新视野大学英语第四册课后作文

新视野大学英语第四册课后作文Unit1 Parents differ from children in their career choice. The question of who should be responsible for planning their career often causes problems for many children. Parents think that they know their children well enough to decide what kind of job suits them. They are afraid that their children are too young to decide their future on their own. However, many children would argue that they should be left free to make their own choice. The other aspect of career choice is that parents and their children are often different in their opinions of the idea profession. Parents would prefer children to choose some professions that are stable and could bring prestige and economic benefits. But some children would rather choose professions that are challenging and require independent and creative thinking. Unit2 Charlie Chaplin is a great comic for his native land Britain, but even more so for the world. On the stage he often wore tiny moustaches, huge pants and tailcoats that were perhaps more characteristic of Europeans and may be not much of the British. Since more than half of the roles Chaplin played were in silent films, people throughout the world had no difficulty understanding his films. With sound movies, Chaplin created a nonsense language that sounded like no known nationality and was accepted and appreciated by people all over the world. For most of his lifetime he did not stay in his mother country; he traveled throughout the world to appear on stage for people of different nationalities.Unit3 It is difficult to get a welfare client’s wheelchair repaired．Once my wheelchair needed repairing，and I notified my caseworker. She gave me a lecture that I hadn’t taken good care of my wheelchair. Then she told me that I must have the patience to wait until she had the time to report my wheelchair conditions to my medical worker. Then the medical worker called the wheelchair repair companies to get the cheapest bid and informed the main welfare office at the state capital．It took them another several days to consider the matter. When they finally got my wheelchair repaired，I had been confined to bed for more than half a month．Unit4 Compare the new welfare system with the old one and you would find a world of difference between the two. Under the new welfare system, the law encourages welfare clients to work on their own for a gradual shiftaway from welfare, and this is not the case in the past. Welfare clients now can develop their talents to make money. In the past, they often cheated to bleed the system for a few extra dollars. Now caseworkers will gladly help their clients find appropriate jobs rather than act like detectives to try to seek out any unreported properties. Today many welfare clients have made a choice to live a life of complete honesty and they tell the truth to caseworkers and declare any extra income they make. In cases like this, caseworkers will feel greatly relieved because they don't need to search for any cheating as in the past.Unit5 Some people prefer to live alone whereas some others have to live alone for one reason or another. Those people believing in inspirational solitude argue that no companion is more companionable than solitude. Literary giants such as William Wordsworth, John Milton and Henry Thoreau enjoyed living alone on purpose. Hunters or explorers enjoy themselves as they venture out to tame the great wild areas. On the other hand, there are some other people who have to live alone due to various reasons: being divorced, widowed or never married. Many of them feel bitter to live in solitude. They have no one to talk to and as a result they talk at length to themselves and to their pets and to the television.Unit6 Typically there are two kinds of people who choose to live alone on purpose. The first group of people is artists. They believe in the inspiration in solitude. One of my friends is a writer. He enjoys the time when he is alone because he can stay up late to read and, above all, concentrate on his writingwithout fear of being interrupted by others. On his wall he posts a quotation from Thoreau: "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." The second group consists of people who are disappointed with their marriage or family life. A woman I know has been living alone since her husband left her five years ago. She is not waiting for his return but she is just disappointed with life.Unit7 Sticking to high moral standards is easier said than done. Once, a young British car sales manager who had just finished courses on business ethics was sent to sell cars to an African country. The negotiations had been going on for months without any real results．He was at his wits' end. Finally the hit upon a solution．One day he bought a popular novel and slipped a check of #20,000 in the book. Then he presented it to the minister in charge of transportation. This ministerexamined its contents，pretending he did not see the check at all．Then he said with a smile："Young man，hear London is at its best in May. ” The I sales manager, who wa s quick-witted, replied: "My company in London will be most honored to welcome your visit！A short time later, the deal ” was approved in London！Unit8 Small in size and light in weight, electronic dictionaries are convenient to use. They are easy to carry and students can take them anywhere they go. Whenever they come across a new word in reading, they can find out its meaning with the help of an electronic dictionary. An electronic dictionary usually contains the information of several paper dictionaries. When students have one such dictionary, they actually have more than one dictionary in hand. Meanwhile, electronic dictionaries are time-saving. They save student from turning pages over to find the word. Instead, they only need to key in the word and the meaning will appear on the screen. Considering all the above factors, no wonder more and more students are using electronic dictionaries nowadays.。