Does internet make people indifferent to each other? Yes, it does. People visit less, speak less, stay with others less.
But who cares for those who are face to face taciturn and dissocial? I would like to share with you my happiness and sorrows though I am neither of the two sort of men.
Oh~, yes, I forget to tell you who I am. I am 250 plus 5.
| 专门的听力培训机构没有听说过,不过有一般英语培训学校有相关听力培训课程. 如果是为了提高自己听力的真实水平,就需要大量的输入,也就是要养成听英语的习惯.我个人喜欢听广播BBC,一般学生多听VOA.除了广播之外,也有很多其他英语听力资料,我认为都会对听力提高有帮助.你最好要找一些有听力原文的资料.也就是可以一边听,一边看. 如果是为了应试考试,最直接的方法就是听真题,反复多遍.听了多遍后还是听不懂的情况下就把听力文字资料来出来看,看到底什么问题导致有些内容听不懂.比如词汇,连读,不同国家的发音习惯等等。然后一个一个克服. 希望我的建议对你有用. |
| I have recently declined job offers as much as I could, not because I am not willing to, but I am not able to. As a matter of fact, they can't be scheduled. Please forgive me if you could understand my situation. |
| A new colleague told me a girl she knows had just left for Phd. Degree in the USA. It seems to my colleague that the girl is ambitous enough and not always satisfied with her enviable achievements. Then she mentioned a lot more about the girl. When I heard her name, I realized she used to be one of my colleagues and had long dreamed of studying in the USA, which seemed to others fanciful, simply because her insolent boyfriend was there. Anyway, she pretended to be everyone else. I could hear such news now and then. Actually we were SAME, but are going to be different very soon. I need to reconsider who I am and try not to be who I am. |
| The look into the mirror reminds me of a story. I used to work in Foshan as an international businessman. Soon after I arrived there, one of the villagers told me the local men are not so good in looking as outsiders. One day, I went to the downtown area just to find very few handsome faces. Then I went to an exclusive clothes store and was rather attracted by a young man who looked really smart. To my surprise, he waved back and smiled to me as I waved and smiled to him. So I decided to go forward and speak to him. What made it more unexpected, it’s a mirror. 今天照镜子的时候想起了以前发生的一个故事。 我以前曾在佛山做过国际贸易业务员。我到佛山不久之后,一个老乡告诉我说佛山的帅哥很少。一天我去了市中心,确实没有看到什么帅哥。然后我走进一家服装专卖店,被一个相当帅气的人所吸引。另我没有想到的是,我向他挥手微笑,他也挥手微笑。因此我决定上前和他讲话。更出乎意料之外的是,原来这是面镜子。 |
| 今天下雨了。 炎热的夏季过后一场很漫长的鱼,下了一天。今天是个周末,本打算出去逛逛,后来由于天气原因放弃了。觉得生活有时候很无聊,除了工作很学习外没有什么有意义的事情。来长沙十年了,可我还是有一种孤独的感觉。可能是我没有很多朋友的原因吧。每次出去活动都是和同事们在一起,都放不很开,作为一名教师,你的一言一行在他们看来都必须符合自己的身份。突然想起了高中和大学的几个死党,和他们在一起我才是我真正的自己。可惜几年不见,如果再次相间会有以前的感觉吗?怀恋高中。怀恋大学。 有学生说我的汉语水平很底。我没有反驳。仔细想想,好象很有道理。今天开始练习汉语。 A day long rain fell on this weekend following the summer. I had to give up walking outside at the thought of the weather. Life is nothing new with tedious repeation but without excitement apart from work and study. Ten-year living in this city doesn't mean I have alrealy been fully involved in it, maybe because I am an outsider. |
| I received a call after I woke up from the afternoon siesta. It was an invitation to a birthday party at 11:30 am tomorrow. Two friends were born in different years but their birth dates were close, therefore they decided to hold the party on the same day, which means I need to get up early tomorrow and prepare two gifts. I am wondering what the party will be like and what gifts are unexpectable to them. Also the things should be neither too expensive nor of much difference in value. They should have told me earlier. You know, it is not always easy to find those things. Anyway, they asked me to come not for what I take, but for what I mean to them. |
| I overslept in the morning and was 20 minutes’ later for class. The unsupervised students were reading aloud when I arrived. Feeling guilty, I started the course as soon as I got my breath. Unlike other classes I teach, there are a lot more boys than girls in this one and all of the boys seem to be very active and cooperative. Then the course went on smoothly, I tried all means to make English grammar funny and understandable, which turned out to be effective. I made up a half an hour’s compensation after the course should have ended as scheduled. I promised to myself not to late next time. |
| Should criminals be sent to a jail or let them do something else as punishment instead of sending into a jail Why and give your reasons. There has long been controversy concerning the objectives of the justice system. Sending criminals to a prison seems to be a justified punishment for damages inflicted to victims or society. But currently an increasing number of people goes with the option that criminals should be given appropriate amount of community services as a substitute of correction measures. Traditionally courts sentence law violators to serve a period of time in a prison or, under some circumstances, a correction institution if the offenders are minors or the charges are not serious. Criminals, after serving their time, are discharged back to the street. Ironically many of them end up becoming victims of the law itself. For example, a forty years old man served 10 years in prison for intentional injury. Released from jail, he found himself having great trouble in making a living because he lacked new skills and knowledge for work. No place wanted him for fear of possible future wrongdoings because of his criminal record. In many cases, ex-criminals become outcasts of community and are forced to commit other crimes for revenge or other reasons. On the contrary, criminals could be changed into contributing members of the society again if given a second chance. In such circumstances, they perform public services under supervision making a meager but honest living. This not only cuts the expenses of keeping them in jails such as food, cloth, and numerous other costs, but also warns would-be law offenders the consequences for illegal actions. This is particularly effective for minor criminals who stand a greater chance of achieving the corrective aims. Yet it is no easy job to draw a fine line between those who should be given a lighter punishment and those who should be more heavily published due the nature of law under complex circumstances. Nevertheless, we should encourage more effective ways of law enforcement to protect law-abiding citizens and, at the same time, deter and punish violators at any level so that criminals would not take advantage of lighter punishments. To sum up, either sending criminals to a prison or giving them community work as another form of punishment has merits for different reasons. But we need to be clear of the goals of law and choose more effective ways of law enforcement. |
| One midnight, a housewife and a policeman waited for a taxi behind a tree near a supermarket. Suddenly, a drunkard staggered across the street towards them, carrying a red rose and saying “you are the most beautiful lady in the world.’’ Hearing it, the housewife was thrilled and ecstatic. She was hesitating whether to accept the rose, but to her surprise, the drunkard pass it to the policeman, a gay, beside her. She was so embarrassed that her purse fell onto the ground when she was throwing the handkerchief. The beggar crouching nearby rushed to catch it and run away saying “what a nice lady, may god bless you!” |
| Many everyday American expressions are based on colors. Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. That means they are very angry about something. Fast loud music is popular with many people, and they may say the music is red hot. Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the 20th century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health. Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is the opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful. There is a famous song Mood Indigo about the deep blue color, indigo. In the words of the song: “You ain’t (haven’t) been blue till you’ve had that Mood Indigo.” Someone who is blue is very sad. The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green. A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green. Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, such as a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper money. The color black is used often in expressions. People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day. The date of a major tragedy is often remembered as a black day. Black-outs are common during World War Two. All lights in a city would be turned off officially to make it difficult for enemy planes to find a target in the dark of night. |