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1000关于改变自己英语
全文共 2194 字
+ 加入清单In our daily life, we can learn something from some cases. However, from my
point of view, I think that it is essential for us to know ourselves in a right
way. People who have a full awareness of the importance to improve themselves
will discover themselves continuously. Therefore, we can say that if we want to
change ourselves, we must bravely reveal ourselves.
Every coin has two sides, and we are no exception. When we experience some
situations, we will find that there are many advantages of us. Thus, we can have
a huge sense of satisfaction. We may have a little pride, because we are happy
that we can make good use of our advantages to solve more difficult problems in
the future. However, at the same time, we also can realize that there are still
some disadvantages of us. These disadvantages will bring us different
influences. I’d like to point out that people who can bravely accept and remove
their disadvantages will gain a bright future. On the contrary, people who
choose escape or ignorance their disadvantages will indulge themselves, and they
no further progress.
Don’t indulge yourself. If we indulge ourselves, we will meet more terrible
suffering in our later life. I know that when we find our weakness, we may say
that I will never do that again, and regret doing so meaningless thing. I am
such a fool. But when we meet similar situations next time, we will still tell
ourselves that it doesn’t matter that I do it again. Then we will indulge
ourselves to expand our disadvantages. It shows that some people who have no own
principle will fail to realize their promises. When we can overcome our
laziness, we will understand that solving some problems may be not so difficult.
Therefore, we should try our best to control ourselves to pursue higher
development.
There are no any excuses to indulge yourself. We should tell ourselves that
we are capable to overcome our weakness, though it needs much time. However, if
we succeed once, then we will be successful again. Last, we don’t indulge
ourselves. We will become more complete.
Everyone can take actions to improve themselves. Don’t indulge yourself. If
you succeed, you will acquire a huge wealth, and your life will become more
brilliant.
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篇1:选择的英语作文100字
全文共 1214 字
+ 加入清单In current society,thanks to the deepening reform and opening-up,there is
so much unemployment, the competition for jobs is very fierce.In an effort to
land a decent job ,a host of school-leavers choose to attend the graduate
school‘s test.They want to learn more knowledge before acquiring a fine job.They
also can be confident in taking interviews.Consequently,attending the graduate
school‘s test is pevalent increasingly in late several years.
Among other folks intend to secure a job after graduating.Although the
competition for jobs is very fierce,it is also very difficult to find out a fine
job for colleage students.After a couple of years,the number of the graduate
students is sharply up-swing.It is same to face job problems for graduate
students.Secuing a job after graduating can accumulate experience in order to
get on well in the future.
In my eyes,the Middle kingdom enjoys a booming economy, a rising number of
companys from overseas come to built themselves factories.We are facing
opportunities and challenges.We might well choose to land a job after
graduating.Plus,we are still young,we can choose to attend the graduate school‘s
test after accumulating working experience.It will be wise for us to do
that.
篇2:有关英语作文traveling初4
全文共 1719 字
+ 加入清单I think there is no one would say “no” to travel. People love travel, for
it can make them relax and widen their vision. Some people like to travel with
friends, because they want to share the pleasure oftraveling, and they think
the journey will be much easier for they can take care of each other. While some
people like to travel alone, they can go anywhere in anytime. They don’t have to
care about what the partner’s idea. In my opinion, I’m much preferred to travel
with friends, but I always have an urge to travel alone.
Firstly, I was told that travel alone can help people to grow up quickly,
and that’s what I really need. If you travel alone, you have to do everything by
yourself in the journey, for instance, to buy a ticket, to book hotel, and ask
directions. That maybe just a small case for extrovert, but for introvert, like
me, it’s really a big challenge. I remember the first time I go to travel with
friends and my little brother, they did everything, and I just follow and had
fun. I even too shame to check into a hotel, and my little brother did it for
me. I was humiliated for that. So, travel alone could force introvert to do the
things that you don’t dare to do. It could help you to build an outgoing
personality. For extrovert, travel alone could enhance your ability to handle
emergence case.
Secondly, travel alone gives you peace of mind. Image that, you walking
alone in the beach, there are no sounds of human beings, just burst of sound
waves. You close your eyes, enjoy the moment, you will feel peace.
In short, travel alone could be loneliness and dangerous, especially for
girls, but it’s worth having a try for the beautiful scene in the journey, it
seems like all the things are just exist for you.
篇3:有关交流英语初一
全文共 666 字
+ 加入清单In the last century, the government carried out the policy of family
planning to control the increasing population. So most families have only one
child, but recently, a new policy has been announced and people can have the
second child. It sounds like the good news for the family, as the only child can
have a sibling to company. While for some parents, they seem to be not the
qualified parents. A boy complained that his parents’ second child was the smart
phone, because they lowed down their heads all the time. Many parents did not
realize the lack of communication with their children. If they want another
child, they’d better learn to communicate their kids first.
篇4:关于网购英语作文初中
全文共 968 字
+ 加入清单With the rapid development of the internet, shopping on the Internet has
become a fashion in our daily life. According to the latest data, over two
hundred million people used to buy commodities on the Internet. Some of the
students also join the group.
There are many advantages about shopping on the Internet. Just by a click
of the mouse, you can buy whatever you like without going outdoors. You don’t
need to worry about being trapped in the crowed people and cars, or wasting too
much time on walking. When shopping on line, you can choose from more varieties
of goods, whose price are generally lower.
Every coin has two sides. Its disadvantages are obvious, too. On one hand,
it’s very easy for you to buy goods different from the pictures you see on the
internet,which is quite disappointed. On the other hand, shopping on the
Internet may cause people to buy commodities that are not badly needed. It’s a
waste of money.
After all, I really enjoy shopping on the Internet.
篇5:端午节的高一英语
全文共 2649 字
+ 加入清单There are many festivals in our country, such as the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, the Mid-Autumn festival, but the most memorable one is the Dragon Boat Festival this year.
That day, tian teacher brought a bag of hot dumplings, they wear white belts, wearing a green shirt, laughingly lying in his pockets, as if to say to me: "come and eat me. Are the perfume, my stomach was already in the singing, gawk at my desk, I looked at the appetizing brown meat, very anxious to go up to bite.
Mr. Tian seemed to guess our thoughts, and said, laughing, "hungry cats, have a taste. "Hooray!" The students were dancing with joy. Mr. Tian slowly took off the clothes of the zongzi, showing the white and white glutinous rice balls, and some rubies on the glutinous rice. After a while, finally it was my turn, I skipping took to the podium, picked up a toothpick, gently thorn under a mass of glutinous rice, dip in a little bit of sugar, healthy-looking and happily. When I got back to my seat, I had a mouthful of food, and I put it in my mouth. It was so sweet. Finally, it is delicious to lick the white sugar on my lips. I didnt like eating zongzi before, and why I changed my mind today. Peng liying also went up and stabbed a small group, strutted down the stage, came to my seat and proudly gave me the delicious zongzi. I with poor eyes staring at her (mean, give me some) she stared my one eye (means I havent sample) so she gobbled down the zongzi, keep shout delicious. My last glimmer of hope was dashed.
Everyone looked at the last few rice dumplings in the hand of tians teachers. Tian said, "who hasnt eaten zongzi yet?" Everyone raised their hands and said, "I, I, I." Before the teacher ordered that all were crowding on the platform, packed liuxue86.com field teacher doesnt know what to do, even the really not eat the rice dumplings that male students have also been squeezed behind us in the distance. You thorn, I see, the time is finally arrived, just put the hand inside a stretch, alas! I was struck by someones toothpick, and I was like an ant on a hot pot. Only the last zongzi was left, and everyone was so crowded that the dumplings were torn apart by us, and the teacher was busy and busy. When I was disappointed, tian teacher suddenly turned into my mouth was a mass of rice dumplings, joyous and pleased, I happily returned to the seat, whilst placing a hand over your mouth cant say how sweet in my heart. When the dumplings were finished, some students returned to their seats disappointed. Some students were so happy that they took a lot of dumplings.
This happy Dragon Boat Festival is really unforgettable to me.
篇6:英语作文求职信
全文共 961 字
+ 加入清单Dear Manager
I got to know the message that the position of the salesman in your company is empty, which made me excited about it, for that, I want it for a long time.
Please let me tell the reasons why I am so excited. Its so famous that it is hardly unknown to everyone. As known, in your company, the products are in a good qualification and the sales service is satisfied, which made me believe that your company would be a perfect stage for me.
Of course, the requirements for this position are high, but I think I am good enough for it. In the last four years, I worked very hard on my study and had a good understanding of professional knowledge. Besides, I took every chance to practice. I attended several activities and took up an internship is an organization. As a result, I developed great practical skills. And, I get CET-6 certification and choose the sales lessons. I think they would be helpful to be your staff.
I am looking forward to your reply.
篇7:英语作文我的大学100字
全文共 769 字
+ 加入清单I am a sophmore of Nanchang University.Now i want to introduce to you guys
about my university.It has a long history back to the fifties of last
century.
As it locate far away from the city center ,the most prosperous place,you
may think the traffic is totally unconvenient,then you are wrong,instead of
unconvenient ,there are a lot of transportation tools that will take you to
where you want to go at any time.when it going to say about facilities and
faculites,i will say they are excellent and helpful.I cherish friendship and
like to make as many friends as i can and i found out that the students there
are have a heart of gold ,and are hospital.So,thats my university,it is not the
best one but i still love it .I can foresee that i will enjoiy my life on campus
from now.
篇8:大学生就业英语作文100字
全文共 1243 字
+ 加入清单When we read newspapers, our attention is always attracted by increasing
unemployment rate in young graduates who are leaving college. In my opinion,
there are many causes for this disquieting phenomenon and we should try to solve
the problem.
Most companies would rather employ a low-educational specialized worker
than a this-years graduate from a well-known university. For companies, they are
more likely to choose the candidates with rich working experience. Apparently
enough, the training for young graduates usually costs them a large quantity of
time and money. In addition, the current education system brings on a lot of
bookworms who are adept in theoretical but not practical knowledge. Therefore,
it is hard for those graduates to complete the practical assignments
successfully and smoothly. This is one major reason why many graduates find it
to find suitable jobs.
An un-mandatory retirement age is another factor leading to the youth
unemployment for college graduates. Along with the improving of working
efficiency, proficient employees with rich and extensive working experience get
retired at a much later age. In this case, for young graduates, there are fewer
chances to get access to the jobs taken up by the older and more
experienced.
篇9:教师节高一英语作文100字
全文共 1415 字
+ 加入清单Is Chinas fine tradition, respect from as early as the western zhou dynasty, 11th century BC is put forward the "father" disciple division, respect the same as.
Teachers day, just aimed at certain teachers have greatly contributed to the success of the cause of education. In 1985, the sixth session of the 9th meeting of the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress agreed to the state council on establishing teachers day, the meeting decided to each year on September 10 as teachers day. On September 10, 1985, is Chinas first teachers day. Starting from xx years, then the CPPCC national committee of the humanities is a famous scholar li, in the form of proposal, repeatedly called for Confucius birthday as teachers day. Measured by the authoritative department study, Confucius was born on September 28, 551 BC (Gregorian calendar), the day also therefore timely: busy at the beginning of the new school year is over, can have time for teachers day and National Day.
The annual Teachers Day is coming, we are quick to say goodbye to the first grade two grade. In this special time, I have many words to say to the teacher liu. On the platform, leaving you to lecture the sweat of our hard work, outside the classroom, all over you to our care discourse. Teacher, teacher, your life is a fire, your life is a song, your career is a poem. Here I wish all the teachers happy Teachers Day!
篇10:假期作文高一英语100词
全文共 597 字
+ 加入清单It is known to all that Guangxi province is famous for its various culture,
because there are many minorities. Recent years, the local government carry out
a policy of taking a break on March 3rd, which makes it the special day for
Guangxi Province. People can enjoy some shows which are full of local features,
such as singing local songs, having dragon-lion dance and so on. This policy not
only lets people take relax from routine work, but also makes people remember
their culture. I am part of the local people and I am so proud of the variety.
The different culture makes our country full of charm.
篇11:万圣节英语优秀作文带翻译
全文共 1472 字
+ 加入清单Halloween
Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means "holy evening," and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints Day. However, it is not really a church holiday, it is a holiday for children mainly.
Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o-lanterns, which means "Jack of the lantern".
The children also put on strange masks and frightening costumes every Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house. Every time they come to a new house, they say,"Trick or treat! Money or eat!" The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags.
Not only children, but most grown-ups also love Halloween and Halloween parties because on this day,they can disguise themselves as personages or ghost as their imaginations will lead them. This bring them the satisfaction of being young.
万圣节前夕
万圣节前夕是美国人年年都会庆祝的秋季节日。它的意思是“神圣的夜晚”,在每年的10月31日,也就是万圣节前夜。但实际上这不是一个真正的宗教节日,而主要是孩子们的节日。
每年秋天蔬菜成熟可以食用的时候,孩子们就会挑出大个儿的橙色南瓜。然后在南瓜上刻上一张脸,把一根点燃的蜡烛放在里面。看起来就好像有人在向南瓜外面张望。这些灯就叫做“iack-o-lantems”,意思也就是“杰克的灯”。
每年万圣节前夕孩子们还戴上奇怪的面具,穿上吓人的服装。有些孩子把脸刷成怪物。然后他们拿着盒子或袋子挨家挨户串门。每来到一个新房子他们就说:“不款待就捣乱!给钱还是吃的!”大人们就会把用来招待的钱或糖放在他们的袋子里了。
不仅孩子,许多成年人也喜欢万圣节前夕和万圣节前夕晚会。因为这一天他们可以根据自己的想象把自己装扮成名流或幽灵。这会带给他们年轻的快感。
篇12:2024初中英语教师个人工作计划
全文共 1760 字
+ 加入清单本学期,我将结合学校工作计划和学校教学工作计划的要求,规范常规教学,提高教学质量,努力形成自己的教学特色。
一、总体思路
以努力提高教学质量为目标,以抓好教学常规工作,提高英语合格率为重点,采用任务型教学法,注重“学困生”的教育补差工作,形成良好的教学风气。
二、学生情况分析
经过一学期的学习,从上期期末成绩来看,七年级两个班的英语成绩比较理想。平均分82分。大部分学生学习目的明确,态度端正,掌握了英语学习的一些基本方法,能够积极主动认真地学习,学习成绩较好。但还有少部分学生没有明确的学习目的,缺少学习的热情和主动性,自觉性较差,相应的学习习惯也差,加上两极分化十分严重。
三、教材分析
《Goforit》七年级下册共14个单元,包括2个复习单元。全书采用任务型语言教学模式,融汇话题、交际功能和语言结构,形成了一套循序渐进的生活化的学习程序。每个单元都列出明确的语言目标,主要的功能项目与语法结构,需要掌握的基本词汇,并分为A、B两部分。A部分是基本的语言内容,B部分是知识的扩展和综合的语言运用。每个单元还有selfcheck部分,供学生自我检测本单元所学的语言知识。它采用“语言的输入---学生的消化吸收---学生的语言输出”为主线编排的。
四、教学目标
掌握本册书上的重点词汇、词组以及句型。通过本学期的学习,培养学生对英语的学习兴趣,形成有效的学习策略,有效提高学习效率,发展双基能力;培养听、说、读、写的能力,使学生初步获得运用英语的能力,达到语言运用能力的迁移和拓展;通过了解世界,了解不同地区的人文风俗,学会理解和尊重异国文化,并使学生在人际交往中学会尊重和理解别人,能在小组活动中积极与他人合作,相互帮助,共同完成学习任务,尽情享受学习的乐趣。
五、教学措施
1、加强词汇教学,包括单词拼写、词义记忆,语言功能的训练。
词汇是文章、句子的基本单位,词汇量的大小,将直接关系到学生能否流利地运用英语进行交际;能否熟练地用英语读和写;能否顺利地用英语思考。从上学期的期末考试所反映的问题看,在今后的教学中,在加强拼读与拼写的同时,应帮助学生进行有意识记,应加强对词的用法及内在含义的理解,要培养学生用英语解释单词的能力,逐步启发引导学生用英语思考。单词教学一定要做到词不离句,这样,学生在学会了单词的同时,也学会了词的一些基本用法。
2、每天背诵课文中的对话,培养语感。
3、基本的语法教学一定要与语境相结合。
进行语法操练时,要坚持“四位一体”,即话题、语境、结构、功能相结合。抓住话题,联系语境,确定语法结构,明确语法功能(交际功能)。要重视语法知识对于培养语言运用功能的基础作用,又要注重改革教法。课堂上一定要有生动活泼的教学活动。
4、进一步培养阅读能力和写作能力。
阅读和写作能力的培养是英语教学的又一重点。阅读和写作能力的培养在于平时。教师在平时讲解阅读理解题时,应着力帮助学生分析语言材料,而不是核对答案;平常应该多写作文。
5、做好学困生转化和优秀生培养工作。
优秀生:___,___,__,___。
学困生:___,___,__,___,___,___,___,___,___,___,___,___,___。
尤其对学困生进行专门辅导,布置一些作业,让他们在小进步、小转变中体会学习的快乐,树立学习的自信,尽快成长起来。
6、继续搞好师徒结对活动。
师徒结对活动也是一种好的学习方式。
7、作业布置要做到数量适中,批阅及时,对出现的问题要跟踪矫正,认真讲评,尽量面批面改。提高练习质量,要精选资料。
六、教研课题
《浅谈英语阅读能力的培养》
措施:用新的教学理念指导英语阅读教学,进一步改变教法和学法,培养学生对英语阅读的兴趣,提高学生的英语阅读能力,提高英语教学效果。
1、尝试通过各种形式的学习,例如复述课文、把课文改编成情景剧、阅读竞赛等活动,提高学生学习英语的兴趣,从而达到自主积累、综合运用英语的目的,并指导学生运用科学的方法记忆单词、阅读课文,取得事半功倍的效果。
2、通过信息技术与学科整合的手段,以课内为基础,增加课外阅读的量,指导学生借助信息手段和工具书理解文章基本内容的方法,提高学生的英语自学能力。
3、以复述课文、回答问题、判断正误、通过上下文线索猜词义为载体,培养学生的综合阅读技能,提高学生的英语阅读理解能力。
篇13:有关音乐英语作文高中
全文共 1950 字
+ 加入清单I have to say that music really has a strong attractiveness to me.
Naturally, everyone can choose suitable music to listen to. However, when you
find a kind of music which can bring happiness to you, you will be surprised and
become excited. Music has a magical energy, and it can help people gain good
mood in a great extent.
When you feel sad, you can have a try to listen to soothing music. At
first, soothing music will let you calm down. You will find that you will play
much attention to the music, and then your sadness can be decreased. You will
enter music ocean. You can experience a baptism of your heart. It does not
matter that when you listen to soothing music and you want to cry, you should
just follow yourself feeling to have a thorough release. Music will give you
enough encourage to overcome difficulties.
Music also can double your happiness and arouse the fighting. For instance,
when you solve some very difficult situations and gain success eventually, you
will have a great mood. At this time, exciting music will witness your success.
You will feel satisfied. Music lets you remember the glorious moment and cherish
your success. Music can give you unlimited motivation to achieve goals,because
you still want to listen to glorious music.
In addition, music includes a lot of useful knowledge. People can learn
precious knowledge from music. Because there is different music, we can find out
that different nations have different music thoughts to express. And from music,
we can listen to music culture. Music culture will give you a deeper
understanding to learn foreign culture, such as foreign language, foreign
history and foreign traditional customs and so on. In a word, music has an
important effect on promoting society development.
Music indeed has a magical power to help people and society develop. I
believe that music will still continue to bring us many surprises. As the
development of society, great music will become more important.
篇14:读书英语年级100词
全文共 647 字
+ 加入清单I think reading is important in the whole life for people. There are many
benefits of reading.
Firstly, reading increases our knowledge and we can learn the world affairs
without going out. Secondly, reading is a good way to improve reading and
writing skills. Before you learn to write, you must know how others write.
Thirdly, reading can broaden our knowledge and horizon, which is important to
job hunting in the future.
Finally, reading helps us become self-cultivation that would be beneficial
to our whole life. Therefore, start to reading, no matter how old you are and
what you are doing. Then, you may find the great charm and benefits of
reading.
篇15:有关圣诞节英语作文高中
全文共 576 字
+ 加入清单As the Christmas Day is coming, our class decided to send some gifts to our
teachers, because we wanted to show our gratitude to them. At first, we had no
idea what to buy, because we wanted to do something special. So at last an idea
came to my mind. I advised to write a card, pasting some pictures of classmates
on it. Everybody agreed with me, so we spent a day to take some funny pictures,
and everybody wrote down their names on the card. When we sent this gift to the
teachers, they loved it so much. They were so impressed by this precious
surprise and would keep it forever.
篇16:春节英语作文初二80词
全文共 690 字
+ 加入清单Then, the representative of the bedroom Zhu Guozhang asked us to guess a
line of a poem related to the above situation. He added that Li Xinmin alone was
born in the year of the dog and the other three were all born in the year of the
chicken. They left us all in confusion. And it was our monitor who was
quickwitted. He shouted our, "The day breaks as the cock crows three times at
dawn." The hall After that, they had another item. This time Li Xinmin was
placed in the middle of the circle. While he was standing there, the other three
stood around him, each bowing down to him at an angle of 120 degrees. It was an
idiom. This time I got it right:"The dog stands out among a group of
chickens."
篇17:有关交通英语初一
全文共 1194 字
+ 加入清单As it’s known to all, China is popular for its emperor of bicycles. This is
because our country is still a developing country and few people can afford
private cars. The demand for a means of transport is met by making millions of
bicycles available.
Riding a bicycle has a lot of advantages over driving a car. First, it is a
physical exercise to ride a bicycle. In contrast, sitting in the car, one tends
to gain weight. Besides, it is much more economical to ride a bike than drive a
car. On the one hand, the only fee a bike-rider has to pay is the annual tax.
However, the annual fees for a car are costly. On the other hand, a bike neednt
be equipped with a parking lot, but a car must. Most important of all, it is
beneficial to the environment to ride a bicycle because the bike doesnt consume
petrol; it is a pollution-free transport. In contrast, the exhaust released by
the car is harmful to the environment.
Since China is a developing country with a large population, bicycles will
still be the most popular means of transport in China for quite a long time.
Most people will still ride bicycles to go to work or to school. The emperor
country of bicycles will remain for at least dozens of years.
篇18:有关圣诞节英语作文高中
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+ 加入清单Christmas Day is on December 25th, though it originated in the western
country, now it is popular around the world. In China, people will spend that
day happily, they will eat apples on Christmas Eve, the children will put the
socks so that they could get the presents from Santa Claus. When I went to
college, I had an unforgettable memory about my first Christmas Day.
As my major is English, I have many foreign teachers, so that I could have
access to the local culture from them. Christmas Day is a big day for them, when
the day came, they asked us to spend the day with them, because most of them
left home and did not have families around. My classmates and I went to the
foreign teacher’s home at that day, we brought some presents, when we arrived at
his house, we found a beautiful tree with shinning lights. My teachers taught us
how to cook all the cookies, we were having such great fun. I made the cookies
with many favors. We talked happily and sung Christmas songs.
I learned how the foreign people spend their big day, it was such
unforgettable for me.
篇19:有关压力英语初二
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+ 加入清单Peer pressure means the influence given by a group of people around you,
such as, parents, friends, classmates, teachers and so on. Their influence will
affect your attitude, behavior, conception or decision. As every side has two
sides, this influence also has two sides. Let me explain my reasons.
For one thing, influence of peer pressure has positive effect. It depends
on the specific thing. Sometimes, the influence of pressure will promote me get
progress. For instance, my deskmate does well in one math exam, while I fall far
behind her. As we are deskmates, i can’t let others look down on me. So i will
take her as my good example to fight. And then next time, I can get a good mark
by my effort. Take my parents as another example, they like clean. They don’t
have the habit to throw rubbish at will. I won’t have this habit either living
with them.
For another, influence of peer pressure has negative effect. Sometimes the
influence will be bad. For example, if my friends ask me to skip class to watch
a basketball match with them, i go with them, even i don’t have that thought
before. And one of my friends has gone through a lot, he always try to convince
me that money is very important. As time passes, i may change my conception.
In summary, the influence of peer pressure has positive and negative sides.
We have to advocate the good side and avoid the negative. We have to be clear
about what is right and what is wrong and firm our position.
篇20:英语高一优秀作文100字
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+ 加入清单The way people hold the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free lifestyle
equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever obtaining real
happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness,then pain must be equal to
unhappiness. But in fact,the opposite is true: more often than not things that
lead to happiness contain some pain.
As a result,many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true
happiness.They fear the pain inevitably (不可避免地) brought by such things as
marriage,raising children,professional achievement, religious commitment,
self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be
less and less satisfying. If he is honest,he will tell you that he is afraid of
making a commitment,for commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is
filled with fun, adventure and excitement.Marriage has such moments,but they are
not its most distinguishing features.
Couples,with infant children, are lucky to get a whole nights sleep of a
three-day vacation. We dont know any parent who would choose the word fun to
describe raising children. But couples that decide not to have children ever
know the joys of watching a child grow up or playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun
is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote
more hours to activities that can really increase our happiness. It liberates
money:buying that new car or those fancy clothes to increase our happiness now
seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy:we now understand that all those
who always have so much fun actually may not be happy at all.