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1、.11. Children will not remember you for the materials things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.What is important to a child is not the material things that he/she is given, but the feeling of being loved. Parental love will accompany a child for the rest of his/her life2. Perh

2、aps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.Raising a healthy family is perhaps the most important service that a grown-up citizen can offer to his/her country and to humanity in general.3. Many things we can wait, the child c

3、annot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.Parents may have a lot of things to do, but looking after a child should be the top priority. This is because the child is right in the process of physical and mental growth. We cannot d

4、elay our attention to him/her even for one day.21. A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.If you take a healthy attitude- looking at the positive bright side of things, this attitude will have good results because the good influence of positive attitude gets

5、passed on to the other.2. I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street I met a man who had no feet.I felt depressed because I had no shoes. But this unhappiness of mine disappeared when I saw aman without feet in the street.3. Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you d be

6、tter yourselfbeable upto pickandbrush yourself off every day. While life is not always fair, it is manageable. It is a matter of attitude and confidence.Love what you do. Believe in your innate capabilities. And you d better be able to encourage andrefresh yourself and get rid of the bad feeling eve

7、ry day. Though there may be unfairness in life now and then, life can still be managed and controlled. What matters is how you look at it and whether you believe in yourself.3 As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mindwithout culture can never produce

8、good fruit. ( Seneca )Education is very important for one self-development. An uneducated person will not have a bright future, no matter how much potential he may have. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.( Ralph Waldo Emerson )What is impor

9、tant of the education in schools and colleges is that it teaches not what to learn but how to learn. Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you loseat the other. It s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won t fatten the dog. ( Mark Twain )The fewer s

10、chools the country builds the more prisons it ll have to provide.t Abecountry will noprosperous without sufficient education for its people.;.41. The purpose of work is to remove those who are living from a state of wretchedness and lead them into a state of blessedness. (Dante )Work can help people

11、 get out of unpleasant situations and refresh them with happiness.2. Work is,by its very nature, about violence to their spirit as well as the body: it s ababout dailyhumiliations; it abouts asearch fordaily meaning a well as daily bread;forrecognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than t

12、orpor. In short, for a short of life ratherthan a Monday through Friday sort of dying (Studs Terkel)The nature of work involves both physical and spiritual struggles. Beyond all other considerations,work is about constant embarrassment and shame you feel about yourself every day. Work is atwo-sided

13、thing; on the hand, one has to work to make money and maintain his/her livelihood; onthe other, one gains spiritual delight and social recognition by working. Work is less boring thanfascinating oneself. To sum up, the purpose of work is to search for a meaningful life rather thanto go through a rou

14、tine and mechanical one.3.My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.Only where love and need are one,And the work is play for mortal stakes,Is the deed ever really doneFor Heaven and the future s sakes.The purpose of my life is to combine what I enjo

15、y doing with what I need to dofor a living. It isideal that we enjoy what we need to do and this is what we should pursue in our whole life.Background information relevant to the texts51. Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time. (Anna Louise de Stael)Love iseverlasting; it de

16、feats any concept of time.2. Honor thy mother and father is not only an excellent commandment but good public.To respect one s parents is not only a good religious rule to obey, but also a good public policy toimplement.3. Most of our other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens

17、 and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother- in the whole world.Most of the things in life don t come alone. For example wetscanof roes,have stars,lo rainbows,brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but we can have only one

18、mother in the whole world who is the most beautiful thing in our lives.61. To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, s omething to inspire you.Setting in objective is an important step towards success as you will strive to achieve it2. A man of character finds a

19、 special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.;.Those with qualities such as courage value difficulty, for by coping with difficulty, they can understand themselves better and thus see more clearly how much potential th

20、ey have.3. No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility.Every suffering that we experience is worthwhile and will pay off because it teaches us something and fosters our

21、qualities such as patience, confidence, perseverance, and modesty.71. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. (Charles Dickens )We all have many good things that happen to us, as well as some undesirable ones, Think

22、about those good things rather than those bad ones.2. We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Yes, the tendency to“ seldothink of what we have but always of what we lack” is the greatest tragedyIthas probablyonearth.caused more misery than all the wars and diseases in history. (A

23、rthur Schopenhauer )We seldom think of what we already have but always of what we don t have. This kind of thoughtis the saddest in the world. It may have caused more pain than all the wars and illnesses have done in human history.3. The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our

24、 perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable. (Greg Anderson )Everyone is under some kind of stress, except when dead. Instead of taking stress as a threat, weshould adopt the right attitude about it- it is nothing but a challenge. When we actually start toact, we will find that stress is not that horrible at all.81. A hero is no brave than an ordinary man, but he is braver