第一篇：英語周記

Passage 16 New York May Never Win Its War on Rats Video of rats scampering across a New York City restaurant floor may have disturbed viewers worldwide but some experts say the rodents are less dangerous than other creatures drawn to restaurants — humans.The video broadcast on television a week ago showed rats running wild at a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant just one day after the outlet had passed a city Health Department inspection.It took a bite out of the share price of parent company Yum Brands Inc.and forced a city Health Department shake-up that removed the inspector who conducted the review from duty and led to 13 more restaurant closures on Thursday.The owner of the KFC/Taco Bell franchise, ADF Companies, has closed 10 of its restaurants until they pass inspections, and the city closed three other restaurants because of unsanitary conditions or mice, the Health Department said.Yum Brands on Friday hired an urban pest control expert to review standards at its New York City restaurants.The Health Department warned that greater threats to public health include restaurant employees who fail to wash their hands or food stored at improper temperatures.One epidemiologist agreed.Still, the incident reinforces New York’s reputation of having a more severe rat problem than other big cities.New York’s crowded quarters force restaurants to store trash indoors until it can be collected, providing rats with an indoor food source.In addition, New York’s real estate boom means construction is pervasive, scattering rats to a wider geographic area.Passage 17 Beauty Industry With a bit of “physical preparation” — artificial breast implants, a nose job and a little trimming of fat from the hips — you too can aspire to be Miss World.So says Venezuela’s latest candidate for the world beauty contest.Andreina Prieto admitted that were it not for the help of cosmetic surgery, she probably would not have made the line-up.The raven-haired 19-year-old was chosen from among 40 other contestants to represent the South American country at the Miss World competition in South Africa.Prieto, wearing a blue bikini, told reporters that prior to entering the competition, she had three separate operations: one to improve the shape of her nose, a liposuction to remove fat from her hips and breast implants.“If it wasn’t for that, I probably wouldn’t be here,” she said.She displayed a brilliant smile, but did not say if that too was the result of surgery.Oil-rich Venezuela takes the beauty industry very seriously and has gained a reputation as a “factory” of international beauty contest winners.Venezuelan women have won five Miss World titles and four Miss Universe crowns.A private company, the Miss Venezuela Organization, specializes in preparing candidates for the Miss World and Miss Universe contests, and spends around $72,000 on each contender, in clothes, diets and, of course, cosmetic surgery.Passage 18 Population Growth The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom.On the contrary, demographic history offers evidence that population growth has not been at all constant.According to paleoecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous changes.The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B.C., followed the innovations of tool-making and tool-using.But when the new power from the use of tools has been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable.The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when mankind began to keep herds, plow and plant the earth.Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated.These two episodes suggest that the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when, or if , technology begins to yield fewer innovations.Of course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end.Either way — contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth — population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity.And when one takes this view, population growth is seen to represent economic progress and human triumph rather than social failure.Passage 19 Food and Health The food we eat seems to have a profound impact on our health.Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat.Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon.Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.That food is related to illness is not a new discovery.In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer.Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things in the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful.The additives which we eat are not all so direct.Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows.Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons.The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market.Although the Food and Drug Administration(FDA)has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.Passage 20 UK Urged to Update Copyright Laws The UK is currently using copyright laws that are more than 300 years old.Ministers in the United Kingdom are being urged to modify copyright laws to allow users to be able to legally rip CDs and DVDs for personal use.The Institute for Public Policy Research(IPPR)wants users to have a “private right to copy” digital content.The IPPR acknowledged that the music and film industries are justified in battling illegal file sharing.But the IPPR argues that making copies for personal use does not have significant impact on copyright holders.Millions of Britons are violating current copyright laws by ripping CDs onto their MP3 players and /or PCs.Currently, Britons are violating an outdated 300-year-old law when copying CDs and DVDs.The British Phonographic Institute has already stated that it will not pursue its rights to bring private copying cases against users if the copying truly is for private purposes only.An independent research study reports that around 59 percent of Britons believe copying CDs and DVDs to other devices is legal.The chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee inquiry admits that he and his children are in violation of the law.“My own view is that the current laws are unsatisfactory as it is difficult to say to consumers that this bit of the law matters and this bit doesn’t matter,” Conservative MP John Whittingdale said.Passage 21 A Growing Number of American Men Get Alimony Across the country, a growing number of divorced men are getting alimony from their former wives.While far more women receive alimony than men, divorce lawyers estimate that 5% to 10% of their male clients now get such payments, up from only 3% five years ago.Men seeking financial support from the rich and famous ex-wives have made headlines in recent years.But the ranks of ex-husbands getting alimony from their former spouses now are as likely to include the guy around the corner who gets a monthly check from an ex-wife whose bank account is fatter than his.“Women are getting better, higher-paying jobs at the same time that men’s wages are decreasing,” says Kathryn Rettig, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota, explaining why the number of men receiving alimony is increasing.She adds，“If women want equality under the law, they have to take the responsibility for supporting dependent spouses.”

Like women, men are being awarded alimony for a few years as compensation for putting their wives through college or graduate school or for following transferred spouses around the country.And, like women, men are persuading judges to award them alimony indefinitely if they are sick or disabled or have stayed home to raise children.In out-of-court settlements, high-income women are even agreeing to pay alimony to their ex-husbands instead of giving them some property because alimony is tax-deductible.Passage 22(92)Rainbow I wonder if there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow in the sky.It is so beautiful!There is a fairy tale saying whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold.Of course, it is not true.Neither could you find the pot of the gold, nor could you ever find the rainbow’s end.No matter how far you run, it always seems at a great distance.A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower.It is not solid, for it is only the effect of light shining on raindrops.The light from the sun shines on the rain as it falls to the earth.The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colors which we see.It is called a rainbow because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow.That is also why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky.We see a rainbow only during showers or storms, only when there is still rain in the air and the sun still shines brightly through the clouds.Every rainbow has many colors which are arranged in the same order.The first or the top color is always red, next comes orange, then yellow and green, and last of all the blue and deep blue or violet.A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.Passage 23 Gratuitous Gratuities Everybody loathes it, but everybody does it.A recent poll showed that 40% of Americans hate the practice.It seems so arbitrary, after all.In America alone, tipping is now a $ 16 billion-a-year industry.Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service.Tips should not exist.So why do they? The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality.The better the service, the bigger the tip.Such explanations no doubt explain the purported origin of tipping.In the 16th century, boxes in English taverns carried the phrase “To Insure Promptitude”(later just “TIP”).But according to new research from Cornell University, tipping no longer serves any useful function.The paper analyses data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants.The correlation between larger tips and better service was very weak: only a tiny part of the variability in the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service.Customers who rated a meal as “excellent” still tipped anywhere between 8% and 37% of the meal price.Tipping is better explained by culture than by economics.In America, the custom has become institutionalized: it is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service.In Europe, tipping is less common.In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught on at all.How to account for these national differences? Look no further than psychology.According to Michael Lynn, the Cornell paper’s co-author, countries in which people are more extrovert, sociable or neurotic tend to tip more.Tipping relieves anxiety about being served by strangers.Passage 24 Football Team’s Only Game Was Drugs They looked like a real football team — with snarling coach included.But the 10 men arrested at the weekend in Spain’s southern province of Cadiz were not going to play a match, despite their yellow and blue kit.They were drug traffickers who used their footballs, knapsacks and club strips, emblazoned with the team name of a local town, Guillen Moreno CF, as a ruse to fool border police as they passed from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in North Africa, to Algeciras, on the southern Spanish mainland, a police spokesman in Cadiz said.The fake team would usually cross the Straits of Gibraltar into the province of Cadiz on Saturday afternoons with the hash tucked beneath their jerseys and stage a drama to enhance their credibility before border agents.The supposed manager, 49, would carry a roster in his hand and continuously bark at the young men “Everybody pay attention, everybody stay right here!” and “Come on, follow me!”.The players would cross back to Ceuta on Sundays after the fictional match and actual drug sales in Spain.Police do not know how long the fake season lasted before a tip spurred an investigation.The game ended when officers stopped their cars in Cadiz and found a total of 16kg of hash hidden beneath the men’s strips in little pellets taped to their bodies.Passage 25(93)Sleep Sleep is a part of a person’s daily activity cycle.There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles.If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows.When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, and your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow and become quite regular.Your brain waves slow down a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves predominating for the first few minutes.This is called stage 1 sleep.For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through stage 2 and stage 3 sleep.The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be.Then about 40 to 60 minutes after you lose consciousness you will have reached the deepest sleep of all.Your brain waves will show the large slow waves that are known as the delta rhythm.This is stage 4 sleep.You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night long, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your brain activity level will increase again slightly.The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves.Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids.This period of rapid eye movement lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep.It is during REM sleep period that your body will soon relax again, your breathing will grow slow and regular once more, and you will slip gently back from stage 1 to stage 4 sleep — only to rise once again to the surface of near consciousness some 80 minutes later.Passage 26 Face and Fortune Recently, at the instigation of my publisher, I had some photographs taken.I do not enjoy the process of being photographed.However, after I compared the new photograph with one taken twenty-five years ago, my feminine vanity suffered.My first instinct was to have the prints “touched up”.As I thoughtfully considered the photographs, I knew that a still more important principle was involved.A quarter century of living should put a great deal into a woman’s face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.In that length of time she has become intimately acquainted with pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, life and death.She has struggled and survived, failed and succeeded.She has lost and regained faith.And, as a result, she would be wiser, gentler, more patient and more tolerant than she was when she was young.Her sense of humor should have mellowed, her outlook should have widened, and her sympathies should have deepened.And all this should show.If she tries to erase the imprint of age, she runs the risk of destroying, at the same time, the imprint of experience and character.I know I am more experienced than I was a quarter century ago and I hope I have more character.I released the pictures as they were.Passage 27(94)Readers Reveal Stuff of Dreams Psychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams.A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history of the crusades.People with a taste for fiction experienced dreams that contained more improbable events, and their dreams were more emotionally intense.The survey also found that people who read thrillers were no more likely to have nightmares.But those with a weakness for science fiction were rather more likely to wake up suddenly with a cold sweat.According to Mark Blagrove of the University of Wales, the study is perhaps the first experiment to determine a link between the waking world and dreams.Dr.Blagrove and colleagues distributed 100,000 questionnaires about sleep patterns and literary tastes, and got more than 10,000 replies.They found that 58% of all adults had experienced at least one dream in which they were aware they were dreaming — and that women could recall more dreams than men.Older people seemed to dream less and have fewer nightmares.About 44% of children said their dreams were affected by the books they had been reading.Children who report reading scary books have three times the number of nightmares as children who don’t.Passage 28 Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, known, as the king of steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America.His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society.He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves.“He who dies rich, dies disgraced, ” he often said.Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history.He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.Other philanthropic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts.Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie’s generosity.His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.Passage 29 Princess Diana What was it about Diana, Princess of Wales that brought such huge numbers of people from all walks of life literally to their knees after her death in 1997? What was her special appeal, not just to British subjects but also to people the world over? A late spasm of royalism hardly explains it, even in Britain, for many true British monarchists despised her for cheapening the royal institution by behaving more like a movie star or a pop diva than a princess.To many others, however, that was precisely her attraction.Diana was beautiful, in a fresh-faced, English, outdoors-girl kind of way.She used her big blue eyes to their fullest advantage, melting the hearts of men and women through an expression of complete vulnerability.Diana’s eyes, like those of Marilyn Monroe, contained an appeal directed not to any individual but to the world at large.Please don’t hurt me, they seemed to say.She often looked as if she were on the verge of tears, in the manner of folk images of the Virgin Mary.Yet she was one of the richest, most glamorous and socially powerful women in the world.This combination of vulnerability and power was perhaps her greatest asset.Passage 30 A Greek to Remember Diogenes was a famous Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C., who established the philosophy of cynicism.He often walked about in the daytime holding a lighted lantern, peering around as if he were looking for something.When questioned about his odd behavior, he would reply, “I am searching for an honest man.”

Diogenes held that the good man was self-sufficient and did not require material comforts or wealth.He believed that wealth and possessions constrained humanity’s natural state of freedom.In keeping with his philosophy, he was perfectly satisfied with making his home in a large tub discarded from the temple of Cybele, the goddess of nature.This earthen tub, called a pithos, and formerly been used for holding wine or oil for the sacrifices at the temple.One day, Alexander the Great, conqueror of half the civilized world, saw Diogenes sitting in this tub in the sunshine.So the king, surrounded by his countries, approached Diogenes and said, “I am Alexander the Great.” The philosopher replied rather contemptuously, “I am Diogenes, the Cynic.” Alexander then asked him if he could help him in any way.“Yes,” shot back Diogenes, “don’t stand between me and the sun.” A surprised Alexander then replied quickly, “If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”

第二篇：英語周記AS

英語周記1

The summer holiday that I am looking forward to is drawing near.So I have already made

a plan for it.First,it’s important for me to finish my homework ahead of time.Next,I am fond of

travelling,I hope that I can take a vacation to anywhere I like this holiday.Last,I am not satisfied

with my final exam results.As an old saying goes:“Where there is a way,there is a will”.I think if

I could study hard,my results will improve soon.Last,I am ready for this summer.All in all,may I

have a wonderful summer vacation.英語周記2No one can deny that The London Olympic Games is a world class event.The Olympic

Games have a tremendous effect on everyone.To be honest,every time when I hear the national

anthem,accompanied by the rising of the national flag,I will be very prond.To some extent,it

reflects our patriotism.For example,when you see the Chinese athletes make every effort to win

the first price in the competition and finally they make it,I am sure you will feel quite

excited.Through the Olympic Games,we can know not only the athletes’ effort,but also the

countries’physical level.Thanks to the Olympic Games, our life is more interesting.英語周記3

Nowadays,it is a common phenomenon that more and more high school students open

their own blogs on the Internet.So I also open a blog for myself this summer.It provides me a

colorful platform to showcase my talent and it's always to release pressure when I feel anxious.But

my parents don't want me to spend too much time on it.They insist that managing my blog will

take a lot of time and energy,while this should be used to study and review,which is my main

responsibility.But I don't approue of their thoughts.I believe blog itself is of little harm.It is

attitude towards it that matters.I know clearly that what I should do is to take the advantages and

avoid some bad effects.英語周記4

As is well-known to all,books teaches us to learn life,truth,science and many other useful

things.They increase our knowledge,broaden our minds and strengthen our characters.In others

words,they are our good teachers and wise friends.That is the reason why so many people read

books in their free time.Reading is a good thing,but we must pay attention to the choice of books.I

read A Dream of the Red Mansion this summer.This book told me that we should deal with a

interpersonal relationship properly.But I know the author of that book don't want to let our know

this only.Because I always keep a sentence in mind,the sentence is “Learning without thinking

leads to confusion;thinking without studying results in tardiness.”

英語周記5

I heard that the Great Wall is very magnificent.As an old saying goes:“Seeing is

believing.”So I went to Beijing to climb The Great Wall.The Great Wall ,which is more than 6000

kilometers long,is the longest wall in the world.It has a history of more than 2000 years.It is made

of stone and bricks and almost all the construction was done by hands without any machine.As the

wall was built to defend the country against foreign invaders,there were watchtowers every few

hundred meters along the wall.Now,the Great Wall is one of the most famous places of interest in

China and it attacts many visitors every year.I have to say this trip does really a good trip.英語周記6

第三篇：英語周記

7月3日

1、今天是第一天，我們的暑假。經(jīng)過一段時間的緊張復(fù)習(xí)，昨天考試結(jié)束了，總算可以輕松一下了。一整天我發(fā)現(xiàn)，三分之二的時間我很困。我想明天會更好。

Today is the first day of our summer holiday.After a period of intense review, the exam ended yesterday, so I can relax.One day I found that2/3 of the time, I was very sleepy.I think tomorrow will be better.7月8日

2、今天一大早，我和媽媽單位的人一起去黃山旅游，因為好奇才去的，沒想到爬山真累，但在大家的鼓勵下，我還是堅持爬上了山頂。In the early morning, I and mother unit of a person go to Mount Huangshan tourism, because of curiosity only, did not think of climbing is tiring, but in everyone 's encouragement, I still insist on climbing up to the top of the hill。

7月16日

3、對我們來說重要的是身體健康，沒有健康的身體，我們不能很好的學(xué)習(xí)或工作。有很多方法來保持健康。首先，我們應(yīng)該每天堅持鍛煉。我們可以走路去學(xué)校，放學(xué)后，我們可以花一小時玩球。我們必須記得：早睡，早起才能身體好。Important for us to be healthy, do not have a healthy body, we can not very good study or work.There are many ways to keep healthy.First, we should exercise every day.We can walk to school, after school, we can spend an hour playing with a ball.We must remember: early to bed, early to good health.7月23日

4、今天，我仍然去了我媽媽的辦公室。我的媽媽是非常繁忙的，我的爸爸也是一樣，他們都是醫(yī)生，在醫(yī)院作，他們每天為病人的身體健康忙碌。

Today, I still went to my mother's office.My mother is very busy, and my father is the same, they are all doctors, in the hospital, every day they for the physical health of the patient is busy。

8月1日

5、下午我回家的時候，我在路上發(fā)現(xiàn)了十元錢，一定是有人粗心丟的。我站在那等了半天也沒見有人來找，不知道該怎么辦就回家了。可我心里并不高興。

In the afternoon when I came home, I found ten dollars in the road, must have been careless lost.I stood there for a long time no one to find, do not know how to do the home.But my heart is not happy。

第四篇：英語周記】

Today, my good friends visited me from foshang city and we went to thechanglong worldfor fun.when wearrived at destination, we saw14 white tiger statuessignOn entering front door.changlong world is very beautiful that i had visited.we rushintochanglong at once and beginourecxitingtour.after vititingthe performance of the circus troup,we went on the roller coaster,merry-go-round and s Ferris wheel and so on.however ,happy time is just never quite enough.wewere reluctant to parted with changlong.my good frends told me that they like guangzhou city,like changlong world.2this Saturday the weather was fine.Our class went to the countryside to have a picnic.We rode about one hour and found a beautiful grassland.We ate delicious food while we enjoyed the scenery of the countryside.we played games together and sang and danced.we enjoyed the happy weekend.we felt deeply that our class is a big family and our classmates got along with each other friendly.i like my class and my classmates forever.3this week was very relaxed because I enjoyed a long vacation of labor day mourtain near my home with my friends.As soon as we arrived, we began to work.Some were digging holes, some were planting and others were watering.We all know trees are very useful to man.Growing trees means saving man himself.We all worked very hard.When the sun went down, we came back home.Although we were very tired, we felt very happy because we done a very significant thing on the vacation.4it was sunny today.i wake up at eight o' clock.after eating the beakfast,i receive message from my Unclethat he said he want to guangzhou to visit me.when he arrived ,i went to The subway stationmet him and brought him to visit myuniversity.he asked me how my life in the university andtaught me how to get to design my life.in addition,hebroughta lot ofspecial local product for me.these delicious food reminded me of my hometown.lastly,my uncle had to leave so i sent him to the station.i was gratefulofwhat my unclebrought to me and told to me.5How happy I am.Yesterday I finished all the work very quick, so I have a lot of time to do myself.Sometimes finish work early is a good thing, we can have more interests to do the next work.so in this afternoon,i wentto played basketball with my friends in south china normal university.althoughthe day is hot ,we enjoyedthe

sportsmanship.we as a team,we knew that unity is strengh andenjoyed the fun of competition.last but not least, i got stronger.in the afternoon,i went to the dining room ate for lunch with a happy mood.unluckliy,i ate a insect from the food.it is too sick that i didnt want to eat in this dining room next time.i missedthe food in my hometown.it is the most delicious.it is very cheap and fresh.the less money you pay, the more enjoyable you are.maybe my stomach is ill because i always eat in this dining room.whatever food i eat in this dining room, i was still thin.so i decided to change where i eat.l eager delicious foods to eat to make me stronger.7.today is a my mother sbirthday.IN the morning ,i awaked up early andcalled to my mothetand said happy birthday to her.she sai me is the first one said happy birthday to her so she said me is thefilial son.in addition ,she was very happy and satisified because she received my birthday gift.all in all,mother is greatest love but she is always easy to please.8today, when i awaked up, i found thethe screen of mymobile telephone is broken.when you open the mobile telephone, the screen is always white with light.you can’t see from the screen.in the information age, a man has not mobile telephone likesa

man lose the direction of life.so i had to sent mymobile telephone for repairing as soon as possible.when i arrived the phone repair centre, the staff told me it should be change the screenandneeded three days to repair.no mobile telephone, i will not know to do what.9.Yesterday is Sunday.Theweather is so hot.and I am fond of swimming.So I went to the swimming pool in south china university with my classmates This afternoon,when we arrived ,we found too many people were swimming in the pool.so we took off my clothes and jumped into the water as quickly as possible.the water is very cold andwe swamhappily like a fish.Is my first time swam in Guangzhou city.if had a chance I want to swim across the Pearl River

This week I enjoyed the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown.The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history.in the afternoon , I was fortunate enough to see a dragon-boat race with my family.although I saw the dragon-boat race every year,the race were still very interesting.in addition ,theDragon-boat race is a fierce competition which

Made your bood boils or stirs.however ,It was time for went back to school after the race.i was eager the Dragon Boat Festival can be longer so I could join the dragon-boat race.11

As Father's Day is coming,I am writing a letter to send all my best wishes for my father.i could imagine how happy when he recevied my letter.my father gave me everything but he was not expect a profit.he is as selfless as a mountain but he is always easy to please.his love for me is as deep as the sea so i was grateful of my father and loved him foever.in addition,I hoped everyone can sent a wishes to his or her father because it is not ease to be a great father.12

After reading the text A and B,I leant a lots about the moral condition of our society.however ,nowadays many people still live in the world of mistrust.as we can see, Some new bicycles are locked with two locks, but even that cannot prevent them from being stolen in theguanggong university and shops impose a fraud on consumers sometimes.such cases lead tomany bad infuluences.it likes a lock which lock the door betweenpeople and others.so people have a great mistrust of others Even the acquaintance.As we all know , turst is very important to our life.so what measures should we do to enhance mutual trust.Firstly we should be honest, and treat other people with an open mind.Secondly, for the poor, we should give them a hand and let them knew that life is full of trust and love.by this way,I think we can improve the mutual trust and build the harmonious society together.

第五篇：英語周記[定稿]

My View on Modern Life

My View on Modern Life(現(xiàn)代生活之我見)

1．有人認(rèn)為現(xiàn)代生活好；

2．有人認(rèn)為過去生活好；

3．我的看法。

[寫作導(dǎo)航]一些人認(rèn)為，現(xiàn)在的生活比過去要好，然后舉例說明，可從食品、電器、醫(yī)藥等方面論述；另一些人則持否定態(tài)度，認(rèn)為現(xiàn)代生活節(jié)奏快、壓力大，工業(yè)的發(fā)展帶來了污染，技術(shù)革新帶來了失業(yè)；我認(rèn)為無論何時，只要樂觀，就能應(yīng)對各種問題。

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Some people think that life at present is better than life in the past.They think that now we are living a life that our ancestors could never have dreamed of.For instance, convenient foods from markets have simplified cooking.Electric appliances at home have taken the drudgery out of housework.New inventions have helped to make our work more sufficient and less tiring.Development in medicine has helped to make people live longer and healthier.It seems as if we were living in paradise.Other people, however, believe that life in the past is better than life at present.They argue that in this highly competitive society people have to work even harder and learn much more in order to adapt to the fast pace of modern life.Moreover, people have to be sophisticated to deal with the many complicated matters in life and work.Development in industry has caused lots of pollution.New inventions have put many people out of work.In my opinion, life always has its problems.There are problems now which people didn't have to face in the past, and there were also problems in the past which people don't have to confront today.Life is full of happiness if we should be optimistic.We should smile through everything whether it is happiness or misery.This is the right attitude towards life.How to Deal with Stress(如何面對壓力)

1．為什么會有壓力?

2．如何面對壓力?

[寫作導(dǎo)航]第一段先用定義法指出壓力是什么，以及壓力的危害；第二段寫壓力的各種來源；

第三段寫如何面對壓力，可針對第二段的來源，舉例說明各種解決辦法；最后一段提醒人們面對壓力方法要對頭，不可走歪路。

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Stress is a state of being upset that happens when we are under pressure.Both our feelings and our bodies get upset.We can even get emotionally and physically sick if we have too much stress for too long.Stress can come at us from every direction.For instance, it can come from fights with other people.It can come when we have too many things to do and too little time to do them.It can also come when we do not have enough money to pay for what we want.Since stress can make us sick, we have to learn how to deal with it.There are good ways and bad ways to do so.We should deal with stress in good ways, of course.Good ways to cut down on stress include changing our lifestyles.For example, we can learn either to get along with people or to stay away from them.We can decide what to do now, what to do later, and what to leave off doing forever.We can also figure out how to get money or we can cut down on what we want.We should not deal with stress in bad ways because bad ways to cut down on stress just lead to more troubles, for example, skipping out and leaving our work undone, blaming our problems on someone else, stealing or cheating.How to Reduce Stress(如何減少壓力)

1．現(xiàn)代社會人們的壓力與日俱增；

2．壓力太大的危害；

3．減少壓力的辦法。

[寫作導(dǎo)航]首先陳述隨著現(xiàn)代生活節(jié)奏的加快，人們的壓力也在增大，雖然適當(dāng)?shù)膲毫θ擞泻锰帲珘毫μ缶蜁a(chǎn)生副作用，從而影響工作、學(xué)習(xí)和健康，所以要學(xué)會減輕壓力；

第二段闡述減輕壓力的辦法，比如降低對自己的要求、接受現(xiàn)實、不要攀比，多與朋友溝通等；最后總結(jié)全文，提出希望。

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As the pace of modern life continues to quicken, many people are in the habit of rushing through life.Some admit that stress seems to be on the increase all the time.A certain degree of stress is beneficial to us, but too much stress is certainly harmful, and sometinles may even harmful to our health and physique.So it is necessary to know how to reduce stress.There are many ways that can help us solve this problem, but the following may be the most effective.First, learn to COllie to terms with yourselves.Don't set a goal that is too high because there are many things in this world that are beyond your reach.Learn to be content to go as far as you can.Second, learn to COllie to terms with the world around you.Don't try to change other people or otherthings.There are people and things in this world that you can do nothing about.So learn to accept them.Third, don't be too interested in material things and don't try to “keep up with the Joneses.” Don't harbor any jealousy, vanity or resentment to others.Be satisfied with what you have.Finally, keep in touch with your friends.Talk with them, share with them your happiness and misery.This will help to make you feel better.These are not necessarily the only ways to solve the problem, and it is my hope that everyone can reduce the too much stress in his work and study and live a relaxed happy life.My Ideal Job

1．人們對職業(yè)各有不同的理想

2．我理想的職業(yè)是什么

3．我如何為我理想的職業(yè)作準(zhǔn)備

Different people have different ambitions.When children study at school, they already have their own ideals.Stone want to be engineers or doctors in the future.Others want to be artists or businessmen.Still others want to be teachers or lawyers.But few want to be farmers.Unlike most people, I choose to be a farmer in the future and make contributions to development of agriculture.Agriculture is essential to the national economy and the people's livelihood.Without it there won't be grains on which people survive.Nevertheless, farmers are ignored, even looked down upon by urban people.I

determine to challenge the traditional idea and contribute to changing this situation.However, lt is not easy to he a modern farmer in the 21st century.A modern

farmer must be equipped with a variety of knowledge such as chemlstry, biology and meteorology.Therefore, I must study conscientiously from now on so that I can get the chance to study as a postgraduate in an agricultural university.I believe only a man with scientific knowledge can meet the challenge of the 21st century and assume the task of modernizing agriculture.Health

1．健康的重要性。

2．如何保持身體健康。

3．健康比財富還重要。

It is clear that health is the foundation of one's future success.If you get sick, it is nearly impossible to pursue your career effectively, much less make your dreams come true.On the other hand, if you are stout and strong, you can go all out to overcome the obstacles that lie ahead of you.Now that we know that health is the source of our energy, what should we do to maintain and enhance our health? First, we should exercise every day to strengthen our muscles.Second, we should keep regular reasonable hours.If we get up early, we can breathe fresh air.This habit can do wonders in our life.Third, there is a proverb that says, “Prevention is better than cure.”

In short, health is more important than wealth.Those who are rich but love their health are no more fortunate than those who are poor.If you want your wish to come true, you should do exercise and keep fit.Health is the most important ingredient of your success.Relax Yourself放松自我What does it mean to relax?Despite hearing this term thousands of times during the course of our

lives, very few people have deeply considered what it's really about.When you ask people(which I have done many times)what it means to relax, most will answer in

a way that suggests that relaxing is something you plan to do lateryou do it on vacation, in a hammock, when you retire, or when you get everything else done.This implies, of course, that most other times should be spent nervous, agitated, rushed, and frenzied.Very few actually come out and say so, but this is the obvious implication.Could this explain why so many of us operate as if life were

one great big emergency?

It is useful to think of relaxation as a quality of heart that you can access on a regular basis rather than something reserved for some later time.You can relax now.It's helpful to remember that relaxed people can still be superachievers and, in fact, that relaxation and creativity go hand in hand.When I'm feeling uptight, for example, I don't even try to write.But when I feel relaxed, my writing flows quickly and easily.Keeping Pets

Men have kept pets since ancient times.We can see from discoveries in the pyramids in Egypt and from scenes on decorated wall-coverings of European castles that our ancestors were as in-terested in pets as we are.One reason for keeping pets is their utility.When our dog barks, it warns us of thieves.A cat keeps down the mice and rats in homes.When men depended on hunting for food they found hunting-dogs extremely useful.They also used a type of bird to aid them in their search for food.Companionship is a non-utilitarian reason for keeping pets.If people are living by themselves they feel lonely, and having a pet relieves this loneliness to some extent.We like to have some companion with us even if this companion is not human.We feel the need to have another living being to share

our daily lives.Having a companion, even if it is only an animal, gives us a feeling of warmth and an interest in something else beyond ourselves.Some people even prefer pets to other people.Pets are not as demanding as people sometimes are.In particular,pets do not demand of us that we should talk when we wish to remain silent.Some people do talk to pets as if they were human beings, but they have the satisfaction of knowing that the

pets cannot answer back and engage them in argument.Pets seem content with so very little.養(yǎng)寵物

從遠(yuǎn)古時期，人們就開始飼養(yǎng)寵物。埃及金字塔里的種種發(fā)現(xiàn)，歐洲城堡華麗穹頂上的繪畫都充分說明：我們的祖先和我們今天一樣喜歡寵物。

養(yǎng)寵物的其中一個原因就是它們的實用性。狗吠叫警告我們小心盜賊，貓消滅田鼠和家中的老鼠。在依靠打獵獲取食物的年代，人們意識到獵狗舉足輕重的作用。那時，人們還同時使用一種小鳥來幫助他們尋找食物。

養(yǎng)寵物的另一個非實用的原因就是要它們和自己做伴。獨自生活常常會感到孤單。養(yǎng)寵物可以從某種程度上緩解這種孤獨感。我們喜歡有伴兒陪著，即使這個伴兒并

不是人類。我們感覺需要另一個生命分享自己每日的生活。同伴，即使只是個動物，也可以給我們一種溫暖的感覺，讓我們對除自己以外的其他事物感興趣。一些人愛寵物勝過愛其他人。寵物不像人那樣有時會有各種各樣的要求。特別是當(dāng)我們不想說話時，寵物不會逼我們開口。不過一些人會把寵物當(dāng)作人一樣和它們交談，他們很高興這些動物不能回答他們的問題，不會和他們爭論。只需一點點，寵物們就很容易知足了。

How to Solve the Housing Problem in Big Cities

四種可能解決住房問題的方案：

1．多造高層建筑

2．向地下發(fā)展

3．建造衛(wèi)星城市

4．疏散城市人口

The shortage of housing is one of the most serious problems facing many big cities in China.Though the government has spent a large sum of money on housing,the investment has not been very resultful and a housing shortage still exists.Two generations sharing one room and newlymarried couples finding it difficult to have a house of their own are still common cases.Housing shortage is a problem that requires an immediate solution.People's attitudes towards the solution to the housing problem are different.Some suggest building more tall apartment buildings;others believe that we should develop underground housing areas.I am in favour of the former opinion.For one thing, it is cheaper to build upward than downward.For another, living underground for a long time will do harm to people's health.Above all,people are unwilling to live underground with artificial lighting and they prefer to live normally on the ground to enjoy the sunshine.Although there may be some other ways to solve the housing shortage problem, I believe to build more apartment buildings is one of the feasible solutions to the housing problem.Music

There are two important kinds of music in the world one is written down and the other is not.Many people earn their living by writing music.They write songs for popstars and music for films and TV plays.They usually write exact instructions how the music is to be played.Folk music has been passed down from one generation to another.At first it was never written down.Pe pie learnt the songs from their families, relatives, neighbours and friends in the same village.These songs were about country life, the seasons, animals and plants, and about love and sadness in people's lives.Early performers of music were popular and respected.They used to learn hundreds of songs by heart.On festivals they used to act and sing in praise of heroes who lived long ago.This was at a time when there was no radio, TV or cinema.Many of the country people could neither read nor write.In this way stories were passed on from one person to another.This continues in some countries even today.In some parts of the world nowadays, you often see musiclans performing in the streets to passers by.They put a cap on the ground in front of them, so that people who like the music can drop coins into it.[點評]

文章對音樂的種類以及流傳方式作了描述。后兩段實際上主要講述音樂人的情況，似乎多少有些不切主題——音樂本身。此文可作為參考資料。

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音樂

世界上的音樂有兩大類——一類是寫下來的，另一類是沒有寫下來的。許多人靠寫詞作曲來謀生。他們給通俗歌星創(chuàng)作歌曲，為電影和電視節(jié)目作曲。他們通常還要為如何演奏他們的音樂寫出精確的說明。

民間音樂是一代一代地流傳下來的。起初從來沒有人把它寫下來過。人們是從家人、親戚、村里的鄰居或朋友那里學(xué)會唱這些歌的。歌詞內(nèi)容是有關(guān)鄉(xiāng)村生活、季節(jié)、動植物以及人的生活中的愛情與憂傷。

早期的音樂演奏家們是深受人們歡迎和愛戴的。他們牢記幾百首歌曲。在節(jié)日里他們表

演并歌頌很久以前的英雄。這是廣播、電視或電影出現(xiàn)以前的情形。當(dāng)時許多鄉(xiāng)里人不識字，也不會寫字。故事就是用這種方式流傳下來的。即使今天，有些國家里還存在這種情況。現(xiàn)在世界上有些地區(qū)，你還可以經(jīng)常看到音樂家在街頭為行人演奏。他們把帽子放在身前的地上，以便喜歡這種音樂的人能把硬幣投到帽子里。

When I was a child, I was fascinated by the melody of piano on the screen.At that time, I dreamed of being a pianist and having my own piano.At the age of five, my father bought me a beautiful piano as my birthday present with the money they had saved for a long time.At the same time, my father found a piano teacher for me and every day I would practise it again and again as my father demanded.Before long, my interest in piano was transferred to other things.I began to escape the practice as much as I could.My father found out my impatience.He encouraged me and was stricter with me than ever before.With his help,I underwent the hardest time and devoted myself to the piano.Now, in my spare time after a long time of study and hard work, I always play the piano and enjoy the beautiful music.孩提時代，我總被電視上鋼琴的優(yōu)美旋律所吸引。那時，我就夢想有一架自己的鋼琴，成為一名鋼琴師。6歲的時候，爸爸用他積攢了很久的錢為我買了一架很漂亮的鋼琴，作為我的生日禮物。為此，爸爸還為我請了鋼琴老師。每天，我都按爸爸的要求不停地練習(xí)。沒過多久，我對鋼琴的興趣就越來越淡了，我開始盡可能逃避練琴。爸爸發(fā)現(xiàn)了我的厭琴情緒，鼓勵我堅持下去，對我的要求也比以前更嚴(yán)了。在爸爸的幫助下，我度過了最難熬的一段日子，并全身心投入到練琴中。

今天，學(xué)習(xí)和工作之余，我就彈起鋼琴來，享受那美妙的音樂。