大学英语周记范文30篇Word格式文档下载.docx

1、A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example. Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them wit

2、h any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford opportunities for dusty snobbism.Passage 2Love Is DifficultIt is good to love, but love i

3、s difficult. For one human being to love another human being is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet c

4、apable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning time is always a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, and is solitude, a heightened and deep

5、ened kind of aloneness for the person who loves. Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering or uniting with another person; it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demandin

6、g claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances. Only in this sense, as the task of working on themselves, may young people use the love that is given to them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them, who must still, for a long, long time, save

7、 and gather themselves; it is the ultimate, it is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.Passage 3Business of Insurance CompaniesInsurance companies do two types of business. One is general insurance against various forms of risk, and the other is long-term insurance which

8、 is mainly life insurance.General insurers will agree to pay a person or company a sum of money in the event of something happening or not happening. Its a big business today. If the project succeeds, shareholders in your company will expect to be paid a dividend. If you ask an insurer to underwrite

9、 your project, then he will require a payment in advance, a premium. If the project succeeds, he keeps the premium, but you dont pay him anything else. Paying a premium to an insurer or underwriter is often cheaper than paying a dividend to shareholders. If fewer dividends are paid to shareholders,

10、then more money can be kept as retention to finance the companys next project.Another type of insurance business is the life insurance. It differs basically from general insurance in that it is based not on risk but on certainty the certainty that each of us will one day die. Life insurance is the b

11、asis of pension funds which provide for retirement and guard against other contingencies such as ill-health, but is best seen by the financial economist as a means of collecting many small savings to put together into large investments, in short, as a form of intermediation. Passage 4Seasonal Affect

12、ive DisorderSome people feel sad or depressed during the winter months in northern areas of the world. They may have trouble eating or sleeping. They suffer from a condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or S-A-D. Victims of S-A-D suffer its effects during the short, dark days of winter. The

13、 problems are most severe in the months when there are fewer hours of daylight. When spring arrives, these signs disappear and S-A-D victims feel well again.The National Mental Health Association reports that S-A-D can affect anyone. The group says young people and women are at the highest risk for

14、the disorder. It says that an estimated 25 percent of the American population suffers from some form of S-A-D. About 5 percent suffer from a severe form of the disorder. Many people in other parts of the world also have the condition.The idea of health problems linked to a lack of light is not new.

15、Scientists have discussed the issue since the beginning of medicine. More than two-thousand years ago, the Greek doctor Hippocrates noted that the seasons affect human emotions. Today, experts do not fully understand S-A-D, and yet they agree that it is a very real disorder.To treat the disorder, vi

16、ctims of S-A-D do not need to wait until spring. Experts know that placing affected individuals in bright light each day eases the condition. There are other things people can do to ease the problem. They can increase the sunlight in their homes and workplaces and spend more time outdoors in the fre

17、sh air during the day. One study found that walking for an hour in winter sunlight was as effective as spending two-and-one-half hours under bright light indoors. Passage 5Success Is a ChoiceAll of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyd

18、ay. If we expect that life wont be perfect, well be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.Whether its a financial loss, the loss

19、of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic events in your life, these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself and wondering if things can ever change for the better again.Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time. Some form of major adversity is either going

20、 to be there or its lying in wait just around the corner. To ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self delusion.But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved greatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit and le

21、ft them lying in the dust. Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God. Abraham Lincoln overcame all difficulties during the Civil War to become our arguable greatest president ever. Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age

22、. Franklin Roosevelt had polio.There are endless examples. These were people who not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.Passage 6Is Television a Blessing or a Curse?It is universally accepted that televi

23、sion is playing an important part in peoples lives. But, there is an ongoing heated discussion as to whether television is a blessing or a curse.Television keeps one better informed about current affairs, allows one to follow the latest developments in politics and science, and offers a great variet

24、y of programs which are both instructive and stimulating. The most distant countries, the strangest customs and the most attractive scenes of nature are brought right into ones room or household.However, some people insist that television is a curse rather than a blessing. They argue that it has bro

25、ught about many serious problems. The major one is its effects on young people. Children are now so used to getting their information and entertainment from television that their literacy as well as physical ability has been greatly weakened. Even worse than that, vulgar commercials and indecent pro

26、grams may cultivate their bad tastes, distort their view-points towards human life to such a degree that their minds might be corrupted.To sum up, television has both advantages and disadvantages. What ever effects it has, one point is certain, television in itself is neither good nor bad. It is the

27、 use to which it is put that determines its value to society. Passage 7Few US Workers Who Could Telecommute Do SoOne-quarter of the U.S. work force could be doing their jobs from home if all those able to telecommute chose to do so, and all those people working from home could translate into annual

28、gasoline savings of $3.9 billion, according to the National Technology Readiness Survey. However, many still select to work at the office. The study found that 2 percent of U.S. workers telecommute full-time and another 9 percent do so part-time. But another 14 percent of workers have the option of

29、telecommuting, or have jobs conductive to the practice but choose not to. “The numbers suggest that many people would rather work at the office even if their job allowed telecommuting,” said Professor P.K. Kannan, of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. “That seems to suggest that even if employers were to say tomorrow that everybody had the option of telecommuting and you would save a lot of gas, thats not going to happen. An hypothesis could be that people still need the face time with their bosses. Anot