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你是高二(1)班的李华。最近你校举行了一次英语读书演讲比赛。请你结合自身经历,以“What Can Reading Bring Us?”为题写一篇英文演讲稿,呼吁大家多读书、读好书。

注意:1. 字数120单词左右;

2. 可适当添加内容,以使行文连贯。

 

 

 

 

What Can A Good Book Bring Us

As we all know, there are plenty of famous sayings about good books and reading. such as “Reading a good book is like talking with a great many wise and noble people in the past”, “Books are the stepping stones to human progress.” From these famous sayings we can draw a safe conclusion that a good book can bring us not only wisdom of the wise people in history, but also the progress and development of both ourselves and we human beings.

In order to benefit from reading good books, we should first learn to tell good books from bad ones. In most people’s opinion, books that may have bad influence over our healthy growth and development, or books that may mislead us are all bad books. We should of course avoid reading such books. On the contrary, those books involved in practical skills and technologies, good advice on our study, work and life, and books that are considered to be “Masterpieces of world literature” and so on are good books. While reading good books, we can get not only the pleasure of reading and rich knowledge, we can also broaden our horizons and enrich our spiritual world. On the contrary, those books involved in practical skills and technologies, good advice on our study, work and life, and books that are considered to be “Masterpieces of world literature” and so on are good books.

“Reading makes a full man,” Francis Bacon once said in his famous essay<On studies>.Therefore, if you intend to become a full man, friends, let’s try hand in hand to read good books together.

【解析】

试题分析:考查开放性作文写作,开放性作文给出了一个话题,给考生自由发挥的余地较大。对于考生的综合能力要求较高,要求考生有很强的谋篇布局的能力和组织要点的能力。在完成开放性作文时,首先要选择自己熟悉的短语或者句型,在你的能力范围之内,选择句式时要赋予变化,因为这样你才可以更好的驾驭。同时也要选择合适的连接词,把各个要点组织成一个完整的整体,在发表个人观点的时候,可以使用谚语来提升整个文章的档次和文采,也能增加得高分的可能性。

【亮点说明】范文中出现一些高级短语draw a conclusion 得出结论;benefit from从。。受益;avoid doing sth 避免做某事; On the contrary相反;At the same time,同时;be of great help 有所帮助;Reading a good book is like talking with a great many wise and noble people in the past这个句子中动名词做主语,谓语动词用作第三人称单数;On the contrary, those books involved in practical skills and technologies, good advice on our study, work and life, and books that are considered to be “Masterpieces of world literature” and so on are good books.这个句子involed 分词做后置定语修饰those books,that引导books的定语从句。On the contrary, those books involved in practical skills and technologies, good advice on our study, work and life, and books that are considered to be “Masterpieces of world literature” and so on are good books.这个句子中what引导主语从句;

考点:开放性作文

 

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