大一 英语

There is an important trick in this time-using formula; you must get into your work quickly ．If you--have but five minutes for writing, you can't afford to waste four chewing your pencil ．You must make your mental preparations beforehand and concentrate on your task almostinstantlywhenthetimecomes ．Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize ． I confess I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes ．But life can be counted on to supply interruptions ．Carl Walter has a tremendous influence on my life ．To him, I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I begin without delay ． 这样利用时间有一个诀窍，就是你必须跟块地进入工作状态。

如果你只有五分钟写作的时间，你就不能把四分钟的时间浪费在咬笔杆上。

你必须事先有心里准备，几乎一有时间就全神贯注地投入工作，值得庆幸的是，迅速集中精力要比我们大多数人认识到的容易得多。

我承认我还没有学会在到了五分钟或十分钟时就能轻易放下所干的事情，但在生活中我们是能够指望找到闲暇时间的。

卡尔，沃尔特对我的一生产生了巨大的影响。

多亏他我才能发现如果能立即投入工作，即使是短时间累加起来也会成为我所需要的有用的几个小时。

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 of books — but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how to get the most from it. The most unfortunate people in, the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.所有时代的智慧，数千年来人类喜爱的所有故事，从书本里我们都可以轻而易举地获得，不过，我们必须知道如何利用这一财富并从中得到最大的益处，世上最不幸的人就是那些从未发现阅读好书是如何令人心满意足的人。

Every book stands by itself, like a one family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something, they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and the future and have their own generations, like families. Wherever you start reading you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the long run, younot only find out about the world and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too.In 1992 national state and local governments in the United States spent nearly ＄250 billion on public (elementary and secondary)education .Of this amount,46.8 percent came form the state governments,46.1 percent from local school districts,and 7.1 percent from the national government ,with the remaindercomingformprivatesources.1992年，美国的邦联，州和地方政府在公立（包括小学和中学）教育方面花费了近2500亿美元，其中46.8%来自州政府，46.1%来自当地学校所在地区，7.1%来自联邦政府，剩余款项来自私人方面 。

Although federal dollars are the smallest share of public school funding ,these dollars are still vital to school systems that are usually financially strapped and sometimes in dire need of additional revenue.虽然来自联邦政府的钱在公立学校的资金中所占份额最少，但是，这笔钱对通常捉襟见是，而且有时需要额外收入的学校来说依然是至关重要的/ Today, schools are expected to do many things: resolve racial conflict and build an integrated society; inspire patriotism and good citizenship; provide value, aspirations, and a sense of identity to disadvantaged children; offer various forms of recreation and mass entertainment(football games, bands, choruses, majorettes, and the like);teach children to get along with others and adjust to group living; reduce the highway accident toll by teaching students to be good drivers; fight disease and ill health through physical education, health training,and even medical treatment; eliminate unemployment and poverty by teaching job skills; end malnutrition and hunger through school lunch and milk programs; produce scientists and other technicians to continue America’s progress in science and technology; fight drugs abuse and educate children about sex; act an custodians for teenagers who have no interest in education but who are not p rmitted to work or roam the street unsupervisedOther important reasons for the spread of English language are economic. English is the language of international b usiness and commerce.It is also the nativ e language of the United States.So,any co untry wanting,for example,to trade with t he United States,or to take advantage of it s technology,must be able to operate in E nglish.Also,most scientific and technolog ical developments have been made by En glish –speaking societies.To keep up with such development,to talk about them in i nternational. conferences, or write and read about them in scientific journalis and books,scientists and students must be abl e to understand English. 英语被广泛使用的其他重要原因在于经济方面。