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写作素材库大学英语写作素材库一(学生生活1. 兼职工作A part-time job offers you a chance to demonstrate your ability and to apply what you have learned in school. A part-time job helps you become more independent of your family. Thirdly, the experience that you gain through job can broaden you school life. You may lose time needed for sleep, rest, study, club activities, and recreation. Working several hours a day consumes a lot of time and energy and may affect study. You may find it hard to adjust to what the school expects from you as well as what your employer has the right to expect. Because of the advantages and disadvantages of a part-time job, you have to strike a balance between school and the job. As a student, acquiring more knowledge, especially more learning, is your first important task. With the economic development of our country, more and more college students are engaged in the activities of doing part-time jobs. People wonder whether it is good or bad for students to do so.It goes without saying that part-time working at college has some advantages. First, a part time job brings them more money and helps them to reduce their parents' economic burdens.Second, it offers them a chance to demonstrate their ability and to apply what they have learned in school. Third, it helps them to gainsome social and economic knowledge and to practice their social abilities, which are of great help to their future career. Finally, it enriches their campus life.But this activity may bring some disadvantages to the students. First, too much part - time working may lose their time needed for their sleep, rest, study and recreation. Second, it may affect their studiesif they come back with tiredness. And as a result, their studies are going down. Finally, more money may bring bad effects on some of the students who spend their time smoking, drinking, dressing other than studying. In my opinion, those students should keep a balance between study and the job. As a student, acquiring more knowledge, especially more book learning knowledge, is the main task. Although apart-time job can do you a world of good, you should not spend too much time on it.2(实践、旅行和读书As a matter of fact, real knowledge comes from practice and direct experience. Only outside the classroom can we apply what we have learned and get new knowledge. Although we can learn more outside, the study in class also plays an important role.Books are of various kinds and have different contents. We have history books recording past events, geography books dealing with the earth, mathematics books focusing on space and numbers. We have various books dealing with different things in the world. Reading books can enrich our knowledge. We can learn lots of things we did not previously know, and be aware of what has happened in the past as well as what isgoing to happen in the future. It's impossible for a man to learn everything through his own experience, while books can help him to achieve this purpose. It is by reading that we can learn many things without actually seeing or hearing them.Life is limited, but knowledge is boundless. The more books we read, the more knowledge we get. To read books is necessary to one who wishes to get knowledge. Different books give different kinds of knowledge.3(出国留学By looking at our own country from the outside, we can best see the strong points and weak points of our nation and therefore widen our vision and broaden our minds. While studying in a foreign country, we can travel widely, visit famous scenic spots and make friends with the local people. We can use the foreign language in our daily life so that our ability in the second language may be improved quickly. But the most important thing in attending a foreign university is to get acquainted with the latest knowledge in science and technology and make use of the first rate facilities available.However, as everything has two sides, there are also some disadvantages in attending a foreign university. The most serious problem is the language barrier. Most of the students who are ready to go abroad do not have adequate proficiency in the language spoken there. On arriving there, they will find it difficult to understand what the instructors are saying. For lack of knowledge of the customs and way oflife of the local people, they may run into trouble in dealing with various situations. The cost of living is much higher than that in our1country, so most students have to find part-time jobs in order to help support themselves. Faced with these difficulties, many students find themselves unable to pay full attention to their studies and some students may even fail in their courses and learn little. One must consider both sides of the factors carefully before making up his mind. It is a good thing to go and study abroad particularly when the subject is very weak or not available in our country. But on the other hand, one must not lose sight of the disadvantages. 4(考试There are many arguments about the advantages and disadvantages of examination. Some people think examination is the only way to test how examinees have mastered what they have studied, and it is the only measurement for examiners to select which persons they need. On the other hand, some object that examination can't measure how the students have really studied. They say it can do nothing but burden the students. As for me, I think for both examinees and examiners, the examination can show what and how much the examinees have mastered. The results of examinations are just like mirrors for both examiners and examinees. Through examination the examiners can check their work and become aware of which aspects they have not done well, so that they'll make much improvement in their work. As far as examinees are concerned, they can not only know how they have studied but also find out what they stilldon't know or what they haven't mastered well. Thus they will beinspired to greater efforts to improve their studying method so as to make greater progress. Of course too many examinations are burdens to both examiners and examinees.In summary, the examination does more good than harm for both examiners and examinees. We must take a positive attitude towards examination. We should take full advantage of it and avoid its disadvantages. We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person's knowledge and ability remain as old as ever. Examinations may be a good way of testing memory and cleverness of work rapidly under pressure. They can, however, tell you little about a person's ability. Because they are the marks of success and failure, examinations are nothing but anxiety-makers. Your whole future may be decided on one fateful day. It doesn't matter whether you were ill or not.What is more, teachers' judgments may sometimes be unfair, for they may get tired and make mistakes. We are looking forward to a simpler and more effective way of judging a person's true ability.In short, examinations motivate passive memorizing instead of creative thinking.The examination system has come to be the main theme of modern education. One should take an examination and succeed in passing it before he could be admitted, promoted or graduated.As it plays so important a role in the realm of education, it is subject to much criticism as to its validity. People who are in favor of it elaborate this system to a great extent while those who denounce it maintain that such a system should be abolished. Should examination be abolished? In my opinion it should be. Many people think that an examination is the only means to measure knowledge, but, in fact, thatis not true. A few questions given in examination could by no means cover the whole field or scope of the subject. Thus those who are able to answer them may be the poorest of the students and yet happen to know just a few points about that subject. And so they are entitled to be called successful students.I wish further to say that, because of the existence of the examination system students pay so much attention to high marks, that they often forget the chief purpose of education. The so-called clever students devote themselves to the study of textbooks only. They, of course, know nothing but the skeleton of knowledge. The end and aim of education, however, is to enable students to learn how to live. To do this, the students must avail themselves of all kinds of training, physical as well as mental. The present examination system has discouraged students from making such an attempt.Moreover, since the students try so hard to commit their lessons to memory in as short a time as possible, they soon forget the whole subject as soon as the examination is over. Surely this is one of the greatest wastes ever made in the history of civilization.Lastly, in order to get high marks, there is a great temptation for students to cheat in examination. Indeed, such a practice becomes the means to the end. They cheat their teachers, their parents and also themselves. Such a tendency would impair our moral standards. I am of the opinion, in conclusion, that the examination system should be abolished.5(穿校服In the first place, demanding students wearing uniform in school is not good to their psychological health development. What to wear every day is a person's own business, and for children, it's the same. So school authorities have no right to deprive their right for choosing clothes. If they do so, they are forcing students to2do what they don't like and interfere in students' business.The second reason is that wearing school uniforms is not good for students' physical health development. Another consideration is that demanding students wear school uniform increases parents' burden, especially comparatively low income parents. If students are permitted to wear other clothes, parents have more choice to choose less expensive clothes for their children.To sum up, nothing looks nicer than to see all the children in a school neatly and tidily dressed in uniform. Uniform encourages frugality.Uniform, in a way, can also prevent students from being divertedfrom study to fashion. Students will focus more on their study insteadof what they look like and how to and what to dress. Dressing uniform helps students realize that they really belong to a school and are not just individuals. Wearing school uniforms can encourage pupils to compete among themselves. Pupils who study in good schools can be proud of their uniforms.Maybe it is true that pupils in school uniforms lose theirindividual style. However, it is useful to cultivate their abilities of obeying regulations and team spirit which are not possessed by some pupils. School uniforms make pupils understand that they are not alone but belong to a collective, so they need help and cooperate with others.6(读书All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries are easily and cheaply available to all of uswithin the covers or books.Reading is the pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his. Your experience, comparedwith his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and yourideas develop as you understand his.Reading plays an important role in language learning. First, it can enlarge our vocabulary, widen our knowledge, and review what we have already learned. Next, reading is a great help in improving our writing ability. This is because, through reading, we may learn how to use words appropriately, how to achieve sentence consistency, and paragraph coherence as well. And finally, through reading practice, we might get into good reading habits, master efficient reading skills, and consequently improve our reading comprehension ability.Reading obscene books can only serve one purpose. And that purposeis perverting and polluting the mind. Adolescents are most susceptible to the harmful influences of obscene books.Generally speaking, there are two kinds of books for everyone to read, one kind to buy and the other kind to borrow. Some like to buy books to read while others like to borrow books from libraries or from other people. If I were forced to agree with one of the two ways, my choice would be the latter.Many people prefer borrowing books to buying books for two reasons. First, the book that is borrowed stimulates you to read desirously and effectively, because if you bought a book, you would think that it was yours and you could read it at any time you want, and then you would set it aside. But supposing you borrow a book, and the owner gives you a limited period of time to read it, you would have to read it with great eagerness, forgetting about meal and sleep. Book-borrowing is also money-saving. You can borrow books from others or from libraries onlywith much less money or even without cost, and then you can read a great many books without worrying about the financial problem. This is especially true when only a part, not all of a book is useful to you. In contrast, the prices of books have risen too much in the past threeyears to afford, for most of college students live with a nearly empty pocket.Since borrowing books is much superior to buying ones in many aspects, borrowing books has been and will be a very popular way of reading in our society. Therefore, apart from the most frequently read and used books, such as dictionaries and text-books which need buying we should borrow as many books as we can from libraries or from others in order to make us more intellectual and useful in society.7. Living Alone or Living with RoommatesWhen you are considering finding a roommate to share an apartmentwith you, be careful of your choice! I know you have to pay a high rent and you may be flat broke these days. I know sometimes you want to find a person to talk to. But all these considerations pale besides the troubles the "common room" gives you. The annoying things are too manyto mention.3At the immediate first, your privacy will be completely disturbed. After your roommate knows almost everything about you, if he is a gossip, the whole town will know of you, what you like, what you have, even if you have got another girlfriend, etc.Concomitantly, you have to put up with many inconveniences which you can hardly avoid when you live with another person. For example, you want to use the toilet in the morning one day and immediately find your roommate is in it; you want to make the telephone calls after you are back from work and again find your roommate is in it; you want to make the telephone calls after you are back from work and again find your roommate is dialing a long-distance number; your roommate wants to watch a program on TV that you do not like, to name only a few.Another inconvenience, as is the common practice, your roommate may often haggle over minor things with you. He could be too calculating about the telephone bill, the water bill, the electricity bill, and whatever, which very often are shared by both of you.Moreover, you will suffer more in one way or another if your roommate drinks, smokes, or snores. It can't be helped. The most annoying thing you have to train yourself to tolerate, according to my personal experiences, is that he may talk with his girlfriend on the phone for a long, long time at night. If you have insomnia, and you agree with the proposition of "Out of sight, out of mind", you have to accept it and move out. On the other hand, imagine the pleasure ofliving alone: you can get up however late it may be, you can enjoy the quiet atmosphere to the full wherever you live, you can laugh, you can sing, you can even roll about on the floor if you like. So, why don't you live by yourself and let nobody disturb you?8. Why We Should Learn English WellEnglish is now the international language for airline pilots, scientists, medical experts, businessmen etc. English teaching radio programs are broadcast daily to four continents and supplied to radio stations in 120 countries. Films and video are on the air or used in institutions in over 100 countries. English speaking countries are spread throughout the world, with a total of appropriately 310 million people using it as their mother tongue. There are now appropriately 100 million people all over the world who use English as a second language, which is increasing every day. Each country uses English for important social and commercial activities.English serves as a functional language in several areas of public activity for many nations of the world which use it as an international second language. Because of its widespread use geographically, and because of the large number of people who speak it, it has been adopted as the language of aviation and air traffic. English has continued as one of the important languages of commerce, as the sphere of political and economic influence of English speaking nations has extended beyond the boundaries of England. The use of English in international diplomacy is strengthened by its acceptance as one of the official language of the United Nations. And as a final example, English is the language of the majority of published materials in the world so that education, especially specialized higher education, has come to rely heavily on an understanding of English. Learning English language extends one's vision and expands the mind. Looking at the world or oneself through adifferent language system shows the limits of one's own perception and adds new dimensions to familiar objects or events. Learning English provides us another means of communication through which the window of the entire English speech community becomes a part of our heritage.9. Social PracticeSocial practice has been more and more popular in universities and colleges. Students are asked to enter into the society and try to get in touch with society in order to get some ideas of the society. Surely social practice has many advantages. Firstly, social practice can offer the students a chance to contact with the society and get some idea of the society. In this way, the students can gain some valuable social experience, which will be helpful to their future career. Secondly, the students can apply what they have learned in class to the practical work, which will make them know themselves more clearly. Thirdly, some social practice can bring them some profit and it can make them more independent of their family.However, some problems will arise if the correct guidance is not made. For example, some students get more interested in social practice and want to work whole day and get more money, thus neglecting their study. And some students are likely to observe the society partially, which will affect their future study. In order to carry out the social practice smoothly, the students should first know its objective. They should put their studies in the first place and hold the social practicejust a supplement of their college study. So they ought to try to strikea balance between social practice and their study.410. Should We Learn to Do HouseworkNowadays, when we walk through the streets, we often see many boys and girls who, instead of spending their time on books, roaming about the streets, starting funny clubs and giving parties. These boys and girls behave badly and they think highly of themselves. They do not work and just remain idle.On the contrary, we can also see some boys and girls who live in a small world of their own. They bury themselves among books and also are proud of themselves. They think that it will be condescending themselves if they do housework for they often think themselves well educated.These two types of youngsters are wrong. In my opinion, everyone, without the exception of boys, should have the knowledge of housework. After all, they will have a family of their own, and they should contribute their part in maintaining a good home. Boys should also learn to do housework or else, what will they do if they remain single? Though not all boys remain single, yet they will be valuable assistants in the family if they know some housework. After all, they will not lose anything, but, on the contrary, gain some knowledge. We can find examples in our fellow-students studying at college and university. All young men do housework as girls do. So, why not start to learn housework now or else it will be too late?11. EducationIt happens to me often. I read newspaper articles about violent crime, see the ravages of inhumanity on the evening news, and hear sound bites on the radio describing cruelty and intolerance. It becomes difficult, sometimes, impossible, for me to push away my consciousness thoughts about the danger, the hostility of the world in which we live.I worry, particularly, about the effects on our children of our own society. In many school districts throughout the country, there is already compelling evidence that adolescents have been affected by changing social conditions, including by what people believe to be a decline of basic human values. There are some students who display antagonistic attitudes and behave inappropriately. Some students are insensitive and unkind to their classmates, discourteous to adults, and quickly express their anger by raising their voices or by using profanity.It is the responsibility of parents to teach their children to be polite, courteous, and forbearing. It is one of their most fundamental responsibilities to impart their children the values of integrity, decency, and respect for others. Teachers and school administrators should never become ethical stander-by. They should not only educate their students but also encourage them to accept the innate worth of every human being. Good teachers and administrators teach common values of courtesy, natural respect, persistence, responsibility, and self-reliance. Ideally competent educators should demand appropriatevocabulary and good manners. They should remind students to say "Please" and "Thank you" and remind them not to interrupt when others are speaking. Our students should graduate not only as successful learners but also as ladies and gentlemen. The aim of education is to stimulate impulses, encourage free thinking and boldness in thought and keep alive various interests. Students should be provided with a rich expansion of experience. A good education includes music, art, sports, social activities, etc. There is the feeling today that education should be practical as well as theoretical.The prosperity of a nation depends on the development of education. Any development in science and technology throughout the world is due to the development of education which brings up scientists and inventors.It is difficult to emphasize just how important the role of education is. There is no doubt that countries with undeveloped education will remain poor.Education is also vital to the development of an individual. Of all elements of success in our careers no one is more important than education. It is not genius but the knowledge that makes the difference between success and failure. In fact most of the famous people of our times spent many years studying. Can you name any great men you admire who are not well educated?Some people however are still ignorant of the importance of education. Some parents, especially those in the countryside, think itis unnecessary to send their children to school. Some parents have theirchildren work for money at very young age. In viewing of this, compulsory education must be enforced to see to it that all young people will have the chance to have adequate education.12. Two Educational PatternsIn the last decade, advances in educational reform have led to a hot debate over two educational patterns-the exam-oriented and the quality-oriented. To answer the question-which is superior, however, we should take the following factors into account.5In general, exam-oriented education gives priority to the scores of the students as well as the proportion of their entering schools of a higher grade. Under this pattern, cramming method of teaching has found prevalence all over the schools. Contrast to the above, the quality-oriented education system provides all the students opportunities to share equal education and they are supposed to enjoy all-round development actively rather than passively. In a word, what the educational pattern cultivates will not be merely elites in study, but citizens fit in health, rich in knowledge and tasteful in morality.To tell the truth, as a so-called elite produced by the traditional pattern of education, I believe that the quality-orientation is much superior to the old one. We ever squeezed into a narrow passage, shouldering too heavy pressure, enjoying no childhood. Strictly speaking, the exam-oriented education itself bears no difference from the imperial examination system, which is the root and branch out of tune with themodem melody. In my mind, knowledge can be sucked not only out of books but also from the lively society, to which the quality-orientation will build an expressway.13. Teach Kids, Do Not Tire ThemThe size of school bags carried by teenagers continues to get bigger with the start of every term. College students are always sitting in their ivory tower, seven days a week, being busy reading books listed by their tutors, and having no time to find out what is going on beyond their immediate surroundings. ; Students are put under extreme stress because of the following. First, some schools ignore the requirements of the school curriculum and the regulations of the State Education Commission. They prolong classes at will, offering their students obligatory courses on Sundays or even during festivals and vacations. The students face their worst dilemma in their final year. In high school, the students are geared to the college entrance examination, while at college the students take in the competitive examinationsjointly organized by several colleges. Secondly, the amount of homework for students increases. On an average, primary and middle school students spend two and a half to three hours a day doing homework. When it comes to college students, they have made it a rule to stay up until midnight every day. Moreover, students are all forced to take part inall kinds of quizzes. Thirdly, too many reference books for reviewing courses confuse the students. Publishers and booksellers often take the advantage of the moment when local schools order their textbooks topromote their sale of reviewing materials and exercise books. We cannot omit the most important reason. The teachers' negligence of thestudents' overall development is the real key. Many of them concentrate their efforts indiscriminately on training their students for those examinations mentioned above, giving a cold shoulder to moral education and physical fitness. Burdened with excessive class work and homework, students are having their physical and mental health seriously damaged.It is high time to relieve students of irrational study requirements. First of all, efforts should be made to put an end to the fierce competition between schools. Reform on the enrollment examination system is necessary. Reduction of examinations in time will give the young people more time to build up their health. But the decisive key is toask the teachers to "teach kids, but not to tire them."二、家庭生活Despite various improvements in all aspects of social life, the generation gap between the grown-up and the young remains unabridged. In order to narrow the gap, both groups should respect each other, listento the words of each other and should discuss their problems patiently.There has always been an argument between the young and the oldabout what kind of life to live-realistic or romantic. Young people tend to think that real life is as dramatic and fascinating as it is in the novels and movies while more experienced adults think this naive daydream is certainly to be broken by later experiences and everyone should learn to get used to the dull routine of his everyday life. Life。