研究生英语2作文(复旦大学主编的英语书课后单元作文).doc

1、The Effects of ComplimentsThe American writer Mark Twain once said “I can live for two months on a good compliment.” As he said, I believe all of us like the good compliment. Good compliment has many positive effects, we should make full use of it.First, a good compliment can make others become more

2、 confident. When I was a child, I had no interests in mathematics. I even couldnt pass the exam while most of them can get a “B”. How shameful! One day, my friend Lily asked me an easy question in class, and I happened to know the answer, so I did it very well. Lily opened her eyes and said, “Wow, y

3、ou have just solved a very difficult problem! You have a brilliant talent for mathematics.” From that moment, I didnt hate the mathematics, on the contrary, I had great confidence to solve any problem about maths.Second, a good compliment can start a conversation with strangers very appropriately. F

4、or example, my friend Lily bring her friend LiJing to the party, I didnt know how to start a talk with LiJing, because I knew nothing about her. Suddenly I found her short skirt is the latest fashion, so I complimented her, “Your skirt is pretty, and you make it look more beautiful.” She smiled and

5、began to talk something about fashion with me very happy. You see a good compliment take an important part in icebreaking.“Flattery will get you everywhere”, but sometimes we also hear of “Flattery will get you nowhere.” A compliment can also make others feel embarrassed when it is misunderstood bec

6、ause of different cultures. For example, an American woman compliment a Chinese girl very sincerely, “Youre very beautiful. ” The Chinese girl must reply, “Oh, no, Im not beautiful at all.” Though this compliment is out of the Chinese modesty, this will make the American woman very embarrassed and u

7、nhappy. Because if an American girl hear this compliment, she will just say “Thank you ” instead of some modest words.In short, a good compliment can make others become happy and help them overcome shortcomings, but we must pay attention to different cultures when we compliment others. My Understand

8、ing of the Pursuit of HappinessAll of us want to be happy and we pursue happiness in different ways. Whats the real meaning of pursuing happiness? I want share my opinion with you. First, all of us have the right to pursue happiness. We all want to live a happy life, thats our nature. It seems to us

9、 that happiness is subjective, because it is related to our mood. But it is also a objective existence, as long as you want to pursue it and try your best, you will get it nine times out of ten, no matter you are rich or poor. Even a fool has the right to pursue.L.N.Andreev, a Russian writer, argues

10、 that “Happiness does not lie in enjoying it, but in striving for and pursuing it.” To pursue happiness and eventually get it, this process makes our life meaningful and makes us happy. You know, happy people make the world better and unhappy people make it worse. So the pursuit of happiness is not

11、only our nature, but also our responsibility to make the world better.Second, we have a right to seek happiness, but this right to happiness should not be pursued at the expense of loyalty, humanity, and honesty. Pursuit of happiness doesnt mean that man was entitled to pursue happiness by any and e

12、very meansincluding murder, rape, robbery, treason and fraud. No society could be built on such a basis. People dont have the unlimited “right to happiness”, we should not go against any natural or moral law. Lets take a simple example, when we listen to music, we are happy, but we should turn down

13、the volume if someone is sleeping.In short, the pursuit of happiness is our nature and right, but dont do something harmful to others. An Ideal World in My MindNowadays, the world is full of contamination, competition and manufacture. Water contamination, soil contamination and atmospheric contamina

14、tion make us worry about the food we eat everyday and think of whether we will get ill if we breathe the toxic air.The severe competition between countries often causes economical or political friction, wars and unemployment. Manufacture destroys the handiwork, so much of artistic heritage dies out.

15、 Now our countrys economy is growing fast but the government is still confronted with many challenges, especially some social problems, including loss of farmland, a widening financial gap between rural and urban areas, a employment problem of university graduates, fake and shoddy products, and so o

16、n. High attention needs to be paid to. We must try our best to change the imperfect world into a perfect world. An ideal world in my mind is a peaceful world where people are compassionate for others. We are all happy and we are not in the fear of unemployment, disease, violence, poverty, hunger, wars, murderers, terrorists, robbers or pollution again. There is no anxiety and barrier between countries, we can travel round the world with freedom a