A walk through the woods 林中散步

A walk through the woods 林中散步I live in a very old town which is surrounded by beautiful woods. It isa famous beauty spot. On Sundays, hundreds of people come from the city to see our town and to walk through the woods. Visitors have been asked to keep the woods clean and tidy. Litter baskets have been placed under the trees, but people still throw their rubbish everywhere. Last Wednesday, I went for a walk in the woods. What I saw made me very sad. I counted seven old cars and three old refrigerators. The little baskets were empty and the ground was covered with pieces of paper, cigarette ends, old tyres, empty bottles and rusty tins. Among the rubbish, I found a sign which said, 'Anyone who leaves litter in these woods will be prosecuted!'New Word and expressions 生词和短语surround v. 包围 wood n. 树林 beauty spot 风景点hundred n. 百 city n. 城市 through prep.穿过visitor n. 参观者，游客，来访者 tidy adj. 整齐的litter n. 杂乱的东西 litter basket 废物筐 place v. 放 throw( threw; thrown) v. 扔，抛 rubbish n. 垃圾 count v. 数，点 cover v. 覆盖 piece n. 碎tyre n. 轮胎 rusty adj. 生锈的 among prep.在……之间 prosecute v. 依法处置参考译文我住在一个由美丽的树林环绕的古老的小镇上。

这是一个著名的风景胜地。

每适星期天，有许许多人从城里来观赏我们的小镇，并在树林中散步。

游客已被告知要保持树林的整洁。

树下都已设置了废物筐，但是人们仍到处扔垃圾。

上星期三我到树林里去散步。

我所见到的一切使我非常难过。

我数了一下，有7辆旧汽车和3上旧冰箱。

废物筐是空的，而满地都是纸片、烟头、旧轮胎，空瓶子和生锈的空罐头盒。

在垃圾堆中我发现了一块牌子，上面写着：“凡在此树林里丢弃垃圾者，将依法处置。

Writing from ReadingThe first step when you write from what you read is to be sure you understand what you have read. To ensure your understanding, you should be an active reader. This means that you should read more than once with a different purpose each time, you should ask questions before, during, and after you read, and you should make notes as you read.Once you have read actively, you will be prepared to write in a number of different ways. You will be able to summarize what you have read. That means you are accurately re-telling the author's main ideas in your own words. A summary also gives the major supporting details the author has used to support the main ideas. Once again though, summaries are written in YOUR words not the author's words.Another method of writing about what you have read is to respond to the reading. When you respond to a reading, you pick out a particular point or idea that the author has made and then brainstorm to develop your own ideas based on the author's thought. Unlike summarizing, you are generating your own ideas based on the author's original thought.Rather than generating a new idea, you may also choose to respond to an idea in the reading. You may agree or disagree with a point the author has made. In your writing, you will explain why you agree or disagree with that point. Once again, you are coming up with your own reasoning and your own wording in response to something you have read.A particular type of writing you will be required to do is writing answers to essay tests. Essay test questions often ask you to read material and then either summarize the material or respond to it in a particular way. The one thing that makes essay test writing different from other writing situations is the time limit. In a testing situation you will carefully monitor your use of time and you won't put all of the polishing touches in that you would if you had unlimited time to complete the writing.These are some of the ways you can tie the material that you read to the material you write. You will find that if you follow the advice given in this chapter that you will never be at a loss for a topic to write about.Speak out Your LoveThere was once a guy who suffered from cancer, a cancer that can’t be cured. He was 18 years old and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he was sick of staying home and wanted to go out for once. So he asked his mother and she gave him permission.He walked down his block and found a lot of stores. He passed a CD store and looked through the front door for a second as he walked. He stopped and went back to look into the store. He saw a beautiful girl about his age and he knew it was love at first sight. He opened the door and walked in, not looking at anything else but her. He walked closer and closer until he was finally at the front desk where she sat.She looked up and asked, “Can I help you?”She smiled and he thought it was the most beautiful smile he has ever seen before and wanted to kiss her right there.He said, “Uh... Yeah... Umm... I would like to buy a CD.”He picked one out and gave her money for it.“Would you like me to wrap it for you?” she asked, smiling her cute smile again.He nodded and she went to the back. She came back with the wrapped CD and gave it to him. He took it and walked out of the store.He went home and from then on, he went to that store every day and bought a CD, and she wrapped it for him. He took the CD home and put it in his closet. He was still too shy to ask her out and he really wanted to but he couldn’t. His mother found out about this and told him to just ask her. So the next day, he took all his courage and went to the store as usual. He bought a CD like he did every day and once again she went to the back of the store and came back with it wrapped. He took it and when she wasn’t looking, he left his phone number on the desk and ran out...RRRRRING!!!One day the phone rang, and the mother picked it up and said, “Hello?”It was the girl!!! The mother started to cry and said, “You don’t know? He passed away yesterday...”The line was quiet except for the cries of the boy’s mother. Later in the day, the mother went into the boy’s room because she wanted to remember him. She thought she would sta rt by looking at his clothes. So she opened the closet.She was face to face with piles and piles and piles of unopened CDs. She was surprised to find all these CDs and she picked one up and sat down on the bed and she started to open one. Inside, there was a CD and as she took it out of the wrapper, out fell a piece of paper. The mother picked it up and started to read it. It said: Hi... I think U R really cute. Do u wanna go out with me? Love, Jocelyn.The mother was deeply moved and opened another CD...Again there was a piece of paper. It said: Hi... I think U R really cute. Do u wanna go out with me? Love, Jocelyn.Love is... when you’ve had a huge fight but then decide to put aside your egos, hold hands and say, “I Love You.”从前，有一个少年患了癌症，根本无法治愈。