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高中英语美文背诵（五）

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Advertisement can be seen everywhere in the modern society. Large billboards are built on the roadsides or on the top of the high buildings. Newspapers become thicker and thicker, for pages of the paper are covered with advertisements. TV shows us endless ads day and night. Advertisements force people to notice their products.

It is a good way to promote their new products. When a new product is developed, it is the manufacturer’s or seller’s duty to let the public know what the new product is; what the specialties are and what the manufacturer’s or the seller’s guarantees are to the products. Surely, advertisements are like bridges between customers and manufacturers or sellers.

But false or deceptive advertisements can also be found at the same time. When a person has been cheated once, he can’t believe advertisements once more, or at least he can’t believe ads fully. People have become wiser and learnt to use their brains when facing a beautiful and attractive advertisement.

The World is Getting Smaller and Smaller

In ancient times, people’s only transportation means were their feet. So it was rather difficult for them to travel from one place to another. As a result, the

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world was too big for them to understand.

With the development of modern science and technology, more and more transportation means appear: bicycle, bus, etc. They carry goods and passengers to and from every corner of the world. And they shorten the distance between people. With the help of these modern facilities, people all over the world can get in constant touch with each other.

So it’s easier for people from different nations to understand each other, to communicate with each other. Thus, this world is getting smaller and smaller, just like one big family.

Use of the Time

A man’s life occupies, at best, but a limited space of time; every bit of time wasted in idleness means a reduction of success and prosperity to the man himself and to the world at large. The magnitude of a man’s success in life depends largely upon how he makes use of his time. Those who achieve greatness in different channels of success are, as a whole, the most hard-working people. Our famous scholar Yao and Shun wasted not a single minute, while Da Yu, our great emperor, valued even the briefest space of time; their accomplishments stand out in our history in bold relief.

If we wish to do something useful, the sure way to success is to turn every minute that we may have at our disposal（可支配的）.The old hours that we have

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after our daily work are the best time for reading. There is a great deal of wisdom locked up in books. Nowhere else can we find such a rich spring of knowledge for quenching（satisfy止渴）our thirst.

Of course, different people follow different occupations. They do not need the same sort of information. Here they must make their own choice to get the books best suited to their particular needs. The time spent in such reading will add greatly to their stock of knowledge and prepare them for greater work in their respective fields of activity. When the reading habit is once formed, they will enjoy reading far more than they do anything else.

Exam Should Be Reduced

It is known to us that the exam is the main method to measure the students’ knowledge in school. But nowadays this method is almost becoming the only way to judge the students’ ability of knowledge.

If this method is over-used, I believe it will do us more harm than good. For one thing, too many exams keep the students from reading widely, because the students are forced to prepare the lessons to be examined. Their knowledge can only be narrowed within few textbooks taught in class. For another, the exam itself encourages rigid memorization instead of initiating (operate) the students’ creativity and individual thinking, which will be of great importance in their future work.

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So we can conclude that too many exams are no good to the students. Some measures should be taken to lessen the students’ burden. Remember the main purpose of the exam is to urge and to encourage the students to learn more.

Part-time Job in College

Nowadays there are arguments on the part-time job in college. Does it do good or do harm to the students? In my opinion, it has two sides.

On one hand, doing part-time jobs can bring financial support to the students. As we all know the education fees in recent years have been higher and higher. It’s rather difficult for ordinary families to afford them.

The burden of the parents will be greatly relieved if the students can earn some money, with which they can buy more books helpful to their studies. At the same time, they will obtain some social experiences, which is necessary for their future work. On the other hand, the part-time job will occupy the students a lot of time, which they should spend on their studies. Thus they can’t have enough time to learn the things they need or they like. As a result, it will be hard for them to meet the expectation of the college.

Therefore, we should take the advantages of the part-time job and avoid its disadvantages. Only in doing so can we really benefit from it.

Build up Good Hobbies

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Everybody has his own hobbies: some are fond of collecting stamps, coins, etc., some like swimming, and there are some who like reading or music ---- all these are of good hobbies.

Nowadays, most teenagers are crazy about “hit-song”. From those songs we can learn many phrases, which we cannot find in books. Although teenagers like those songs very much, adults dislike them.

And if they indulge in them, it would be a waste both of time and money. This should not be considered as a good hobby. The worst hobbies of all are smoking and gambling. Smoking harms our bodies. Some men like to smoke in public places, and do not care about other people’s feelings. Gambling will make you lose everything. You may lose your temper, money and friendship. Friendship is the thing that money cannot buy. To lose a friend is easy but to build up a friendship is hard.

So, why don’t we play something that cannot hurt others and which is worthwhile to us? For good hobbies, like stamp collecting and reading can help us broaden our knowledge, music can make us happy, and sports can keep us in good physical condition. So why not take the good and discard the bad?

Good Manners

Good manners do not come naturally, for they have to be learnt. If children were not told and shown how to behave politely, they would grow up rough and

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rude like savages.

Good manners are not the same in all countries. However different good manners may be in different places, the principle of good manners is always the same everywhere. It is consideration for the feelings of others. Good manners are the mark of a gentleman, and a real gentleman always tries to consider other people’s feelings. They will not say things that will hurt others; they will not speak in a rude way to offend them. When they are with others, they know what they do not like.

So good manners are really a form of unselfishness. No one can have really good manners who is selfish and conceited, and who always wants his own way and seeks his own comfort. They may be outwardly polite, but they will not have the spirit of good manners.

Is Money the Road to Happiness?

In the modern society, quite a few people make money a target for pursuit, as they believe money is the road to happiness. Is that the case? Does money really make the matter go? I don’t agree to this opinion. Of course, we can’t live without money because it is the currency in circulation with which we can buy what we need in daily life. But money doesn’t mean everything in the world, such as happiness. The factors that contribute to happiness are unpredictable（出乎意料的）. Those who have money to burn are not necessarily living a happy life while those who lack physical needs may be happier than the rich.

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People once said that money is the source of evil. It is true to some extent. To catch hold of money, people would rather pay any price ---- to steal, to rob, to commit murder and even to aggress another country. Sometimes money can drive people crazy and kill them. In that case how can money is the road to happiness!

On Making Friends

As a human being, one can hardly do anything without a friend. Helping one out of trouble and bringing happiness to a lonely heart, a true friend may shed (spread) sunshine and love on one’s life. A friend will help you find out and overcome an overlooked（忽略的）shortcoming, so that you can make progress and have success in your work or study. All the splendor（辉煌）in the world is not worth a good friend.

True friendship is like an in-time rain falling on the dry land. True friends are not those who like to eat or drink together with you, but those who concern more about your needs, growth, successes and failures. They will never flee for their own sake when faced with a great danger. Just as the old saying puts it, “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

I like making friends. In order to make true friends, I will trust others, following their advice and leading a hand whenever they need help. I like to make friends with those who have the same interests and ideas with me, but not those who are boastful (full of self-praise), aimless, narrow-minded or selfish. Once I make friends with someone, I hope that the friendship will last all through my life.

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My Ideal Job

When a person is asked what his ideal job is, he may answer quickly, a doctor, an actor, etc. But when it comes to me, I feel at a loss. There are all kinds of work in the world, but I can’t decide which kind I like best.

In my opinion, my ideal job must fully utilize (make use of) my intelligence and knowledge. I have been studying for so many years. The main purpose it to prepare myself for my future job. If most of my knowledge can’t be used, no doubt it is a great waste. I’m not afraid of a demanding and challenging job, for it’s the best opportunity to examine my capability. As a result, it stimulates me to make greater efforts and to achieve more.

A relaxed, harmonious relationship among the companions is ideal, for it’s bound to improve the efficiency of work. I can’t imagine how they can cooperate if they can’t get along well, not to mention any achievement.

At last, I wish my job will help people directly, thus the sense of achievement will make me work harder.

Fate

Many people believe that they are fated, or destined（注定）to a certain life. For example, if they are very poor or very ill, they say that it is because they were born to be poor or ill and there is nothing they can do about it. But in my opinion,

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people have more control than that over their lives. Maybe they didn’t work hard enough to make money or didn’t take proper care of themselves. By blaming their condition on fate, they are avoiding responsibility for their behavior.

I think that for the most part of each person makes his own fate. If you are not satisfied with your own life, don’t accept it by blaming it on fate. Change it! If you really want to do it, you can! Set your goal and work toward it. Don’t wait for fate to bring you success because it won’t happen. Fate is in your own hands! Go out and make yourself successful, rich and happy. Then you can’t be pound of your accomplishment.

We need a Science Society

Youths today should all take a keen interest in science, for we are in a rapidly progressing scientific age. Indeed, no one can now be regarded “up-to-date” without a general scientific knowledge we get from school textbooks; we should visit the libraries more often and read the current scientific news from the newspaper. But the enthusiastic youths have often found out that there are not enough suitable books to read in the public libraries, since many of them are too advanced and too specialized. To overcome this difficulty, I suggest that the Education Department should establish an inter-school science society. The main objects of the society are to increase the scientific knowledge of youths and to foster friendship between members.

Organize inter-school scientific contests. Arrange inter-school debates and

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discussions on interesting scientific subjects. This would not only give us a chance to express our ideas, but also help us to make more friends. This is a very important thing, for friendship is the very element in international understanding and world peace. Hold a weekly lecture, in which famous personalities of the scientific field should be invited to give, and also film shows. This shall be the chief source of new scientific knowledge for us.

Sponsor Science Fairs of Exhibitions in which teenagers can compete with each other in their scientific projects.

Erect up (set up) a large library with plenty of suitable scientific books for reference and research. It is also hoped that people who have a broad knowledge in science and can explain to us the things we read in books, which we cannot understand, staff the library.

We Are Young But Once

Many young girls like to copy grown-ups. They wear high-heels, paint their faces, dress in tight clothes and all that burden. They willingly let tight clothes suffocate（闷死；窒息）their breathing, high-heels hinder（阻碍）their walking, and make-ups mar their natural beauty. They think they equal adults by using those stuff, and look down upon their counterparts as childish, who incidentally do not care much to over-act their age.

In fact, one cannot be considered as a grown-up just by appearance. It

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acquires more, such as maturity of thought, which can only be seasoned by time.

Youth is indeed a very precious gift, and remember, everyone is young only once. While we still have youth with us, why should we restrict ourselves from enjoying it to our heart’s content by attempting to be much older than we really are?

Chances once lost may never come again, and youth definitely will not. Once it is over, real life requests our experience, and responsibilities await us with graveness. Our life will never be as free and blissful as we are today. Our present tasks in life are light. Our hearts are still full of youthful spirits and enthusiasm. So while we are still in the flower of life, why do we not gather the “rose-buds” of youth before they wither away（凋谢）？

Caring for the aged

Society has to try all means to care more for the elderly population. This is easy to say but difficult to arrange. With an increased life expectancy and a decreased birthrate due to the family planning policy, China’s population is aging at unprecedented（空前的）levels. Statistics（统计）suggest that by the end of the 20th century, more than 10 percent of the country’s citizens will be at least 60 years old. By the year 2040, this aged group will make up one fourth of the population.

The same statistics also show that more than half of the aged population are

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financially（经济上）supported by their offspring (child/children). Only a quarter of them are independent, while only some of the rest live on retirement pensions.

Whatever their financial situations are, the responsibility of most elderly people’s home care thus falls upon their children who already work full-time to support their own families. A considerable number of elderly population also live far way from their children, which sets tricky obstacles in their daily care.

Courage

Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer of Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liza who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. He only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her five-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.

The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, “Yes, I’ll do if it will save Liza.”

As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked in a trembling voice, “Will I start to die right away?”

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Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor. He thought he was going to have to give her all his blood.

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