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1
Why Do We Attend University
我们为什么要上大学
When we
consider why we should attend universities,
different people have
different ideas.
In some students' eyes, studying in universities
means a bright
future after graduation.
They think they are bound to find good jobs with a
good
college education. However, life
in the colleges and the jobs that they can find
are usually somewhat disappointing.
Especially under the severe competition
of today's society, it is not very easy
for a college graduate to find a
satisfying job. As far as I am concerned,
universities can provide good study
opportunities and essential facilities for
those who want to acquire knowledge for
the construction of our country, and
this is the reason why we attend
universities.
Vocabulary:
somewhat ['s
?
mhw
?
t,
-hw
?
t] n.
几分；某物
adv.
有点；多少；几分；稍微
construction [k
?
n
'str
?
k
?
?
n] n.
建设；建筑物；解释；造句
2
On
Super Girl
关于超级女生
Our class has recently held a heated
discussion about the super girl's
phenomenon which was hot news in these
years. The students show their
different opinions about it.
62% of the
students support it, they think that it provides a
chance for those
with talent for
singing to show. In this way, some new singers can
be trained
and so it can promote the
development of music and it can also improve their
consciousness of competition. However
38% of the students are against it.
They believe that many students spend
too much time and energy on the
competition. Some students even long to
become famous overnight and can't
concentrate themselves on studies.
What's worse it can cause some students
to worship their idols blindly.
Vocabulary:
consciousness ['k
?
n
?
?
snis] n.
意识；知觉；觉悟；感觉
overnight [,
?
uv
?
'nait, '
?
uv
?
nait] adj.
晚上的；通宵的；前夜的
n.
头天晚上；一
夜的逗留
worshipper ['w
?
:<
/p>
?
ip
?
]
n.
崇拜者；礼拜者；爱慕者
3
Can Money Buy
Happiness?
钱可以买到幸福吗
?
Nowadays, a lot of people in society
think the more money they have the
more
happiness they will obtain. As a result they will
try their best to get money,
even
without considering the law.
But in my view,
the greatest happines
s lies in one’s
satisfaction with one’s
surroundings.
So long as we can look at things with a happy
heart, we can be
happy. It has nothing
to do with a mount of money we have. Therefore,
people
shouldn’t pay too much attention
money we have.
On the contrary, what they
should do is to put their money to good use and
try to have an optimistic outlook all
the time.
Vocabulary:
optimistic
[,
?
pti'mistik] adj.
乐观的；乐观主义的
outlook
['autluk, ,aut'luk] n.
展望；观点；景色
4
The Advantages and Disadvantages of
Surfing the Internet
上网的益处和坏处
With the
development of computer technology, the internet
has become
more and more popular.
Opinons are divided on whether students should
surf
the internet after class. Some
students regard it as a great helper, the main
reasons for this are listed as follows,
first you can surf the internet for any
information you need in a short time
without working hard in the library;
besides it is convenient to communicate
with others by using the internet.
However, other students think that
there are some disadvantages of the
internet because there is also some
information that's not good for the
students. In addition, spending too
much time playing games online will not
only have a bad affect on study but
also do harm to our health. Therefore we
should make proper use of the internet.
It is of great importance fo r us to
separate good plans from wild weeze.
Vocabulary:
wild
[waild] adj.
野生的；野蛮的；狂热的；荒凉的
5
Natural Resources
自然资源
For
many
years,
we
have
been
told
that
China
is
rich
in
various
natural
resouces
so
many
people
take
it
for
granted
that
they
are
inexhaustible.
people have not considered that one day
some of these natural resources will
be
used up and that we will then be faced with energy
crisis. As a matter of fact,
many of
the natural resources can't be replaced once used
up such as the coal
mines or oil fuels,
etc. energy crisis will threaten our existance
because of our
excessive exploitation
and because of the growing population. Considering
the
above
the government
should
try to take some action to
protect
the
natural
resources and people should be educated
not to waste them.
Vocabulary:
grant [
ɡ
r
ɑ
:nt,
ɡ
r?
nt] vt.
授予；允许；承认
take it
for granted
视为当然；把
…
当成理所当然
inexhaustible [,ini
ɡ
'z
?
:s
t
?
bl] adj.
用不完的；不知疲倦的
excessive [ik'sesiv] adj.
过多的，极度的；过分
exploitation [,ekspl
?
i'tei
?
?
n] n.
开发，开采；利用；广告推销
6
Examinations
考试
There are many arguments about the
advantages and disadvantages of
examinations. Some people think that
examinations can help them review the
lessons regularly, while others
maintain that too many examinations have
frustrated them. To me, I think an
examination is a good thing for both the
teachers and students. Teachers can
find out how much the students have
grasped and then improve their
teaching, students on the other hand will learn
what their weak points are and then
study even harder. All in all, we should not
waste time arguing whether examinations
are good or not. What we should do
is
to try to improve the exam system and try to
adjust it to our different
requirements.
Vocabulary:
frustrated
[fr
?
'streitid]
失意的，挫败的；泄气的
7
Homework
作业
Nowadays, more and more people in
society have realized the importance
of
quality education. However students in primary
schools and high schools
are still
complaining that they are overloaded with too much
homework. In
many teachers' eyes,
homework offers a good methods to strengthen the
knowledge the students have obtained,
yet they ignored the disadvantages
that
homework brings. For one thing too much homework
will take up all the
spare time of
students leaving them unable to enjoy the rest of
their lives; for
another too much
homework will do great harm to students' health
both
physically and mentally. Its high
time that schools thought more about the
function of homework and tried to take
practical measures to promote the
all-
round development of students.
Vocabulary:
Overloaded ['
?
uv<
/p>
?
'l
?
udi
d] adj.
超载的；超负荷的；超重
v.
< br>使超载；使负担过重
abtain
[
?
b'tein] v.
获得
8
Work and Rest
工作和休息
Just as a
famous saying goes: all work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy. It
is obvious that
people should have adequate rest in order to work
hard yet
some students especially those
who are preparing for the college entrance
examination are worried about their
lessons and spend all their day time going
over them. In their eyes they should
sacrifice their rest time in order to get high
scores on tests. As a result they
suffer greatly from poor health and some of
them may do poorly in the examinations.
In conclusion we should be aware
that
nothing is more valuable than health which is a
foundation of one s
uccess.
With a poor health one can hardly
succeed in anything he does. Therefore a
student we should have enough rest to
ensure a healthy body to work and
study.
Vocabulary:
adequate
['?
dikwit] adj.
充足的；适当的；胜任的
sacrifice ['s?
krifais] vi.
献祭；奉献
9
Is Honesty Going out of Style?
诚实过时了吗
Most
Chinese people are quite familiar with the story
of
the three wolves
cries
. We taught to be
honest when we were very young however as we grow
up we find that it is difficult to be
honest all the time. Sometimes we are forced
to tell lies and other times we find
people who are dishonest can enjoy great
pleasures, while honest people have to
suffer failures and still there are times
when we have to tell lies in order not
to hurt others. Consequently people
wonder whether honesty is going out of
style. As far as I'm concerned honesty
should always be an important feature
valued by Chinese people we should try
our best to avoid telling lies even
white lies only in this way it's a fair society
awaiting us.
10
My Views of
the Ban on Firecrackers
我对禁止燃烧烟花爆竹的看法
Most of us may still hold a happy
memory in our minds when we were young,
the spring festival was celebrated with
the company of the flaming box and the
loud explosions of firecrackers, but
because of the numerous disasters caused
by them, govenments in some big cities
have completely banned firecrackers
in
the downtown areas.
Some people are sad about this
decision. They argue that they will lose the
tradition
of
the
Spring
Festival.
Regardless
of
the
fires
and
the
damage
to
human
bodies
caused
by
firecrackers
they
only
focus
on
the
pleasure
firecrackers
can
bring
about.
With
the
development
of
the
modern
society
,
more and
more changes
will take place in our
lives. Some of which may be
great challenges against the
traditions, but we should support the govenment's
policy and the consideration of the
whole society.
What's more upon step into the new
century we should celebrate the Spring
Festival in a more civilized
way
.
Vocabulary:
flaming
['fleimi?] adj.
燃烧的；火红的；激昂的
v
.
燃烧；变亮；发光（
flame
的
ing
形式
）
explosion [ik'spl
?
u
?
?
n] n.
爆炸；爆发；激增
11
The Positive
and the Negative Effects of Advertising
广告的积极和消极影响
In the
morden information era, one can't avoid being
surrounded by various
kinds of
advertisments. They serve as a direct bridge
between manufactures
and
consumers.
By
advertising,
manufactures
can
easily
introduce
their
products
and
attract
the
attention
of
consumers.
On
the
other
hand,
consumers will have more opportunities
to get to know more about the things
they are interested in. However, there
is still lots of people who complain that
many
of
the
words
in
advertisements
are
rather
misleading.
Some
manufactures spend far
too much money on advertising their products
without
trying
to
promote
the
quality
of
their
goods.
T
o
make
things
worse,
some
people
even
use
false
descriptions
in
their
advertisements
for
the
sake
of
making money
. Perhaps it is
not advertising that should be blamed rather we
need to strengthen advertising law.
Only under the firm control of government,
can advertisements benefit people in
the broadest sense.
Vocabulary:
misleading [,mis'li:di
?]
adj.
令人误解的；引入歧途的
description
[di'skrip
?
?
n] n.
描述，描写；类型；说明书
broadest adj.
宽广的
12
The Generation Gap
代沟
Nowadays many
young people are complaining that their parents
can not
understand them very well. They
say that their parents take care of every
aspect of their lives leaving them a
neighbor to have their private space yet
parents are worried that their children
don't show any respect to them and
never give them any trust. Consequently
the household phrases spreading it is
the generation gap. By using this
phrase both the young and the old have
found a good explanation for their
misunderstanding of each other. Yet they
don't bother to take any measures to
cover the distance between them. In my
opinion I think we should first admit
that there are indeed some differences
between parents and children then we
should try to take some time to
communicate with each other frequently.
Not only the parents but also the kids
should be equal when they're exchanging
their views. Only by the joint efforts
can the parents and children breach the
gerneration gap between them.
Vocabulary:
private space
私人空间
misunderstanding [,mis
?
nd
?'st?ndi?] n.
误解；误会；不和
13
Science and Human Life
科学和人类生活
With the
development of science, human life has changed
tremendously.
People living in the 18th
or 19th centuries would never imagine the advanced
household appliances we are now able to
enjoy. Every aspect of our lives for
instance, in the field of medicine or
agriculture has witnessed great
improvements through the application of
science.
However, many people complained that
science has also brought disasters
to
human life. Some evil scientists have used their
knowledge to do some
illegal things.
They may use science for the creation of weapons
to destroy
thousands of lives in wars,
they might also use their knowledge to produce
drugs to make a lot of money for
themselves.
Generally speaking, science has
provided us with many valuable things but
if used wrong way it can also lead to
harm. We should try to keep science
under control and put it to the best
use of mankind.
Vocabulary:
tremendously
[tri'mend
?
sli] adv.
非常地；可怕地；惊人地
witness ['witnis] n.
证人；目击者；证
据
vt.
目击；证明；为
…
作证
14
Do Lucky Numbers Really Bring Good Luck
幸运号码能带来幸运吗？
Do
lucky numbers really bring good luck? Some people
think lucky numbers
like
6
or
8
would
bring
them
good
luck.
Because
they
bare
similar
pronunciation to the related Chinese
characters which mean
result, some
young couples choose a date in which there is a 6
or an 8 to hold
their wedding. Well,
many shops choose such dates to celebrate their
opening
ceremony.
However,
it's
rather
ridiculous
to
think
numbers
can
bring
good
fortune to people. One success has
nothing to do with the number which one
choose, but is rather related to one's
own efforts. Numbers are only numbers,
we should
not attach
too much importance to
them.
If
you
really
think
that a
number can bring good luck to you,
simply choose it, but don't forget to still go
out of your way with your own effort.
Without your own contribution, good luck
won't simply fall on you automatically.
Vocabulary:
ridiculous
[ri'dikjul
?
s] adj.
可笑的；荒谬的
automatically [,
?
:t
?
'm?
tik
< br>?
li] adv
.
自动地；机械地；无意识地
15
Film is Giving Way to TV
电视正在日益取代电影
There
is a common phenomenon in our daily lives. During
the period from
1975 to 1985, films
goes decline dramatically 85,000 to about 12000
while TV
watches sprung up from 5,000
to 100,000. As to the reasons, we may consider
the following aspects.
With the popularity of TV in our
households, more and more people want
one because of its cheapness and
convenience. On the other hand, TV
programmes can offer us more options at
the same time. Nevertheless, films
have
not fully given way, some people still prefer
going to the cinema. They
feel that the
audio visually effect offered in the cinema is a
permanent
temptation.
Vocabulary:
dramatically [dr
?
'm?
tik
?
li] adv.
戏剧地；引人注目地
permanent ['p
?
:m<
/p>
?
n
?
nt]
adj.
永久的，永恒的；不变的
temptation
[temp'tei
?
?
n] n.
引诱；诱惑物
16
College Students Going to
Rural Areas
大学生将到农村地区去
The above table indicates a common
phenomenon in recent years, more
and
more students are willing to go to rural areas to
put their knowedge into
practical use.
In 1993, the numbers of students going to rural
areas was only
5% of the total number
graduates, however, five years later; that
percentage
have more than doubled.
Upon thinking about the reasons for
this change, we may find some
interesting things. First of all, with
the development of society, college students
have changed their way of thinking.
They are becoming more practical. If they
can get a better paid job and if they
are more likely to
have a nice future
in the
rural areas. they will no longer
stick to the idea of becoming assistant in big
cities, on the other hand, the
government to also educates that choice of
working in the rural areas which
encourages more young students to leave the
big cities.
With the development of a
balanced economy, big cities will gradually lessen
their attraction for the college
graduates.
Vocabulary:
practical use
实际用途；实际应用；实用
17
On Saving
关于节约
As
we
know,
when
senior
students
graduate
from
school,
most
of
their
reference books as well as their text
books which are still in good condition
are
thrown away. What a
great waste it is! I suggest that we should
recycle these
books.
On
the one hand, recycling them can save a lot of
natural resources which
can be
reused to make
textbooks. On
the other
hand, senior students may
have
made plenty of
useful
notes on
the pages,
they are
very
useful to the
following
users.
At
present,
the
whole
nation
is
hold
on
to
build
an
energy
saving society.
I
think
it
is
certaining
meaningful
to
bring
long
term
interests.
In
fact
in
Australia and some other countries,
recycling textbooks is popular which gives
us a good example.
18
My Views on
Tradition
我对传统的看法
Many people especially
the
aged hold the idea that we should stick to the
traditions
of
our
country.
Otherwise
they
think
we
will
lose
our
distinctive
Chinese
character. In their eyes, we should be pround of
the great traditions
left
by
our
ancesters,
we
should
maintain
these
old
traditions
in
order
to
differentiate
ourselves
from
other
nations,
but
many
others
are
strongly
oppose to it. They
argue that we should not be confine to our own
traditions.
As to some traditions, they
are clearly obstacles to the
development of our
society. We should
certainly not hesitate to give them up.
While
on
the
other
hand,
tradition
may
be
improved
through
the
international
communications.
We
should
perhaps
not
be
obsessed
with
our
own
traditions.
On
the
contrary,
we
should
brave
enough
to
take
in
all
the
valuable
traditions
that
comes from different
nations. Only in this way, can our society be run
properly
and only in this way, can we
improve on our traditons.
Vocabulary:
distinctive
[dis'ti
?ktiv] adj.
有特色的，与众不同的
differentiate [,dif
?
< br>'ren
?
ieit] vi.
区分，区别
confine to
vt.
只限于；关在
…
里面
obstacle ['
?
< br>bst
?
kl] n.
障碍，干扰；妨害物
19
Fast Food
快餐
In recent
years, China has witnessed the prosperity of fast
food resturants in
big cities. It is
quite easy for people to have meals at KFC or Mc
donalds. At
lunch time, it is hard to
find seat in some fast food resturants. While so
many
small resturants are worried about
how to attract more customers, foreign fast
food resturants have rushed into China.
Why can they
draw so many people's attention?
Firstly, fast food is very
fast and convenient, people can stuff themselves
within several minutes.
Secondly, the resturants
offering fast food also provide a very comfortable
environment as well as a warm
atmosphere. people can not only enjoy the
food they have but can also feel the
foreign flavor the resturants try to display.
However, most
of the people who regularly go to fast food
resturants rarely
realize the facts
that although the food may taste delicious, fast
food usually
has little nutrition. I
think they should eat less for the sake of their
health.
Vocabulary:
prosperity
[pr
?
s'periti] n.
繁荣，成功
atmosphere ['?
tm
?
,sfi
?
] n.
气氛；大气；空气
nutrition
[nju:'tri
?
?
n] n.
营养，营养学；营养品
20
Books
书
Books play an
important part in our daily life. There are
numerous kinds of
books and each one
can be categorized according to its content. Books
are to
human life like food to our
bodies. Our lives become colorful because of the
existence of books. By reading books,
our knowledge can be enriched. From
books we can get to know many
unfamiliar things; from books we can learn
how people live in other counties; from
books we can broaden our minds and
no
longer be isolated in our own living circle. In
short, books can provide us
with so
many things. Yet, some books are harmful to us
when reading them we
will be greatly
affected. Therefore, try to choose good books and
read them in
a well planed way.
Vocabulary:
numerous ['nju:m
?
r
?
s] adj.
许多的，很多的
categorized v.
分类（
categorize
的过去式）
isolated
['ais
?
leitid] v.
使孤立；使绝缘；脱离（
isolate
的过去分词）
21
Women in the Modern World
当今社会的女人
Women are
playing an increasingly important role today. In
many fields of
society, you can easily
find lots of outstanding women.
With their actions and
achievements they have showed that women can
almost do everthing as equally well as
men.
Meanwhile
with the changes of their social role, the
position of women in the
family has
also greatly improved. Yet, there is still some
discrimination against
women, some
organizations refused to have women employees.
Even when
women are accepted, they
often do not enjoy equal pay for equal work.
Forthermore, many husbands still think
their wives as their possessions. In my
eyes, women should try to get more
opportunities to get educated and try to be
independent both mentally and
financially. They should never stop fighting for
equal rights in society.
Vocabulary:
outstanding
[,aut'st?
ndi
?] adj.
杰出的；显著的；未解决的；未偿付的
discrimination [dis,krimi'n
ei
?
?
n] n.
歧视；区别，辨别；识别力
possessions [p
?
'z
e
?
?
nz] n.
[
经
]
财产；所有物（
possession
的复数形式）
22
Competition and
Cooperation
竞争与合作
Competition is a common phenomenon in
our society, we compete when we
play
games;
we
compete
in
our
study
and
we
constantly
compete
for
jobs,
customers and profit, etc.
We can say
that competition is the one of the
motives of development of
society
. But we often find
competition and coorperation go hand in hand. In a
football game, one team is competing
with the other but each member of the
team
is
cooperating
with
his
team
mates.
In
most
cases
we
can't
compete
without coorperation thus they are
equally important. While we are
advocating
competition we can't forget
coorperation nothing can be carried to an extreme.
Pure
and
exclusive
competition
leads
to
faliure
only
when
competition
combines with
coorperation can it help obtaining our goals and
satisfying our
needs.
Vocabulary:
motive ['m
?
utiv]
n.
动机，目的；主题
advocate
['?
dv
?
keit, '?
dv
?
k
?
t]vt.
提倡，主张，拥护
n.
提倡者；支持者；律师
extreme [ik'stri:m] n.
极端；
末端；
最大程度；
极端的事物
adj.
极端的；
极度
的；
偏激的；尽头的
combine
with vt.
与
...
结合
23
Theory and Practice
理论与实践
When
talking about the importance of theory and
practice, some people
think theory is
rather empty and abstract, so we should try to
pratice a lot to
obtain our goals;
while others maintain that practice is rather too
blind and
what we really need is to
understand profound theories.
Both of
these viewpoints have own shortcomings: The former
one only
focuses on the importance of
practice, but in fact, practice without the
guidance of theory is just like a car
without an engine. The latter one ignores
the importance of practice. Paying no
attention to the function of practice will
only lead to empty words.
What we should do is to systematically
combine these two viewpoints. In our
practice, we should try to study the
related theory to make our practice easier.
While studying theories, we should try
to think in which situations we can put
the theories into reality.
Vocabulary:
viewpoint
['vju:p
?
int] n.
观点，看法；视角
systematically [,sist
?
'm?
tik
?
li]
adv.
有系统地；有组织地
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Diligence
勤奋
Diligence is the key to success. It
means persistent work and does not mean
that we are to exhaust ourselves all
day and night without any rest. The true
meaning of diligence is the careful use
of time for the purpose of
self-
improvement.
Many people
strongly believe in luck, which is a serious
mistake. If luck does
exist, it will
never fall upon lazy bones. There are also some
people who think
that they are far
superior to others in intelligence and therefore,
do not need to
study are sure about
their success, but too often they willbe
disappointed, as few of them can be
successful only with their so-called
cleverness.
In
fact, time is always fleeting and can never be re-
gained. The really clever
people are
those who understand the importance of diligence
and make it their
habit. These people
are on the way to success by their own efforts.
Vocanulary:
persistent [p
?
'si
st
?
nt] adj.
固执的，坚持的；持久稳固的
lazy bones
懒骨头
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