2011年高考英语写作必备素材

2011年高考英语写作必备素材(仅供参考)待价而沽——wait for a good price; wait for the highest bidConfucius was a famous thinker and educator in ancient China. In his early twenties, he began to take a great interest in politics. He often made statements on various aspects of state administration. But he was truly involved in politics for only a little more than four years. That was because of the rulers‟ attitude toward him –always keeping him at arm‟s length and staying at a respectful distance from him.After that, he together with his students, he set about a travel through various states propagating his ideas. Zigong, one of his students, felt puzzled about Confucius‟ decision not to take up any official post.“If you had a piece of perfect jade, would you wrap it up in a piece of silk cloth and keep it safely in a box, or sell it to somebody?”In fact, Zigong asked the question as a metaphor(暗喻) for suggesting that Confucius should take up an official post.Of course, Confucius understood what he meant. He said, “Of course, I would sell it! But I‟d have to wait for a real connoisseur（鉴赏家）!”Actually, Confucius was waiting for someone who really appreciated his talent before he c ould render his service.The set phrase “dai jia er gu”, literally to sell to the highest bidder, is a metaphor for talented people waiting for the chance to come.尽善尽美——by no means flawlessConfucius was a great thinker and educator during the Spring and Autumn period in China. He was also skilled in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. When he was 35 years old, a great social turmoil occurred in his home state, Lu. So, Confucius fled to the neighboring state of Qi.One day, the official music band of Qi received Confucius.“Sir, your gracious presence here is a great honor for my country.”“I‟m flattered.”“I‟ve long heard you are quite versed in music. We‟d like to play a tune for you and hope you‟d critique our performance.”“I‟m flattered. I wonder what tune you‟re going to play.”“It‟s a piece of ancient music which we have just sor ted out. It is said to date from the Yaoshun period. It is called …Shao‟.”Confucius listened attentively. The musicians finished their playing. But Confucius was still immersed in the lingering music.“Wow, I never imagine the appeal of music could have been so strong!”Confucius was so deeply moved by the music that for days on end he was thinking about the music. He even found the meat he ate tasteless.Not long after, the musicians performed another tune for him. It‟s call “Wu”, believed to be a tune from the King Wu period. But this time, Confucius was not as deeply impressed as last time.“Do you think this tune isn‟t so good?”“Not exactly. This ancient tune is melodious and beautiful indeed. But there is a gap compared with the tune …Shao‟. …Shao‟ is not only melodious, its theme and connotations are also very good, expressing the spirit of benevolence. It can be said that it is thoroughly perfet.”The idiom “jin shan jin mei” means that something is perfect and blameless.水滴石穿——Dripping water wears through rockIn the Song Dynasty, a man called Zhang Guaiya served as magistrate of Qianyang County. One day, he takes an inspection stroll around his office building. Suddenly he sees a petty official slipping out of the treasury house hurriedly. Zhang Guaiya stops him.“What are you doing so stealthily here?”The petty official stammers, “I… I stole a penny from the treasury. It‟s nothing serious.”“I hate people like you most. You obviously know you did something wrong, but y ou show sign of repentance.”Zhang Guaiya takes the petty official to the courtroom and has him bound. But the petty official doesn‟t think he has done anything seriously wrong.“Humph! It‟s just a penny I took. You can beat me, but you can‟t kill me!”“I f you steal a penny a day, it will be 1,000 pennies in 1,000 days. As time wears on, even a rope can cut a wooden board into halves, and a constant drip of water can wear a hole in a stone.”In order to punish this petty official, Zhang has him killed on the spot.“shui di shi chuan” as a metaphor means that a difficult goal can be attained be perseverance and the pooling of all resources available.滥竽充数Be there just to make up the number.During the Warring States Period (475-221BC), the King of the State of Qi was very fond of listening to yu ensembles. He often got together 300 yu players to form a grand music.The king treated his musician very well. A man named Nanguo heard about that and he anaged to become a member of the band, even though he wan not good at playing the instrument at all. Whenever the band played for the king, Nanguo just stood in the line and pretended to play.Nobody realized he was making no sound at all. As a result, he enjoyed his treatment just as the other musician did. When the king died, his son became the new ruler who also liked the music played on the yu. However, he preferred solos so that he ordered the musicians to play the yu one by one. Therefore, Nanguo had to run out of the palace.The idiom "Be there just to make up the number" is used to mock someone who passes for a specialist. You can also hear people saying it about themselves to show their modesty.塞翁失马Nothing so Bad, as not to be good for somethingThere was an old man at a frontier fort in the north who understood Taoism. One day he lost his horse, which wandered into the land of the Hu tribesmen. His neighbors came to condole with him, and the man sa id, “How do you know that this is bad luck?”After a few months, the horse returned with some fine horses of the Hu breed, and the people congratulated him. The old man said, “How do you know that this is good luck?”He then became very prosperous with so many horses. The son one day broke his legs riding, and all the people came to condole with him again. The old man said, “How do you know that this is bad luck?”One day the Hu tribesmen invaded the frontier fort. All the young men fought with arrows to defend it, and nine tenths of them were killed. Because the son was a cripple, both father and son escaped unharmed.Therefore, good luck changes into bad, and bad luck changes into good. The workings of events are beyond comprehension.Is Honesty Going out of Style?Most Chinese people are quite familiar with the story of the three wolves cries. We taught to be honest when we were very young however as we grow up we find that it is difficult to be honest all the time. Sometimes we are forced to tell lies and other times we find people who are dishonest can enjoy great pleasures, while honest people have to suffer failures and still there are times when we have to tell lies in order not to hurt others. Consequently people wonder whether honesty is going out of style. As far as I'm concerned honesty should always be an important feature valued by Chinese people we should try our best to avoid telling lies even white lies only in this way it's a fair society awaiting us.Examinations.There are many arguments about the advantages and disadvantages of examinations. Some people think that examinations can help them review the lessons regularly, while others maintain that too many examinations have frustrated them. To me I think an examination is a good thing forboth the teachers and students. Teachers can find out how much the students have grasped and then improve their teaching, students on the other hand will learn what their weak points are and then study even harder. All in all, we should not waste time arguing whether examinations are good or not. What we should do is to try to improve the exam system and try to adjust it to our different requirementsHomeworkNowadays, more and more people in society have realized the importance of quality education. However students in primary schools and high schools are still complaining that they are overloaded with too much homework. In many teachers' eyes, homework offers a good methods to strengthen the knowledge the students have abtained, yet they ignored the disadvantages that homework brings. For one thing too much homework will take up all the spare time of students leaving them unable to enjoy the rest of their lives; for another too much homework will do great harm to students' health both physically and mentally. Its high time that schools thought more about the function of homework and tried to take practical measures to promote the all-round development of students.Why Do We Attend University?When we consider why we should attend universities,different people have different ideas.In some students' eyes,studying in universities means a bright future after graduation.They think they are bound to find good jobs with a good college education.However,life in the colleges and the jobs that they can find are usually somewhat disappointing.Especially under the severe competition of today's society,it is not very easy for a college graduate to find a satisfying job.As far as I am concerned,universities can provide good study opportunities and essential facilities for those who want to acquire knowledge for the construction of our country,and this is the reason why we attend universitiesSurfing the internetWith the development of computer technology, the internet has become more and more popular. Opinons are divided on whether students should surf the internet after class. Some students regard it as a great helper, the main reasons for this are listed as follows, first you can surf the internet for any information you need in a short time without working hard in the library; besides it is convenient to communicate with others by using the internet. However, other students think that there are some disadvantages of the internet because there is also some information that's not good for the students. In addition, spending too much time playing games online will not only have a bad affect on study but also do harm to our health. Therefore we should make proper use of the internet. It is of great importance for us to separate good plans from wild weeze.Can Money Buy Happiness?Nowadays, a lot of people in society think the more money they have the more happiness they will obtain. As a result they will try their best to get money, even without considering the law.But in my view, the greatest happiness lies in one‟s satisfaction with one‟s surroundings. So long as we can look at things with a happy heart, we can be happy. It has nothing to do with a mount of money we have. Therefore, people shouldn‟t pay too much attention money we have.On the contrary, what they should do is to put their money to good use and try to have an optimistic outlook all the time.The Generation GapNowadays many young people are complaining that their parents cannot understand them very well. They say that their parents take care of every aspect of their lives leaving them a neighbor to have their private space yet parents are worried that their children don't show any respect to them and never give them any trust.As a result, the household phrases spreading it is the generation gap. By using this phrase both the young and the old have found a good explanation for their misunderstanding of each other. Yet they don't bother to take any measures to cover the distance between them. In my opinion I think we should first admit that there are indeed some differences between parents and children then we should try to take some time to communicate with each other frequently. Not only the parents but also the kids should be equal when they're exchanging their views. Only by the joint efforts can the parents and children get rid of the gerneration gap between them.My Views of the Ban on firecrackers,Most of us may still hold a happy memory in our minds when we were young, the spring festival was celebrated with the company of the flaming box and the loud explosions of firecrackers, but because of the numerous disasters caused by them, govenments in some big cities have completely banned firecrackers in the downtown areas.Some people are sad about this decision. They argue that they will lose the tradition of the Spring Festival. Regardless of the fires and the damage to human bodies caused by firecrackers they only focus on the pleasure firecrackers can bring about. With the development of the modern society, more and more changes will take place in our lives. Some of which may be great challenges are against the traditions, but we should support the govenment's policy and the consideration of the whole society. What's more upon step into the new times we should celebrate the Spring Festival in a more civilized way.Work and RestJust as a famous saying goes: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. It is obvious that people should have adequate rest in order to work hard yet some students especially those who are preparing for the college entrance examination are worried about their lessons and spend all their day time going over them. In their eyes they should sacrifice their rest time in order to get high scores on tests. As a result they suffer greatly from poor health and some of them may do poorly in the examinations.In conclusion we should be aware that nothing is more valuable than health which is a foundation of one success. With a poor health one can hardly succeed in anything he does. Therefore a student we should have enough rest to ensure a healthy body to work and study.Online shoppingDeveloping with the Internet,More and more people can have a chance for shopping on the internet .it can provide a appropriate to people's life, The internet is a good thing ,but it is a bad thing.Firstly .the internet can supply convenient for people on online shopping , so people can watching TV and shopping at the same time .so much so that people have more time to do other things,For example,traviling. reading book ,taking a walk and so on...........On the contrary ,the internet also can bring some bad thing to life ,it can make one's life terrible that Account cipher was stolen ,credit probem .... so,we should take care of it !In my opinion ,Online shopping include pros and cons ,so we should attach important to Internet!Natural ResourcesFor many years, we have been told that China is rich in various natural resouces so many people take it for granted that they are inexhaustible. people have not considered that one day some of these natural resources will be used up and that we will then be faced with energy crisis. As a matter of fact, many of the natural resources can't be replaced once used up such as the coal mines or oil fuels, etc . energy crisis will threaten our existance because of our excessive exploitation and because of the growing population. Considering the above the government should try to take some action to protect the natural resources and people should be educated not to waste them.A Geography GroupLast term I took part in a geography research study group. Our topic was environment pollution and protection. We took a variety of pictures, showing the present pollution conditions of our city. To our surprise, there are still a lot of people doing silly things to our surroundings. Some people throw rubbish anywhere they like. Some cars give off harmful gases. What surprises us most is that waste water is poured into the rivers by some factories. Worse still, people sometimes have to make their way through dusty winds as a result of the pollution. Through our research we come to realize that everybody must pay much attention to the environment. Some measures should be taken to protect it. And to be exact, it is high time to take measures to protect it.DiligenceDiligence is the key to success.It means persistent work and does not mean that we are to exhaust ourselves all day and night without any rest.The true meaning of diligence is the careful use of time for the purpose of self-improvement.Many people strongly believe in luck,which is a serious mistake.If luck does exist,it will never fall upon lazy bones.There are also some people who think that they are far superior to others inintelligence and therefore,do not need to study hard.they are sure about their success,but too often they willbe disappointed,as few of them can be successful only with their so-called cleverness.In fact,time is always fleeting and can never be re-gained.The really clever people are those who understand the importance of diligence and make it their habit,These people are on the way to success by their own efforts.The Harm of Fake CommoditiesWith the rapid economic development,fake commodities have rushed into our life and greatly affected the normal market order.As can be seen,fake commodities are greatly harmful to both the consumers and the producers.But why have fake commodities become so common?For one thing,some businessmen take risks producing and selling fake goods just for the purpose of making money,and some customers buy those products because of the lower prices.For another thing,the punishment for producing fake goods is not severe enough to stop the violators.Therefore,today‟s m arket has been flooded with fake brands of food,cothing and medicine,etc.Fake commodities have left thousands of people in confusion and panic:they no longer have a sense of safety.How terrible!I think it is high time we took some measures to clean up our society.OpportunityDifferent people have their different views on opportunity. Some people suggest that opportunities are rare, and only the luckiest persons can obtain them,while some other people argue that in a sense everyone has opportunities from time to time.As far as i am concerned, I agree with the latter opinion to some extent. I think that various kinds of opportunities are around us all the time. However,the opportunity will not run into you voluntarily. You must try your best to find them and make full use of them.In conclusion,I believe that opportunities are everywhere in our society and everyone is equal for them. We can acquire them only if we are prepared and qualified. Just as a proverb says,"Opportunities are only for the prepared minds."MicroblogThe microblog is very popular in the virtual world.average citizens,famous economists,as well as moviestars can own a microblog and share their opinions and life with other people.The microblog is attractive for the following reasons.first,internet has different forms of dissemination and unique effects in broadcasting message compared with traditional media . it is fast and efficient,anf people can get relevant information immediately .second,message sent by the microbloy can reach a large number of people ,who can interact with microbloy owners by leaving message in it, this kind of interaction is appealing especially when the owner is a famous figure. themicroblog is very useful and adds lots of color into the virtual world .regulatde properly,the microbloy can be a very interesting platform for people to share opinion and make friends.How to improve students'physical well-being?Recently,there have been some reports on new students getting military. But the focus is on the negetive side. Some students fainted because they couldn't stand the training. In the final analysis, this results from the poor physical well-being of the students.Two factors can be found out to explain this. Firstly, students have been preoccupied with their study in high school, as the goal of getting admittde by a university is just too huge. So they could not spend time in physical exercise. Secondly, students are not aware of the fact that they are not as strong as they think. They believe that they are still young and it's not necessary to worry about their health condition .Now it is high time that students should improve their physical well-being by doing more exercise and adopting healthy living styles.How to challenge ourselves today?In everyday life, we can find challenges almost at any time and at any place. However, more often than not, the biggest rival is not others but ourselves.Considering these real-life facts, an increased demand for challenging ourselves has emerged. Then ,how to do is becoming the key point. In my opinion, for one thing, we need three valuable commodities, that is to say, courage, creativity and confidence.Courage: Chances are reserved for the well-prepared minds, whereas challenges are to be conquered by the courageous brains.Creativity: Creativity is the soul of a nation:Creativity is a necessity of success;Creativity is a short cut to surpass ourselves.Confidence: Whenever possible, say to ourselves: my place is at the top.Whenever possible, be the forever king in our daily dreams.Following these, we ought to rise up immediately. It is our motions that count; it is our motions that influence the final results. Only by trying and practicing on different occasions can we truly get the point of challenging ourselves.。