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Topic 50 On IllusionSome people are committed to their dreams and work hard to achieve their goals. What is guiding them is a kind of illusion. Some people think that illusion is good for success while others argue that it is not so good because it may get people unrealistic. As far as I am concerned, illusion is necessary in our life only if it is encouraging and realistic.There are several reasons.First of all, there is power in illusion. The illusion can lead people to the path they want to go on and it gives us passion. We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses so that we can find pleasure in the fragrance of backyard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, and the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. The illusion can be enthusiastic love of life that puts sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smoothes the wrinkles from our souls.Secondly, we are born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant’s delight at th e jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle. It is this childlike wonder and illusion that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, no matter how old they are. For example, the famous cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shouldrs would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for him, was an elixir that made life a never-ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, “Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”Lastly, people with illusions also love what they do, regardless of money or power or title. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as do a part-time vocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons and the executive who handcrafts furniture. We cannot afford to waste tears and energy and time on“might-have-beens”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be”.To sum up, God gives each bird its food, but he does not throw it into its nest. Wherever you want to go, just cherish your precious illusion and let your dream be realized.Topic 49 Is Seeking Psychiatric Help a Sign of Weakness?As the society develops, it is becoming more and more competitive. No wonder that the adults and the children are under great pressure. And unfortunately many people have mental problems. However, few of them voluntarily seek psychiatric help, for it is widely regarded as a sign of weakness. As far as I am concerned, people should develop the new idea that seeking psychiatric help is a normal need and that a person should seek help from a doctor if he is ill, whether mentally or physically.To start with, the mental problem is common among people in the modern society. With the increasingly faster pace of life, competition in the society becomes fierce, and relationships between people are intensified. The science and technology is developing, which means we should keep learning and keep up with the progress of knowledge. Most adults are suffering from the employment pressure. And students commonly feel depressed and worried about their academic study and the relationship with their friends. So it is clear that psychological or emotionalpr oblems are common in our life. It’s just like we feel uncomfortable when we get a cold or a cough. So seeking psychiatric help is nothing special. It will help people to be healthy.What’s more, seeking psychiatric help is not a sign of weakness.On the contrary, it shows you are brave enough to face the problem and solve it. Some people think that only insane patients go to see the psychiatrist. They are afraid of being seen as abnormal. And they don’t understand how the psychiatrists can help, what will happen during the therapy and so on. So they prefer to keep it as a secret when they have psychologic problems, which will make things worse. We should not hide our sickness for fear of treatment. We should abandon the prejudice against mental problems. In fact, seeking psychiatric help means a person have the courage to face the problem. It is never a sign of weakness. It is a way for us to strive to gain health.To sum up, seeking psychiatric help is not a sign of weakness or insanity. It is important for people to accept the new idea that it is a normal need, and that everyone who faces himself bravely should be respected.Topic 48 How to Handle Stress in Our Life?In this competitive society, people cannot avoid the stress from the bustle and hustle of modern life. Appropriate pressure is the motivation for our progress, while too much stress will have harmful effects on our health and work. We cannot avoid it, so we must learn to with it properly.In the first place, it is important to have a correct understanding about stress. We are now in a world where the fittest will survive, and it’s better to ensure survival than being defeated. But to individuals, the social environment will not change. We have to realize both the positive and negative aspects of stress. It is like a double-edged sword, which may be used by us, or may hurt us. The key point is whether you hold the blade or the handle. We can take it as a motive force for us to make progress, make full use of it and avoid being hurt by it.In the second place, people have to adjust their own mood and mentality. We should say to ourselves that I like challenges and I am strong, but never think I am a loser or I cannot stand that any more. The positive hint will change your attitude, and then affect the result of your behavior. And it is also of great importance to cherish what you have got. The common weak point of the human being is that he longs for what he cannot get, but does not value and protect what he has at the moment. Most people are thinking about how to own more, such as social status, power, honor and so on.At last the more they want , the more pressure they get. If they can give something up, they will feel better.Finally, some practical measures can help us to handle stress in our life. Having a plan on the career, increasing the competitiveness and learning to control your time will do much help to reduce the stress. It is advisable to separate work from life. Work hard when you are at work and have a good rest when you are free. In other words, there must be a boundary.To sum up, the stress in our life is inevitable, and we must learn to handle it effectively. We must have a right understanding about it, try our best to adjust our own mentality and use practical ways to reduce it.Topic 47 On Team SpiritWe are living in a globalized world and the cross-cultural communications are increasing nowadays. In other words, we have never been so closely connected with each other in the human histories. As a philosopher has pointed out, nobody is an isolated island. If we want to have a bright future, we need more cooperation for the development. Therefore, team spirit is very important. It is an bility that people can understand each other and cooperate with each other for the successful completion of some important tasks. We need such kind of ability in particular during the globalization for several reasons.First of all, team spirit offers us a platform where we can operate our collective talent to work out the best. Only when we work effectively together can we have the best chance to get the success. Taking the 2008 Beijing Olympics for example, I think the success of the event first goes to the superb team spirit of the organizers and millions of volunteers. So many people work hard and cooperate well for the single aim and the solitary goal: an exceptional Olympics for the whole world. A lot of student volunteers in Beijing are committed and work tirelessly during the hot summer. History has witnessed their brilliant teamwork and valuable contributions. What is more, team spirit is quite useful for personal career.As young students, we must learn the core and sharpen our skills in the team. If you work in a company, most of the time you have to finish or design a huge project with your colleagues. Each person can contribute their wisdom to the completion of the task. You cannot do it so well single-handedly. When we watch the Olympic Games on TV, we are so amazed by the excellent performances of the players. If they want to win the gold medals, they must compete as one person and exercise their own part well for the whole success. So we can say the team spirit is the secret of success.Finally, team spirit is the symbol of national power and strength. As we all know, the Chinese delegation has won the most medals during the 2008 Olympics and all Chinese people are so proud of our country. Another example is the touching power of the team spirit in the Sichuan earthquake. We were moved by the perseverance and persistence of the rescue workers, who were eager to help their compatriots.In conclusion, team spirit is an important ability and skill in the 21th century because we are all faced with the globalization and the questionof how to live better. Therefore, we must learn to work well in the team and let the team spirit guide us to success.Topic 47 On Team SpiritWe are living in a globalized world and the cross-cultural communications are increasing nowadays. In other words, we have never been so closely connected with each other in the human histories. As a philosopher has pointed out, nobody is an isolated island. If we want to have a bright future, we need more cooperation for the development. Therefore, team spirit is very important. It is an bility that people can understand each other and cooperate with each other for the successful completion of some important tasks. We need such kind of ability in particular during the globalization for several reasons.First of all, team spirit offers us a platform where we can operate our collective talent to work out the best. Only when we work effectively together can we have the best chance to get the success. Taking the 2008 Beijing Olympics for example, I think the success of the event first goes to the superb team spirit of the organizers and millions of volunteers. So many people work hard and cooperate well for the single aim and the solitary goal: an exceptional Olympics for the whole world. A lot of student volunteers in Beijing are committed and work tirelessly during the hot summer. History has witnessed their brilliant teamwork and valuable contributions. What is more, team spirit is quite useful for personal career.As young students, we must learn the core and sharpen our skills in the team. If you work in a company, most of the time you have to finish or design a huge project with your colleagues. Each person can contribute their wisdom to the completion of the task. You cannot do it so well single-handedly. When we watch the Olympic Games on TV, we are so amazed by the excellent performances of the players. If they want to win the gold medals, they must compete as one person and exercise their own part well for the whole success. So we can say the team spirit is the secret of success.Finally, team spirit is the symbol of national power and strength. As we all know, the Chinese delegation has won the most medals during the 2008 Olympics and all Chinese people are so proud of our country. Another example is the touching power of the team spirit in the Sichuan earthquake.We were moved by the perseverance and persistence of the rescue workers, who were eager to help their compatriots.In conclusion, team spirit is an important ability and skill in the 21th century because we are all faced with the globalization and the question of how to live better. Therefore, we must learn to work well in the team and let the team spirit guide us to success.Topic 45 Do Modern People Become Lonelier?Although Chinese people have gradually become wealthy more or less due to the reform and opening-up policy, they have oftentimes been troubled by a lack of friends that they can take into their confidence. This observation manifests itself most vividly in a line cited from the movie. If You Are the One, that is, “I do not lack money but friends”. Ironically, in the cell phone contact list of an average person, the number of cell phone numbers may reach a couple of hundreds. One can not help wondering if modern people become lonelier than before. Personally, I hold the opinion that modern people do become lonelier than before.Firstly, due to the urbanizing process at an unprecedented speed, the society becomes more mobile, for more and more people migrate from one city to another to seek fortune. Nowadays people in cities are consisted of migrate workers from rural areas, college graduates in pursuit of their dreams, businessmen across the country and the local. Given the fact that people from different regions have different subcultures, people tend to reject people with different backgrounds. Besides, as people are more interested in making money, they are more likely to conflict in interest. No wonder that circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically and the number of people with whom to discuss important matters has spirally increased.Secondly, while people are able to benefit from the advancement of new technologies, they are likely to depend more upon technologies instead of friends. Communication technologies such as the Internet and phones let people stay in contact with other people who are from remote areas, and spend time on the phone and the Internet communications instead of dealing with people face to face. Network games have gained their popularity to such an extent that many spend most of their spare time in playing network games and hence they become apathetic to have a good time with friends face to face. That face time seems more likely to develop friendships.As a result, the reduced face time would translate into a loose network between friends. In sum, urbanization has reduced the intimacy betweenhuman beings and makes them less likely to make friends than in the past and the advancement of modern technology also makes people more apathetic by reducing face-to-face contact with friends. I hope people can regain the intimacy between friends as before.Topic 44 Money First or Knowledge First?Everyone knows the importance of money and knowledge. Everyone must have money to fulfill their necessities and knowledge to make them respectful and help them gain money. But which one should be put in the first place in the particular college time? Some college students set up their own business, some speculate in the stock market, and some start their own studios.Undoubtedly, those students will not only earn enough money to fend for themselves, but also become fledged in the real world. However, I think college students should always concentrate on acquiring knowledge instead of seeking fortune in the particular state of our lives.Firstly, though knowledge can help you gain money, money can not buy you knowledge. For the majority of us, college time is a golden time for acquiring knowledge. Once we miss the golden time, we will not be compensated in the future. In this particular episode of our lives, we receive allowance from our parents, are not disturbed by the chores of housework, and are assisted by experienced teachers and classmates. And I can not imagine which stage of our lives is more favorable than this episode. The golden time for studies can be best illustrated by a conversation with an elder friend. He established a training school years ago and did make a fortune. But he always takes me into confidence that he wants to tear himself from the business and further studies in graduate school. He also admonishes me that I should work harder and harder, otherwise I will regret one day.Secondly, while college students can make some money in college time, they can not absorb themselves in their business wholeheartedly, which means that they are less likely to succeed in the corporate world than those who need not worry about studies. According to college curricula, students have to finish some compulsory courses and selective courses. They have to pass all required courses before getting diplomas. For some students from particular departments, they have to make more efforts than students pursuing other degrees. Accordingly, if college students run business, they will not only bear pressures imposed by studies, but also face the fierce competition in the market. Besides, college students are unfledged in comparison with other seasoned businessmen. Is it wise to take the riskof running business in college?In sum, college years is the golden period for studies in one’s life, and no one can afford to miss it. While college students have to make efforts to earn credits, and turn out to be unfledged, they had better concentrate on studies.Topic 43 Will Your Confidence Be Affected by External Factors?Confidence is extremely important in almost every aspect of our life. It is said that confidence is often the single ingredient that distinguishes a successful person from someone less successful. Yet many people only govern their behaviors based on what other people think, stay in their own comfort zones fearing failure and so avoiding taking risks, and oftentimes work hard to cover up mistakes and pray that they can fix the problem before anyone wiser. For those low-confidence people, they bear in their mind that some people are more competent, more beautiful, much wealthier than them, and hence they are reduced to frustrations.However, confidence should not be affected by those differences in terms of appearance, wealth, and family connections. Firstly, people can not improve their financial situations and change their appearances overnight, they are likely to change their mindset to become confident. For those who believe that confidence is based on wealth, appearance, and other external factors, their confidence is measured by external factors. In line with this belief, we can assume that only the wealthy, the beautiful, the handsome and the famous are confident. I think this is not the case. In our daily lives, there are people who earn meager salaries but still are confident of their futures who have counted days due to terminal cancers but are still confident of fulfilling their childhood dreams. If those people base their confidence in current situations, they are doomed to live gloomy and sad lives, for the perception of oneself has an enormous impact on what they will do in their daily life. Therefore, confidence is built from within instead of external factors.Secondly, despite that people always are in lack of something, they are likely to learn and build confidence step by step. No matter how average they are, they have achieved something in their lives to date and have strengths that they are not aware of. Tragically, human beings are alwaysin pursuit of what they want, but neglect what they have possessed. This also explains why they base their confidence on external factors. Because those external factors only exist in their mind in the near future, they are not real and solid. When people determine to set the journey to build confidence and carry things through by basing their confidence on what they have achieved and their strengths, no one can take it away, for they are real and solid. Gradually, confidence is build on and success is readily available, which will in return make people more confident.In sum, confidence is built from within instead of from external factors. People can learn to be confident by appreciating what they have achieved and their unique strengths. In this sense, confidence should not be affected by external factors such as fame, wealth, power, and etc.Topic 42 Delivery Ability Matters or the Contents?In college, it is claimed that students are given the right to select their courses in line with their personal preferences. But, in actuality, college students have to take some compulsory courses and some required selective courses. On those occasions, professors will find in their lectures students are absent-minded and hence interactions with students in class can not be easily achieved. Some people think that if professors are eloquent enough and have excellent delivery ability, their class will be interesting. For these students, the contents of professors’ lectures seem less important. However, we can not simply assume that which one is more important than the other. We should make specific analysis.Firstly, what matters is undoubtedly the contents for students. In compulsory courses or selective courses, students are required to acquire basic knowledge or want to learn what interests them. It is ridiculous to suspect that professors are disqualified. When professors can stand in front of students and are giving lectures, they are experienced and know more than students after years of research and teaching. For college students, they are required to attentively listen to professors and take notes so that they can improve themselves. In this sense, when students are busy absorbing what professors are instructing in class, they will become less fussy about professors’ delivery skills.Secondly, for professors, it is their responsibility to have a full preparation for lectures and to deliver effectively the contents of theirlectures to student. While the contents can fulfill students’ needs, excellent delivery skills will arouse students’ interest and hold their attention for a long time. Given the fact that students can not select their favorite courses according to their own interests and preferences, professors should make more efforts to prepare for lectures. Of course, each professor has formed his own style after years of teaching. But students in different periods have different characters and needs; professors can not simply apply their styles to all students. While students in the past might regard professors’ delivery style funny, current students are likely to dislike the style and consider it outdated and manipulative.On all accounts, as we can reach different conclusion from different perspectives, we can not simply determine delivery ability mattersmore than the contents or vice verse. While interesting teaching styles and content-loaded contents make professors popular among students, college students should not forget that they are required to acquire knowledge in class.Topic 41 The Relationship between Historical Grandeur and theFuture GreatnessGiven to the humiliating history of last two centuries, Chinese people always make efforts to build a powerful China. In the recent debate over the rise of China, some grass-root scholars argue that since China had achieved grandeur in ancient times, Chinese people are likely to lead the world again. The logic seems plausible, but is there any causal relationship between historical grandeur and China’s future greatness?Personally, I do not agree with this opinion. Firstly, the argument assumes that they can predict the future by finding evidence in the course of history. This mistake was criticized by Karl Popper in his influential book The Open Society and Its Enemies. In the book, he lenientlessly attacks ’historicism’,which means an approach to make historical predictions by discovering the patterns that underlie the evolution of history. In other words, precedent can not be used to explain what will happen in the future. In China’s case, undoubtedly, it reached the historical peak in Tang Dynasty. At that time, China was preponderant in the world, for no countries could successfully challenge its superiority. Now consider the world situation at that time. The world was separated by oceans, mountains, and deserts, for the communications means were soretarded that China enjoyed a relatively safe environment except the threats from neighboring countries. Nowadays, is it reasonable to predict that China’s greatness in the future is based on Tang Dynasty’s preponderance when the world is becoming smaller and more intermingled?Secondly, indicative of finding evidence in the course of history is China’s current weakness. Though China has surpassed Germany as the third largest economy, its per capita income still ranks in the developing country category. There is still a wide gap between China and the developed countries in terms of science and technology, education, military strength, and etc. Given that China is still a developing country, it is understandable that we can gain inspiration from the historical grandeur, but we can not use it as evidence to support our goodwill. What matters a great China in the future is the efforts we are making at present.In conclusion, we can see that there is no causal relationship between China’s grand history and its future. Historical grandeur can only serve as inspiration to urge us to make more efforts. As one proverb goes, many hands make light work. Chinese people will build a great nation in the future with combined efforts.Topic 40 The Importance of Hope in One’s LifeThere are many occasions in our lives on which we may feel like giving up, such as accidents, losing the beloved one, terminal illness, failing in an important exam, losing a job, and so on. Those life changing events can strike us without warning, oftentimes several at a time, seemingly layer upon layer, weighing us down. It seems that the seas of life are so rough and stormy that we are likely to get weary trying to keep our little boat from sinking.However, if we have hopes, we will not let those life changing events get the best of us and succumb to helplessness. Firstly, though hope is not an objective existence, it can arouse optimistic feelings for the future. As many psychologists’ research indicates, reflecting on one’s failures is generally good, but when it takes too much time, it is dangerous, for it soon becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that will quickly break every slice of confidence that we have in ourselves. That is how those who do not have hopes deal with these ups and downs. However, if people have hopes and always look forward to the future, they are able to envision a subjective picture of brightness in their mind, and take different measures to live a happy life.Secondly, having a hope helps people get rid of doubts and fears of day-to-day life and the challenges they must overcome to stay on an even kee. This can be best illustrated in clinics. Medical practitioners are always sensitive to the effects of their words so that their words might be acceptable to state the facts in such a way that they do not take away all possibility of hope. Even if the patient does die, the time that he or she is given will be spent better if the patient has been allowed some hope, as opposed to spending the remaining lifetime in a state of perpetual fear that each day is supposed to be the last.On all accounts, indicative of having a hope is the optimism of our lives. So long as we still have hopes in our heart, we will always look forward to the future. Hope can also help us remove doubts and fears in our daily lives. In any sense, “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things”, as Andy Dufresne said in the Shawshank Redemption.。