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实践主题Topic:My Favorite City in China

Describe your favorite city in China.

实践目标Objective of the practice:

1)To get familiar with the words and expressions learned in this unit

2)To be able to put the reading skill into personal practice

实践任务Tasks:

1)Discuss the changes with your friends or classmates.

2)Use proper words and expressions to describe your favorite city.

实践要求Requirements:

Write down what has come to your mind during your thinking and discussion, and organize them into a neat essay.

Sample

So far, you must have travelled many cities at home or abroad. Which city leaves you the deepest impression? You may focus on the aspect of the city that strikes you best. Try to imply your attitude towards the change in the choice of the words instead of direct telling.

教师解析:

The following is a sample essay on the relationship between mankind and nature.

The Relationship between Mankind and Nature

I know for sure that all of us have learned about the Industrial Revolution in our high school history course before. But as for me, to some extent, I could only imagine the prosperity that brought to our human beings by industrialization at that time. What about the damage? Honestly speaking, I almost knew nothing but a vague image of pollution.

Things began to change gradually when I read Walden., Henry David Thoreau’ s masterpiece. Henry David Thoreau, along with Poe, Emerson, Whitman, and Hawthorne, is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature. And Walden is without a doubt his most enduring work. A philosophical meditation on man, society, and nature that has influenced generations of readers, it was inspired by Thoreau's attempt to live in solitude on Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts.

At first I really couldn’t understand the behavior of Thoreau. “Why did he leave his family and live in a small cabin, planting his beans every day near Walden? What’s wrong with him?” I complained to my friend. I got no answer until one day I kind of stepped into his world.

“I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted.” He loves his beans. Yes, he really does. Have you ever known a man who treasures his plants like his best friend? I myself have never come across that kind of person before. All he wants is so simple—even beans, he thought it was so many more than he wanted. Maybe you’ll think that he was a hermit. Then you’re wrong. He received visitors regularly. To my understanding, he just wanted to live simply and think deeply. With the development of Industrial Revolution, people tend to follow the majority. We are so fond of material life; we tend to be crazy about comfort; we are busy all day long without specific purposes; we are losing ourselves! Where’s our soul? Sinking deeply down the water? Maybe. All of our group members were breathless and scared when we got this point. In our transient culture, we probably think of our own benefit only. We compete with each other. Some of us even do ugly things to achieve the so called wealth. Where’s human nature, our compassion and humiliation?

Thoreau thought of the serious issue over a century ago. The two years, two months and two days he spent near Walden let him find the real person he was. “What shall I learn of beans or beans of me?”In his perspective, beans are not just simply beans, nature is not just simply many plants and animals. They are our best friends ever. They teach us lessons by silence which only the wise men can finally learn. Thoreau isolated himself from the society to gain a more objective understanding of himself, the whole society and as well as the nature. The pines have life circle just as we human beings do—birth, grow and die. The new growth of the pines give a new generation hope. So why do we have to cut down the young trees without further consideration?

Please have the reverence for nature. Nature and man are supposed to be together, but now what has happened? Without nature, what’s the meaning of Industrial Revolution, civilization and urbanization? Without nature, we are like a cloud just as Wordsworth once described. It seems that we go through our life every day like a machine as if we are unconscious of what’s going on around us. What’s our destiny? We are lost like a child lost in a busy and crowded street; we are lost like a cloud floating aimlessly all day long. Open your heart, man! Go and find the beauty of the daffodils which are dancing in the breeze so happily. We may get puzzled on the way to find the nature. But if we live like a poet who can always feel the beauty of nature, we will eventually understand the sign given by nature and dance with the daffodils. If we do have the reverence for nature, we will find that every single move of a leave or a flower counts. It shows us passion, persistence and youth. “Stay out of the noisy crowd one day, just one day,” I spoke to myself, “go and communicate with the nature with your heart.” I realized that the easiest way to get happiness is to notice the simple but awesome beauty that nature gives us.

Are you tired of working like a machine every day? Then slow down and appreciate the beautiful nature around you, man. It’s no big deal to stop for a while. So please have the reverence for nature and live in a simpler way. Because only in this way can a man gain true happiness in his lifetime.