无论是身处学校还是步入社会，大家都尝试过写作文吧，写作文可以锻炼我们的独处习惯，让自己的心静下来，思考自己未来的方向。那么，怎么去写作文呢？下面是小编帮大家整理的英语作文8篇，仅供参考，欢迎大家阅读。
英语作文 篇1
Issue
The following appeared in a memorandum from the business department of the Apogee Company. When the Apogee Company had all its operations in one location, it was more profitable than it is today. Therefore, the Apogee Company should close down its field offices and conduct all its operations from a single location. Such centralization would improve profitability by cutting costs and helping the company maintain better supervision of all employees. Discuss how well reasoned... etc.
In this argument the author concludes that the Apogee Company should close down field offices and conduct all its operations from a single, centralized location because the company had been more profitable in the past when all its operations were in one location. For a couple of reasons, this argument is not very convincing.
First, the author assumes that centralization would improve profitability by cutting costs and streamlining supervision of employees. This assumption is never supported with any data or projections. Moreover, the assumption fails to take into account cost increases and inefficiency that could result from centralization. For instance, company representatives would have to travel to do business in areas formerly served by a field office, creating travel costs and loss of critical time. In short, this assumption must be supported with a thorough cost-benefit analysis of centralization versus other possible cost-cutting and/or profit-enhancing strategies.
Second, the only reason offered by the author is the claim that Apogee was more profitable when it had operated from a single, centralized location. But is centralization the only difference relevant to greater past profitability? It isentirely9possible that management has become lax regarding any number of factors that can affect the bottom line (帐本底线) such as inferior products, careless product pricing,inefficient10production, poor employee expense account monitoring, ineffectiveadvertising11,sloppy12buying policies and otherwasteful13spending. Unless the author can rule out other factors relevant to diminishing profits, this argument commits the fallacy of assuming that just because one event (decreasing profits) follows another (decentralization), the second event has been caused by the first.
In conclusion, this is a weak argument. To strengthen the conclusion that Apogee should close field offices and centralize, this author must provide a thorough cost-benefit analysis of available alternatives and rule out factors other than decentralization that might be affecting current profits negatively.
英语作文 篇2
In the Northern Street of Paris, there sat an old man with white hair and a stick. He was blind, and nobody wanted to help him. One day a noble man came to this street and saw the old man with blind eyes, he asked, “Excuse me, don’t you bother? But, I just want to ask how much did you get today this morning?” “Oh! I didn’t get anything!” cried the old man in a sad tune, and then the noble man realized that next to the old man was a cardboard paper, and on were the word, “I can’t see anything!” and also realized that the people who passed this place will just look at the paper, smiled; and went away to do their own things. Since this man was a noble man, he knew what to do to make everybody happy.
And so he took all the money he had in him which was $12, and placed it in a bowl near him; and then he took out his pen which he had in his hand all along, and wrote the some words in front of the words that are already on; and these were the words, “The spring has come, but;” these words, and then went away. In the evening, the noble man came visiting this place again, he saw the old man sitting down as usual and asked him, “Well how much did you get this afternoon then?”
The old man smiled, “Noble man, I don’t know what you did but the people that gave me money this afternoon were so many that even god couldn’t count them!” and then the noble looked at the bowl with money and stroked his beard while he smiled.
“The spring has come, but I can’t see anything!” these words could be so much use, it might produce that the noble man in this story has technology, which made the poor blind man happy.
Although this noble man which we are talking about helped the old man, but he also remembered what the other people did. People asked him many other questions, and the noble man of course answered them all. Some of the people in town that didn’t want to help the blinded old man were locked up in jail for their cruelty instead of kindness.
The moral of this story is, when you see somebody that is in need, go and help them and you will feel better in the end.
英语作文 篇3
there are two important kinds of music in the world --one is written down and the other is not. many people earn their living by writing music. they write songs for popstars and music for films and tv plays. they usually write exact instructions how the music is to be played.
folk music has been passed down from one goneration to another. at first it was never written down. pe ple learnt the songs from their families, relatives, neighbours and friends in the same village. these songs were about country life, the seasons, animals and plants, and about love and sadness in people's lives.
early performers of music were popular and respected.they used to learn hundreds of songs by heart. on festivals they used to act and sing in praise of heroes who lived long ago. this was at a time when there was no radio, tv or cinema. many of the country people could neither read nor write. in this way stories were passed on from one person to another. this continues in some countries even today.
英语作文 篇4
81. Many new houses had been built and roads had been widened.
很多新的楼房建了起来，路也都拓宽了。
82. It is more than ten months since we last met.
从我们上次见面到现在已经有十个多月了。
83. Its very nice of you to help me with my lessons every day.
每天帮助我复习功课，你真是太好了。
84. Nothing can live without air and water.
没有空气和水，任何东西都不能生存。
85. I prefer to live in the country rather than live in the city.
我宁愿住在农村，而不愿住在城市。
86. People must be stopped from throwing dirty things into the river.
应阻止人们往河里扔脏东西。
87. Peter sets aside some money every month so that he can buy a new car.
彼得每月留出一点钱以便购买一辆新汽车。
英语作文 篇5
Sound dies quickly in the cold, thin air of mars. researchers have modeled a sound wave traveling through the martian atmosphere and report that it doesnt go far--even a lawn mowers roar dies after a hundred meters or so. the model presents an unusually detailed picture of how sound travels in an alien atmosphere and hints at what it would take to communicate on the red planet.
The shriek of a baby, an ambulances siren, or a violin sonata are all essentially the same thing: waves of pressure traveling through the air. sound can also travel through water, or a solid like the ground, but because molecules must bump into each other to propagate the pressure wave, the denser the medium the better. hoofbeats or footsteps travel farther through the ground than through the air, for eample, because the molecules in air have to travel further to bump into one another than those in soil, thus losing energy more quickly.the martian atmosphere is mostly carbon dioide and only 0.7% as dense as earths is, so sound should fade more quickly. but the details of how sound waves travel in the martian atmosphere were unclear and could be important to future mars missions.now, a computer model has given a molecule-by-molecule map of how sound moves on mars. graduate student amanda hanford and physicist lyle long of pennsylvania state university in state college presented the model last week at a meeting of the acoustical society of america meeting in providence, rhode island. the model is unusual in its molecular approach; most acoustical models of sound treat the medium it travels through as a continuous block with average properties. such models are fine for dense atmospheres like earths, but treating the air like a loose bunch of freewheeling molecules is more realistic for mars rarefied atmosphere, say the researchers.
Hanford and long first set up a virtual "bo" filled with about 10 million carbon dioide molecules floating about randomly, at the same density as the martian atmosphere. a sound wave then appeared on one side of the bo, and the model calculated its progress across to the other side, computing nanosecond by nanosecond eactly how the carbon dioide molecules bumped and moved. the results show that a noise that would travel several kilometers on earth would die after a few tens of meters on mars. quieter sounds would travel far shorter distances, making eavesdropping on a quiet conversation nearly impossible.
Henry bass, a physicist at the university of mississippi in oford, notes that if people ever go to mars and want to communicate audibly, theyll need to design devices that can work with the lower frequencies transmitted by the martian atmosphere.
在火星上，嗓门可得大一点!
研究显示火星大气的吸音效果特好，是地球大气的100倍。
声音依靠介质粒子碰撞传递能量，声波的传播速率与衰减决定于介质的状态与种类。火星地表的大气压仅有地球的0.7%，大气成分95%是二氧化碳、再来是2.7%的氮气、1.6%的氩气，而平均温度是零下63℃。可以预期，声音在火星上可能衰减的很快，但是细节却不甚清楚。多数模拟声音传播的数值模式，把介质视为连续体来处理：不去考虑分子个别行为的影响，只以整体的平均性质来做计算。这样的观点，适用于地球表面的厚重大气，但不合用于稀薄的火星大气。宾州州立大学的研究生amanda hanford与物理学家lyle long则建立一个分子模式来模拟声音在火星的传播：他们模拟被局限在虚拟盒子内一千万个二氧化碳分子的运动：当声波出现在盒子的一侧后，以每奈秒为时间间隔计算二氧化碳分子的碰撞与移动，来看声波如何传递到盒子另一侧。模式结果已发表在六月初的声学会议(the acoustical society of america)上。
模式结果显示，火星大气的吸音效果特好，是地球大气的100倍，这表示原本在地球上会吵到数公里远的噪音，在火星上在数百公尺的距离就已经听不见。所以，未来在火星上，我们若想要”呼”朋引伴，除非有其他装置的'协助，不然嗓门可得大一点。而怕吵的人，火星会是个好地方，或者月球也行!
英语作文 篇6
At present, a number of middle school students have picked up a bad habit - cheating in examinations.
There are three main reasons. First, schools have given students too many exams, some of which are too difficult. Second, some students are not hard-working and they don't work hard at their lessons. Third, they waste a lot of time playing games or surfing the Internet. So they haven't enough time to prepare for the exams. Finally, students have to do so to make their teachers and parents happy.
In my opinion, cheating in exams does great harm to our study. We students should be honest and diligent, and only in this way can we improve our study and make progress. Besides, our teachers should offer us fewer exams and more time to study for ourselves.
目前，许多中学生养成了坏习惯，考试作弊。
主要原因有三。首先，学校给学生太多的考试，其中一些是太困难。其次，一些学生不勤奋，不努力学习功课。第三，他们浪费了很多时间玩游戏或上网。所以他们没有足够的时间为考试做准备。最后，学生们这样做他们的老师和家长高兴。
在我看来，考试作弊行为对我们的学习有很大的危害。我们学生应该诚实，勤奋，只有这样我们才能提高我们的学习和进步。此外，我们的教师应该为我们提供较少的考试和更多的时间来研究自己。
英语作文 篇7
Greetings, alumni, graduates, families, and friends. It is such a pleasure to see you all here and offer congratulations on this day of celebration. I am in the unenviable role of warm-up act for one of the greatest storytellers of our – or any other – time. Nevertheless, my assignment is to offer a few reflections on this magnificent institution at this moment in its history. And what a moment it is!
From comments of astonished pundits ontelevision, in print, and online, to conversations withbewildered friends and colleagues, the question seems unavoidable and mesmerizing: What isgoing on? What is happening to the world? The tumultuous state of American politics,spotlighted in this contentious presidential contest; the political challenges around the globefrom Brazil to Brexit; the Middle East in flames; a refugee crisis in Europe; terrorists exploitingnew media to perform chilling acts of brutality and murder; climate-related famine in Africaand fires in Canada. It is as if we are being visited by the horsemen of the apocalypse with war,famine, natural disaster and, yes, even pestilence – as Zika spreads, aided by politicalcontroversy and paralysis.
As extraordinary as these times may seem to us, Harvard reminds us we have been herebefore. It is in some ways reassuring at this 365th Commencement to recall all that Harvardhas endured over centuries. A number of these festival rites took place under clouds of war;others in times of financial crisis and despair; still others in face of epidemics – from smallpoxin the 17th century to the devastating flu of 1918 to the H1N1 virus just a few years ago.Harvard has not just survived these challenges, but has helped to confront them. We sing inour alma mater about 'Calm rising through change and through storm.' What does that meanfor today's crises? Where do universities fit in this threatening mix? What can we do? Whatshould we do? What must we do?
We are gathered today in Tercentenary Theatre, with Widener Library and Memorial Churchstanding before and behind us, enduring symbols of Harvard's larger identity and purposes,testaments to what universities do and believe at a time when we have never needed themmore. And much is at stake, for us and for the world.
We look at Widener Library and see a great edifice, a backdrop of giant columns where photosare taken and 27 steps are worn down ever so slightly by the feet of a century of students andscholars. We also see a repository of learning, with 57 miles of shelving at the heart of a librarysystem of some 17 million books, a monument to reason and knowledge, to the collection andpreservation of the widest possible range of beliefs, and experiences, and facts that fuel freeinquiry and our constantly evolving understanding. A vehicle for Veritas – for exploring thepath to truth wherever it may lead. A tribute to the belief that knowledge matters, that factsmatter – in the present moment, as a basis for the informed decisions of individuals, societies,and nations; and for the future, as the basis for new insight. As James Madison wrote in 1822, 'a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power thatknowledge gives.' Or as early 20th-century civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs put it, 'education is democracy's life insurance.'
Evidence, reason, facts, logic, an understanding of history and of science. The ability to know,as former dean Jeremy Knowles used to put it, 'when someone is talking rot.' These are thebedrock of education, and of an informed citizenry with the capacity to lead, to explore, toinvent. Yet this commitment to reason and truth – to their pursuit and preeminence –seems increasingly a minority viewpoint. In a recent column, George Will deplored thenation's evident abandonment of what he called 'the reality principle – the need to assessand adapt to facts.' Universities are defined by this principle. We produce a ready streamof evidence and insights, many with potential to create a better world.
So what are our obligations when we see our fundamental purpose under siege, our reasonfor being discounted and undermined? First, we must maintain an unwavering dedication torigorous assessment and debate within our own walls. We must be unassailable in ourinsistence that ideas most fully thrive and grow when they are open to challenge. Truthcannot simply be claimed; it must be established – even when that process isuncomfortable. Universities do not just store facts; they teach us how to evaluate, test,challenge, and refine them. Only if we ourselves model a commitment to fact over whatStephen Colbert so memorably labeled as 'truthiness' (and he also actually sometimes called it'Veritasiness!'), only then can we credibly call for adherence to such standards in public lifeand in a wider world.
We must model this commitment for our students, as we educate them to embrace theseprinciples – in their work here and in the lives they will lead as citizens and leaders of nationaland international life. We must support and sustain fact and reason beyond our walls as well.And we must do still more.
Facing Widener stands Memorial Church. Built in the aftermath of World War I, it was intendedto honor and memorialize responsibility – not just the quality of men and women's thoughts,but, as my predecessor James Conant put it, 'the radiance of their deeds.' The more than1,100 Harvard and Radcliffe students, faculty, and alumni whose names are engraved on itswalls gave their lives in service to their country, because they believed that some things hadgreater value than their own individual lives. I juxtapose Widener Library and Memorial Churchtoday because we need the qualities that both represent, because I believe that reason andknowledge must be inflected with values, and that those of us who are privileged to be part ofthis community of learning bear consequent responsibilities.
Now, it may surprise some of you to hear that this is not an uncontroversial assertion. For thismorning's ceremony, I wore the traditional Harvard presidential robe – styled on thegarment of a Puritan minister and reminding us of Harvard's origins. Values were an integralpart of the defining purpose of the early years of Harvard College, created to educate a learnedministry. Up until the end of the 1800s, most American college presidents taught a course onmoral philosophy to graduating students. But with the rise of the research university in the latenineteenth and early twentieth century, moral and ethical purposes came to be seen as atodds with the scientific thinking transforming higher education.
But in today's world, I believe it is dangerous for universities not to fully acknowledge andembrace their responsibilities to values and to service as well as to reason and discovery.There is no value-free science. There is no algorithm that writes itself. The questions we chooseto ask and the research we decide to support; the standards of integrity we expect of ourcolleagues and students; the community we build and the model we offer: All of this is centralto who we are.
We can see these values clearly in the choices and passions of our faculty and students: in themotto of Harvard Business School, which you heard this morning uttered by the dean, thecommitment to make 'a difference in the world.' Most of the University would readilyembrace this sentiment. In the enthusiasm of students and faculty, we see it as well. Fromacross the University – graduate, professional, and hundreds of undergraduates – we see aremarkable enthusiasm, for example, for the field of global health because it unites thepower of knowledge and science with a deeply-felt desire to do good in the world – to lead livesof meaning and purpose. This spirit animates not just global health but so much of all we do.Harvard is and must be a community of idealists. And today, we send thousands of you –doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, philosophers, business people, epidemiologists, publicservants – into the world.
For our youngest students, those just beginning to shape their adult lives, those who todayreceived what the ritual language of Commencement calls 'their first degree,' for them, thesequestions of values and responsibility take on particular salience. Harvard College is aresidential community of learning with a goal, in the words of its dean, of personal and socialas well as intellectual transformation. Bringing students of diverse backgrounds to livetogether and learn from one another enacts that commitment, as we work to transformdiversity into belonging. In a world divided by difference, we at Harvard strive to be united byit. In myriad ways we challenge our students to be individuals of character as well as oflearning. We seek to establish standards for the College community that advance ourinstitutional purposes and values. We seek to educate people, not just minds; our highestaspiration is not just knowledge, but wisdom.
Reason and responsibility. Widener and Memorial Church. Harvard and the world. We have avery special obligation in a very difficult time. May we and the students we send forth todayembrace it. Thank you very much.
英语作文 篇8
Due to bad weather condition, the badminton competition, organized by the College Badminton Club, will not be held in the ―May Fouth‖ Field as it was scheduled. Instead, it will be moved to the Haidian Gymnasium, which is about ten mininutes‘ walk from the university. All club members, competitors, and audience students will meet in front of the West Gate of the university at 9:00 a.m., June 5th, to go there togehter. For those who will go by themselves, please refer to the map in below. The event will be last from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a. m. Cold drinks and snacks will be provided in the gymnasium.
College Badminton Club
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