高考英语写作指导经典20篇

导语：高考英语作文是高考英语中比较重要的一部分，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理了优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

1) 主语+ cannot emphasize the importance of … too much.(再怎么强调……的重要性也不为过。)例如：We cannot emphasize the importance of protecting our eyes too much.

2)There is no need for sb to do sth. for sth.(某人没有必要做……)，例如：There is no need for you to bring more food. 不需你拿来更多的食物了。

3)By +doing…，主语can …. (借着……，……能够……)，例如：By taking exercise, we can always stay healthy. 借着做运动，我们能够始终保持健康。

4) … enable + sb.+ to + do…. (……使……能够……)，例如：Listening to music enables us to feel relaxed. 听音乐使我们能够感觉轻松。

5) On no account can we + do…. (我们绝对不能……)，例如：On no account can we ignore the value of knowledge.我们绝对不能忽略知识的价值。

6) What will happen to sb.? (某人将会怎样?), 例如：What will happen to the orphan? 那个孤儿将会怎样?

7)For the past + 时间，主语 + 现在完成式…. (过去……年来，……一直……)例如：

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。

8)It pays to + do….(……是值得的。)例如：It pays to help others. 帮助别人是值得的。

9)主语+ be based on….(以……为基础)，例如：The progress of thee society is based on harmony.社会的进步是以和谐为基础的。

10)主语 + do one’s best to do….(尽全力去……)，例如：We should do our best to achieve our goal in life.我们应尽全力去达成我们的人生目标

注意：“尽全力”在英语中有不同表达，例如：We should spare no effort/make every effort to beautify our environment.我们应该不遗余力的美化我们的环境。

11)主语+ be closely related to …. (与……息息相关)， 例如：Taking exercise is closely related to health.做运动与健康息息相关。

12) 主语+ get into the habit of + V-ing = make it a rule to + V (养成……的习惯)，例如：We should get into the habit of keeping good hours.我们应该养成早睡早起的习惯。

Owing to/Thanks to sth… (因为……)，例如：Thanks to his encouragement, I finally realized my dream.因为他的鼓励，我终于实现我的梦想。

13)What a + 形容词 + 名词 + 主语 + be!= How +形容词+ a +名词+ be!(多么……!)，例如： 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!

14)主语 + do good/ harm to sth.. (对……有益/有害)，例如：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。

15)主语 + have a great influence on sth. (对……有很大的影响)，例如：Smoking has a great influence on our health.抽烟对我们的健康有很大的影响。

16) nothing can prevent us from doing…. (没有事情能够阻挡我们做……), 例如：All this shows that nothing can prevent us from reaching our aims.这显示了没有事情能够阻挡我们实现目标。

17) Upon / On doing…, …. (一……就…….) ，例如：Upon / On hearing of the unexpected news, he was so surprised that he couldn’t say a word. 一听到这个出乎意料的消息，他惊讶到说不出话来。

注意：此句型一般可以改为如下复合句句型，例如：As soon as he heard of the unexpected news, he was so surprised that he ….

Hardly had he arrived when she started complaining. 他刚来，她就开始抱怨。

No sooner had he arrived than it began to rain. 他刚来，就下雨了。

18) would rather do…than do…(宁愿……而不……), 例如：I would rather walk home than take a crowded bus. 我宁愿步行回家也不愿做拥挤的公交车。

注意：此句型可以改为prefer to do…rather than do…句型，例如：

I prefer to stay at home rather than see the awful film with him. 我宁愿呆在家也不愿意和他去看那部恐怖电影。

19) only + 状语， 主句部分倒装 例如：Only then could the work of reconstruction begin. 直到那时，重建工作才开始。

20) be worth doing (值得做)，例如：The book is worth reading. 这本书值得读。

21)Owing to/Thanks to sth, …. (因为……)，例如：Thanks to his encouragement, I finally realized my dream.因为他的鼓励，我终于实现我的梦想。

以下为复合句高级句型：

22)主语+ is + the +形容词最高级+名词+(that)+主语+ have ever + seen(known / heard / had / read,etc)例如：Liu Yifei is the most beautiful girl that I have ever seen in my life. 刘亦菲是我所看过最美丽的女孩。Mr. Liu is the kindest teacher that I have ever had. 刘老师是我曾经遇到最仁慈的教师。

注意，比较级也可以用来表达最高级的意思， 例如：I have never seen a more beautiful girl than Liu Yifei in my life. 在我生活中我从来没见过比刘亦菲更美的女孩。Nothing is more important than to receive education. 没有比接受教育更重要的事。

23)There is no denying that + S + V….(不可否认的……)，例如：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。There is no denying the fact that the new management method has greatly increased the production. 不可否认的事实是，新的管理方法已经极大提高了产量。

24)It is universally acknowledged that +从句(全世界都知道……)，例如：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。

注意，全世界都知道还可以改为以下句型：As is known to us/As we all know, …. (众所周知，……)。例如：As is known to us/As we all know, knowledge is power.众所周知，知识就是力量。

25)There is no doubt that +从句(毫无疑问的……)，例如：There is no doubt that he came late. 毫无疑问，他来晚了。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。 There is no doubt that you will be helped by others if you have any difficulties.毫无疑问，你有困难时，会得到别人的帮助。

26)(It is) No wonder that.... (难怪……)，例如：No wonder that he fell asleep in class. 难怪他在课堂上睡着了。

27)So + 形容词 + be + 主词 + that + 从句 (如此……以致于……)，例如：So precious is time that we can’t afford to waste it.时间是如此珍贵，我们经不起浪费它。

28)形容词+ as +主语+ be，主语+ 谓语(虽然……)，例如：Rich as our country is, the qualities of our living are by no means satisfactory.虽然我们的国家富有，我们的生活品质绝对令人不满意。

29)The + 比较级 +主语+谓语， the +比较级+主语+谓语(愈……愈……)，例如：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。The more, the better. 越多越好。

30)It is time + 主语 + 过去式 (该是……的时候了)例如：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。

注意：此句型可以转化为简单句句型：It is time for sth./for sb to do….例如：

It is time for lunch. 该吃午饭了。

It is time they were taught a lesson. 他们该接受教训了

31)To be frank/ To tell the truth, …. (老实说, ……) , 例如: To be frank/ To tell the truth, whether you like it or not, you have no other choice.老实说，不论你喜不喜欢，你别无选择。

32)it took him a year to do….( 他用了1年的时间来做……), 例如：As far as we know, it took him more than a year to write the book.到目前为止我们所知道的是，他用了1年的时间来写这本书。It took them a long time to realize they had made a mistake. 过了很久，他们才意识到犯错了。

33)spent as much time as he could doing sth.(花尽可能的时间做某事)，例如：He spent as much time as he could remembering new words. 他花了尽可能多时间记新单词。

34)Since + 主语 + 过去式，主语 + 现在完成式，例如：Since he went to senior high school， he has worked very hard.自从他上高中，他一直很用功。

35)An advantage of… is that + 句子 (……的优点是……)，例如：An advantage of using the solar energy is that it won’t create (produce) any pollution. 使用太阳能的优点是它不会制造任何污染。

36) It was not until recently that….( 直到最近, ……) ，例如：It was not until recently that the problem was solved. 直到最近这个问题才被解决。

37) We will be successful as long as we…. (只要我们……，我们就会成功的) ，例如：We will be successful as long as we insist on working hard.只要我们坚持努力工作，我们会成功的。

38) No matter + wh-从句，…, 例如：No matter how difficult English may be, you should do your best to learn it.不管英语有多么难，你都应该尽你最大的努力来学它。No matter what he asks you to do, please refuse him. 不管他让你做什么，请拒绝他。注意：此句型一般可以改为疑问词+ever引导的从句，+主句，例如：Whatever he asks you to do, please refuse him.

39)It’s useless/ no good / no use doing sth. (做……是没有用的) , 例如：It’s no use crying over spilt milk. 覆水难收。

40)It’s + a shame / nice/ kind + to do (做.....真惭愧/好)，例如：It’s a shame to lose the match. 输了比赛，真惭愧!It’s nice of you to tell me the truth. 你太好了，告诉我真相。It’s your turn to look after the young trees. 该你照顾这些小树了。

41)It is obvious/clear that + 从句 (…是明显的)，例如：It is obvious 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。

注意：此句型中it是形式主语，其后谓语可以有不同变化。例如：

It’s certain that he will win the election. 他肯定会赢得选举。

It is true that we must make our greater efforts; otherwise we cannot catch up with the developed countries.是真的，我们要作出更大的努力，不然/否则，我们不能赶上发达国家。

It is hard to imagine how Edison managed to work twenty hours each day.很难想象爱迪生每天是怎样工作20小时的。

It’s hard to say whether the plan is practical.这个计划是否实际很难说。

It is a common saying that where there is a will ,there is a way.俗话说，有志者，事竟成。

It must be pointed out that it is one of our basic State policies to control population growth while raising the quality of the population. 一定要指出的是国家基本政策之一是在提高人口质量的同时控制人口增长。

It must be kept in mind that there is no secret of success but hard work. 一定要记住的是成功的秘密是努力的工作。

It can be seen from this that there is no difficulty in the world we cannot overcome.从这里可看出，世上没有克服不了的困难。

It has been proved that his theory is right.已经证明，他的理论是对的。

42)It is/ was ….that… (强调句型), 例如：It was on the desk that you put your book. 你把书放桌子上了。It was the doctor that inquired what had happened. 医生询问了发生的事情。

43)I don’t think / feel/ suppose that… (否定前移)，例如：

I don’t think that we shall finish it on time. 我认为我们不能按时完成(工作)。

44)The reason why + 从句 is that + 从句 (……的原因是……)，例如：

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。

The reason why the river is polluted is that the factory has poured much waste into it.这条河受污染的原因是那家工厂向里倾到了很多垃圾。

注意：表示原因还可用以下句型。请比较：That is the reason why …. (那就是……的原因)，例如：Summer is very hot. That is the reason why I don’t like it.夏天很热。那就是我不喜欢它的原因。

45)It will (not) + 时间段 + before…(……需要很长时间), 例如：It will be a long time before everything returns to normal. 一切恢复正常需要很长时间。

46) I think / feel/ find it + important/ our duty + to do… (我发觉做……重要/是我的责任),例如：I feel it our duty to help the old. 我觉得帮助老人是我们的职责。

47)Those who…. (……的人……)，例如：Those who violate traffic regulations should be punished.违反交通规定的人应该受处罚。

注意：此句型还可以转化为one/a person who…, 例如：

As the saying goes, nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.俗话说，世上无难事，只怕有心人。In a certain sense, a successful scientist is a person who is never satisfied with what he has achieved.在某种情况下，一个成功的科学家就是一个绝不满足于自己已取得的成就的人。

导语：在写记叙文时，如果要使文字内容更具体，不空泛，一定要把叙述与描写结合起来。那么如何才能结合好呢?我们首先需要了解一下这两者的基本概念和作用。

叙述和描写。是作文中两种不同的表现方式。我们这里说的叙述是指把人的经历行为或事件的发生、发展变化表述出来的一种表达方式，它常常把分散的场景，片断的故事和人物的身世，地位，经历，事迹等贯穿起来。它要求做到头绪清楚，脉络分明，有条有理，重点突出。

在记事、写人、状物的文章中，叙述是不可少的，尤其是在介绍人或事物变化为主的文章中叙述的作用更大，甚至有的文章专以叙述为长。我们本讲选的优秀作文《男班长，女班长》就是一个很好的例子。文章中描写部分很少，介绍事件发展过程的叙述占了很大的篇幅，如开头对男女班长来自何方的介绍，女班长对男班长的观察，正副班长必须合作的现实，以及同学们的揶揄，思想的顾虑，同学开玩笑不断，“收到副班长纸条”，到结尾“男女班长仍然合作着处理班里的事务”。这篇文章用很短的篇幅，以叙述为主，把一波三折的事件按发展轨迹清晰有序地介绍出来。对发展过程虽是梗概地介绍，但文章的思想内涵却非常丰富，也可以说在写法上是比较巧妙的。

叙述在按事件发生发展、人物经历的时间来划分，可以有顺叙，倒叙、插叙、补叙等方式，我们在写文章时，可以根据表达的需要去选择叙述的方式。

描写是对人物，事物和环境所作的具体的描绘和摹写，描写是再现描写对象状态的一种表达方式。描写需要采用绘声绘色的办法，把事物的状貌、神采和动态，具体地、真切地饱含情意地勾画出来。写人要使其声可闻，其容可睹;写物要使之可见，可闻，可触，可感;写景要意境鲜明，使读者产生仿佛置身其间的幻觉。

在我们学过的课文中，传神的描写是很多的。如《天山景物记》中对天山深处的描写，“山色逐渐变得柔嫩，山形也变得柔和，很有一伸手就可以触摸到凝脂似的感觉。这里溪流缓慢，萦绕着每一个山脚，在轻轻荡漾着的溪流的两岸，满是高过马头的野花，红、黄、蓝、白、紫，五彩缤纷，像绵延的织锦那么华丽，象天边的彩霞那么耀眼，像高空的长虹那么绚烂。”这段描写抓住山色、溪流、野花这三种最能表现天山特点的事物，重彩浓墨，绘声绘色地把天山美景表现出来。既能使读者如身临其境，也增添了作品的文采。我们在作文时，如果能恰当地运用描写来表现形象，借以表达某种强烈的思想感情。文章的感染力就一定能有所增强。

叙述和描写在记叙性的文字中都是不可缺少的表现方式。叙述着重于一般情况过程的交待，描写则着重形象的描摹和刻画;如果说叙述是纵的绵延，那么描写便是横的扩展。一篇文字若无叙述，就会显得杂乱无章;没有描写，则会干瘪枯燥，毫无生气可言。

实际上，成功的作品中，常常是叙述与描写交错在一起的。我们所选优秀作文，《奶奶与花》就是叙述与描写交融在一起的，近似于一线串珠式的一篇记叙文。

文中以时间为序，先从小时候家门前有一个很大的“花园”叙述开始，然后再描写人物行为语言、花的形态、气味。从而表现我“深深地爱上花”的过程。接着叙述自己病中见到花的情景，描写花的形态，写出自己感受到“花能给人一种强盛的生命力”。接着是叙述“随着年龄的增长，这种认识愈来愈深”又通过对“死不了”“仙人球”的描写，感悟出“花，让我感到一种无尽的生命力，一种明亮的期望”。第五自然段叙述自己养花的过程。这里又运用描写的方式，描绘出花园的美丽，各种花的特点，表现出花可以陶冶情操的作用。这段描写是比较突出的，描写了花的各种色彩，各种形态，用排比、比喻的手法绘色绘形，有丰富的想象力。为了把文章写得曲折有致，第七段、第八段叙述搬进高层楼房前、后我与奶奶对花的珍爱，对小花园的怀念，这里又有对人物的心理、动作的描写，为“小花园”遭到破坏，我和奶奶沉痛心情做了铺垫。

这篇文章用叙述的方式。介绍了事件发展曲折过程，使文章头绪清楚，脉络分明，重点环节突出。这是文章的一条线。在每个重要环节上，作者都生动形象地描绘了人物的行为、场景、物态，内容丰满。叙述和描写有机地结合在一起，深刻地表达了文章的主题思想，增强文章的感染力。

在作文时，恰当地运用叙述与描写，做到有机结合，要注意以下几点。

一、要熟练掌握叙述与描写的功能，注意二者之间互相依存、互相交通的关系。根据作文内容和思想表达的需要，交错运用。

二、在描写范围比较大、内容比较丰富的地域景物或事物状貌时，(例如《天山景物记》等一些游记式的文章)需要有一条贯穿始终的线索，有一个逐步转移、推进的过程，那么这个线索或过程就要依靠叙述来表现。如我们常讲的“移步换景”的写法，其中对“移步”的交代，往往需要叙述。用时间推移来描写事物或人物的发展变化时，对每个阶段的交代，一般也是要运用叙述来完成的。在这种情况下描写的条理性要依靠叙述来体现。

三、在写故事情节比较强文章时，人物的语言，行动往往是构成情节的重要因素、情节又要依靠叙述来展开，这就需要描写人物语言行动与铺叙故事情节同时进行，也就是说要把叙述故事融化在描写中，或把描写融化在叙述情节中。我们仔细玩味一下作文《奶奶与花》，其中有些地方就是把描写与叙述这样融合在一起的。

我们就应当多选读一些优秀作文或名家的文章，刻意体味一下的相依关系，学习二者的结合形式。使自己的作文能更加条理清晰，情节曲折跌宕，内容丰富有致，更具有感染力。

明年的高考即将来临，众多考生也进入了最后的紧张复习阶段，如何高效地复习，最大化地提高成绩呢?作文的分数很重要!有什么写作技巧呢?下文是小编整理的相关内容，欢迎阅读参考!

清代诗人、画家郑板桥有一幅对联：删繁就简三秋树，领异标新二月花。十九世纪英国诗人王尔德说：第一个把美人比成鲜花的人是个天才，第二个把美人比成鲜花的人是个庸才，第三个把美人比成鲜花的人则是个蠢才。要激活自己的创新意识，做到“人无我有，人有我深。常中求变，变中求新。”黑格尔也说过：“内容之所以成为内容，即由于它包括成熟的形式在内。” 高考作文在发展等级中设立“有创新”的条目，目的正是想通过一个侧面鼓励学生培养创造性思维。或是见解新颖，或是材料新鲜，或是构思精巧，或是推理想象有独到之处，或是有个性特征。这些方面都是可能蕴涵“创新”因素的地方，在高考作文中凡是有利于培养学生创造精神和思路解析的地方，我们就必须给予重视和鼓励。

古代戏曲理论家李渔在《闲情偶寄》中这样说过：“变则新，不变则腐;变则活，不变则板。”高中阶段的作文训练也是如此。只有时时处处将创新意识贯彻到写作中，才有可能写出内容和形式俱佳的作文。

怎样才能做到创新呢?重要的就是你比一般人思考得深，琢磨得透，才能从普通的事物中洞见其本质意义。古人说得好：“凡作文发意，第一番来者，陈言也，扫去不用;第二番来者，正语也，停止不可用;第三番来者，精语也，方可用之。”这三番意思代表了认识逐步深化、文章渐次深刻的一个过程。具体可从以下几方面下工夫：

1.精心打造首尾。你精心设计的有个性的“亮点”，你的精彩之笔，要尽量在文章的前头展示出来，不可遮遮掩掩，直到文章的末尾才露出姿容。要一“亮相”便获“满堂彩”，不能搞“图穷匕现”。河南一考生的《一把生锈的锁》，文章层层递进，步步为营，终于找到了问题的根源：自信随岁月逝去。文章题目一语双关，一方面指实实在在的锁，另一方面指心灵上的锁，生动形象。重庆一考生的《菊花飘香的时节》文章一开始就展示了一幅旷远的画面，想象丰富，文情并茂，引人入胜。结尾两段升华主题，前后照应，行文自然流畅。

2.紧跟时代步伐。北京高职一考生的《时尚流行我心定》作者首先用“时尚”作为文章的开篇之语，继而用现实生活中的五花八门，形形色色的“时尚”来阐述所谓的时尚。然后，旁征博引，列举古今中外各行各业的时尚生活。与现代生活紧密相连，有时代特色。江西一考生的《把“意见”刻录成光盘》，好就好在不落窠臼，采取网络搜索的形式，从而似乎出现了一个个画面感，历史和现实的例子就自自然然地展示在读者面前，“搜索结果”就成了作者简短的点评，最后的结论也就水到渠成。本文的内容没有过人之处，出彩的就是它的形式。

3.敢于逆向思维。北京一考生的《包容(七)》中，大对小，厚对薄的包容容易理解，但微小对广博的包容，静止对流动的包容，沉默对喧嚣的包容，此种创意实在是独辟蹊径，非同一般。江苏一考生的《项王项王若奈何》，作者进行丰富而大胆的想象，将思维的触角延伸到了历史之中，以一种全新的眼光对历史人物 ——项王进行了入木三分的刻画与诠释，也更深刻地揭示了一个主题：灵动的水可保持一片蔚蓝，灵动的智慧，可以造就一个英雄。

[高考作文的写作方法

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

1. To cherish the enviroment is to love ourselves.

爱护环境就是爱护我们自己。

2.Water is the source of ourlives

水是生命之源。

3.I make an urgent appeal that measures should be taken to cope with the situation

我急切呼吁应该采取措施改变现状。

4.Our government is doing its best to take measures to fight against pollution.

我们政府正努力制定措施与污染作斗争。

5.We are sure that well win the battle.

我们坚信我们能赢得战斗。

6.Its high time that we should protect our enviroment from being polluted.

是时候我们应该防止环境污染了。

7. Keep our mountains green，the wate clean，and the sky blue.

使我们山更绿，水更清，天更蓝。

8.However，natural resources are not inexhaustible.some reserves are already on the brink of exhaustion.

然而自然资源并不是无穷无尽的，一些储量已经到了穷尽的边缘。

9.If we do something with no thought for the furture . The later generation would be in danger.

如果我们不为将来考虑，后代就会受到威胁。

10.Our earths days are numbered without urgent help.

没有及时的帮助我们的地球就屈指可数了。

11(Sth.)are bound to generate severe consequences if we keep turning a blink eye to them.

如果我们继续睁一只眼闭一只眼的话，……一定会有恶劣的后果。

1、失败是常有的事

2、人们对失败有各种不同的态度。

3、我对失败的态度。

Is Failure a Bad Thing?

Failure is a common thing in our daily life. For example, sometimes we fail to pass the examinations. On other occasions, we are defeated in sport games. And there are times when we fail to do more satisfactory work. So it is safe to say that every one of us must have encountered failure of one kind or another.

However, different people have different attitudes towards failure. Some people lose heart when they come across failures. They seem to think that it is the end of the world. Others, on the contrary, don’t take failure seriously. They seem to think that failure is first step to success.

In my opinion, what really counts is not failure itself, but our attitude towards it. If we are afraid of failure and yield to it easily, we are bound to have one failure after another. But as long as we have confidence in ourselves and learn something from failure, we’ll certainly go from victory to victory. So I’m never afraid of failure, or I firmly believe that “failure is the mother of success.”

Dear Peter,

I read in a newspaper today that a “Learn Chinese, Sing Chinese Songs” Foreigners’ Talent Show will be held in Beijing Television Station on July 18. I know you like singing, and you are in Beijing during that period. I think this is a good chance for you to show your singing talent, and how well you’ve learned Chinese. If you would like to try, you have to go to the TV station to sign up before the end of June. If there is anything I can do for you, I would be more than glad to help.

Yours,

Li Hua

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导语：周恩来，他的才干与风度，勤勉与忠诚;他忍辱负重，唾面自干，鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已;他无论对信仰和“爱人同志”都从一而终;他无子嗣，却收养了一群革命烈士的遗孤……下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的相关作文素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

周恩来——纯洁与忠诚的象征

在这个日益喧嚣的社会，在这个容易浮躁的年代，年轻的我们有着太多无法解释的困惑和无法摆脱的迷惘，我们需要一种精神，一种能够给我们以方向和力量的精神。周恩来，集中华民族广博的智慧于一身，扬炎黄子孙完美的魅力于中外，成为值得我们世代学习的楷模。

重温周恩来，绝不仅是一种缅怀。我们提起的，是一个毫不褪色的人格话题;我们将透过随着时代巨变已经不可同日而语的人们的价值取向和生活观念，去触摸一种跨越时空的人格精神，感受作为一个中华儿女的自豪。

作为生活在新世纪的人，我们不相信灵魂的存在，但我们却坚定地认为，总理一直在以慈父般的宽容注视着我们。总理在等待，等待我们走出浮躁与迷惘，以一个后辈学人的身份，带着一颗不染世俗风气的心，与他进行灵魂深处的对话。

我们永远需要这种爱，我们的民族永远需要这种精神——周恩来像一本厚厚的书，读懂他，将使我们看到自己心灵深处的卑微，直面繁杂的人生;周恩来像一盏高悬的明灯，光芒穿越时空，照耀着我们前行!

周恩来生于江苏淮安。淮安是个文化发达、经济繁华的地方。周恩来“少游江淮，纵览名胜”，热爱祖国的山河和历史上的英豪，怀有强烈的民族自豪感。

周恩来的母亲万氏，精明强干，周恩来从小就耳濡目染。他在不满一周岁时过继给了叔父。养母陈氏知识丰富，会诗文书画，教周恩来认字诵诗，从小培育了他丰富的感情。他的乳母蒋氏，使他懂得劳动人民的艰苦生活。

在他不到10岁的时候，本来已经衰落的封建官僚家庭堕入了清贫困苦的境地。两个母亲相继去世，父亲为了生活而长年在外谋事，幼小的周恩来不得不去向富户叩门借债，或是送衣物进当铺典押。

1910年春天，12岁的周恩来随三堂伯周贻谦到奉天(今沈阳)，进银川(今铁岭)银冈书院读书，半年后，转入沈阳东关模范丙等小学堂。这一年，日本军国主义正式吞并中国的邻邦朝鲜。在东北当年日俄战争的战场上，留下过少年周恩来的足迹。“忆甲辰年兮神往，想日俄战兮心酸。”一次，校长在课堂上问大家为什么读书时，周恩来慷慨答道：“为了中华之崛起!”这一誓言，此后贯彻在他的一生中，渗透在他的各项活动中。他是看到民族危亡、山河破碎而自觉参加革命的。

1917年夏，周恩来中学毕业，准备去日本留学。他给同学赠言说：“愿相会于中华腾飞世界时。”这句话表明了他的一贯志愿。但是，怎样才能使中华腾飞?当时中国国大地上有教育救国说、实业救国说，甚至军国主义救国说等等。周恩来是一个扎实、谨慎的青年，他需要认真考察一番。俄国十月社会主义革命爆发了。他开始接触马克思主义，科学社会主义影响着周恩来的思想，周恩来的思想开始变化，正如他在诗句中所说：“人间的万象真理，愈求愈模糊;模糊中偶然见着一点光明，真愈觉姣妍。”

五四时期，周恩来已经在系统地宣传马克思的学说。他是我国马克思主义早期传播者之一。

周恩来深深感到苦难的中国需要有根本的改造，而改造必须有更加强大的社会力量，要“到民间去”，进行“农工组织之运动”。而且必须有正确的思想、理论来指导。周恩来后来谈到自己的共产主义信仰时，说道：自己的“思想是颤动于狱中”，一种革命意识的萌芽，“是从这个时候开始的”。

1920年11月，周恩来来到法国，进一步研究马克思主义，考察和学习欧洲无产阶级革命斗争的经验。他说：“虔心考察以求了解彼邦社会真相暨解决诸道，而思所以应用之于吾民族间者。”

周恩来初到欧洲的时候，对于采取什么主义来救中国，思想上还没有最后确定。他辨析了工团主义、社会主义、无政府主义等各派思潮，终于认定：中国应该走社会主义的道路。

1924年7月下旬，周恩来回国。随后，他出任黄埔军校教官，11月任黄埔军校政治部主任;同时又是中共广东区委常委兼军事部部长。他根据法、俄革命经验，在国民革命军中创建了许多全新的制度，成为中国军队中革命政治工作的最早开拓者。

1927年至1931年间，周恩来实际上主持中共中央日常工作，他是党的白区工作的政策制定者、秘密保卫工作的创建者。在长征途中，于1935年召开的遵义会议上，他拥护毛泽东领导全党，自己此后几十年间一直自愿担任辅佐。

抗日战争期间，周恩来长期在国民党统治区主持统战工作，并兼管秘密战线的斗争。1946年回延安后，他作为中央军委副主席兼总参谋长，伴随毛泽东转战陕北，并协助指挥全国解放战争。

全国解放后，周恩来成了共和国的总管家，担子之重，事务之繁，无人能比。周恩来在二十多年的时间里日理万机，为党和人民鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已。这是周恩来为党和国家献身的忠诚誓言。这八个字贯穿了他的一生。 1976年1月7日晚，周恩来微睁双眼，对病床前的医生吴阶平说：“我这里没有什么事了，你们还是去照顾别的生病的同志，那里需要你们。”这是周恩来所说的最后一句话，他心里想的仍然是别人。

1976年1月8日9时57分，一代伟人周恩来溘然长逝，终年78岁。“巨星殒落，人们相告不成声，欲言泪复垂。”亿万人民和国际友人沉痛悼念周恩来。他一生的追求，一生的奋斗，都是为了人民的利益，为了祖国的富强，为了最终实现共产主义这一崇高的目标。

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【示例一】

①There are many reasons responsible for this phenomenon/case/instance and the following are the typical ones. ②The first reason is that ________(理由一). ③The second reason is that ________(理由二). ④The third reason is that/A case in point is that/The typical example is that ________(理由三).

【示例二】

①There are many reasons to explain/explaining the effect/phenomenon/case/instance. ②The most contributing one is/the main reason is no other than ________(理由一). ③What is more, ________(理由二). ④ ________(理由三)also play a role in this case.

中考英语满分作文： Talking about Having Sports 谈论运动

David： Susan, you like sports, don’t you?

Susan： Yes. I have sports every afternoon.

David： Do you often go swimming?

Susan： Yes, I go swimming once a week.

David： I used to swim at middle school, but I don’t have time any more.

Susan： That’s too bad! Exercise is very important.

David： I know. I am getting fat, you see. Anyway, I don’t want to be heavy.

Susan： Well, I’m going to swim this afternoon. Do you want to go with me?

David： OK! I really need more exercises. When and where shall we meet?

Susan： How about three o’clock, at the swimming-pool?

David： All right. Good-bye!

Susan： Good-bye!

大卫:苏珊,你喜欢运动,不是吗?

苏珊:是的。我每天下午进行体育活动。

大卫:你经常去游泳吗?

苏珊:是的,我每周去游泳一次。

大卫:我曾经在中学游泳,但我现在没有时间。

苏珊:那太糟了!锻炼是非常重要的。

大卫:我知道。我变胖了,你看到的。无论如何,我不想重。

苏珊:嗯,我今天下午去游泳。你想和我一起去吗?

大卫:好的!我需要更多练习。我们何时何地见面?

苏珊:三点,在游泳池吗?

大卫:好的。再见!

苏珊:再见!

高考英语满分作文:志愿者申请 Volunteer Application

书面表达： 假设你的名字是李华，亚洲冬季运动会将在你居住的地方举办，现招募志愿者。你希望成为志愿者。申请信的格式已经写好了，你直接写内容就可以。你的个人情况：年龄性别学历，个人条件。英语好，爱好体育，擅长交际，乐于助人。承诺提供最佳服务。字数100左右。

范文：

I was quite excited when I heard the Asian Winter Games will be held in the city I live. My name is Li Hua. I am an 18-year-old boy student in a senior middle school. And I want to be a volunteer for the games. I like English and sports very much. I like making friends and I am ready to help others. I can be a good interpreter in every sports during the time. Hope the games will be a great success. Hope I will be chosen to be one. Thanks. Li Hua

当我听说冬季奥运会将在我的城市里举行，我感到非常兴奋。我的名字是李华。我是一个高中学生，一个18岁的男孩。我想做一名志愿者。我非常喜欢英语和体育。我喜欢交朋友，我随时准备帮助别人。我可以做一个好的翻译，在每一个体育的时间。希望奥运会取得巨大的成功。希望我会被选为一个。谢谢李华

满分作文 时间是宝贵的 THE VALUE OF TIME

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

我总是认为没有足够的时间。例如，我刚拍了三天假。但当我回头看时，我只是觉得它只是一天。俗话说“时间就是金钱”。现在我想说的是，时间比金钱更宝贵，因为当钱花了，我们可以再挣一些。但是，当时间消失或失去，永远不会返回。

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

时间不被注意。我们学习和工作的时间通常是有限的。所以我认为我们必须充分利用我们的时间。但遗憾的是，我始终没有意识到时间的重要性，直到为时已晚。

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

所以我想，我应该养成节约时间的好习惯，因为浪费时间等于浪费生命。不要把今天能做的事拖到明天！

高考英语满分作文 My Friend

作文一：

Zhang Dong is my best friend. He entered our class last semester. He is a boy. Both of us are good at English, so we often have a chat in English in our spare time. After school, we often play football together on the playground. He runs so fast that I can not catch up with him. He is an excellent student. He not only gets good marks in all subjects but also is very kind and modest. He loves popular songs and also classical music.

There are three people in his family and he is the only child. His father is a doctor and his mother is a Beijing Opera actress. Though Zhang Dongs family is wealthy, he is usually simply dressed. He has a dream which is to be a lawyer.

Such is my friend, a clever and kind boy. He is highly praised by the teachers and students.

张东是我最好的朋友。他是上学期来我们班的，他是个男孩。我们两个人都擅长英语，因此我们经常在课余时间用英语聊天。放学后，我们经常在操场上踢足球。他跑得特别快，我追不上他。他是个优秀的学生，他不但各科功课好而且很友善、谦虚。他喜欢流行音乐，也喜欢古典音乐。

他家有三口人，他是独生子。父亲是个医生，母亲是个京剧演员。尽管张东家境比较富裕，但是他的穿着却十分朴素。他有一个梦想，就是将来当个律师。

这就是我的朋友，一个聪明、友好的男孩。老师和同学们都喜欢他。

作文二：

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

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

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

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

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

这就是我的朋友，一个聪明、友好的男孩。我珍视同他之间的友谊。

高考英语作文满分范文背诵14 关于照片展示的新闻报道 A news report on the photo show.

A news report on the photo show.

关于照片展示的新闻报道

A photo show WuHan 4th Middle School HuBei. Early May a photo show was held in our school. It was a great success. All the photoes were taken by students themselves. There were black-white and color photoes visitig ourclass life, the beautiful nature, festival activities and so on. All the works are well on show in the reading room on the third floor. Everyday a large number of students went to enjoy ad they were surprised to find that the pictures were so wonderful. Those whole photoes were chosen the best or given an expected prices. In sure, this photo show really made our life colorful.

湖北武汉第四中学的照片展示。五月初，我们学校举办了照片展示的活动。活动取得了成功。所有的照片都是学生自己拍摄的。有黑白照，彩色照，照片有学生的生活，美丽的自然照、节日活动等。所有的作品都展示在了三层的阅览室中。每天都有大量的学生前去参观，他们对照片的美丽而感到惊讶。所有的照片都经过的精心的挑选，并价格不菲。的确，这些照片让我们的生活变得更加美丽。

话题作文：求职简历介绍自己 Resume introduction

青岛某旅游区一家外资饭店要招聘一位懂英语的大堂副经理，以下是张红的一份登记表。请用英语写一篇介绍张红情况的短文。词数：80－120.

Name : Zhang HongSex : femaleDate of birth : 4/07 / 1980Birthplace : QingdaoOccupation : TeacherHeight : 1.72Education :Graduated from Qing Teachers’ College in 1999Interests : Singing and dancingmanagementAspiration : BusinessMastery of English : Having learned English for eight years. Be good at listening and reading

Zhang Hong， female， is a twenty-year-old teacher of a middle school. She was born in July 4， 1980 in Qingdao， and graduated from Qingdao Teachers’ College in July 1999. She has learned English for eight years. Zhang Hong is good at listening and spoken English. She can get along very well with others. She is 1.72 metres tall. She is interested in singing and dancing， and she wants very much to devote her life to business management.

张宏，女，是一所中学的一二零岁教师。她于1980年7月4日出生于青岛，七月毕业于青岛师范学院1999。她学了八年英语了。张宏擅长听和说英语。她和别人相处得很好。她身高1.72米。她对唱歌和跳舞很感兴趣，她很想把自己的生命奉献给企业管理。

导语：写作文没有素材怎么行，一篇好的作文素材能让读者赏心悦目，让作者文思泉涌。下面是yuwenmi小编为备考的同学准备的作文素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

1、一只火鸡和一头牛闲聊，火鸡说：我希望能飞到树顶，可我没有勇气。牛说：为什么不吃一点我的牛粪呢，他们很有营养。火鸡吃了一点牛粪，发现它确实给了它足够的力量飞到第一根树枝，第二天，火鸡又吃了更多的牛粪，飞到第二根树枝，两个星期后，火鸡骄傲的飞到了树顶，但不久，一个农夫看到了它，迅速的把它从树上射了下来。

生存之道1：牛屎运让你达到顶峰，但不能让你留在那里。

2、乌鸦站在树上，整天无所事事，兔子看见乌鸦，就问：我能像你一样，整天什么事都不用干吗?乌鸦说：当然，有什么不可以呢?于是，兔子在树下的空地上开始休息，忽然，一只狐狸出现了，它跳起来抓住兔子，把它吞了下去。

生存之道2：如果你想站着什么事都不做，那你必须站的很高，非常高。

3、一只小鸟飞到南方去过冬。天很冷，小鸟几乎冬僵了。于是，飞到一大块空地上，一头牛经过那儿，拉了一堆牛粪在小鸟的身上，冬僵的小鸟躺在粪堆里，觉得很温暖，渐渐苏醒过来，它温暖而舒服的躺着，不久唱起歌来，一只路过的野猫听到声音，走过去看个究竟，循着声音，野猫很快发现了躺在粪堆里的小鸟，把它拽出来吃掉了。

生存之道3：不是每个往你身上拉大粪的人都是你的敌人。也不是每个把你从粪堆里拉出来的人都是你的朋友，还有，当你躺在粪堆里时，最好把你的嘴闭上。

4、从前，有两个饥饿的人得到了一位长者的恩赐：一根鱼竿和一篓鲜活硕大的鱼。其中，一个人要了一篓鱼，另一个人要了一根鱼竿，于是他们分道扬镳了。得到鱼的人原地就用干柴搭起篝火煮起了鱼，他狼吞虎咽，还没有品出鲜鱼的肉香，转瞬间，连鱼带汤就被他吃了个精光，不久，他便饿死在空空的鱼篓旁。另一个人则提着鱼竿继续忍饥挨饿，一步步艰难地向海边走去，可当他已经看到不远处那片蔚蓝色的海洋时，他浑身的最后一点力气也使完了，他也只能眼巴巴地带着无尽的遗憾撒手人间。

又有两个饥饿的人，他们同样得到了长者恩赐的一根鱼竿和一篓鱼。只是他们并没有各奔东西，而是商定共同去找寻大海，他俩每次只煮一条鱼，他们经过遥远的跋涉，来到了海边，从此，两人开始了捕鱼为生的日子，几年后，他们盖起了房子，有了各自的家庭、子女，有了自己建造的渔船，过上了幸福安康的生活。

一个人只顾眼前的利益，得到的终将是短暂的欢愉;一个人目标高远，但也要面对现实的生活。只有把理想和现实有机结合起来，才有可能成为一个成功之人。有时候，一个简单的道理，却足以给人意味深长的生命启示。

5、孔子的一位学生在煮粥时，发现有肮脏的东西掉进锅里去了。他连忙用汤匙把它捞起来，正想把它到掉时，忽然想到，一粥一饭都来之不易啊。于是便把它吃了。/刚巧孔子走进厨房，以为他在偷食，便教训了那位负责煮食的同学。经过解释，大家才恍然大悟。孔子很感慨的说：“我亲眼看见的事情也不确实，何况是道听途听呢?”

启示：推销生意是一种组织性质的生意，因为人多，人事问题也多。我们不时听到是非难辨的话，如某公司攻击另一间公司，如是者往往令人混淆是非，影响信心。因此找出事情的真相，不是轻易相信谣言，辛辛苦苦建立的事业才不会毁于一旦。

6、有个叫阿巴格的人生活在内蒙古草原上。有一次，年少的阿巴格和他爸爸在草原上迷了路，阿巴格又累又怕，到最后快走不动了。爸爸就从兜里掏出5枚硬币，把一枚硬币埋在草地里，把其余4枚放在阿巴格的手上，说：“人生有5枚金币，童年、少年、青年、中年、老年各有一枚，你现在才用了一枚，就是埋在草地里的那一枚，你不能把5枚都扔在草原里，你要一点点地用，每一次都用出不同来，这样才不枉人生一世。今天我们一定要走出草原，你将来也一定要走出草原。世界很大，人活着，就要多走些地方，多看看，不要让你的金币没有用就扔掉。”在父亲的鼓励下，那天阿巴格走出了草原。长大后，阿巴格离开了家乡，成了一名优秀的船长。

秘诀：珍惜生命，就能走出挫折的沼泽地。

7、有兄弟二人，年龄不过四、五岁，由于卧室的窗户整天都是密闭着，他们认为屋内太阴暗，看见外面灿烂的阳光，觉得十分羡慕。兄弟俩就商量说：“我们可以一起把外面的阳光扫一点进来。”于是，兄弟两人拿着扫帚和畚箕，到阳台上去扫阳光。等到他们把畚箕搬到房间里的时候，里面的阳光就没有了。这样一而再再而三地扫了许多次，屋内还是一点阳光都没有。正在厨房忙碌的妈妈看见他们奇怪的举动，问道：“你们在做什么?”他们回答说：“房间太暗了，我们要扫点阳光进来。”妈妈笑道：“只要把窗户打开，阳光自然会进来，何必去扫呢?”

秘诀：把封闭的心门敞开，成功的阳光就能驱散失败的阴暗。

8、雨后，一只蜘蛛艰难地向墙上已经支离破碎的网爬去，由于墙壁潮湿，它爬到一定的高度，就会掉下来，它一次次地向上爬，一次次地又掉下来……第一个人看到了，他叹了一口气，自言自语：“我的一生不正如这只蜘蛛吗?忙忙碌碌而无所得。”于是，他日渐消沉。第二个人看到了，他说：这只蜘蛛真愚蠢，为什么不从旁边干燥的地方绕一下爬上去?我以后可不能像它那样愚蠢。于是，他变得聪明起来。第三个人看到了，他立刻被蜘蛛屡败屡战的精神感动了。于是，他变得坚强起来。

秘诀：有成功心态者处处都能发觉成功的力量。

9、一个老人在高速行驶的火车上，不小心把刚买的新鞋从窗口掉了一只，周围的人倍感惋惜，不料老人立即把第二只鞋也从窗口扔了下去。这举动更让人大吃一惊。老人解释说：“这一只鞋无论多么昂贵，对我而言已经没有用了，如果有谁能捡到一双鞋子，说不定他还能穿呢!”

秘诀：成功者善于放弃。

10、某大公司准备以高薪雇用一名小车司机，经过层层筛选和考试之后，只剩下三名技术最优良的竞争者。主考者问他们：“悬崖边有块金子，你们开着车去拿，觉得能距离悬崖多近而又不至于掉落呢?”“二公尺。”第一位说。“半公尺。”第二位很有把握地说。

“我会尽量远离悬崖，愈远愈好。”第三位说。结果这家公司录取了第三位。

秘诀：不要和诱惑较劲，而应离得越远越好。

11、中国古代大哲学家老子，有一天他把弟子人叫到床边，他张开口用手指一指口里面，然后问弟子们看到了什么?在场的众第子没有一个能答得上。

于是老子就对他们说：“满齿不存，舌头犹在”意思是：牙齿须硬但它寿命不长;舌头须软，但生命力更强。

12、江南才子唐伯虎在江南一庙宇偶遇前来进香的秋香，一见钟情，遂生共结连理之意。为此，他一路跟踪秋香到太师府，又想方设法以伴读书僮的身份混进府，谋得了接触秋香的机会，后在府中多次接触秋香并表心意，均被秋香拒绝。有一次竟被秋香锁进柴房，但唐伯虎并不气馁，又请来好友祝枝山帮忙，在好友的指点下博得点秋香成婚的好机会，至此，江南才子好梦成真。唯一不太好的是唐伯虎在成婚后从太师府偷偷溜走不辞而别，显得不太有面子，不过，这也是他当时最好的选择。

启示：1、目标要明确;2、为实现目标措施要有效;3、要屡败屡战并适当时候请高人帮助，毕竟有时是旁观者清;4、完成目标美梦成真后可以适时跳槽，该走就走。

13、老和尚携小和尚游方，途遇一条河;见一女子正想过河，却又不敢过。老和尚便主动背该女子趟过了河，然后放下女子，与小和尚继续赶路。小和尚不禁一路嘀咕：师父怎么了?竟敢背一女子过河?一路走，一路想，最后终于忍不住了，说：师父，你犯戒了?怎么背了女人?老和尚叹道：我早已放下，你却还放不下!

启示：君子坦荡荡，小人常戚戚;心胸宽广，思想开朗，遇事拿得起、放得下，才能永远保持一种健康的心态。

The trees were naked during autumn.秋天里树木都是光秃秃的。

The rain was killing the last days of summer,you had been killing my last breath of love, since a long time ago.秋雨,带走了夏天的最后一丝余热,而你，也将我全部的爱都带走了。

The leaves turn yellow in autumn.秋天时叶子变黄。

Rain in the North seems peculiar, compared with that of the South, more appealing，and better-behaved.北方的秋雨，也似乎比南方的下得奇，下得有味，下得更象样。

My favourite season is autumn. 我最喜欢的季节是秋天.

In autumn,the weather is very dry and cool. 秋天的时候，天气很干燥和凉爽。

I think the most beautiful season in a year is autumn. 我觉得一年中最美丽的季节是秋天。

I think autumn is the most beautiful season in a year.我认为秋天是一年中最美的季节。

I like to collect russet autumn leaves.我喜欢收集秋天赤褐色的叶子。

I like autumn very much. 我很喜欢秋天。

I feel a little cool in the autumnal night.在秋天的晚上，我感到一丝凉意。

关于秋天的英语句子 Do you like autumn

I do not know when, you fall softly on my red sweater, you put a flower as I have it 不知什么时候，你轻轻地落在我鲜红的毛衣上，你把我也当成一朵花了吗

Golden butterfly you! Whom you are dancing in it Not smile flowers, grasses lost their luster. Oh, I see, you are in the garden that little daisy eyes. 金色的蝴蝶呀!你是在为谁而翩翩起舞呢花儿没有了笑容，青草失去了光泽。哦，我明白了，你是在为园子里那眨着眼睛的小雏菊。

Golden butterflies, you are willing to pay my friend Come! Flew into my books, accompanied by bright, I walked into the classroom金色的蝴蝶，你愿意和我交朋友吗来吧!飞进我的课本，伴着我走进明亮的教室

Fall to, chrysanthemum opened. There are red, yellow, with purple, and white, very beautiful! 秋天到了，菊花开了。有红的，有黄的，有紫的，还有白的，美丽极了!

Do you like autumn 你喜欢秋天吗?

Autumn, the ripe fruit. the pears, the bright red apples, is the sparkling grape. A cool breeze blowing, fruit child nodded, emitting a scent attractive children. 秋天到了，果子熟了。黄澄澄的是梨，红通通的是苹果，亮晶晶的是葡萄。一阵凉风吹来，果儿点头，散发出诱人的香味儿。

Wake up to drink ,people feel the middle of the night, moving wind over a lotus leaf pond

夜半酒醒人不觉，满池荷叶动秋风

Life is so si-mp-le, such as the autumn, such as fallen leaves.

生命如此简单，如秋，如落叶。

In autumn, some emotions, such as fallen leaves as they decline, some have lingering shadow, only in the virtual work is indistinct in the familiar names. It withered on the decline,ashes are also good, regardleof the feelings of like how the leaves like a tree in full bloom and how to decline. I was standing on the flow of time, laughing, even if the sky flying leaves, eventually covering the lives of desolation.

秋中，有些感情便如落叶般凋零了，有些影子却挥之不去，只在网络虚缈中才有熟悉的名字。凋零就凋零吧，倦缩也好，成灰亦好，管它感情如一树红叶般怎样盛开，怎样凋零。我站在川流不息的时间里，谈笑风生，任凭满天的叶子飞舞，最终覆盖苍凉的生命。

Strong technical skills enhance a beautiful scene that pares traditional and contemporized architectural styles.很强的技巧加强了景色的美感，在传统和现代化了的建筑风格之间的对比。

That is an oil painting of a landscape in spring.那是一幅描绘秋天景色的油画。

The travelers were beguiled by the beauty of the landscapes.游客们被景色的美丽所陶醉。

"This extraordinary natural preserve shelters a primeval forest, the continent’s largest population of brown bears, sizeable packs of wolves, and a host of other creatures which have all but disappeared elsewhere. 专门捕捉大自然美丽景色的导演高史林百格将会透过节目带大家融入这处仙境，享受大自然的真善美。

[高考英语作文的翻译

活用事例，增加文章的文采与情感

议论文是高中生写作运用最多的一种文体，因其思路清晰易于掌握。但是高中生在写作时往往存在一个问题，即无论是文章整体还是段落内部都大多先提出观点，再举例分析论证，最后总结，呈现一种模式化。而且由于认识世界辩证分析能力的不足，这样的文章有相当一部分虽四平八稳然而不够鲜活灵动，缺乏个性，缺乏张力，缺乏动人的魅力。其实议论文写作最重要的就是事例的运用，我们完全可以活用这些事例，发挥高中生长于叙述抒情的特点，增加文章的文采与情感，使事例呈现别样的状态，让文章变得灵动起来。

一、让事例成为源头活水

确定文章的中心后，搜索能证明文章观点的例子，然后如讲故事一般娓娓道来展开叙述由叙而生理，巧妙引出主题。这样的开头不突兀，不生硬，耐读，温婉中蕴涵力量，能快速抓住读者的心。如2003年高考广东优秀作文《海棠依旧？绿肥红瘦？》的开头：

经过一夜的雨疏风骤之后，浓睡不消残酒的李清照询问花事。侍女笑着回答海棠依旧。女词人却叹息道：应是绿肥红瘦啊！李清照感情细腻，对花有着深切的关心与怜惜，因此她才设想道雨疏风骤后的海棠凋零的容颜。而侍女不然，因此花遭受摧残丝毫没有触动她，甚至不被她觉察。可见，感情的亲疏远近和对事物的认知的正误深浅是有关系的。

二、让事例散发真情实感

在行文中，以渗透个人真情实感的叙写代替严谨实在的说理，使人读了事例充分领会作者的褒贬爱憎，自然而然中打动读者，从而达到让人信服的目的。如2004年高考浙江优秀作文《那一缕馨香》，全文就是靠浸润情感的遣词造句打动读者，我们选择其中的一段：

始皇尝在无数目光的凄清中，让诸子百家在火光中彻底消亡，让天下儒生长眠与漠漠黄土。天下士子不屈的灵魂随着思想的湮没垂垂老去，可叹的是，一个盛世的浮华，竟也在这一瞬间灰飞烟灭。勿以一叶障目，勿被所谓的智慧污浊了天地人世，勿因对人文思想的禁锢成为历史倒退的魁首！

三、让事例呈现细腻形象

通过细细摹写事例的场景和人物的行为，用类似小说的笔法赋予事例形象，让人彷佛身临其境，感受人物的内心，循着作者设定的思维轨迹，做出与作者一样的判断。如一篇以竞争为话题的作文――《真情永驻》，文章第一段通过引用乔丹、苏格拉底的名言，告诉人们：竞争不应该抛弃温情。然后作者以细腻生动的笔触描绘了两个场景：武则天给狄仁杰看娄师德举荐他的奏折，李斯特安排肖邦成功的演出。文末指出：应让真诚之心指引竞争，让人情在竞争中升华！这里引用其中一个场景：

金銮殿上，面对高高在上的武则天，狄仁杰壮起了胆子：陛下，娄师德为官不正，贪赃枉法，曾因一件小事而滥杀平民――铁证如山！说到这里，他心虚了。娄师德与自己素来不合，不论是在官场还是在生活中，都是劲敌。可今天所参都系子虚乌有啊，怎么办？把心一横，豁出去了。

武则天微微一笑，顺手拣了本奏折给狄仁杰：爱卿，看吧。狄打开一看，面色大变――上面全是娄师德请求为自己加官进爵的话。多少年来，强烈的竞争意识使自己的心灵严重扭曲，对手送给自己的，竟是如此的一份真诚。

也许激烈的竞争能蒙住人的双眼，然而心灵深处真诚的阳光必将冲破重重迷雾，照亮一片明朗的天地。人情之花，不应该被竞争的火焰熏地枯萎。

四、让事例转向虚幻空灵

搜索符合观点的例子，发挥想象，创建事例的载体（如梦境、跨越时空等），把事例融入虚构的世界，使文章有一种虚幻空灵之美。如一篇以人生之美为话题的作文，文章虚构我在静夜仰望明月思考如何创造美丽的人生，这时雅典娜飘然降临以指引：她挥手在我眼前展现三幅画面，借此揭示人生蕴含的深刻哲理。现引其文一部分：

我正思考着，忽而夜空中划过一道亮光，一个女神降临到我的窗前。你好，我是雅典娜。她笑着对我说，你似乎满腹狐疑。是的，智慧女神，你能否告诉我，如何才能创造一个最美丽的人生？雅典娜笑而不答，她轻轻挥了挥手，我的眼前出现了一幅画――画中是伟大的爱国诗人屈原那熟悉的身影。他也和我一样长夜难眠，独自在灯下思索。摆在他面前的有两条路：一是和靳尚等同流合污，向楚王奉承献谗；另一种是遭受贬谪，流放南下。他最终选择了流放，因为他不愿向那群污秽之人低头，他要保持自身清白，坚持自己的真理

画面消失了。懂了吗？雅典娜问我。嗯，人生需要坚持己见，做出平凡而伟大的选择。

五、让事例组合，水到渠成

入文很快酒叙写事例或故事，组成几个片断，在片断中融入主旨，几个片断结束后，不经过议论，直接点出中心，恰如画龙点睛。如《一叶落而知天下秋》一文，以三个小标题引领中国古代苏轼、辛弃疾和李清照三位文学家的事例，着重解读他们的性情、心理、生平，在三个事例结束后，收束全文，展示他们为后人所铭记的根本原因――傲然而不清冷，寂寞而不沉沦的尊严。在此引第一部分和结尾：

那胡须飘然、目光高远的老者，是你吗？那高举酒杯、敢问青天今夕是何年的勇者，是你吗？那端坐船中，看清风徐来、水波不兴的闲适者，是你吗，苏东坡？我一直苦苦追寻你的脚步，却只看到青青的竹枝尚沾满了清晨的露水，你高远的眼神中荡开了泛着涟漪的清波。你希望有朝一日能够报效祖国，施展才华，而世俗的黑暗却让你堕入了万丈深渊。孤寂的夜里，你依旧难眠，陪伴你的唯有那转朱阁，低绮户，照无眠的明月。你有你的尊严，你不愿向昏庸的朝臣俯首，不愿向污浊的官场屈膝。因此，你的明月便注定了是孤寂。你把你的尊严印刻在傲然的眉宇间，长袖一拂，便酿成了不朽的诗作。

（结尾）一片片落叶在萧瑟的西风中飘然而下，昭示着秋天的降临。苏东坡、辛弃疾、李清照，他们都只不过是历史之林中一片片小小的树叶，然而一叶落而天下知秋，透过他们，我们看到的便是整个历史的诗魂――尊严，傲然而不清冷，寂寞而不沉沦。

以上我们从五个方面讲了事例在议论文中的活用，就是试图通过一种失和中学生的方法去加强议论文的情感与文采，也可能还有其他多种方式，在此抛砖引玉，求教于方家。

“放”是一个非常具有现实针对性的文题，紫陌红尘，物欲横流，有人求名，有人求利，有人求权，有人求偶……直求得身心疲惫，心力交瘁。既然，生命有不能承受之重，何不学一点儿“放”的智慧。苏东坡黄州放怀，顿矗文学高峰;袁隆平“头衔瘦身”，再创亩产新高;张瑞敏举贤用才，终至人尽其力，海尔日盛。人不能改变环境时，最好的办法就是改变心境，这就是“放下”;要想有所得，就得有所舍，这也是“放下”。一个“放”字，千般哲理。运用得好，就会使复杂的生活回归简单，纷乱的思绪回归明晰，浮躁的心境回归淡然。梭罗说：一个人越是有许多事能够放得下，他就越富有。提得起常被人称道，放得下则更令人赞叹。

一.开头句型

1.As far as ...is concerned

2.It goes without saying that...

3.It can be said with certainty that...

4.As the proverb says，

5.It has to be noticed that...

6.It`s generally recognized that...

7.It`s likely that ...

8.It`s hardly that...

9.It’s hardly too much to say that...

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

11.There’s no denying the fact that...毫无疑问，无可否认

12.Nothing is more important than the fact that...

13.what’s far more important is that...

二.衔接句型

A case in point is ...

As is often the case...

As stated in the previous paragraph如前段所述

But the problem is not so simple. Therefore然而问题并非如此简单，所以……

But it’s a pity that...

For all that...In spite of the fact that...

Further, we hold opinion that...

However , the difficulty lies in...

Similarly, we should pay attention to...

not(that)...but(that)...不是，而是

In view of the present station.鉴于目前形势

As has been mentioned above...

In this respect, we may as well (say)从这个角度上我们可以说

However, we have to look at the other side of the coin, that is...然而我们还得看到事物的另一方面，即…

摘要：2011高考英语作文提高15分的8个实用句型……

三.结尾句型

I will conclude by saying...

Therefore, we have the reason to believe that...

All things considered,总而言之

It may be safely said that...

Therefore, in my opinion, it’s more advisable...

From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw the conclusion that….

The data/statistics/figures lead us to the conclusion that….

It can be concluded from the discussion that...从中我们可以得出这样的结论

From my point of view, it would be better if...在我看来……也许更好

四.举例句型

Let’s take...to illustrate this.试举例以兹证明

let’s take the above chart as an example to

illustrate this.

Here is one more example.

Take … for example.

The same is true of….

This offers a typical instance of….

We may quote a common example of….

Just think of….

五.常用于引言段的句型

1. Some people think that …. To be frank, I can not agree with their opinion for the reasons below.

2. For years, … has been seen as …, but things are quite different now.

3. I believe the title statement is valid because….

4. I cannot entirely agree with the idea that …. I believe….

5. My argument for this view goes as follows.

6. Along with the development of…, more and more….

7. There is a long-running debate as to whether….

8. It is commonly/generally/widely/ believed /held/accepted/recognized that….

9. As far as I am concerned, I completely agree with the former/ the latter.

10. Before giving my opinion, I think it is essential to look at the argument of both sides.

六 表示比较和对比的常用句型和表达法

1. A is completely / totally / entirely different from B.

2. A and B are different in some/every way / respect / aspect.

3. A and B differ in….

4. A differs from B in….

5. The difference between A and B is/lies in/exists in….

6. Compared with/In contrast to/Unlike A, B….

7. A…, on the other hand,/in contrast,/while/whereas B….

8. While it is generally believed that A …, I believe B….

9. Despite their similarities, A and B are also different.

10. Both A and B …. However, A…; on the other hand, B….

11. The most striking difference is that A…, while B….

七 演绎法常用的句型

1. There are several reasons for…, but in general, they come down to three major ones.

2. There are many factors that may account for…, but the following are the most typical ones.

3. Many ways can contribute to solving this problem, but the following ones may be most effective.

4. Generally, the advantages can be listed as follows.

5. The reasons are as follows.

八 因果推理法常用句型

1. Because/Since we read the book, we have learned a lot.

2. If we read the book, we would learn a lot.

3. We read the book; as a result / therefore / thus / hence / consequently / for this reason / because of this, we’ve learned a lot.

4. As a result of /Because of/Due to/Owing to reading the book, we’ve learned a lot.

5. The cause of/reason for/overweight is eating too much.

6. Overweight is caused by/due to/because of eating too much.

7. The effect/consequence/result of eating too much is overweight.

8. Eating too much causes/results in/leads to overweight.

As we all know, there are three stages in studypreview, study in class and review, among whichreview is the most important. From my experience, Id like to talk about the importance andsteps of review. Firstly, make a review plan with certain contents of subjects at acertain time.Secondly, carry on the review plan regularly. Thirdly, examine what has been reviewed andmake supplement in time. One thing to remember is to keep notes all the time. I follow myreview plan strictly and have made progress in my study. It turns out to be good enough. Ofcourse, there is more than one way to review. So long as we review regularly, we can find moreways to improve our studies.

我们都知道，学习有三个环节：预习、课堂学习和复习，三者中复习是最重要的。我愿意从我的经验谈复习的重要性和步骤方法。首先，制定复习计划，确定在某段时间里复习课程的具体内容。其次，有规律地执行复习计划。第三，检测所复习的内容，及时弥补。有一件事必须记住，就是要时时记笔记。我严格遵循复习计划，在学习上取得了进步，证明复习是可取的。当然，不只有一种复习办法。只要我们有规律地复习，我们可以找到更多改善学习的方法。

[高考满分英语作文：学习方法

导语：乔丹作为一名公众人物，在享有较高的社会回报的同时，也应该意识到其所肩负的社会道义和责任。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的相关高考素材，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

篮球上帝乔丹在一次中国之行中，拒绝乘坐主办方为他提供的奔驰、宝马，而是点名要了美国的道奇山羊。原来乔丹有一条重要的商业原则，那就是“做广告从来只做美国货”，因为，座驾事件与“尊严”息息相关。

从某种意义上说，球场外的乔丹给崇拜他的那些青少年们上了堂很好的思想品德教育课，这才是一个“星”真正的道德良知和社会责任。相反，我们的各种“星”们，同样作为

青少年们顶礼膜拜的偶像，他们的表现又如何呢?我们知道有的歌星歌唱得不怎么样，却热衷于把奇形怪态遁入极端;有些影星不在表演上下功夫，却老是以绯闻来炒作自己;还有那些所谓的足球明星，球踢得极烂，可酗酒、打架等丑闻不断。在未成年人思想道德建设方面，我们的“星”们有着不可推卸的社会责任，从这个角度来说，是不是应该好好学学人家乔丹呢?

分析：作为一名公众人物，在享有较高的社会回报的同时，也应该意识到其所肩负的社会道义和责任。

话题：“责任”“青少年领袖”

春天的到来使世界都开始忙碌起来了，的考生们也都在准备的考试，对度考试和择校等方面还有什么疑问的呢？有网为考生们提供各种面试、学习、择校等技巧及经验，希望可以资助大家考得好成绩。在这里网网小编先网预祝大家考出抱负成绩。

写事要求清楚、具体。一件事情的发生，总离不开时间、地点、人物和事情的起因、经过、结果。这就是人们常说的“记叙文六要素”。把这六个方面写清楚了，才能让读者明白究竟是一件什么事。同时，还要寓理于事，即通过一件事或几件事来说明一个道理。在六要素傍边，起因、经过、结果是事情的主要环节。其中，“经过”部分又是事情的核心，是全文成败的关键所在。在小学生的作文里，“经过”部分写得不具体是带有遍及性的问题。小学生的记叙文不感人，平淡乏味，这是其中一个重要原因。记事的记叙文可分两种：写事和写活动。

(一)怎样写事

一是把“经过”部分分成几个阶段，然后根据先后挨次一层一层地写得清楚。写的时候多文几个“后来怎样”，文章就具体了。

二是注意材料的详略，有所侧重。对一些重要的过程、场面要细致描绘，使读者有如身临其境。

三是对事件中的人物，特别是主要人物，当时是“怎么说的”、“怎么做的”，又是“怎么想的”，必然要写具体。

(二)怎样写活动

活动都是有目的、有形式、有过程的。搞什么活动?为什么搞活动?则眼搞活动?活动的结果怎样?都要写清楚。写活动也要求写清楚“六要素”，要把活动的时间、地点、人物和活动开始、经过、结果写出来。 在整个活动傍边，不是写一个人，二是写一群人;不是用一两件事来写人物，而是通过写一个活动场面，来体现人物的精神面貌。写活动的记叙文，最大的特点就是必需有活动的基本内容、主要过程和重要场面。把印象最深刻的内容作为重点，把本身看到的、听到的、亲身经历的主要部分记叙下来，采用点面结合的方法，既要写好群体活动，又要把个体代表写进去;既要写整个场面，又要突出典型人物。

写活动的文章一般包罗两大部分：一是活动的经过，二是本身的感受。如果写“参观”活动，就要用“观一处，感一处”的方法。写整个活动的过程，要用顺叙法，即按活动的先后挨次，把活动时间、地点、人物及活动的经过和结果依次写出来。

高考英语满分作文 Note 便条

Dear Alice.

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

Jenny

亲爱的艾丽丝：

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

珍妮

5月15日

May 15th

Dear Alice,

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

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

Jenny

亲爱的艾丽丝：

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

公共演讲的好处 Benefits of Public Speaking

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

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

1. Organizational Skills

组织能力

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

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

2. Writing Skills

写作能力

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

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

3. Critical Thinking

批判思考能力

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

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

4. Research Skills

调查能力

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

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

5. Listening Skills

聆听技巧

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

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

6. Strain Capacity

应变能力

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

高考英语作文的范文：时间的价值The Value Of Time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

北京奥运第一枚金牌属于谁？

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

我想第一块金牌一定是我们中国人，让我们一起等吧。

爱心俱乐部 Love club

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

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

内容摘要：江苏高考语文试题中作文分值占比最大，而作文指导也一直是中学语文教学中的难题。笔者从近年高考作文题出发，探究其中的内在规律，总结出新材料作文中存在的话题作文背景，以及试题中蕴藏的核心概念意识、具体语境意识、发散辩证思维等值得关注的命题指向。从作文命题的特点出发，为高中议论文写作指导提出建议策略。

关键词：江苏高考；语文作文；命题特点；教学策略

江苏作为教育大省，一向以其独特的教学模式以及教学理念在全国范围内备受瞩目，尤其是高考命题的独特性常常会引发教育界的讨论，但不可否认，江苏高考语文试题特别是作文命题对本省的语文教学有着深刻而积极的推动作用。自2004年始，江苏高考进行独立命题距今已经过去14个年头，高考作文试题也已然形成了稳中求变、开放创新[1]的稳健风格。因此探究近年来高考作文命题的特点是可能的，从命题发展脉络把握命题导向，进而积极指导学生写作，让高考作文发挥其“指挥棒”的正效作用[2]，并努力构建它与高中作文教学间的良性关系，也是十分具有意义的。

一.近年来江苏高考作文命题发展

近六年来，江苏高考作文均采取新材料作文的命题形式，所谓新材料作文，有老师将之归纳为三个新：“立意角度新、材料处理新、文体要求新”[3]，即给定一段材料文中给出关键词语、从多个立意角度出发、不限文体进行写作。这样的新材料作文看似带了一个“新”字，就其形式而言依旧离不了“材料作文”的背景，因为一旦脱离了材料就又回到了“命题作文”、“话题作文”形式去了。但就其内容又离不开话题作文的背景，自13年以来几乎每一次的作文试题中都有明显的关键词、核心概念，出题者本身并不是想让考生漫无边际地“跑马”，他们总希望找到一个内在的圈子将新材料作文给约束住，给出的材料看似是开放的，但实际上还是封闭的。以下将一一简述13年到18年来作文的具体形式和内容。2013年江苏高考作文以“蝴蝶与探险者”的故事开创了本省新材料作文的新纪元，此后五年，无一例外均采取这样的命题形式。当年的命题无疑是产生了巨大争议的，无论是命题者自身对于材料的改动，还是原作常识性的错误，均引发了相当程度的讨论。但是抛开这些问题，回到命题本身，应该能够发现其中蕴含的命题形式与内容上的指向性。第一，发散意识，这段材料是一则故事类的材料，故事中有多个要素，很明显命题者设置了多个角度，而并非旧材料作文仅有一个最佳立意。第二，全局意识，新材料作文固然有很多的立意角度，然立意必定有高下之分，那么立意必须要站在全局角度。第三，语境意识，新材料作文必然不是信马由缰，一定要在材料语境之中的思考，绝不是随意在文中挑选关键词就能够进行无限拓展的。13年的作文只是新材料作文的开端，其后几年的作文命题就显得更加成熟老道。以下将14到18年的作文进行综合对比阐述。五者均属于“名言”性质的材料，有明显的关键词与核心概念的导向：“青春、朽与不朽”，“智慧”，“说话、创新、个性”，“车”，“语言”。这样的命题带有我省一贯的话题作文的特色，看似是一段材料，其中内容又是有核心的，思维是需要发散与拓展的，但是又必须是围绕着中心词核心概念进行发散与拓展的，这对于学生的语境意识就有更高层次的要求。还有一点共通性就在于，考题呈现辩证特点，在名言类的材料之中，处处显现着辩证思维的痕迹，希望考生对核心概念进行演绎时要有辩证的逻辑思考，有界定有辩证地发散，而不是无章法无逻辑地自说自话，这是高考作文的内在指向要求。当然三者也有各自的倾向，“青春朽与不朽”的辩证意味浓，生活色彩浓，更加倾向于从个人的情致，志向，人生态度角度思考，十分贴近高中生，显得格外亲切。“智慧”更侧重于界定，发散，对于这一核心概念的界定是必须做的功课，以及围绕这样的核心概念的具体展开，忌讳以空对空。16年的题目，虽然给出了关键词但是由于题目本身有多个概念，也需要有针对性地进行阐述，也不能脱离材料任取关键词进行论述。17年有关于车的命题，其话题色彩更加明显，与前几年的辩证风不同，本则题目又转回到引语加话题的形式，尽管作者没有明确给出话题，但是隐含在其中最关键的话题就是“车”。一切的阐述都离不开这个“车”，真情，观念，哲思都是寄寓在“车”上，这种命题形式给套作、模式作文等等速成作文极大的打击。借鉴了美学角度的“移情”，也接近中国古代的托物言志，借物抒怀的写作形式，更考验学生从一粒沙中看出乾坤气象的思维，这样的思维在今后的作文中显得尤为重要。18年关于“语言”的试题，更类似于15年的“智慧”，概念十分宽泛，需要有界定，又要找到一个小的入口切入发散，且试题更显人文气息。

二.近年来江苏高考作文命题特点

以上简要梳理了江苏高考近年来作文试题的发展脉络，在脉络的梳理中，笔者发现了一些共通的特点并试图探究出一些普适性的规律，而这些规律或将成为指导中学生作文写作强有力的理论支撑。1.新材料作文形式与话题作文背景江苏近年来的作文，均采取新材料作文的命题形式，但不意味着话题作文就失去了指导意义，恰恰相反，话题作文对新材料作文的影响是巨大的。脱离了语境，脱离了背景的阐述的作文都有游离主题的危险，因此话题意识应该得到重视。更有教师提出“新材料话题作文”[4的概念，将这种作文形式界定在新材料与话题作文之间。不管怎样界定，话题意识将在未来的高考作文试题中一直延续下去。2.立意多元化与语境核心概念确立立意多元化是新材料作文的显著特征，但是多元不意味着包罗万象，乃至于信马由缰。纵观近年来的高考题，多数都有着核心概念的出现，这实际上就指引着学生的行文思路，既要发散但绝不能脱离材料中语境自由发挥。作文的立意有多个侧面，但绝不能断章取义，即使是从材料的某一侧面出发，也要兼顾到整个语境的具体内容，谈“青春”还是要回到“朽与不朽”的讨论，谈“经验”、“能力”、“境界”也必须建立在“智慧”这一核心概念上，谈“文化、文明”也离不开语言的载体，而不是漫无边际地从材料中任取一个词进行无限放大。立意的多元化应该是建立在对于语境核心概念的准确把握上，这与新材料作文中蕴含的话题意识是一致的。3.以小见大的发散思考与辩证思维近年来的高考作文题都比较接地气，都是生活中常见的一些词语“青春”、“智慧”、“个性、创新”、“车”、“语言”，核心概念的常见化是本省作文对于考生的最大善意，让考生有话可写，有理可论，有情可抒，也进一步打击套作、仿作等不明智的应试举动。当然这也需要考生了解生活，进行广泛而有深度的阅读，从小处着手去阐述人生大智慧，这是以小见大的思维，也是高考作文对于中学教学的有力引导。尽管近年来的材料趋于生活化，但是绝不意味着试题的简易化，扁平化，相反更考验学生的发散、辩证的思维，行文时对于材料的内在逻辑既要有整体的把握，对核心概念有较为深入的阐述，又能够进一步拓展进行联想与发散，绝不是简单贴标签就能处理的。这对于考生的思维水平有更高的要求，而这种思维能力也是中学应试训练中所缺乏的。

三.新环境下高中议论文写作指导策略

笔者在上文中简要分析了近年来江苏高考作文发展脉络，以及江苏高考作文共性上的一些特点，并将以此作为高中写作指导的理论支撑。据高考评卷结果显示，江苏高考全省近7成考生写的都是议论文，且优秀作文多数也都是议论文[5]。平时作文训练时，学生也倾向于选择议论文的样式，因此议论文写作指导也就显得尤为重要。作文的应对策略是一个综合的过程，从课外学生自我阅读、整理材料，到老师课上的讲评、训练，每一个环节都不可缺少，以下着重分析教师的指导教学。1.激发学生兴趣写作北大钱理群教授明确指出：“愿意写与有内容可写，这是写好文章的前提，是基础，我们要抓好作文教学，就应该溯本求源，先解决好这两个问题，并在解决好这两个问题的过程中，解决怎样写的问题。”[6]作文指导一直高中语文课堂上的老大难，唯有真正激发学生的兴趣方能写出真正的好文章，让学生爱上写作，最终在考场中写出优秀的文章来。2.推动构建核心意识高考作文有核心概念，作文素材准备时也可以有核心素材意识，当然这不是教学生去套作，这种核心素材意识是将一则素材进行多角度演绎，以不变应万变的写作意识。教师要学会指导学生构建自己的核心素材作文，作文依靠某一核心概念生发出去的，核心素材同样也需要有多重内涵。例如启发学生从绘画、音乐、京剧、昆曲等高雅题材中寻找出丰富的内涵，教师放手让学生阅读积累，适当引导学生进行构建，共同探究素材，逐步培养学生自主总结归纳意识，并实际运用到平时的片段写作以及考场作文中，形成良性循环。除了核心素材之外，作文教学指导也需要有核心话题倾向，高考作文说到底还是考的“人”的作文，一定会涉及到“人与自我”、“人与他人”、“人与社会”、“人与自然”等诸多有关“人”话题，从这些大的话题入手去寻找材料，运用材料时又从小处着手，深入到大的话题中去，这是培养逆向思维的好方法。3.课堂具体写作指导写作指导是有指向性的教学过程，应该分模块进行。首先是审题立意指导，所谓审题定生死，立意决高下，考场中一旦审题出现偏差就是前功尽弃。审题的训练，看重的就是核心概念的概括与阐述，教师绝不可用似是而非的观念去指导学生审题，对待审题必须做到一针见血。其次，结构与语言指导，这应该也是专题训练的内容，作文结构的多样化与语言的丰富性，这也是值得去讨论的。教师一定要注意，切不可盲目教学生追求语言形式之美，最终导致学生将作文写成散文不像散文，议论文不像议论文的“杂文”，毕竟一切结构技巧都是为作文的中心服务，游离了中心再多的技巧也是浪费。4.加强课外阅读拓展将课外阅读与考场作文结合，一向是高中教学的重点内容。教师应该贯彻好整本书阅读计划，与学生一同品读经典，这是培养学生多元思维与辩证思维的重要途径，对于教师而言也是进一步提升自我的契机。

四.结束语

总而言之，江苏高考作文绝对不是洪水猛兽，它是有规律可循的，笔者囿于水平或许未能做出更深层的探究，但是归纳出的江苏高考作文思路是明确的。近年来的高考作文都是以新材料为形式、话题为内容的“新材料话题作文”，且注重核心概念界定，注重材料语境，贴近生活，同时注重培养学生发散、辩证思维。今后中学语文作文教学更应该注意把握高考作文发展的内在指向，这样中学语文作文教学才能更上一个台阶。

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命题作文也就是全命题作文，它的标志是有一个完整的题目，学生必须以这个题目为作文的标题，一个字都不能改动。命题型作文可以由三个部分组成：一是题目；二是提示语，为考生打开写做思路做导引；三是要求，做字数和内容上的规定。那么怎样写好命题作文呢？

首先，一个题目拿到手，我们需要明确它的体裁和人称。是记叙文？议论文？应用文？第一人称？第三人称？

如果是记叙文，在题目中经常出现“记……”、“……的事”、“……的人”等。如《记我的老师》、《一件有趣的事》。如果是说明文，题目中经常会出现“介绍……”、“……的自白”、“……的话”等。如《介绍我的书包》、《小风车的话》。

其次要审好题。不管遇到什么样的题目，都要咬文嚼字，仔细琢磨，找出题目的关键字眼在哪儿？找准它，根据它弄清题目的要求、重点和范围，确定文章的中心。确定好文章的中心之后，就需要围绕中心选取最能表达中心的材料。确定中心，选好材料以后，就需要列出一个简要的提纲，确定先写什么，再写什么，后写什么。哪些地方详写，哪些地方略写？

目前，在小学阶段的命题作文主要是记叙文，其中又以写人类记叙文和记事类记叙文为主。

如果是以写人为主的记叙文，就要把这个人最独特的、最与众不同的地方写出来，使其成为一个独特的人。一般来说，我们要描写一个人，要调动各种的描写手段，这些手段是要综合运用的，我们最常用的主要有四大类，就是神态描写、语言描写、行动描写、心理描写。

如果是以记事为主的记叙文，就要把时间、地点、人物、事件的起因、经过、结果写清楚。并且要安排文章的详略，重点地方要不惜笔墨，详细叙述。