综合英语二下册作文精华.doc

Lesson five first principlesWhat do u learn about laura? Why were her parents so proud of her?Laura was a slim, dark-haired girl of fourteen. she was smart and a pupil at Green Valley Academy.Christmas Day was coming, laura wanted a ballerina dress as a gift from her parents to attend some parties. But when lauras mother told her about her fathers unemployment, she understood them and said she didnt care about presents or parties. During the time when the family spent Christmas Day at the farm, laura seemed to radiate happiness. It was lauras obvious pleasure that had a wonderful Christmas Day. Therefore, lauras parents were proud of her.Lesson six The beauty of BritainBritain is a small but beautiful country .One of its charms lies in its variety with the territory of 240500 square kilometers, it has mountains, plains and lakes as other countries. Someone perhaps says that the mountains there are only mountains in miniature . Although those mountains are small, they all have the air of great mountains .Another characteristic of Britain is its happy surprise. A traveler will kept being pleasantly astonished by the landscape. On a rolling plain, you might suddenly noticed mountains with step slopes ahead. In a highly developed industrial district ,he would see out of expectation a rough wilderness. But the most impressing would be the happy compromise between Nature and Man, country and city .This characteristic is obvious in suburbs where the inhabitants can not only enjoy the civilization of the city, but also live a comfortable country gentlemens life .What are the three geographical characteristics of Britain?The beauty of Britain is as hard to define as it is easy to enjoy.(1)The first characteristic is that it is varied within a small range, It seems that nature has carefully adjusted things-mountains, plants, rivers, lakes , to the scale of the island itself. there is astonishing variety almost everywhere, everything is in miniature. some mountains, for example, although not very high, have all the air of great mountains(2)Secondly, surprise goes with variety. the country is full of happy surprises. one can always be pleasantly astonished while traveling.(3)The third characteristic of the landscape is its exquisite moderation. it has been born of a compromise between wildness and tameness, between nature and man. there is compromise in the surburb, where the inhabitants feel that they have one foot in the city and one in the country. there is also harmony in the country where the cottages fit snugly into the landscape.Lesson seven some meanings of authentic love In authors opinion, what does love mean?1. Love means I know the person I love.2. Love means that I care about the welfare of the person I love.3. Love means having respect for the dignity of the person I love.4. Love means having a responsibility toward the person I love.5. Love means growth for both myself and the person I love.6. Love can tolerate imperfection.7. Love is freeing.8. Love is expansive.9. Love means having a want for the person I love without having a need for that person in order to be complete.10. Love means identifying with the person I love.11. Love is selfish.12. Love involves seeing the potential within the person we love.Lesson ten On friendshipFour different-kinds of friendship:American Few American stay put for a lifetime. Americans use the word ”friend” to a wide range from someone known only a few weeks, most people, old and young r called by first name, and friends flow in and out American family with little ceremony.很少美国人一辈子呆在一个地方的。美国人使用朋友一词时，朋友可适用广泛只结识几个星期的，朋友们进进出出美国家庭很少有礼节。FranceIn France, as in many European countries, friends generally are of the same sex, and friendship is seen as basically a relationship between men.正如许多欧洲国家一样，在法国，朋友通常都是性别相同之人，友谊被视为是男士间的基本关系。For the French, friendship is a one-to-one relationship that demands a keen awareness of the other persons intellect, temperament and particular interests.法国人所认为的友情是一种一对一的关系，要求一方能敏锐地察觉另一方的才智、性情以及特别的兴趣爱好。The special relationship of friendship is based on what the French value most on the mind, on having the same of outlook, on vivid awareness of some chosen area of life. 友谊这一特殊关系以法国人最珍视的东西为基础思想、观点的一致以及对生活中某一方面的具体感悟。GermanyIn Germany, friendship is much more clearly a matter of feeling, from deeply sentimental attachments, not so much to polish their wits as to share their hopes and fears and dreams. Within the family, the closest relationship over the lifetime is between brothers and sisters. Outside the family, men and women find in their closest friends of the same sex the devotion of sister, the loyalty of a brother.在德国友谊更明确地表现为感情问题，彼此建立起深厚的感情，其目的并不是为了增加自己的智慧，而是为了分享彼此的愿望、忧虑与梦想。在家庭内部，一生中最亲密的关系存在于兄弟姐妹之间。在家庭以外，人们在同性间最亲密的朋友身上发现如姐妹般的奉献，如兄弟般的忠诚。EnglishEnglish friendships, their basis is shared activity. In the midst of the activity, whatever it may be, people fall into step.英国人之间的友情建立的基础是共同的行为。无论是何种行为，在行为的过程中人们的步调变得一致。And a break in an English friendship comes not necessarily as a result of misjudgement, where one friend seriously misjudges how the other will think or feel act, so that suddenly they are out of step.此外英国人友谊的中断并不是由于见解不同或情感不和造成的，而是由于判断失误造成的，一个人可能会很严重地对另一个人的思维方式、感受或行为方式做出了错误的判断，于是彼此间突然变得不默契。Whats the friendship?There is the recognition that friendships r formed, in contrast with kinship, through freedom of choice. A friend is someone who choose and is chosen. Related to this is the sense each friend gives the other of being a special individual, on whatever grounds this recognition is based. And between friends there is inevitably a kind of equality of give and take.人们一致认为，与亲属关系不同，友谊建立在自由选择的基础上。朋友既是选择别人又为别人所选择的人。随之而来的是在朋友之间双方都能使对方感到自己是与众不同的，无论这种感觉的依据是什么。此外朋友间不可避免地要有来有往，互让互谅。 Lesson thirteen How to grow old?老年人应如何避免变老？.Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is too great an absorption in the past. One should not live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friend who are dead. Ones thoughts must be directed to the future, and to things about which there is something to be done. This is not always easy; ones own past is a gradually increasing weight. It is easy to think to oneself that ones emotions used to be more vivid than they are, and ones mind more keen. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it will probably not be true. 从心理角度来说，老年时期要提防两种危险。一是沉湎于过去。人不应该生活在记忆之中，不要总为一去不复返的好时光而懊丧，不要总为故去的朋友而悲伤。人的思想应该转向未来，应该转向自己还能有所作为的那些事情上去。要做到这一点并非易事；自己的过去逐渐成了精神负担。人很容易自思自量，感到自己的感情不如以往强烈，思维不如以往敏锐。如果真是如此，就别去想它，假如你根本不去想它，也许这就不会成真。The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of finding strength in its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them, unless they are unusually insensible. I do not mean that one should be without interest in them, but ones interest should be contemplative and, if possible, philanthropic, but not too emotional. 另一件要避免的事，就是依恋子女，希望从他们身上的活力中获取生命的力量。孩子们长大之后，想过自己的生活，如果你还是像他们小时候那样关注他们，你很可能会成为他们的负担，除非他们十分麻木而感觉不到这一点。我不是说不应该关注他们，而是说对他们的关注应该是含蓄的，如果有可能还应是宽厚的，但感情上不要过于依赖他们。Dont fear to death, the best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly part of the universal life.不要害怕死亡，克服怕死心理的最好办法就是使你的兴趣更加广博，更加超脱具体的个人，直至包围自我的围墙一点点地消失，直至你的生命逐渐溶入整个宇宙之中，成为其一部分。变老阶段的暗喻An individual human existence should be like a riversmall at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become part of the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the thing be cares for will continue一个人的生命历程应该是像江河一样开始是细小的，让两岸紧紧抱住，然后奔腾直泻，流过山岩，飞越瀑布，然后河面渐渐变宽，堤岸慢慢后退，水流趋缓，最后不留一丝痕迹地溶入大海，毫无痛苦的失去了自身的存在。垂幕之年这样看待人生的人，是不会因接近死亡而恐惧和烦恼的，因为他喜爱的事业会继续下去。作者一生三个牵挂1 The longing for love. He has sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy, next, because it relieves loneliness. Finally, because in the union of love. He has seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.对爱的渴望。他寻求过爱情，首先是因为它使人心醉神迷，其次因为它能使人摆脱孤独。最后，从融洽的爱中他看到了一种奇妙的微观形式，向他预示了圣人和诗人所想象的天堂2 The search for knowledge. With equal passion he has sought knowledge.对知识的渴求。他以同样的热情寻求知识。3 Unbearable pity for suffering of mankind. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought him back to earth. He longs for alleviate the evil, but he can not, and he too suffer.对人类苦难的深深同情。爱情和知识在其可能性的范围内把他带到了天堂。但怜悯心总是又把他带回人间。他渴望减少邪恶，但我无能为力，因而他也感到痛苦。Lesson fifteen Edison: Inventor of InventionWhat was the most important contribution of Edison to people?It is impossible to measure the importance of Edison by adding up the specific inventions with which his name is associated. Far-reaching as many of them have been in their effect upon modern civilization, the total effect of Edisons career surpasses the sum of al of them. He did not merely make the incandescent lamp and the phonograph and innumerable other devices practicable for general use; it was given to him to demonstrate the power of applied science so concretely, to understandably, so convincingly that he altered the mentality of mankind.Because of Edison, more than of any other man, scientific research has an established place in our society :because of the demonstrations he made, the money of taxpayers and stockholders has become available for studies the nature.The lighthouse keeper,83 years old, lived alone on a rock island, took care of the lighthouse and the great lamp, which spoke majestic, silent messages of light to the ships at sea. He was a huge old man with a grizzled beard that came down over his chest.(1)He was hospitable. He welcomed the stranger, Rudolf, warmly, offered him black bread and boiled potatoes, etc. and talked with him earnestly.(2)The lighthouse keeper loved his work and was devoted to his duty .When the storm was coming, he was busy preparing for the storm, attending to the great lamp in the tower, that dominated the whole region.(3)He was equable, deliberate. Even when the storm hammered like a battering ram on the walls of the lighthouse, he satthere, gentle and reflective, as if there was nothing happened.Generally, the lighthouse keeper was a deliberate, equable toiler. He loved life without excessive demands. book II L1 Illustrate with manners Dr. Peale mentions in his article Courtesy. Dr.Peale lists three things as the basic ingredients of good manners: a stong sense of justice,the abilit to share another persons inner feelings and the capacity to treat all people alike. Once a mam was driving along a long, narrow and dusty road ahead of another car.Suddenly he stopped off the road and told the driver of the car behind to get ahead of him.He did not want the other person to put up with his dust all the way.This is a man with a strong sense of justice. A courteous person can also understand the pain or unhapiness of others.He/She offers help without hurting the feelings of the other person because he/she shares their emotions as if they were his/her own. Finally, a person with good manners treats all people alike,whether they are lain citizens or big shots .He /She never asks whether the other person deserves their good manners.L2 How did Mr. Fotheringay discover his unusual powers and how did he take advantage of them? It was while he was trying to prove the impossibility of miracles that Mr. Fotheringay discovered his extraordinary powers. He was having a drink in a bar.A person called Toddy opposed everything he said.This made him very angry.He wanted to show oddy that the lamp there couldnt burn upside down without breaking no matter how he wished it to do so.But as soon as he said,Turn upside down without breaking,the lamp did as Fotheringay had just said. Back at home he experimented with his magical powers and came to see that he could with things.The next day he began to take advantage of this unusual power.By his will he first got a fresh goose-egg for breakfast.In the same way he got the whole days work done in 10 minutes.He also created a number of useful things and increased his personal property. L3 P47 How did Mr.Fotheringays attitude towards miracles changes? Mr. Fotheringay didnt believe in miracles until he was thirty years old.It was while he was asserting the impossibility of miracles that he discovered his extraordery powers.One day,when he was having a drink in a bar,Toddy Beamish opposed everything he said,so he decided to make an unusual effort.He tried to illustrate what was a miracle by giving a special example,that is ,to make a lamp upside down and go on burning steadily without falling.To his great surprise,what he said came true.Everyone was astonished as it.They all didnt believe it.After going back home,he tried his will power.He scceeded in getting a match and lighting the candle with his will power.He wondered at his will power.Then he tried to get himself a nightsirt,lay and cook a goose-egg,do one days work in ten minutes,make walking stick blossom,and sent the policeman to Hades,then to San Francisco by using his will power.In the end he felt delighted even though he understood that the gift reqired cation and watchfulness. L4 P61 What did Kaz see on that day? When she saw a B-29 bomber approaching,it didnt frighten her,because she thought Hiroshima was the only peaceful city dring the war.Bt,then,Kaz saw the bomb falling awa from the plane and drifting down towards her.The jorney took 43 seconds.A loud explosion reverberated in the air.A mshroon could rose over the remains of the city.Kaz was thrown to the ground s violently that her two front teech broke of.She lost conscousness.When she came to herself,she found ther was a dead silence around,broken only by the cries of the dying.Their house crashed dowm.Her father had the front of his body brnt.When her brother came back ,she could barely recognize him through his wounds.As night fell,she and her brother made for the mountains to look for a friend of Kazs who offered to take them in.There Kaz looked backand saw the city on fire.She left her brother behind and ran down the hillside towards the flames for her parents.The streets were filled with the dead and the barely living. L5 P77 How did the Wades celebrate the Christmas? Several days before Chritmas,theyd gone down to their own little farm.They had cut a tree in their own woods.They had eaten and slept,and read by the light of oil lamps.The children had been more than satisfied with their presents;there had been balls,erector sets, a number of story books,and a lot of jnk from the five-and-ten for the boys,and for Laura,a picture Emily had found cheap in a second-art shop and samll brooch that had belong to Henrys mother.it was Lauras obvios pleasure that had brightened everything.Whether she was chopping wood,or roming with her brothers,or basting the turkey,or talking politics very sensibly with her father,shed seemed to radiate hapiness.On New Years Eve,they had given her a weak highball,the first shed ever had,and she had gone to sleep sitting on the floor with her rosy cheek against Henrys knee.The family all had a very wonderful time! L6 P94 What is the characteristic of Britains landscape that goes with variety? With variety goes surprise.Ours is the country of happy surprises.You have never to travel long without being pleasantly astonished.It would not be difficult to compile a list of such surprises that would fill the next fifty pages,but I will content myself with suggesting the first few that occur to me.If you go down into the West Contry,among rounded hills and soft pastures,you suddenly arrive at the bleak tablelands as if the North had left a piece of itself down there.But before you have reached them you have already been surprised by the queer bit of marshland,as if a former inhabitant had been sent to Cambridge and had brought his favourite marshland walk back from college with him into the West. L7 P110 In the authors opinion,what does love mean? Love means that I know the person I love.Love means that I care about the welfare of the person I love.Love means having respect for the dignity of the person I love.Love means having a responsibility toward the person I love.Love means growth for both myself and the person I love.Love can tolerate imperfection.Love is freeing.Love is expansive.Love means having want for the person I love without having a need for that person in order to be complete .love means identifying within the person we love. L8 P126 How did philips design an atomic bomb in his junior year at Princeton? Philips read over the book on nuclear-reactor technology,general nclear physics,and current atomic theory.Besides,he listened to Dysons explanations of the basic principles of nuclear physics.That wasnt enough. In order to find more useful information,Phillips went to Washington.D.C.,to search for records of the Los Alamos Project that were declassified between 1954 and 1964.He discovered a copy of the literature which carefully outlined all the details of atomic fissioning known to the worlds most advanced scientists in the early 1940s. The biggest problem involved in the explosion of an atomic bomb was how to arrange the explosives around the plutonium.Another pro