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1、【精品文档】如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流大学英语周记范文30篇.精品文档.大学英语周记范文30篇Passage 1The Road to HappinessThere are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the fault must li

2、e with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable. If you have a cat, it will enjoy life i

3、f it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis on instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten. People propose to thems

4、elves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortation

5、s to imitate his noble example. Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford

6、 opportunities for dusty snobbism.Passage 2Love Is DifficultIt is good to love, but love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is me

7、rely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning time is alway

8、s a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, and is solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves. Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering or uniting with another person; it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in h

9、imself, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances. Only in this sense, as the task of working on themselves, may young people use the love that is given to them. Merging and surrenderin

10、g and every kind of communion is not for them, who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves; it is the ultimate, it is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.Passage 3Business of Insurance CompaniesInsurance companies do two types of business. One is g

11、eneral insurance against various forms of risk, and the other is long-term insurance which is mainly life insurance.General insurers will agree to pay a person or company a sum of money in the event of something happening or not happening. Its a big business today. If the project succeeds, sharehold

12、ers in your company will expect to be paid a dividend. If you ask an insurer to underwrite your project, then he will require a payment in advance, a premium. If the project succeeds, he keeps the premium, but you dont pay him anything else. Paying a premium to an insurer or underwriter is often che

13、aper than paying a dividend to shareholders. If fewer dividends are paid to shareholders, then more money can be kept as retention to finance the companys next project.Another type of insurance business is the life insurance. It differs basically from general insurance in that it is based not on ris

14、k but on certainty the certainty that each of us will one day die. Life insurance is the basis of pension funds which provide for retirement and guard against other contingencies such as ill-health, but is best seen by the financial economist as a means of collecting many small savings to put togeth

15、er into large investments, in short, as a form of intermediation. Passage 4Seasonal Affective DisorderSome people feel sad or depressed during the winter months in northern areas of the world. They may have trouble eating or sleeping. They suffer from a condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder

16、, or S-A-D. Victims of S-A-D suffer its effects during the short, dark days of winter. The problems are most severe in the months when there are fewer hours of daylight. When spring arrives, these signs disappear and S-A-D victims feel well again.The National Mental Health Association reports that S

17、-A-D can affect anyone. The group says young people and women are at the highest risk for the disorder. It says that an estimated 25 percent of the American population suffers from some form of S-A-D. About 5 percent suffer from a severe form of the disorder. Many people in other parts of the world

18、also have the condition.The idea of health problems linked to a lack of light is not new. Scientists have discussed the issue since the beginning of medicine. More than two-thousand years ago, the Greek doctor Hippocrates noted that the seasons affect human emotions. Today, experts do not fully unde

19、rstand S-A-D, and yet they agree that it is a very real disorder.To treat the disorder, victims of S-A-D do not need to wait until spring. Experts know that placing affected individuals in bright light each day eases the condition. There are other things people can do to ease the problem. They can i

20、ncrease the sunlight in their homes and workplaces and spend more time outdoors in the fresh air during the day. One study found that walking for an hour in winter sunlight was as effective as spending two-and-one-half hours under bright light indoors. Passage 5Success Is a ChoiceAll of us ought to

21、be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday. If we expect that life wont be perfect, well be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse

22、 event that will completely knock you on your back.Whether its a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic events in your life, these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself and wondering if things can ever change for the better again.Adversity happe

23、ns to all of us, and it happens all the time. Some form of major adversity is either going to be there or its lying in wait just around the corner. To ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self delusion.But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved gr

24、eatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit and left them lying in the dust. Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God. Abraham Lincoln overcame all difficulties during the Civil War to become our arguable greatest president ever. Hele

25、n Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age. Franklin Roosevelt had polio.There are endless examples. These were people who not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move

26、 ahead.Passage 6Is Television a Blessing or a Curse?It is universally accepted that television is playing an important part in peoples lives. But, there is an ongoing heated discussion as to whether television is a blessing or a curse.Television keeps one better informed about current affairs, allow

27、s one to follow the latest developments in politics and science, and offers a great variety of programs which are both instructive and stimulating. The most distant countries, the strangest customs and the most attractive scenes of nature are brought right into ones room or household.However, some p

28、eople insist that television is a curse rather than a blessing. They argue that it has brought about many serious problems. The major one is its effects on young people. Children are now so used to getting their information and entertainment from television that their literacy as well as physical ab

29、ility has been greatly weakened. Even worse than that, vulgar commercials and indecent programs may cultivate their bad tastes, distort their view-points towards human life to such a degree that their minds might be corrupted.To sum up, television has both advantages and disadvantages. What ever eff

30、ects it has, one point is certain, television in itself is neither good nor bad. It is the use to which it is put that determines its value to society. Passage 7Few US Workers Who Could Telecommute Do SoOne-quarter of the U.S. work force could be doing their jobs from home if all those able to telec

31、ommute chose to do so, and all those people working from home could translate into annual gasoline savings of $3.9 billion, according to the National Technology Readiness Survey. However, many still select to work at the office. The study found that 2 percent of U.S. workers telecommute full-time an

32、d another 9 percent do so part-time. But another 14 percent of workers have the option of telecommuting, or have jobs conductive to the practice but choose not to. “The numbers suggest that many people would rather work at the office even if their job allowed telecommuting,” said Professor P.K. Kann

33、an, of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. “That seems to suggest that even if employers were to say tomorrow that everybody had the option of telecommuting and you would save a lot of gas, thats not going to happen. An hypothesis could be that people still need the

34、 face time with their bosses. Another thing is people miss the social interaction, just being at home.” And with a median one-way commute of 10 miles and a median one-way commute time of 20 minutes, the daily trip for many workers is not that bad, he added. Of those who can already telecommute, most

35、 do so only one, two or three days per week, the study found. Passage 8The Wholeness of LifeThere is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness a

36、bout the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing. Life is not a spelling bee, where no matter how many words

37、 you have gotten right, you are disqualified if you make one mistake. Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of

38、 being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to. That, I believe, is what God asks of us not “Be perfect”, but “Be whole”.If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, generous enough to rejoi

39、ce in anothers happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know.Passage 9Workplace FriendshipsA study into workplace relationships has found having a close friend at work can be a major dis

40、traction. Respondents cited excessive chatting, having too much fun and an inability to separate work from play as contributing to a lack of focus. “When faced with a work-related problem many people will prioritize their friendship over their responsibilities to their organization, which businesses

41、 may find concerning,” said psychologist and Auckland University of Technology lecturer, Dr. Rachel Morrison. “Workplace friendships are like a double-edged sword. The benefits of a friendly workplace can be really positive, but organizations should be aware of the potential difficulties and how to

42、manage friendships at work.” According to the study, many people were concerned about going “softer” with their friends and being expected to treat them with special privileges. “People naturally want to make their friends feel special, but this conflicts with organizational practices or norms that

43、are set up around fairness and equality. Difficulty in managing these expectations can create tension in the relationship.”Respondents also experienced a great deal of anxiety about speaking to close friends about substandard work. A basic rule of friendship is being non-judgmental and accepting you

44、r friends weaknesses, but giving critical performance feedback conflicts with this. “We also found issues related to confidentiality practices, which could mean friends have to refrain from sharing information. This can be really challenging for close friendships that have norms of openness and disc

45、losure,” Dr. Morrison said. Dr. Morrison said organizations should try to provide friendly environments and encourage workplace friendships, but have policies in place to manage potential difficulties.Passage 10Love Your LifeHowever mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it or call it h

46、ard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the window of the al

47、ms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The towns poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they a

48、re simply great enough to receive without misgivings. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble

49、yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn to the old, turn to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. Passage 11Man Is Here for the Sake of Other MenStrange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not know

50、ing why, and yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men above all for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how

51、 much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of

52、 other men.To ponder interminably over the reason for ones own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgment. The ideals which have always shone bef

53、ore me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort and happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Passage 12The Ways to Duck out of WorkWant to watch the World Cup in pea

54、ce without the boss over your shoulder? Simple, con him. A British Internet site offered fans an ingenious range of ways to duck out of work so they can watch games in comfort. The timings of the games, in the early morning or at midday, have posed a dilemma to millions of soccer-mad Britons used to

55、 watching games in the evenings or at weekends and desperate to follow England and Irelands World Cup progress live. The British government has already urged employers to bow to the inevitable and take a flexible attitude to working hours or set up TV screens. “The last thing we want is the entire w

56、orkforce taking an announced sickie on the day of a big match,” Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt said. But British sports company Umbro was urging fans to take the matter into their own hands. Its Web site www. was offering a convincing-looking false sick note signed by a fictitious doct

57、or, F. Albright, to be printed off and taken to work in advance. Alternatively, its “Top Ten Bunk Off Ideas” included such improbable excuses as: “I will be late for work today because I have to pick my uncle up from the train station. He has two bags but only one arm.” For another game, a fan might

58、 claim: “My dog ate my car keys. Were going to hitchhike to the vet.” Passage 13(91)The First CalendarFuture historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumu

59、lates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos, CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past

60、is always faced with a difficult task. He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons. Recent scienti

61、fic evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths. The nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age which began

62、 about 35,000 B.C. and ended about 10,000 B.C. By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code. They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon. It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It

63、 seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed. Passage 14How to Ask for a RaiseOne of the most intimidating things to do in the business world is to ask for a raise at your current job. Sometimes, the boss just does not pay you enough

64、money. So what do you do about it? There is a way to request a raise, but you had better be careful when doing that. The best way to make more money within a company is to be in the direct flow of the cash. Companies will want to keep you around if you have some leverage. Being a direct cause of the

65、ir profits is a great way to gain some leverage. One mistake that people always seem to make is that they are never sure exactly how much money to ask for. If you are going to ask for a raise, then you should have some figure in mind of how much more you want. If you are successful in meeting with your boss and making your case, then it will look awful if you sit there with a blank stare as he asks you how much you want. Consider a realistic percentage, but be willing to negotiate in discuss. Do some research and figure out exactly how much folks make in your profession that have had si