就是美”;而“这种作品不可无一,不可有二”,则揭示出任何事物唯有 “彰显个性”,具有鲜明的个性特色,方能体现其价值、立于不败之地的真理。
六、倾向揣摩法
面对材料作文,不少考生因未能真正吃透材料,熟练掌握审题立意、观点提炼的方法,时常造成所提炼的观点与材料若即若离,甚至南辕北辙,即使你的文章结构再严谨、论证再充分、事例再丰富、语言再优美,也只能是“瞎子点灯白费蜡”了。可见,材料作文的观点提炼,至关重要。
那么,如何才能吃透材料,紧扣材料,选好角度,确立一个具有相当新意、深意的观点呢?
七、多向发散法
有些材料作文的材料比较散。对于这样的材料,审题时可以采用多向发散的思维方法,围绕材料展开多角度立意。
示例
薛潭学讴于秦青,未尽秦青之技,自谓尽之。遂辞归。秦青弗止,饯于郊衢。抚节悲歌,声振林木,响遏行云。薛潭乃谢求反,终身不敢言归。
从薛潭角度,我们可抓住他 “学讴”、“未尽秦青之技”就“辞归”,得出“要谦虚”的启示;也可从他意识到自己远未学到老师的本事而 “谢求反”,总结出“要知错即改”的道理。从老师秦青的角度,我们可从他面对学生的自以为是,并未发怒,而是“弗止,饯于郊衢”,且“抚节悲歌,声振林 木,响遏行云”的不一般的举动中,受到启发:“教育要讲究方法”。
然而薛潭 “终身不敢言归”的做法值得商榷。倘若学生真的将老师的本事全部学到家的话,那又何必 “终身不敢言归”呢?我们完全可以理直气壮地另行拜师,博采众长。当然,提炼出多个观点后,应择优而作。
八、舍次求主法
有些材料作文的材料往往会牵涉许多人和事。因此,审题时要明确哪些是材料的主要人物或事件,哪些是次要人物或事件,并舍弃次要人物或事件,从主要人物或事件的角度审题立意。
示例
公交车靠站停稳后,车站上一位妇女为抓紧时间,抱起原先站着等车的小孩上车。车上一青年乘客主动起身让座。抱小孩妇女谢过对方,放下小孩,笑笑 说:“小家伙刚会走路,还是让他自己站吧。”此刻,见两人互相谦让,无人入座,一旁的时髦少妇眼明手快,一屁股坐下,并大声招呼道:“囡囡,妈妈帮侬抢到 座位了。 ”
材料中共出现了三个“人物”。无论从让座青年角度提倡 “要助人为乐”,还是从抢座位的时髦少妇方面提出“要文明礼让”,似乎均无不可。然而从整个材料的重心、指向来看,应舍弃后两个次要人物,着眼点放在主角抱小孩的妇女身上,宜立意“尽早让孩子自立”。
九、求同存异法
此法对组合性材料作文尤为适宜。如果提供的组合性材料内涵是一致的,可以抽取其共同的、本质的内容,提炼出一个论点;如果提供的材料之间内涵不一致,甚至相差很远,那么应摒弃相异的面,寻找交叉、重合的点。
示例
丹麦人去钓鱼会随身带一把尺子,钓到鱼,常常用尺子量一量,将不够尺寸的小鱼放回河里。他们说:“让小鱼长大不更好吗? ”两千多年前,我国孟子曾说过:“数罟不入洿池,鱼鳖不可胜食也。 ”
一中一外、一古一今的两材料,告诉我们的是同一个道理:在急功近利、异常浮躁的当今社会,务必“要有远见卓识 ”。
十、互补完善法
示例
①佛罗伦萨诗人但丁的名言:“走自己的路,让别人去说吧! ”
②波兰谚语:“常问路的人不会迷失方向。 ”
材料①“走自己的路”强调要有坚定的信念;材料②“常问路的人不会迷失方向”是讲走路时要有虚心求教的精神,要听从他人指导。两者孰是孰非?两 者具有很强的互补性,若将两者结合起来,就既全面又合理。因此,可以提炼这样的观点:只有既有“走自己的路”的坚定信念,又有“常问路”的虚心精神,才能 走好自己的人生之路。
当然,材料作文审题立意的方法还有很多,而各种方法也并非孤立的,可能互有交叉。若在具体的审题立意过程中能灵活地综合运用,效果则更佳。
篇10:夏令营高考英语满分作文
全文共 1508 字
+ 加入清单A Summer Camp
This summer, I had some special days. I joined Dongzhou International Educational Exchange Summer Camp.
First, I will tell you about our foreign teachers, they are Shrina and Rebecca. They are friendly and beautiful. They are students at Oxford University.
We talked about many things: famous people, subjects in England, different jobs, our deal days, western star signs, what can we say in a restaurant and so on.
We know lots of things, like what the difference is between “chef” and “cook”, all the parts of the body…
We tried to write a letter to Principal Zhang. We made a play and we drew our own comics and tried to sell it. We gave some other students English lessons, we taught them about Chinese Dragon, Chinese Martial Arts and the Olympics.
Every afternoon, we played exciting games: Chinese Whispers, Tongue Twisters, Wheelbarrow, egg and spoon, three legs…
On the last day, we had a good time. We made black tea. We put tea bags, some milk and lots of water in to a big bowl, and then we stirred the tea until it became red and dark. Oh, it tasted good! Later, we used eggs, flour and milk to make many pancakes. To cook them is very interesting. When we finished it, the pancakes looked round and nice. We put some jam on it. How delicious! I won’t ever forget it.
The summer Camp is a really good chance for me. I know the local things in England. I learned a lot and like English more. I also know better ways to learn English well.
I hope one day I can see you in England.
篇11:英语作文写作的需要背诵的部分
全文共 45713 字
+ 加入清单下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言,考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章,然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。
对于素材中用黑体字的部分,特别建议你熟读,背诵,因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白,表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累,潜移默化。从某种意义上说,提高英语写作能力无捷径可走,你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关,没有任何人能代替你过。
因此,建议你下点苦功夫,把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况,并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心:你可以这个星期背,下个星期忘。这没有关系,相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后,你会惊讶的发现:I can think in English now!
1.?????? Proverbs
1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.
2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.
3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.
7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.
8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.
11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.
2. Damaging Research
A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.
3. Education and Citizenship
An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.
Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.
Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.
Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.
4. The Teacher’s Role
Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.
Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.
5. Education Philosophy
For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.
Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.
In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.
This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.
6. Student Life
To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.
Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.
Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)
What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.
Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.
7. Adult Education
After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”
So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.
8. Moral Relativism in American
Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.
Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.
In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”
Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.
In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”
The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.
The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.
At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.
The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.
But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.
There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.
9. Schools Should Teach Values
People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”
There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.
As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”
This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.
We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.
What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.
These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.
After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.
10. College Pressures
Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.
What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.
My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.
I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.
“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”
Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.
It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.
The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.
Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.
Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.
Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.
I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.
“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.
“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”
“Then why are you going?”
“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”
Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”
But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.
I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.
Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.
“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”
The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”
Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.
Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.
“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”
Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.
To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.
If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.
Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.
“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”
“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”
I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.
Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.
This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.
They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.
If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.
I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.
I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.
11. To Err Is Wrong
In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?
Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.
Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:
Right over 90% of the time = “A”
Right over 80% of the time = “B~”
Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.
From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.
Playing It Safe
With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.
I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.
Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.
Different Logic
From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.
Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.
Errors as Stepping Stones
Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.
The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.
Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.
Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.
[英语作文写作的需要背诵的部分
篇12:2024高考写作素材:关于追求
全文共 1069 字
+ 加入清单1.一个崇高的目标,只要不渝地追求,就会成为壮举. ——华兹华斯
2.即使是智者,也难摈弃追求功名这个弱点. ——塔西佗
3.理智会促使每一个人去追求大众的幸福,作为获取和确立个人幸福的手段. 查?科尔顿
4.要想知道掌权的痛苦,就该去问那些当权者;要想知道它的乐趣,就应该去问它的追求者. ——葛罗夫
5.凡是精炼的句子,由于追求简明而不得不牺牲一定的准确性. ——塞?约翰逊
6.占有不能带来幸福,人只有在不断地追求中才会感到持久的幸福和满足.——赵鑫珊
7.追求那真实的功业,追求对宇宙人生更深远的了解;追求永远超过狭小生活圈子之外的更有用的 东西. ——罗兰
8.走得最慢的人,只要他不丧失目标,也比漫无目的地徘徊的人走得快. ——莱辛
9.在瞄准遥远目标的同时,不要轻视近处的东西. ——欧里庇德斯
10.幼儿时期可以没什么宏伟目标,成人时代则不可无此. ——霍兰
11.不能像走兽那样活着,应该追求知识和美德. —— 但丁
12.不患位之不尊,而患德之不崇;不耻禄之不伙,而耻智之不博.——张衡
13.虚已者进德之基. —— 方孝孺
14.满盈者,不损何为?慎之!慎之! ——朱舜水
15.不谦虚的话只能有这个辩解,即缺少谦虚就是缺少见识. —— 富兰克林
16.好说己长便是短,自知己短便是长. ——申居郧
17.每个人都会有自己的追求,不论好人坏人,成功者失败者,追求是人生存在这世界上的心理基础. ——郑碧雅
18.人生追求,是一种内心的平静,在四个层面保持平衡的人才会拥有圆融的人生. 裁冯军
19.有三种简单然而无比强烈的激情左右了我的一生:对爱的渴望,对知识的探索和对人类苦难的难 以忍受的怜悯.这些激情像飓风,无处不在,反复无常地吹拂着我,吹过深重的苦海,濒于绝境. ——罗素的人生追求
20.如果我能最终成功,最重要肯定是因为我的理想,我的理想非常大,明知道它不可为,所以会付 出格外的努力.
21.一个教师对自己的孩子说:"你长大了一定要经商赚钱,你爸爸就是吃了没有钱的亏." 一个老板对自己的孩子说:"你长大了一定要好好读书,你爸爸就是吃了没知识的亏."
22.我不知道流星能飞多久,值不值得追求!我不知道樱花能开多久,值不值得等候!但我知道会有 一份友谊像烟花般美丽,像恒星般永恒,值得我用一生守候! ——一则短信
23.令人筋疲力尽的往往不是要做的事情本身;而是事前事后患得患失的心态……
24.我们追求的目标是,让人民群众喝上干净的水,呼吸清新的空气,有更好的工作和生活环境.— —******总理的一番朴实话,赢得人大代表的热烈掌声 ——华旗总
篇13:高考英语书面表达之写作常用谚语
全文共 3472 字
+ 加入清单导语:When there is no hope there can be no endeavour.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!
Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜於雄辩。
Adversity leads to prosperity.
逆境迎向昌盛。
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑,长一智。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难朋友才是真朋友。
A friend is a second self.
朋友是另一个我。
A friend is best found in adversity.
患难见真友。
All time is no time when it is past.
光阴一去不复返。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; all play and no work makes Jack a mere boy.
只工作,不玩耍,聪明孩子要变傻;尽玩耍,不学习,聪明孩子没出息。
A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
远亲不如近邻。
An idle youth, a needy age.
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。
Business before pleasure.
事业在先,享乐在後。
Diligence is near success.
勤奋近乎成功。
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
刻苦是成功之母。
Diligence is the mother of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
Education has for its object the formation of character.
教育的目的在於培养品德。
Every brave man is a man of his word.
勇敢的人都是信守诺言的人。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
每个人都是他自己命运的建诛师。
Every man is the master of his own fortune.
每个人都是他自己的命运的主宰。
Failure is the mother of success.
失败是成功之母。
Faith will move mountains.
精诚所至,金石为开。
Friendship ---- one soul in two bodies.
友谊是两人一条心。
Grasp all, lose all.
贪多必失。
He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.
没有知识,才是贫穷。
Health is above wealth.
健康胜於财富。
Health is better than wealth.
健康胜於财富。
He who does not advance falls backward.
不进则退。
Honesty is the best policy.
诚实是上策。
Hope is life and life is hope.
希望才有人生,人生要有希望。
Idle young, needy old.
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。
If you dont aim high you will never hit high.
不立大志,难攀高峰。
I might say that success is won by three things: first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
成功之道唯三点∶努力、努力、再努力。
Improve your time and your time will improve you.
珍惜时间,时间才会珍惜你。
In doing we learn.
行而知。
Industry if fortunes right hand, and frugality her left.
勤勉是幸福的右手,节俭是幸福的左手。
In lifes earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
在人生的搏斗中,只有日日前进不甘失败的人,才能获胜。
It is dogged does it.
天下无难事,只怕有心人。
Judge not according to the appearance.
不要以貌取人。
Labour is often the father of pleasure.
勤劳常为快乐之源。
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
学而不思则罔,思而不学则殆。
Like tree, like fruit.
有其因必有其果。
Manners make the man.
礼貌造就人。
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
抓住大好时机,切莫等闲错过。
Never too old to learn.
学到老,学不了。
No great loss without some small gain.
塞翁失马,安知非福。
No one can call back yesterday.
往日不复返。
No sooner said than done.
言而必行。
No sweet without some sweat.
不劳则无获。
Nothing is difficult to a man who wills.
世上无难事,只怕有心人。
Nothing is impossible to willing mind .
有志者事竟成。
Nothing is impossible to the man who will try.
天下无难事,只怕不努力。
Nothing is really beautiful but truth.
只有真理才是真美。
No time like the present.
只争朝夕。
One cannot put back the clock.
光阴一去不复返。
Overdone is worse than undone.
过犹不及。
Paddle your own canoe.
自立更生,自食其力。
Perseverance is vital to success.
不屈不挠是成功之本。
Second thoughts are best.
三思而行,再思可也。
Selt-trust is the essence of heroism.
自信是英雄的本色。
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
自信是成功的首要秘诀。
Success belongs to the persevering.
坚持到底必获胜利。坚持就是胜利。
Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.
成功来自於克服困难的斗争。
The first element of success is the determination to succeed.
成功的首要因素是要有成功的决心。
The more a man knows, the less he knows he knows.
懂得越多,就越知道自己懂得不多。
Union is strength.
团结就是力量。
Virtue is a jewel of great price.
美德是无价之宝。
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
浪费时间是一切花费中最奢侈豪华的费用。
When there is no hope there can be no endeavour.
没有希望就不会努力。
Without a friend the world is a wilderness.
没有朋友,世界就等於一片荒野。
You cannot judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
篇14:英语高考作文漂亮句子之人物介绍
全文共 467 字
+ 加入清单1、他们雇了一个叫汤姆的人。
They hired a person named Tom.
2、他高个子,大眼睛。
He is a tall man with big eyes.
3、他擅长英语。
He is good at English.
4、他闲暇时经常听音乐。
He usually listens to music in his spare time.
5、他的爱好是篮球。
Basketball is his hobby.
6、他毕业于第八中学。
He graduated from No. 8 Middle School.
7、他曾获英语竞赛第一名。
He once got the first place in the English competition.
8、他友善并且随和。
He is kind and easy-going.
9、他经常帮我们学英语。
He often helps us with our English.
10、他被认为是最好的学生之一。
He is regarded as one of the best students.
篇15:高考满分英语作文附翻译
全文共 805 字
+ 加入清单Dear David,
Im glad youll come to Beijing to learn Chinese. Chinese is very useful, and many foreigners are learning it now. Its difficult for you because its quite different from English. You have to remember as many Chinese words as possible. Its also important to do some reading and writing. You can watch TV and listen to the radio to practise your listening. Do your best to talk with people in Chinese. You can learn Chinese not only from books but also from people around you. If you have any questions, please ask me. Im sure youll learn Chinese well.
Hope to see you soon in Beijing.
Yours,
Wang Ming
【翻译】
亲爱的大卫,
我很高兴你会来北京学习中文。中国是非常有益的,许多外国人正在学习,现在。这很难为你,因为它是相当的英语不同。你要记住尽可能多的中国话。同样重要的是做一些阅读和写作。你可以看电视,听广播练习你的听力。你最好不要谈论与中国人民。你可以学习汉语,不仅从书本上,而且从你周围的人。如果您有任何问题,请问我。我敢肯定你会学好中文。
希望能尽快看到你在北京。
此致,
王明
篇16:大学英语写作基础教程
全文共 5443 字
+ 加入清单以下是短文写作中使用率最高、覆盖面最广的基本句式,每组句式的功能相同或相似,考可根据自己的情况选择其中的个,做到能够熟练正确地仿写或套用。
1.表示原因
1)There are three reasons for this
2)The reasons for this are as follows
3)The reason for this is obvious
4)The reason for this is not far to seek
5)The reason for this is that
6)We have good reason to believe that
例如:
There are three reasons for the changes that have taken place in our life
.Firstly,people’s living standard has been greatly improved.Secondly,most people are well paid,and they can afford what they need or like.Last but not least,more and more people prefer to enjoy modern life.
注:
如考生写第一个句子没有把握,
可将其改写成两个句子。
如:
Great changes have taken place in our life.
There are three reasons for this.这样写可以避免套用中的表达失误。
2.表示好处
1)It has the following advantages
2)It does us a lot of good
3)It benefits us quite a lot
4)It is beneficial to us
5)It is of great benefit to us
例如:
Books are like friends.
They can help us know the world better,and they can open our minds
and widen our horizons.Therefore reading extensively is of great benefit to us
3.表示坏处
1)It has more disadvantages than advantages
2)It does us much harm
3)It is harmful to us
例如:
However,everything divides into two.
Television can also be harmful to us.It can do harm to our health and make us lazy if we spend too much time watching television.
4.表示重要、必要、困难、方便、可能
1)It is important(necessary,difficult,convenient, possible)for sb.to do sth.
2)We think it necessary to do sth.
3)It plays an important role in our life.
例如:
Computers are now being used everywhere,whether in the government,in schools or in business.
Soon, computers will be found in every home,too.
We have good reason to say that computers are playing an increasingly important role in our life and we have stepped into the Computer Age.
5.表示措施
1)We should take some effective measures.
2)We should try our best to overcome(conquer)the difficulties.
3)We should do our utmost in doing sth.
4)We should solve the problems that we are confronted(faced)with.
例如:
The housing problem that we are confronted with Is becoming more and more serious.Therefore,we must take some effective measures to solve it.
6 .表示变化
1)Some changes have taken place in the past five years.
2)A great change will certainly be produced in the world’s communications.
3)The computer has brought about many changes in education.
例如:
Some changes have taken place in people’s diet in the past five years.The major reasons for these changes are not far to seek.Nowadays,more and more people are switching from grain to
meat for protein,and from fruit and vegetable to milk for vitamins.
7.表示事实、现状
1)We cannot ignore the fact that...
2)No one can deny the fact that...
3)There is no denying the fact that...
4)This is a phenomenon that many people are interested in.
5)However,that’s not the case.
例如:
We cannot ignore the fact that industrialization brings with it the problems of pollution.To solve these problems,
we can start by educating the public about the hazards of pollution.
The government on its part should also design stricter laws to promote a cleaner environment.
8.表示比较
1)Compared with A,B...
2)I prefer to read rather than watch TV.
3)There is a striking contrast between them.
例如:
Compared with cars ,bicycles have several advantages besides being affordable.Firstly,they do not consume natural resources of petroleum.Secondly,they do not cause the pollution problem.Last but not least,they contribute to people’s health by giving them due physical exercise.
9.表示数量
1)It has increased(decreased)from...to...
2)The population in this city has now increased (decreased)to 800,000.
3)The output of July in this factory increased by 15%compared with that of January.
例如:
With the improvement of the living standard,the proportion of people’s in some spent on food has decreased while that spent on education has increased.
再如:From the graph listed above,it can be seen that student use of computers has increased from an average of less than two hours per week in 1990 to 20 hours in 2000.
10.表示看法
1)People have(take,adopt,assume)different attitudes towards sth.
2)People have different opinions on this problem.
3)People take different views of(on)the question.
4)Some people believe that...
Others argue that...
例如:
People have different attitudes towards failure.Some believe that failure leads to success.
Every failure they experience translates into a greater chance of success at their renewed endeavor.However ,others are easily discouraged by failures and put themselves into the category of losers.
再如:
Do“lucky numbers really bring good luck?
Different people have different views on it(注:
一个段落有时很适宜以问句开始,考生应掌握这一写作方法。)
11.表示结论
1)In short,it can be said that ...
2)It may be briefly summed up as follows.
3)From what has been mentioned above,we can come to the conclusion that ..
例如:
From what has been mentioned above,we can come to the conclusion that examination is necessary,however,its method should be improved.
12.套语
1)It’s well known to us that ...
2)As is known to us...
3)This is a topic that is being widely talked about.
4)From the graph
(table,chart)listed above,it can be seen that ...
5)As a proverb says,“Where there is a will,there is a way.
例如:
As is well known to us,it is important for the students to know the world outside campus.
The reason for this is obvious.Nowadays,the society is changing and developing rapidly,and
the campus is no longer an“ivory tower.As college students,
we must get in touch with the world outside the campus.
Only in this way can we adapt ourselves to the society quickly after
we graduate.
篇17:高考英语作文模板——建议措施段
全文共 634 字
+ 加入清单【示例一】
①Considering all these reasons/this situation/Confronted with such a problem, I think we need to take some positive measures. ②On the one hand, ________ (方法/建议一). ③On the other hand, it is necessary for us to ________(方法/建议二). ④Thus/Only in this way, can ________(总结自己的观点/建议/态度).
【示例二】
①In order to improve the situation/To sum up the above argument/Confronted with such an issue/problem, we should find several solutions to it/need to take some positive measures. ②On the one hand/For one thing, we should ________ (方法/建议一). ③On the other hand/For another, ________(方法/建议二). ④Therefore/Thus/Only in this way, can ________ (段落总结句).
篇18:高考作文写作指导:高分作文的结尾技法_高考作文指导1200字
全文共 1072 字
+ 加入清单作文结尾例说
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。
篇19:高考写作素材:岁月是一场有去无回的旅行
全文共 2545 字
+ 加入清单导语:岁月是一场有去无回的旅行,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!
能够握紧的就别放了,能够拥抱的就别拉扯,时间着急的冲刷着,剩下了什么,时间是一种令人措不及防的东西,原谅走过的那些曲折,留下的都是真的。光阴似箭,日月如梭,时光荏苒,白驹过隙,我们有不计其数的优雅词汇来诉说时光的流逝,但却没有一种方法让时间静止。
仍记得,在一个停电的夜晚,刚刚学会走路的我,因为口渴便悄悄的在没有得到你的允许的情况下,喝了放在桌子上的保温杯里的水,结果因为水温过高,导致小小的我的一定程度的烧伤,在当时12月份下着大雪的夜晚,驱车向最好的医院赶去,而我好像明白了发生的事情,尽管医生在治疗时很疼,哪怕是成人都忍不了的治疗过程,小小的我仍没有流下一滴眼泪,在你和她没日没夜的细心照料下,新生的皮肤竟然和原来的皮肤没有什么区别,这样的结果似乎是对你们几乎半年们有睡过一个好觉的最好的回报。
仍记得,我第一次在电视上看到你的身影,当时还小,还不懂这是一件十分值得骄傲的事情,小小的心中害怕的以为你被关在了那个黑黑的小盒子里,在妈妈的怀中挣扎着想要去救你,直到看到你出现在我的面前,激动的跑过去,只是为了确定你还在我身边。
仍记得,你第一次送我上学的经历,看着我哭红的眼睛,你笑着对我诉说着学校的美好,但只有你自己知道你心里是多么的不舍,你笑着对我说等到我放学之后你一定会在诺大的人群中等我,我安心的朝着陌生的校园走去,看着我渐渐远去的小小的背影似乎又有一种莫名的欣慰与满足。
仍记得,我当时对上学有一种说不出的反感,我使出浑身解数就是不上学,走到门口时,死死地抓住桌腿就是不放手,在我妈异样的眼神之下,你带着我去公园疯了整整一个上午。这样做的结果就是,我一不上学,就想去公园玩,这个坏毛病,虽然让你头疼,但是仍不后悔当时的决定。
仍记得,当时正在陪我在幼儿园参加电子琴比赛的你,突然接到的那一个你一生都不会忘里的一个电话,脸色的突变以及声音的急促,我尽管年龄小,但却也预测到不是什么好的事情,直到我们到了医院,看到了那个我们都十分敬爱的人儿的离去,看到你那伤心的模样,虽然仍然没有太搞清楚状况的我也明白此时,默默的陪伴才是对你最好的慰藉。
仍记得,小时候,你在我心中简直就是个神人,语、数、英、政、史、地简直是样样精通,老师总是给我们留下了一堆不能用x来解的应用题,让我们来共同解答,或许说是你一个人在战斗,然后再顺便替我写好过程,等着给我仔细解释,直到我彻底明白,尽管我有时我为了尽快和小伙伴玩耍,只是应付的听听。
仍记得,我们总有一些不能让妈妈知道的秘密,例如培训班没上,小提琴没练等等,你回来之后发现我没去上课后,在我的软磨硬泡之下,终于答应不告诉她,我激动的跑到门口小卖店给我们一人买了一根一块的老冰棒,这就就是我们达成协议的见证,虽然用的是你口袋里的零钱,但你每次都帮我保守着这些老妈“不该知道的秘密”。
仍记得,每次和nn发生矛盾,哪怕不是我的错,你都会责备我,我知道在这种情况下,你的处境真的很为难,但青春期的我似乎不怎么理解,依然和你对着干,就是这样,从小到大都是在你的保护下不让我妈打我的你,踹了我一脚,委屈的眼泪止不住的流下来,但现在回想起来,真的是我的不对,真的想和你说一声对不起。
仍记得,已经很晚了,你非要去nn家,我和妈妈都说不用去,这么晚了,估计都已经睡了,别再去打扰她,但你却反问了了我一句“为什么你可以和你妈妈在一起?”这是我才知道,虽然在我面前你是一个超人一样的角色,但实际上你仍是个需要时不时和妈妈在一起的孩子,至此之后,无论多晚,我会陪着你一起去看nn。
仍记得,每天在回家的时候,电视机总是固定不变的是法制栏目,其实心里有小小的反感,但只能默默的陪你看,每每问起你为何要看此类的节目时,你总是默默不语。除此之外,十多年的职业生涯,似乎使你得了职业病,总是持续关注着最新的法制信息,还时不时的给我普及,尽管我有时是真的不感兴趣,但我任然坚持听,因为这是你喜欢的,就像小时候你不厌其烦听我讲了一遍又一遍的《哪吒传奇》。
仍记得,在高考的前几天,家里的氛围似乎有那么点紧张,但你和妈妈装的一种不太像的云淡风轻的模样把所有的好吃的全部堆在餐桌上,直到我吃不下,但我知道你比我还要紧张,生怕任何突发情况,导致我发挥失误,考不上一个理想的大学,而没心没肺的我,仍然是吃嘛嘛嘛香,睡眠质量超好的度过了人生中第一个最重要的转折,而你和妈妈却担心的晚晚都睡不好觉。
仍记得,当接收到大学录取通知书的瞬间,你开心的模样,小心的打开,仔细的取出里面的录取通知书,一遍又一遍的看着,仿佛是你自己的似的,当我们坐着飞机来到了这个陌生的城市,向来心大的我,似乎渐渐体味到分离的伤感,当你们帮我打理好宿舍里的一切,军训的集合没有让我能和你们好好地道个别,回来是你们已经离去,但我的脑海里满满的都是你们。当第二天,你们为了给我送些吃的再次出现在我的面前,明明是一件很开心的事眼泪却止不住的掉了下来,倔强的为了不让你们担心,悄悄的跑到楼道里把眼泪擦干,微笑着进来。舍不得你们每天早上叫我起床,舍不得你们每天早上给我做早餐,舍不得你们每天晚上无论自习到多晚总会给我留灯,舍不得你们给我的一切……
仍记得,刚刚进入大学有种种的不适应,从来没有住过校的我要五个来自不同地区的性格迥异的姑娘相处,面对全新的教学模式,面对全新的班级人群,面对全新的一切,慢热的我似乎一下子适应不了者如此多的变化,每天都过得不太开心,每天最大的乐趣就是和你视频通话,虽然每天都是几乎一样的问题,但我能感觉到你就在我身边。
时间一种让人猝不及防的东西,晴时有风阴时有雨,争不过朝夕,又念往昔,偷走了青丝却留不住你。渐渐地,我长大了,尽管我从未做过任何让你骄傲的事,你却始终视我如宝,你没有很多钱,也不是大领导,但你却护着我,宠着我,给了我最好的一切,有一天仔细的观察你,原来你一种肉眼看不到的速度慢慢的变成了一个老男人,突然好想抱抱你。也许含蓄是咱们家的传统,但我仍欠你一句:爸爸,我爱你!
岁月是一场有去无回的旅行,好的坏的都是风景,别怪我贪心只是不愿醒,纵然似梦半醒着,哭着笑着都快活,因为你只为你,我们在一起,看云淡风轻……
篇20:高考作文写作技巧
全文共 517 字
+ 加入清单提分技巧之一
从人生的体会方面去思考,写人一定要写出人生体验。写满分作文最重要的就是要有一种责任感,大的方面不说,自己对自己也是有责任的。其次是家庭责任感,再次是社会责任感,每个人在每个阶段的责任感是不一样的。对于人文精神这一方面的作文,人们会更加关注,也会更加容易得到阅卷老师的喜爱。
提分技巧之二
从哲理思辨角度去思考,要把作文写得有深度,就要带着辩证思维去思考、去挖掘,任何事物之间都是有一定的联系的,比如,成功和失败,它们在表面上看起来,是明显对立的,大家都偏爱成功而讨厌失败,但如果从哲理方面去思考的话,失败也未必就是那么痛苦,失败可以给人经验,让人从经验中再次找到成功的动力,并且时刻提醒自己,一定不能再大意。如果作文内容能够反弹琵琶,那说不定能够收到更好的效果。
提分技巧之三
结合时代特点,任何一个时代都有其自身的特点。所以,同学们在写作文的时候,需要在日常生活中多关注一些时事,看一些报刊评论等等,这样有利于同学们紧跟时代去思考问题。
提分技巧之四
作文素材的累积至关重要。不同的作文题材需要不同的作文素材。所以,对于情感、道德、科技、自然、文化问题等这些方面都需要积累一些。积累的多了,作文也就有题材了,这是满分作文形成的基础。