家中趣事作文自学考试综合英语二 作文一

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does the author urge us to learn about our planet?what worries does he have about it?

The

author

urges

us

to

learn

about

our

planet

mainly

because

the

earth

is

only

one

we

should

learn

how

the

earth

appreciation

of

its

funtion

can

help

us

understand better whether what we are doing can benefit the earth or a matter of

fact,we

are

changing

the

atmosphere,the

surface,the

water

of

the

for

some

short-term

advantage

when

the

long-term

implications

are

a

result,we

have

damaged the earth without knowing there has been a serious pollution in many big

cities,the earth is gradually losing is high time that we took steps to better the

ore,the

citizens

of

any

country

should

have

at

least

something

to

say

about the direction in which we are going.

the author worries that if we don’t understand the importance of protecting the earth,we

abandon the future.

十月已经考过拉，个人认为不会再考。

do you distinguish the hero and the celebrity?

The hero and celebrity are both famous r

,they are not of the same

are several ways to distinguish them.

First,

a

hero

becomes

famous

because

of

his

uncommon

courage,

self-sacrifice made most often for the benefit of accomplishments are still evident

in

our

own

in

contrast,a

celebrity

becomes

famous

not

so

much

because

of

any

enduring achievement as because of much publicity.

Second,to

become

a

hero,one

needs

accomplishment,but

to

become

a

celebrity,one

only

needs hero was distingushed by his accomplishment;the celebrity by his image and

trademark.

Finally,there is another distinction:heroes inspire respect;celebrities inspire main

reason is that the celebrities are exactly like common people except for the attention they get

from the media,and many people believe that they could become another celebrity with good

luck.

do Americans generally value time?give examples to show this attitude towards time.

In the united states,many people keenly feel the shortness of each are aware

that once a day in their life is gone,it will never come americans believe no one

stands you are not moving ahead,you are falling behind. So they value time and want

every minute to count.

This attitude towards time is shown in the fast pace of life in the er they do

they always seem to be in a rush. You find people hurrying to get where they are

hurry to eating places for a meal and finish it as quickly as possible.

Also American do what they can to save produce a lot of labour-saving devices such

as chothes and dish-washers;they rapidly communicate through phone call,telex and e-mail

and cut down on personal contacts.

do you think of Snyder in the story”take over

,bos’n”?

I think snyder had a strong will and could remain calm in time of emergency and hardship.

After the shipwreck,snyder and other nine men had drifted in a lifeboat for twenty days and

they were running out of water with only a pint left in the snyder judged it,they

were about two hundred miles to the knew it clearly that if they had drunk up

the water

,they would have had nothing to look forward to but death- only the craving for

water could keep them a commander

,he had to think of them ore,although

he was as thirst as others,he hadn’t dared to shut his eyes in maybe seventy

-two hours and

kept the other nine men away from the little water with a gun pointing at could see

from the way they glared that they hated him very much. When he could no longer go on,he

asked the bos’n to take over the gun and fell that time,the bos’n who had been the

biggest threaten. guessed his thoughts and took over his responsibility.

继续中，

do parents overrindulge their children?what harm does overindulgence do to children?

也考过

is culture shock?what is it caused by and what are the major symptoms?

Culture

shock

is

a

feeling

of

anxiety,loneliness

and

confusion

that

people

sometimes

experience when they move from one culture to another

. It may be called an occupational

people are suddenly transplanted into a new enviroment,they lose the things

they

are

familiar

with,and

find

the

social

system,beliefs,values

and

ways

of

living

are

all

do not know how to cope with the new situation. They are just like fish out of

water and as a result they feel frustrated and suffer from culture shock.

An

obvious

symptom

of

culture

shock

is

rejecting

the

new

environment.

Foreigners

in

a

strange

land

get

together

to

complain

about

the

host

country

and

its

people.

Another

symptom is home country is irrationally glorified and all the difficulties and

problems there are forgotten. other symptoms are a desire for dependence of residents of

one’s own nationality,a terrible longing to be back home.

e you are the n how you get to Erskine and what you

do return for the pound he gave you when you first met.

也考过

did the author manage to get his diaries out of Nazi Germany?

When the author was going to leave berlin during world war second,he decided to get his

diaries out of berlin although he should have destroyed was enough in his diaries

to get him hanged,if the gestapo ever discovered them.

He laid out the diaries in two big steel suitcases and placed a number of his broadcast scripts,

each page of which had been stamped by the military and civilian addition,he put

a few General Staff mapson managed to get the Gestapo officials to check his suitcase

in

the

the

headquarters,the

official’s

attention

was

attracted

by

the

few

Gengeral staff maps,which made these officials feel better to find something to

over

,they

were

impressed

by

the

censors’

they

got

to

know

that

the

author

reported

on

the

German

army,they

put

Gestapo

seals

on

his

the

airport,the

author succeeded in preventing Gestapo officials from checking his suitcases with the help of

the seals.

In such a risky but clever way,the author managed to get his diaries out of Nazi Germany.

do you think is the most admirable quality of the old washwoman?

I think the most admirable quality of the old washwoman is her strong sense of duty.

The old washwoman was faithful to her piece of laundry she did was as clean as

polished silver

.every piece was neatly she charged no more than the

would return the laundry to her clients no matter what had after she had been

seriously ill,as soon as she was able to stand on her feet,she began as she put

it,she could not rest easy in her bed because of the wash,and the wash would not let her

died shortly after she finished her last task.

As we can imagine,she had been driven by a strong will to return the property to its rightful

owners,to fulfill the task she had body was only supported by the force of

duty and gh she died,her spirit would live in the minds of people who knew her

.

was Andrew Carnegic so proud of the one dollar and twenty cents the first pay he

brought home?

Carnegie was very pround of the one dollar and twenty cents he earned for the first time in his

life when he was only money though small in amount,meant a great deal.

First,when he got his first pay he felt that he had grown was no longer a boy who had

to depend on his parents;he had become a man who was able help support the family,a

contributing member

.this was important because at that time life was hard for the family and

it was difficlut for his parents to manage alone.

Also,he thought the money was the direct reward of honest manual labor

.it represented a

week of very hard money gave him the satisfaction of being rewarded for what he

had done.

Although the job was almost unbearable for a boy of his age,he experienced the greatest

satisfaction he had ever felt in his life.

is

the

major

contribution

Rachel

Carson

has

made

to

the

protection

of the

environment?

Rachel carson is a scientist who made great contribution to the protection of the environment

among which there is a great book silent spring.

When she was aware of the harsh facts concerning the present and future dangers to the

environment,rachel carson wrote a book known as silent this book,she sounded a

startling

warning

to

book

showed

quite

clearly

that

man

was

endangering

himself and everything else on this planet by his indiscriminated use of chemical

her title suggests,there might come a springtime that would indeed be have been

destroyed by the man-made poison used to kill crop-threatening insects.

The

book

exploded

into

the

public

received

great

praise

from

some,great

criticism from r

,no matter what controvery it stirred up,it was this book that

created the enthusiasm for protecting the environment.

the

story”who

shall

dwell”how

did

the

father’s

attitude

towards

the

neighbors

change?what brought about the change?

也考过啦

be Cliff Evans’s life before his sudden death.

Cliff evans lived with his mother

,stepfather and five younger half brothers and sisters.

His stepfather had never legally adopted him,nor did show any affection for home cliff

didn’t talk

much and had never told his family about his problems.

When he first began school,he was timid but eager to his IQ was pretty

in

the

third

grade

a

teather

wrote

in

the

school

record

that

he

was

uncooperative

and

then he had no more confidence never smiled nor talked had no

friends;he had never belonged to a club,never played on a team and never held an

came to school by himself and left by class,he would sit back in the last y

he became silent and became nothing.

are the major forms of bribery?

Bribery

can

be

classfied

into

three

broad

first

category

consists

of

large

amounts

of

money

paid

for

political

purpose

or

to

secure

major

example,a

certain american company offered big sums of money to support a US presidential candidate

when it was under in order to get big contracts,such payments are often

made to ruling families or their close advisers.

The

second

category

covers

payments

made

to

obtain

quicker

official

approval

of

some

such cases,the money is often paid to key government officials concerned.

The third category involves payments made in certain countries to make a business deal easy

to

get

instance,a

foreign

company

may

pay

to

get

permission

to

import

equipment.a common type of this category is the “facilitating payment”to clear

are smaller sums of money paid to customs officials

do you know about Randy and Car

ole in “a social event”?why are they anxious to get

invited to Scotty’s funeral?

Randy

and

Carole

are

a

young

hollywood

have

been

married

only

a

short

have achieved a certain degree of success in pictures,but their careers in the show

business are still in the promising stage.

Scotty woodrow,a world-famous movie star has just died,and randy and carole are anxious to

go to his funeral,which will be a gathering of

celebrities and is regareded as a big social

is said that flowers have come from the u.s. president and the British Queen.

Randy and carol think it is extremely important for their career to be seen there with a lot of

big they haven’t got an invitation while some of their Hollywood friends,also young

actors a

nd actresses like themselves,and been ’s why they are worried and are

trying hard to find ways of getting themselves invited in the last minute.

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