自學(xué)考試綜合英語(yǔ)二作文

1、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

2、 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 Da;y. Th

3、erefore, lauras parents were proud of her.Lesson six The beauty of BritianBritain 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 the

4、re 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 surpries. A traveler will kept being pleasantly astonished by the landscape. On a rolling plain, you might suddenly noticed mountains with

5、 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 comprimise between Nature and Man,country and city .This characteristic is obvious in suburbs where the inhabitants can not only enjoy the civ

6、ilization of the city, bu t also live a comfortable country gentlemens life .Lesson seven some meanings of authentic love In authors opinion,what does love mean?1. Love means I know the person I lve.2. Love means that I care about the welfare of the person I love.3. Love means having respect for the

7、 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 fo

8、r 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 we the word

9、”friend” to a wide range from someone known only a few wecks, most people,old and young r called by first name, and friends fly in and out American familily with little ceremony.FranceIn France ,as many European countries, friends generally r of same sex and friendship is seen as basically a relatio

10、nship between men.For the French, friendship is a one-to-one relationship that demands a keen awareness of the other persons intellect, temperament and purticular interests.The special relationship of friendship is based on what the French Value most on the mind on having the same of outlook, on viv

11、id awareness of some chosen area of life.GermanyIn Germany, friendship is much more clearly a matter of feeling form 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 b

12、rothers 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.EnglishEnglish friendships,their basis is shared activity.In the midest of the activity whatever it may be people fall into step.And a break in an Engli

13、sh friendship comes not necessarily as a result of some difference of viewpoint or feeling but instead as a result of misjudgement,where one friend seriously misjudges how the other will think or feel act.So that suddenly they r out of step.Whats the friendship?There is the recognition that friendsh

14、ips r formed,in contrast with kinship,through freedom of choise.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 mevitably a kind of equality

15、of give and take.Lesson thirteen How to grow old?老年人應(yīng)如何避免變老？Psychologically there r two dangers to be guarded against in old age.To avoid of these is too great an absorption in te past , but to lookforwed to the future.The other thing t be avoided s to avoid clining to youth in the hope of finding s

16、trength in its vitality.To develop strong impersonal interests lading to suitable activities.Dont fear to death, the best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal.變老階段的暗喻an individual human existence should be like a river-small at first, narrowly contained wi

17、thin is banks and rushing passionately past rocks and over water falls. Gradually the river grows wider, the bands recede ,the waters flow more quietly , and in the end ,without any visible break ,they become part f the sea ,and painlessly lose their individual being.作者一生三個(gè)牽掛1 The longing for love.

18、He has sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy, next, because it relieves loneliness. Finlly, 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.2 The search for knowledge. With equal passion he has sought

19、knowledge.3 Unbearable pity for suffering of mankind. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upword toward the heavens. But always pity brought him back to earth. He logs for alleviate the evil, but he can not, and he too suffer.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-