1、1大学英语写作素材库一学生生活1. 兼职工作A part-time job offers you a chance to demonstrate your ability and to apply what you have learned in school. A part-time job helps you become more independent of your family. Thirdly, the experience that you gain through job can broaden you school life. You may lose time neede
2、d for sleep, rest, study, club activities, and recreation. Working several hours a day consumes a lot of time and energy and may affect study. You may find it hard to adjust to what the school expects from you as well as what your employer has the right to expect.Because of the advantages and disadv
3、antages of a part-time job, you have to strike a balance be-tween school and the job. As a student, acquiring more knowledge, especially more learning, is your first important task.With the economic development of our country, more and more college students are engaged in the activities of doing par
4、t-time jobs. People wonder whether it is good or bad for students to do so.It goes without saying that part-time working at college has some advantages. First, a part time job brings them more money and helps them to reduce their parents economic burdens.Second, it offers them a chance to demonstrat
5、e their ability and to apply what they have learned in school. Third, it helps them to gain some social and economic knowledge and to practice their social abilities, which are of great help to their future career. Finally, it enriches their campus life.But this activity may bring some disadvantages
6、 to the students. First, too much part - time working may lose their time needed for their sleep, rest, study and recreation. Second, it may affect their studies if they come back with tiredness. And as a result, their studies are going down. Finally, more money may bring bad effects on some of the
7、students who spend their time smoking, drinking, dressing other than studying.In my opinion, those students should keep a balance between study and the job. As a student, acquiring more knowledge, especially more book learning knowledge, is the main task. Although apart-time job can do you a world o
8、f good, you should not spend too much time on it.2实践、旅行和读书As a matter of fact, real knowledge comes from practice and direct experience. Only outside the classroom can we apply what we have learned and get new knowledge. Although we can learn more outside, the study in class also plays an important
9、role.Books are of various kinds and have different contents. We have history books recording past e-vents, geography books dealing with the earth, mathematics books focusing on space and num-bers. We have various books dealing with different things in the world. Reading books can enrich our knowledg
10、e. We can learn lots of things we did not previously know, and be aware of what has happened in the past as well as what is going to happen in the future. Its impossible for a man to learn everything through his own experience, while books can help him to achieve this purpose. It is by reading that
11、we can learn many things without actually seeing or hearing them.Life is limited, but knowledge is boundless. The more books we read, the more knowledge we get. To read books is necessary to one who wishes to get knowledge. Different books give different kinds of knowledge.23出国留学By looking at our ow
12、n country from the outside, we can best see the strong points and weak points of our nation and therefore widen our vision and broaden our minds. While studying in a foreign country, we can travel widely, visit famous scenic spots and make friends with the local people. We can use the foreign langua
13、ge in our daily life so that our ability in the second lan-guage may be improved quickly. But the most important thing in attending a foreign university is to get acquainted with the latest knowledge in science and technology and make use of the first rate facilities available.However, as everything
14、 has two sides, there are also some disadvantages in attending a foreign university. The most serious problem is the language barrier. Most of the students who are ready to go abroad do not have adequate proficiency in the language spoken there. On arriving there, they will find it difficult to unde
15、rstand what the instructors are saying. For lack of knowledge of the customs and way of life of the local people, they may run into trouble in dealing with various situations. The cost of living is much higher than that in our country, so most students have to find part-time jobs in order to help su
16、pport themselves. Faced with these difficulties, many students find themselves unable to pay full attention to their studies and some students may even fail in their courses and learn little. One must consider both sides of the factors carefully before making up his mind. It is a good thing to go an
17、d study abroad particularly when the subject is very weak or not available in our country. But on the other hand, one must not lose sight of the disadvantages.4考试There are many arguments about the advantages and disadvantages of examination. Some people think examination is the only way to test how
18、examinees have mastered what they have studied, and it is the only measurement for examiners to select which persons they need. On the other hand, some object that examination cant measure how the students have really studied. They say it can do nothing but burden the students.As for me, I think for
19、 both examinees and examiners, the examination can show what and how much the examinees have mastered. The results of examinations are just like mirrors for both examiners and examinees. Through examination the examiners can check their work and become aware of which aspects they have not done well,
20、 so that theyll make much improvement in their work. As far as examinees are concerned, they can not only know how they have studied but also find out what they still dont know or what they havent mastered well. Thus they will be inspired to greater efforts to improve their studying method so as to
21、make greater progress. Of course too many examinations are burdens to both examiners and examinees.In summary, the examination does more good than harm for both examiners and examinees. We must take a positive attitude towards examination. We should take full advantage of it and avoid its disadvanta
22、ges.We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a persons knowledge and ability remain as old as ever. Examinations may be a good way of testing memory and cleverness of work rapidly under pressure. They can, however, tell you little about a persons abili
23、ty. Because they are the marks of success and failure, examinations are nothing but anxiety-makers. Your whole future may be decided on one fateful day. It doesnt matter whether you were ill or not.What is more, teachers judgments may sometimes be unfair, for they may get tired and make mistakes. We
24、 are looking forward to a simpler and more effective way of judging a persons true ability.In short, examinations motivate passive memorizing instead of creative thinking.The examination system has come to be the main theme of modern education. One should take 3an examination and succeed in passing
25、it before he could be admitted, promoted or graduated.As it plays so important a role in the realm of education, it is subject to much criticism as to its validity. People who are in favor of it elaborate this system to a great extent while those who de-nounce it maintain that such a system should b
26、e abolished. Should examination be abolished? In my opinion it should be. Many people think that an examination is the only means to measure knowledge, but, in fact, that is not true. A few questions given in examination could by no means cover the whole field or scope of the subject. Thus those who
27、 are able to answer them may be the poorest of the students and yet happen to know just a few points about that subject. And so they are entitled to be called successful students.I wish further to say that, because of the existence of the examination system students pay so much attention to high mar
28、ks, that they often forget the chief purpose of education. The so-called clever students devote themselves to the study of textbooks only. They, of course, know nothing but the skeleton of knowledge. The end and aim of education, however, is to enable students to learn how to live. To do this, the s
29、tudents must avail themselves of all kinds of training, physical as well as mental. The present examination system has discouraged students from making such an attempt.Moreover, since the students try so hard to commit their lessons to memory in as short a time as possible, they soon forget the whol
30、e subject as soon as the examination is over. Surely this is one of the greatest wastes ever made in the history of civilization.Lastly, in order to get high marks, there is a great temptation for students to cheat in examination. Indeed, such a practice becomes the means to the end. They cheat thei
31、r teachers, their parents and also themselves. Such a tendency would impair our moral standards. I am of the opinion, in conclusion, that the examination system should be abolished.5穿校服In the first place, demanding students wearing uniform in school is not good to their psychologi-cal health develop
32、ment. What to wear every day is a persons own business, and for children, its the same. So school authorities have no right to deprive their right for choosing clothes. If they do so, they are forcing students to do what they dont like and interfere in students business.The second reason is that wea
33、ring school uniforms is not good for students physical health development. Another consideration is that demanding students wear school uniform increases parents burden, especially comparatively low income parents. If students are permitted to wear other clothes, parents have more choice to choose l
34、ess expensive clothes for their children.To sum up, nothing looks nicer than to see all the children in a school neatly and tidily dressed in uniform. Uniform encourages frugality.Uniform, in a way, can also prevent students from being diverted from study to fashion. Students will focus more on thei
35、r study instead of what they look like and how to and what to dress. Dressing uniform helps students realize that they really belong to a school and are not just individuals. Wearing school uniforms can encourage pupils to compete among themselves. Pupils who study in good schools can be proud of th
36、eir uniforms.Maybe it is true that pupils in school uniforms lose their individual style. However, it is useful to cultivate their abilities of obeying regulations and team spirit which are not possessed by some pupils. School uniforms make pupils understand that they are not alone but belong to a c
37、ollective, so they need help and cooperate with others.6读书All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers or books.Reading is the pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport:
38、your eagerness and 4knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the authors or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the s
39、ame or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.Reading plays an important role in language learning. First, it can enlarge our vocabulary, widen our knowledge, and review what we have already learned. Next, reading is a great help in improving our writing ability. This is
40、 because, through reading, we may learn how to use words appropriately, how to achieve sentence consistency, and paragraph coherence as well. And finally, through reading practice, we might get into good reading habits, master efficient reading skills, and consequently improve our reading comprehens
41、ion ability.Reading obscene books can only serve one purpose. And that purpose is perverting and polluting the mind. Adolescents are most susceptible to the harmful influences of obscene books.Generally speaking, there are two kinds of books for everyone to read, one kind to buy and the other kind t
42、o borrow. Some like to buy books to read while others like to borrow books from libraries or from other people. If I were forced to agree with one of the two ways, my choice would be the latter.Many people prefer borrowing books to buying books for two reasons. First, the book that is borrowed stimu
43、lates you to read desirously and effectively, because if you bought a book, you would think that it was yours and you could read it at any time you want, and then you would set it aside. But supposing you borrow a book, and the owner gives you a limited period of time to read it, you would have to r
44、ead it with great eagerness, forgetting about meal and sleep. Book-borrowing is also money-saving. You can borrow books from others or from libraries only with much less money or even without cost, and then you can read a great many books without worrying about the financial problem. This is especia
45、lly true when only a part, not all of a book is useful to you. In contrast, the prices of books have risen too much in the past three years to afford, for most of college students live with a nearly empty pocket.Since borrowing books is much superior to buying ones in many aspects, borrowing books h
46、as been and will be a very popular way of reading in our society. Therefore, apart from the most frequently read and used books, such as dictionaries and text-books which need buying we should borrow as many books as we can from libraries or from others in order to make us more intellectual and usef
47、ul in society.7. Living Alone or Living with RoommatesWhen you are considering finding a roommate to share an apartment with you, be careful of your choice! I know you have to pay a high rent and you may be flat broke these days. I know sometimes you want to find a person to talk to. But all these c
48、onsiderations pale besides the troubles the “common room“ gives you. The annoying things are too many to mention.At the immediate first, your privacy will be completely disturbed. After your roommate knows almost everything about you, if he is a gossip, the whole town will know of you, what you like
49、, what you have, even if you have got another girlfriend, etc.Concomitantly, you have to put up with many inconveniences which you can hardly avoid when you live with another person. For example, you want to use the toilet in the morning one day and immediately find your roommate is in it; you want to make the telephone calls after you are back from work and again find your roommate is in it; you want to make the telephone calls after you are back from work and again find your roommate is dialing a long-distance number; your roommate wants to watch a program on TV that
