这两天写了两篇Issue的作业,感觉不是很好,主要是速度提不上去,往往是需要70~80分钟才能完成。
今天上课听老师说,最主要的原因是因为写一句想一句所以会比较慢,正确的应该是在写每一段开头的时候把整段的结构先想好,写内容的时候就会比较自然地从一句过渡到另一句。
但是新的问题又出来了,现在速度慢的另外一个原因是因为写每一句话的时候都得花时间构思句子的结构,和用词是否恰当,而往往是想了半天实在想不出更好的替代只好接受初始方案,既浪费了时间又没有什么显著的正面效应。简单地说就是用英文遣词造句的能力还太弱。关于句子的结构,今明两天把填空里学过的一些句子好好研习一下,然后在改作文的时候看能不能改写一下文章里面的句子。用词的话就只好在改文章的时候查查同义词替换的同时,看能否多记住几个。
自己从小写作能力不强的弱点又浮现了上来。
话说GRE.AW看重的是考生的逻辑思维能力。从小学的数学到中学的理科到大学的计算机,在这方面怎样都不会查到哪里去吧。虽然kizenliang同学说:Issue难的原因是因为我们用英语写不习惯,用中文写的话就是小儿科。
我发现:我用中文有时也很难用文字表达清楚自己的观点,还是小时候写作基本功没打好,唉~~~
还有两个星期加一天的时间就机考了,保持良好的心态是很重要的:D
ps:每周一定要看一部电影,因为适当放松可以保证平常学习的张力,因为明晚要开会,所以只好选在今晚了。
ISSUE170习作
TOPIC: ISSUE170 – “The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people.”
WORDS: 586 TIME: 00:73:34 DATE: 2009/2/13 17:51:46
The topic’s opinion is some partial about the definition of a “great” nation, which should be considered about more than welfare of its people.
Firstly, the people’s welfare should be a basic requirement for a country. For example, in Afghan, people are living in danger all the day. They are afraid of walking in the street at night, for they may be attacked by local insurgents. What they care most is how to safely move to tomorrow. It is also the most important part which government is caring about. You can read reports that leaders of the country are trying to sweep out the insurgents although they are usually failed. When a country’s people feel difficult to live here, government would not have extra energy to develop, such as science. At the same time, the country would not be recognized great in any way.
But a country which could make sure of its people’s welfare is still far from great. Sweden, which is ranked first Democracy Index by Economist, could not be better place for living, for its low unemployment and perfect sanitary system. Doors are left open in the night for nobody would break in. Sweden has met the goal, making sure the general welfare of its people. However, you may never hear that Sweden is a great country.
What makes Sweden not great? To answer this question, we would like to get the meaning of great and the definition of great nation. Let’s first get a easier question: what is a great human-being like? There must be some names initially come to your mind, such as Newton, Aristotle… And what is the common character of these great men? It is easy to get that they all make a huge difference all over the world, and rewrote the human history significantly. So we can get a conclusion a great country would make influence for the whole world rather than its people. Now the reason why Sweden is not called great is apparent. Sweden, which is a country filled with happiness of its people, makes little influence on the other parts of the world.
Not only welfare of citizens, the achievements of science and art also indicate whether a country is great. I want to explain my idea with another country: Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece, which lasted from 1100BC to 26BC, has been widely considered as the foundation of Western civilization, making powerful influence on science, philosophy, art etc. In that time, people living in that country didn’t need to care about food and other basic requirement. People are happy to devote to education and science, which leads to numbers of great men, such as Aristotle, Euclid, most of who made such achievements today we still get profit from them. In my opinion, only the country like Ancient Greece is deserved when we are talking about great country.
Actually it is divergent when talking about great country. Because most people couldn’t be objective on this topic, the fault of a country would be omitted. What’s more, facts sometime may be covered so as to make the country’s figure would be brighter in citizens. Like U.S government, called themselves as “world police”, that always invade other countries under the name of justice, it would not be recognized as great anytime by the people in Afghan or Iran.
Although it is some difficult to give a list saying which country is great. A great country would not be only good to its people, but to the whole world.
需要踏实
今天在论坛上看到一个复旦的拿了MIT,Stanford,CMU&UW的offer,那是要如何的牛啊?
我思考着这个问题,只希望静下心来踏踏实实一步一步走下去,每天至少一篇ISSUE,做最好的自己。
没feel
这两天看了两部电影:《游龙戏凤》&《Street Kings》
很简单的一部电影,三对男女关系并列展开,一开始很顺利,中间出现小挫折,最后双双有情人终成眷属。
看完以后心情感到愉悦许多,里面生活真的就很简单。不论两人身份有多么的悬殊,只要见两次面,聊聊天,就可以擦出爱的火花。男演员帅,女演员漂亮,不明白当年拍《古惑仔》的Andrew Lau可以拍出这么”骚”的电影。
最后我要说的是我实在很受不了国语的配音,糟蹋啊糟蹋。
Street Kings
一开始不开字幕看到30分钟受不了,下了个中文的字幕从头开始看起。虽然剧情比较容易猜了,不过因为是高清(720P)的,视听效果还是相当不错。发现最近如果用电脑看美国电影,如果<720P,实在很难看下去。比如上次看那个Madagascar 2,下了一个压成1.4G的BDRip,看了几十分钟受不了给删了。
明天早上是第七天新东方的课程了,也是回北京的第八天了,仍然找不到任何感觉。
不想编程,不想学GRE,什么都不想,晚上就在寝室里看《康熙来了》 ,就感觉很麻木。用我自己的话说就是:又不爱学习又宅。明天rf同学回来看能不能让自己找到一些动力。
上课认识了好多人,首当其冲就是作文、阅读、词汇和填空的四位老师了。传说GRE班是one of体现新东方老师最高水平的课堂,除了一些基础的GRE和英语知识很好以外,老师们给我的感觉都是涉猎范围很广,讲课的内容常常从中西方思维体系扯到古希腊神话故事扯到一些有意思的电影扯到老俞同学,让我记下经典台词无数(等到时候结课了我总结成一篇)。
zl同学的同学很agreeable的一个同学,不过想到再过十来天可能就再也见不到面,未免令人惆怅。这种感觉是很奇怪的,因为从小到大都一直在学校上学,没参加过什么补习班,所以认识的同年龄朋友要不就是同学,要不然也不会很熟。但是这次每天一起坐公交去上课吃午餐下课坐公交回学校&聊天,感觉这段时间还比较熟吧,可十来天后就很可能farewell了,唉~~~
另外在班上也认识了好多跟我一样为出国梦想跟GRE死磕正在持续着努力着奋斗的同学,其中包括我旁边的一位,我高中同学A的大学舍友的高中同学,也是我高中同学B的小学同学的BF,还跟我学着一样的专业。(这里用了一下GRE中通过从句将句子写长的伎俩,只是很蹩脚罢了)
今天见到了Mr&Mrs.killer&弟妹&肯爷,感觉killer同学还是跟原来一样一副much more mature than me的样子。
很好很强大。
ps:相对GRE的阅读来说,《游龙戏凤》是一部相当复杂的电影了,因为其并列结构涉及到了三者orz
ps2:谁提供一个比较好的可以外链的在线相册?
明天回北京了
暑假不打算回家了,今晚睡过后再睡这张床最快也得再等一年了。
争取明年回来的时候带着offer回来 。
bless~~~
阿宅们的yy圣片
Big Bang Theory有一集里Penny迷上了网络游戏,谁劝都没有用,最后是因为Wolowitz。在游戏中,Penny接受了他去”酒吧坐一坐”的邀请,她才猛然惊醒。说这个是想表达,看了这部电影我突然惊觉自己已经宅毒满身。整部电影感觉就是充满了宅男的各种yy,而且我还看得极其不亦乐乎,最后还有点小小感动(空姐从家里跑出来那一段)。就是这个小感动让我惊醒。
抛开这些不说,整个观影过程还是非常愉快的,非常简单地喜剧加上许多恶搞元素,尤其是郑中基那段绘声绘色的”破chu广告”,广告内容有兴趣的自己去看电影,就不展开说了^_^
ps:还是喜欢香港的喜剧片呃
ps1:不知道惊醒有没有下文来着,让我想起来TBBT第12集的一段台词(上次看完删了,待我重新下下来,下次日志奉上)
America's Next Top Model
起源:今天看The Big Bang Theory 的时候Penny提到了这么一个电视节目
内容简介:一个真人秀节目 ,就是一群女的比赛,最后的胜利者可以签约成为一个貌似很强大的经纪公司的Model。比较好玩的地方是,第一集选出14个女的,然后每一集会淘汰掉一 个,所以看起来很有悬念,也很刺激。里面的训练主要就是让她们走台步和拍照,有时候也会有些摆pose和快速换装之类的挑战。每一集决定谁被淘汰主要就看 每位选手这一周的表现。
观看印象:另外一个比较好玩的地方是她们的宿舍生活。貌似所有选手是要住在同一间屋子里,而且貌似比赛过程中都不能离开。然后各种各样的矛盾都有,什么”谁倒了我的咖啡”、”闹铃定太早之类的”,blabla……
让我印象很深的一次是有一个一直都很有信心的女的有一集照得不是很好被淘汰了。评委说:也许你心里对自己说你自己很有信心,你很渴望得到冠军,但是我们并不在意你的想法,我们评判的是你的表现 。
就像某人会说:我好想去CMU的HCII,我真的很想,我一定可以做得很好只要给我一个机会。But who cares what you’re thinking?
ps:呃…说实话里面选手长得一般般了,想饱眼福的同学,相信我,这不是个好的选择。只是好奇心让我看下去而已。
ps1:我看得是第10季,看到第5集(共13集)就没看下去了,因为那个我觉得那个最好看的选手被淘汰了,然后洗个澡出来后发现没啥意思了,囧
ps2:aw,红宝,编译器…………..
ps3:推荐The Big Bang Theory ,欢迎看过的跟帖交流:D
最好的时光
巴黎
日拱一卒不期速成
今天开始每天晚上最少读一页《TIME》,直到新的杂志取代。
好几个月前就开始买了,不过到现在为止还在看第二本,总是断断续续地读。
不过,对于G /T考试,已经退无可退了,keep fighting !