2012-2013学年第二学期大学英语A晨读材料

2012—2013学年第二学期2011级大学英语AIV晨读材料院系_____________________ 专业_____________________ 姓名_____________________ 学号_____________________ 任课教师_____________________Part I Reciting materials from Experiencing English Book III Unit 5The purpose of education is not only to train youngsters for the employment market, but to prepare them for tomorrow’s society. Because of the rapidly changing world, one can argue that changes will be continuous, which will make lifelong learning necessary for those who expect to handle the changes successfully. While some may argue that their education commenced when they began school and concluded when they had completed it, modern reality suggests that education is a lifelong process, and the classroom is merely the beginning of the education process. The very nature of its definition implies that education is lifelong.Lifelong education builds on and affects all existing educational providers, and extends beyond the formal educational providers to include all bodies and individuals involved in learning activities.Lifelong education means enabling people to learn at different times, in different ways, for different purposes at various stages of their lives and careers.Unit 6I often find myself trying to explain the attraction traveling holds for me. Traveling, according to many people, is often uncomfortable and even, at least sometimes, dangerous. But one benefit of traveling is that it creates a perfect atmosphere for the observation of life, an environment that can lead to better understanding and enlightenment. Many wonderful people and places lie on the road ahead. The fact that there are obstacles as well only makes the journey more rewarding. My life and my memories will be improved after encountering these people and places. That’s a pretty big benefit!Of course I could also enrich my life without traveling very far at all, but there is something about foreign lands that provides an additional fascination. I think mo st non-travelers are simply too distracted by things such as work, home, and friends to devote their full attention to observation of life. I'm more observant when I'm on the road and therefore, more alive. I talk to more people and listen to them carefully. I keenly notice everything about my strange new environment. I see a lot of humor that can compensate for the misery of moving about.Unit 7Depending on the drug, many people report feelings like happiness, confidence, or peace when they take drugs. But even when they’re feeling these things, there’s a sense that it’s not real, that the happiness is going to disappear any moment. And unfortunately, in most cases these feelings are followed by depression, anxiety, guilt, embarrassment, loneliness and wanting more drugs.Generally, drugs interfere with the nervous system’s basic functions. Sometimes they alter the muscles and how they function too. Besides, almost all drugs can make it tougher to sleep. Some drugs can cause immediate death, and some can give even healthy people a heart attack on the spot. Using drugs over and over for a long periodof time can cause lots of medical problems, from lung cancer to liver problems to brain damage.In addition to the physical problems, drugs cause major long-term brain issues. Depression is a serious problem for many addicts. Also, they can really hurt people —telling lies, stealing money for drugs, sometimes even getting violent with people they love. Their biggest ambition becomes getting high, instead of setting high goals.Unit8Wars between States have become less frequent. But in the last decade internal wars have claimed more than 5 million lives, and driven even more people from their homes. At the same time weapons of mass destruction continue to cast their shadow of fear. The threat of deadly conflict must be tackled at every stage:Pursuing arms reductions.The Secretary-General urges Member States to control small arms transfers more rigorously; and to re-commit themselves to reducing the dangers both of existing nuclear weapons and of further proliferation.Strengthening peace operations.While traditional peacekeeping had focused mainly on monitoring ceasefires, today’s complex peace operations are, in essence, to assist the parties engaged in conflict to pursue their interests through political channels instead.Prevention. Conflicts are most frequent in poor countries, especially in those that are ill governed and where there are sharp inequalities between ethnic or religious groups. The best way to prevent them is to promote balanced economic development, combined with human rights, minority rights and fair political arrangements. Also, illicit transfers of weapons, money, or natural resources must be focused.Protecting the vulnerable. We must find better ways to enforce international and human rights law, and ensure that gross violations do not go unpunished.Part II Reciting materials from CET-4 Writing第一篇：图表作文（2012-12 CET-4 真题）Education pays...Education pays in higher earnings and lower unemployment ratesNote: Data are for persons age 25 and over. Earnings are for full-time wage and salary workers.Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey.范文一：Education PaysWhat is shown in the chart above is that those people with high degree earn more than those with lower. For example, staff with master’s degree receive a better payment than those with bachelor’s degree, according to a survey of the payment to the employee. These survey indicates that education degree does have a relationship with earnings, contrary to the recent theory of useless education.Recently, there is a heated discussion about the significance of the education. Some people hold a view that higher education is useless since college education cannot mesh with the social needs. Some think that higher education is indispensable if you want to go far in both your studies and life. Now that survey has proved which part is wiser.As for me, I definitely support the view that education is necessary for people’slife. Reading can not only make me survive well in this society with fierce competitionbut also help me make sense of life. I pursue for it for my whole life.范文二：Education PaysAs we can see from the picture that nowadays, the phenomenon of Education Pays has aroused wide concern among the people who care about the young people’s future. Especially to the young generation living in the big cities, they tend to put the pays to the first place but not the degree, ignoring the fact that this behavior may pose underlying threat to their present career and may even endanger futures.Ample reasons can account for the issue of Education Pays，the following one might be the most critical .For the majority of young people, they have been always considering the education as a bothering thing to do or not a opportunity that can add color to the dull routine of every day life.So,they want to get a job as early as possible.But, as matter of fact, as the picture described, the people who have learned more earn more than others And,in the picture, the ones who have the doctoral degree earn more than the ones who have only a degree as bachelor.To my way of thinking, the issue mentioned above will bound to generate more consequences if we keep turning a blind eye and deaf ear to it. We should appeal to the relevant administration departments to strengthen supervision over it.And，it is high time that all of us ,parents，educators，and the authorities, make combined efforts to tell the young people the fact about the Education Pays. With this measure taken, it is reasonable for us to believe that this problem can be perfectly solved in the near future.第二篇：议论文（立论）（2012-6 CET-4 真题）1.目前许多商品存在过度包装的现象2.出现这一现象的原因3.我对这一现象的看法和建议范文一：On Excessive PackagingNowadays the phenomena of excessive packaging of goods are prevailing in our society: clothes swathed in tissue paper, placed in cardboard box and finally wrapped in well-designed plastic bags, imported bottles of grape wine packed in wooden boxes, fruits put in hand-woven baskets, to name but a few.There are several causes of excessive packaging. The first reason is tha t a large number of companies believe that they can attract customers’ attention and stimulate their purchasing desire by over-packaging their goods, thus gaining more profits. On the other hand, quite a number of consumers mistakenly hold that the more de licate the package is, the better the quality will be, thus encouraging excessive packaging.In my point of view, excessive packaging has disastrous consequences, including the loss of precious resources, excessive consumption of water and energy, and unnecessary extraction of scarce land for landfill.To solve the problem, it’s necessary to take the following measures. First, laws and regulations must be made to restrict excessive packaging of companies. In addition, we need to raise consumer’s awar eness that excessive packaging does not equal to high quality and advocate packaging recycling.范文二：On Excessive PackagingIn recent years, with the economy growing, all kinds of goods are flowing into our life. The packaging of goods becomes more and more attracting our eyes. However, the problem of excessive packaging has aroused people’s wide concern.This phenomenon exists for a number of reasons. For one thing, the business has seen through the mind of most consumers who are face-saving, for they thought that the more beautiful the packaging of goods is, the best people like. For another thing, excessive packaging can make the majority of merchants get high profit for the cheap commodity by improving price. Perhaps the primary reason lies that the form far outweighs the content.In my opinion, it is more advisable to focus on the quality of goods than to decorate its appearance. So, it is urgent that immediate measures should be taken to stop the situation. Only in this way can we reduce unnecessary waste and have a rational and pure shopping condition, making our money cost worthwhile.第三篇：应用文（欢迎词）（2007-6 CET-4 真题）Welcome to our club1. 表达你的欢迎；2. 对你们俱乐部作一个简要介绍。